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 The expences of purchaing the land, and building a part of this gaol, were defrayed out of the money humanely contributed by everal worthy perons in England, for the relief of the unfortunate ufferers by the fire in Roeau, in the year 1781, before noticed; but which money, after it was ent out to Dominica, could not be ditributed to the perons for whom it was intended, owing to the deaths of ome, and the removal of others from the iland oon after that heavy calamity; the ret conented with the Governor, Council, and Aembly, to its being appropriated in that manner.

This building will be a lating monument of the generous and praie-worthy endeavours of Englihmen, to alleviate the ditrees of their fellow-ubjects, in a country o far ditant from themelves. The