‘I have been reading about our poor friend, the first of the Blacks, to-day; and it appears that his character was very fairly drawn by Miss Martineau. I was glad to know a little about the after doings in Hayti, and find that Dessalines--that fierce fellow, husband of Theresa--was made first Emperor, and killed in about two years. He was a great savage, but his wife an amiable lady. Then came King Henri I.--our friend Christopher the Cook--who was king at the time that my informant wrote, that is to say, in 1819. A famous king he seems to be, or have been, with a good palace, standing army of 25,000 men kept in strict discipline, a hereditary aristocracy--all of the colour of coal--and ecclesiastical establishment. He was considered in person very much like King George III.--barring complexion, I suppose--and, in short, that part of Hayti which owned him for king seemed in a very flourishing condition in 1819.