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I - w~!~ ---- --- ~ - . HAIIRURGH. LEITER FROM ST. PiChtfallUßfiii, T 4 AT 11. " The Manifesto at his Imperial Mejesty with which the new 'Fora was published. is dated Slst March, (0. 8. ). and is as Inflows Aber the re.e.tab:ishn - .ent of the free, 'modal, area cant Inertial rub/lone betwveti e litaspt an Powell, we have Judged it conformalvis to the general entree:4 to make some cliang.s in the prohifiriiory *elm of trade. To this erect we tftliered, in the beginuinf.of the ye..r tai 5, a Committee to lie (invited for . the exatnitialon of the Project of a new Tatiff. 111‘11:g now taken the opinion of the Council of tee Entree, af'rr it had exa mined thi‘ subject in all b , part%, and after our own stibnite exa mination of all the obj. ct • re:ating to the Tat& we have judged, it necessary. to allow the imp.irtatinn of several foreign loads, which were motiih;ted by the last regulation of c•minterce.while we for the rein It 4 the prohibitions, in respect of the olter ar. t:cl , •s, remain in lorce. According to this principle, bovine con ii;•med by our own signature the general and special tf.poiitions. a. well as the Losts dad fables which compote the new I miff, we cotuatand that it s:iall be put in v•xecution from the time Seed In the general dispositions *nursed to this Tara" Among many other reguletions, the ' Tariff contains the folloe'eng :—lt is in force from the time of its publication, and is valiiffor all the ports and land trontler custonelioute offices in the Empire, except those in the Governments of Orenburg. Tobolsk, and Irkutsk, in Georgia,..and in the line of the Ctn. casux: The importation of the foreign goods. not prohibited. is allowed in the ports of St. Petersburgh, Revel, Riga, Libau, Odessa. Theodosia, and 'ye gatizok ;• and on the land side, by Kovno. Bizesc- Litowsky, Radciwilow, and Dubossar. In all . the other ports, and land frontier custom houses, only those tinprohibited foreign goods may be imported, the introduction of which is allowed by the Sallow: 4a (frontier toll guard honses).—The duties, according to the number, measere, and weight of the imported goods, are calculated ia Russian silver money, but levied in bank bills, according to a rate to be pub lished annually; for the current year, tl-e silver ruble is fixedat . four rubles tat bank bills. The duties on the value of the goods are fixed in bank bills, and levied according to a special-regula tion contained in the Tariff. The Journal called the Coniervateur Impartial, pub lished eere in French, had announced that the Tariff was fixed for twelve years. This is not so; but the importation of the 191 foreign articles which are pro. hibited in the Tatiff is loibidden fur twelve years, in order to favour the internal manufactures. On the Promenade of Moscow, on Palm Sunday, above 300 equipages were counted. HAMM:ROI - l b MAY 47. A respectable traveller who arrived here to-daye (he is a citizen and inhabitant of Bergen,) reports, that the accounts hitherto spread of the plague, or of a contagious distemper, in Norway, have pored wholly unfounded. It had indeed been mentioned in a Norwegian Paper, that further inland in the king. dom several persons had died of a dangerous distem per, and the repetition of this notice in other Papers had caused• some alarm upon that head ; but that afterwards the physicians who went from Bergen to the place indicated, had fully contradicted all the ap prehensions expressed respecting a contagious distent per.—The report of the wreck is wholly false. This traveller left Bergen on the 12th ingest. STU FOAItD, MAY The following has been published here : at Ilia Majesty the King has received clear proofs, that several of the Princes and Counts, formerly States ef the Empire, and now subject to his Majesty, have not only entered into a union, contrary to the vela. tiens as subjects, among themselves and with other formerly immediate States of the Empire, but also have Allowed themselves to have recourse to foreign Courts, and attempted to procure their interference in derermining their political relations to the State. neglectful of their engagements as subjects, to which they have sworn by the oath of allegiance, and which have been recognized by the Great Powers of . Eurepe in the late Cenventiuns with them. But as the at temet of a subj •ct to procure the interference of fo reign, powers in the internal concerns of a gate, is, in all well-ordered states, a crime to which severe pod nalties are attached, evety attempt of the former States of the Empire, now made subjects, whether made by single individuals or by several united loge. ther—whether they apply to single foreign powers, or to a union of Sovereign Princes—cannot be regarded. in any light but as such a crime against the State, .which is to be punished with all the severity of the laws. , 1 His Majesty, therefore, reserving to himself to refer these illegal proceedings in respect to the authors and tnnst active promoters of them to the course of justice, to be eximined and judged according to the existing laws, has been pleased to give the under signed the puler expressly to remind Mr. N. N. (let ters used in Germ in in place of the name, to be in s rted in a circulet letter) of the long existing prehi. bition, by which every subject is forbidden to apply to foreign Courts ir, matters which concern his rela tions as a subject, and at the sante time to add the' threat, in case of contravention, besides the heavier punishment to which the guilty will be liable, the immediate sequestration of - al: estates belonging to the disobedient. in his Majesty's dominions will the more certainly follow, as his Majesty has most so lemnly and repeatedly engaged to grant the former immediate nobility of the empire whatever they can possibly have reason to expect. 