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“...the Clergymen
and other individuals whom the Committee has assisted in forming Schools in their parishes. So
numerous have been the applications for such aid, that the extent of the Society’s operations has
been limited only by the inadequacy of its funds. While the attention of the British public has
been directed to the West Indies, the amelioration of the condition of the Negro race in the
Mauritius has never excited any efforts of similar benevolence. This island, although situated
almost in the direct track between the Cape of Good Hope and India, has been, as a Slave Colony,
classed with the West Indies. The Black and Coloured population are very numerous; but they
have never enjoyed the same privileges, and opportunities for religious instruction, as their brethren
in the West Indies, and are consequently in a state of ignorance and degradation, which it is most
painful to contemplate. Missions and Schools have been established with success among tribes where
even human sacrifices and...”
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“...Branch Association formed for that Island, which, while it
will derive the benefit of their experience and advice, will have distinct officers and funds, and thus
preclude any encroachment on the original object of the Parent Society, while a sufficient guarantee
will be given to the Public, for the careful and prudent management of the important work about to
be entered upon. The Mauritius having long been a French Colony, the consequent difference
of language, will present many difficulties; but the Planters have expressed much anxiety for the
education of the Apprentices, and there is every reason to hope they will meet the intended en-
deavours in a friendly spirit, while the active cooperation of some valuable English residents will
much facilitate the work. The great distance and the irregularity of communication render it im-
portant to obtain as early pecuniary aid as possible, that some idea may be formed of the extent to
which directions for the establishment of Schools may be...”
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“................... 10 0
Lady Acland............................... 0 10 0
Hon. Capt. Wellesley, R.N................ 10 0
Rev. J. Lugger............................ 10 0
Capt. Jenkinson, R.N...................... 10 0
George Head, Esq., Rickerby Hall...........10 0 0
A Friend, by Dowager Lady Grey............. 0 2 6
Mrs. Long, Maxwell Hall ...................10 0 0
Lord Barham ............................... 2 0 0
Lady Thompson ............................. 0 10 0
Dublin Branch Association of the Ladies’ Negro
Education Society .................... 10 0
Miss Hunter Blair, Portobello...........,. 2 0
A Friend, by Miss Blair..................... 1 0
Mrs. Hoate, Hampstead ...................... 5 0
Miss Hoare, Hampstead ..................j. 2 0
Miss Gurney and Miss Buxton ................ 2 0
Right Hon. Lord Bexley...................... 5 0
David Barclay, Esq., M.P.................... 5 0
Major-General Sir H. Worsley, K.C.B., Isle of
Wight ..............”
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