"Plunder was the order of the day; and what they did not want, they destroyed, burnt, or threw into the river. They also killed all the cattle and animals, not sparing even the dogs or cats. "During a week this work of devastation continued; and when they found nothing more to plunder, they set fire to the public buildings, and all the houses belonging to the Europeans; entirely ruining the beautiful and prospering colony, and leaving the colonists in the most deplorable state of destitution; without provisions, medicines, clothing, houses, or furniture. Sickness soon followed these privations, and many have died for want of proper food, and exposure in the woods. "When you read the above hurried account of our misfortune, you will scarcely believe that these wanton cruelties have been perpetrated by individuals of a nation, whose Convention boasted of spreading 'light and liberty through the world.' Alas! that light is the blaze of anarchy, that liberty the most daring and gross licentiousness! "Sierra Leone colony was established for the godlike purpose of abolishing the slave-trade; to enlighten the Africans; to render them virtuous, rational, free, and happy; and yet these powerful advocates and patrons of the rights of man, could wantonly destroy, in its healthful infancy, a settlement in which those rights were peculiarly studied and held sacred. 'By their fruits ye shall know them.' "But it will yet, like the phoenix, arise from its ashes. It was formed to promote the cause of justice, mercy, and religion; a cause which possesses, in itself, the principle of re-animation--an ever-renewing means of rallying its resources, overborne, for a time, by a base treachery and unmanly violence. "My faithful Samboe, and no less faithful Frank, have been like ministering angels to the distressed, in this season of calamity. 'My poor country,' said Samboe, 'and my generous friends, what a sad reverse is here! But though grieved,' he added, 'I am not in despair; for has not the Almighty said, (He in whom is no variableness nor shadow of turning,) 'I will never leave nor forsake those who trust in me. Commit thy way unto the Lord, and he shall bring it to pass.' I cannot conclude my letter better, than by assuring my dear ----, that such is the trust and confidence we all repose in the Being, who out of evil still educes good."