6° The undersigned, as Chief ad issierim of the H o me Department, at the same time that he hereby fulfils his Majesty's commands, requests Mr. N. N. to let him have, without delay, a certificate of the present notification having been made. " The Actual Counsellor of State, Ore. 44 Stutgard, April 20.—Home Department." The Prince of Walpurg Zub, gave in a note, dated April 21, in which he declares that the politi e_seel situation of the former immediate Princes and • - Conroe of the empire has two main objects—the ac quisition of curial votes in the German Diets and Assemblies, and their personal privileges. Their requeetv are founded on the acts of Congress anti* the TreaOf of Paris. If, therefore, on the ap proach of the German Diet some of the mediatited Princes and Counts of various States of the German • Confederation had formed an union to promote this object so important to them, at a moment which will for Ever decide upon it, such an union cannot be dis approved by the highest Sovereigns in the union; that his alejegy the:King of Wirteroberg had indeed de clited on the 18th October that lie was surpriseellbe Princes would not wait with patiinace and submission for the menace when his Majesty should ezacUte the engagements be had made rthat they had waited, but as his Wray had not yet •unconditiofally se eeded b) the slid Confederation, the mediated Princes, &c. could nut be blamed for exerting themselves; that fur the rest their conduct was equally loyal and respesuul, NEGRO INSUHRECTIOA: The follosiog account is partly from private let ters. partly from the Barhadoes Papers : . BARBADOES, APRIL 21. EXTRACT OF A LETTER. is It is with deep concern I have to inform you that an insurrection broke out on Sunday night, the 14th instant, among the Slaves in the windward part of this Island. Martial law was immediately pro claimed by the Commander-in-Chief, the President ea 1 the Island, our Governor, not being here t and the militia has been unremittingly employed, in con junction with the King's troops here, in putting down this alarming rebellion, in which I am happy to say they have succeeded. with the loss of a very few lives. The first object of the insurg'ents appears to have been the general destruction of all property by fire; and the effects of their horrible plan have been most se verely experienced in the windward part of the Island, where fields of votes on near 40 estates, and in seve ral places dwelling-houses and plantation buildings, presented a widely extended scene 01 conflagratinn and ruin. The town and shipping have suffered no injury. A great many slaves were killed in this war fare ; a considerable number have been already tried and executed, and about 400 prisoners are now in custody waiting their trials by court-martial; the others have returned to their homes and occupations. and I hope the Island is now in safety ; but not the smailest relaxation from military duty is yet allowed to any one, nor do I think the state• of things will admit of it for a few weeks. Had the negroes gain ed the ascendancy over us in this struggle. the most horrible scenes were to have followed ; but, thank Goy, the efforts of the militia and regular troops were too powerful for them." EXTRACT OF A LETTER FROM ST. VINCENT'S* DATED APRIL 25. • 44 On the 19th instant we received accounts by way of St. Lucia of an insurrection having taken place among the negroes at Barbadoes on the I Ith instant, and in consequence martial law was imme diately proclaimed here, and an embargo laid on the shipping. Advices received here yesterday from Barbadoes state, that the insurrection was nearly Suppressed ; that about eighty estates had been burnt, and upwards of 1,000 of the insurgents killed or exe cuted : it does not appear that any nutiders had been committed. At this Island no bad dtsposition has evinced itself among the negro population, nor do I think we have any thing to apprehend from them.— We are still under martial law, and the militia in li.ingston and its vicinity are on duty, but in the estates the business is going on as usual." BARBADOES, MAY 1. We were thrown roost unexpectedly into a serious state of alarms, on the night of the 14th oh. by an in surrection of the slaves, which threatened to spread and lay waste the whole of the plantations in be Island; and if the military had not succeeded in put. ting an early check to the mischief, the consequences which would in all probability have ensued might have been awful to relate. More was intended than the conflagration of the canes, and destruction of the property otherwise upon the estates. Fortunately the progress of these wretched insurgents was soon arrested ; but an imprense amount of property has been destroyed during the short period the devastation continued, and this perhaps did not exceed 24. or at most SO hours, though the alarm of renewal did hot sebside for several days afterwards. We are again in a state of tranquillity, 'and hope the lesson we have received will sbe►v the necessity that really exists 'to be more vigilant in our endeavours to prevent a recurrence. In no Island or Colony where slavery exists could st.ch an attempt have been made with less hopes