We regret to find, from t...
We regret to find, from the Demnerara intelligence, that the persecuting spirit to which Mr. S.MITH fell a victim has not been appeased by his sufferings, or death, or by the long course of slanderous and vindictive malice which has since assailed his memory. The Rev. Mr. AUSTIN has been pursued with equal virulence-this, too, although T teacher Gf the establishad communion, Minister of the Episcopalian Church, and Chaplain of the garrisos, from which two latter finctions the reverend gentleman has been suspended by the Govermor, at the express instigatioit of the " free inhabitauts" of Demerara. So far as we have 1,pte,d, res conduct of Mr. AUSTIN, it merited Government; and as little does such a punishment, so in- flicted, accord with the general feelings or temper of so- ciety here at home. It is not, therefore, mere vio- lence that we have to animadvert upon in the lVrhites of Demerara and their Governor, but that short- sighted folly by which needless violence is in most cases accompanied: for let the colonists beware of straining the cord too tight; or pushing their late victory over poor SMITH to an excess which may rouse once more the sus- pended ainger of their countrymen in England. Mtinisters have, within the last six months, contrived to sooth the intenmperance of parties on the subject of lVest India sla- very; but they may not succeed so well a second time.