He also reports that Cuban merchants supply themselves with goods for the African trade through Jamaica, that American capital was the mainstay of the trade in Havana, and that hundreds of cargoes of enslaved people passed the eastern end of Jamaica every year but could not be stopped without a special commission to the naval commanders. He recounts the difficulty he had experienced with the local legislature because Buxton had quoted a letter from him to the Committee of the House of Commons on the Apprenticeship Question; he had been accused of slander before the House of Assembly adjourned. He mentions his intention of going to Trinidad, the dinner they had given the children of the Mico school on the balcony of the Mico Institute, attended by 220 children, and prophesies that if the Mico Charity abided by the simplicity of its original intention, it could not fail in spite of the opposition of some of the Christian community there, though much depended on Buxton surviving. He promises to give the Trustees an account of his activities from the beginning, but trusts they will be patient until he has left the island.