of success than here. In an open country like this, almost a level, nithout woods or fastnesses of any description, it is not possible they can make head for any length of time where there is constantly a considerable regitlar army, aided by a large white population, to oppose to them. The following particulars are given by a passen ger who Came by the Barton, which is now at Li verpool:—" In the middle of the night of the 14th of April the inhabitants of Bridgetown were awoke from their beds by the heating of the dram to guar iers, an insurrection having taken place amongst the negroes at the estates of Bailey and Wiltshire. The negroes first proceeded to demolish the overseer's houses ; they then destroyed the sugar-pans, and all the implements which they could gain possession of, also all the negro huts. On the appearance of the military, who almost immediately fired upon them, they retreated in all directions. Between 8 and 900 negroes were killed and wounded, and a vast number taken prisoners. We are happy to state, that opt above two Europeans were kiVed, and but a very few wounded. The damage done to the above two estates, including the neighbouring ones, does not exceed £12,000. On the following morning every thing was perfectly tranquil, and a number of the misguided and ill-advised negroes were imploring mercy, for . six or seven days alter the insurrection. Numerous executions were taking place amoag the negroes who.had been tried. General Lat•rn had arrived at Barbadoes from Guadaloupe, wino part of an European regiment ; and when the Barton sailed 'from Barbadoes (Ist May) tranquillity was •com pletely restored. MI tte negroes upon the different estateshad returned to their work. Mao tial law had been proclaimed at Barbadoes, and at, all the neigh boa! ing islands." BARBADOES. ACCOUNT 01 TOM LOU ,1N IT. PUILLIeh TARIM, mita TIC OWNCIIIII . WANDS AND /MATZ& Mr. Scott, Balley's.—Dweding-house, furniture, and clotbes, all completely destroyed; very many cans fields burnt, and a number of slaves killed and executed. Mr. Scott, Wiltshire.—Bulidings all destroyed, and cane Gelds burnt. Mr. Gruen, Golden Grove.—All the furniture, plate, and clotbes of the faintly, with several cane fields, bursa and de. strayed. Lord Harwood, Thickets.—Some furniture, &c. destroyed; several cane Beds burnt, many negroes kgled and executed, and g 0 odd now abvent. • • Mr. John Barron, Suaburit—Dweillerßoute 24.1•4 Blared; turokors. &e. all dietroyod, aod several cane fields burnt; some ' 'doves killed and banged. Mr. Cronkindall, Rfter.---:Furnitnee, Ate. all destroyed ;* very many egos fields burin. and many siogro‘s kUled and etecittA. Mrs. Belgravr, iiranford.—Curing-touse, with 10 hogsheads rar of sugar and nially CAM° rlell•kburnt ; Seine bi3Vrl k lied scat Cited. 'At this estate severol hundred of insurgents assembled, arid made a stand against the St. Michael's Militia. Judge Gittens.— the w hale imerior of the dwelling-house, furaitaireAdate, mid clothes completely destroyed, many fields of canes burnt, much runt and sugar lost; and several uegrzes Tailed and executta Jacob ltelgrsee, Ruby, (free MulattA).—Dwelling-house and every other building, and a great many iiehls of cane burnt, se veral negroes k filed. '1 he fire canintsuced on ads property. Mr. Brathuralte, Fuwl Bay.—llwelling-house, furniture, plate, and clothes of the family, all destroyed; loss about 4:i 3,00 u. N. Weeks (deceased), Mangrove.—The buildings ink.rtd, a ytuniber of Laves killed and eiecuted, and a great insoy canes burnt. John Csitchlow, Kirtons.—The dwelling-huuse injured. s_tre ral slaves executed, and many canes burnt. Bayne and Clarke, MarlemouL—House and offices a wreck; besides goods on han, a large cargo `f lo s s ju iported, b accouot books, receipts tke. are all destroyed at least 15,000. John SimmoLls, Harrow. —log acres of canes burnt. Ditto, Your-square.-- 67 acres of ditto. ditto. Mr. Franklin, Contented Berreat.--Buildings all destroyed; 20 tierces of sugar and all the rum on she estate also destroyed; several negroes executed, one or two killed. • Lord Harewood, Mount —Every budding demolished, a great quantity of canes burnt. muck runs and sugar thrown about the yard, sind a great many slaves (many ringleaders of the plot) kilted and executed Mr. J. Boyd'. greens.—Nearly the whole crop burnt ; a few negroes killed or execute!. Mr. J. Padm. , re. Etleys.—Many acres of tines burnt, and many mimes killed and executed. Mr. 1. Yard, Cottige.—Twenty acres of canes burnt, and three negroes killed and executed. • Fisher'. Pond, Locust Hall, and Leers, have not e sc aped, be sides "aux others. rAnlini• Mr. Dalrymple, Psigrim.—Dwelliug-house injured, and all the furniture, plate, and clothes destroyed and takes, Away. D. it. Hamden. Small Midge.—Canes burnt, and snaky slaves killed and executed. Mr. IL Reed, ►tope.—Ditto. Mr. J. K. iitat has suffered. Many mote in this parish likewise have suffered materially. The negro-houses of all Ole estates whose negtoes revolted, through which the Mditia passed, were set lire to by their Com manding Officers from hunters of policy. What follows is trona the Barbadon lifircury of the 30th of April : BRIDGE-TOWN, APRIL so. It is unnecessary to state to our readers in this community the occasion of that suspension of our labours which has taken place since the 1311) of this month : it will be long and painfully iarpresed. on their minds; but those of our subscribers who reside 'n the neighbouring settlements, will no doubt be desirous at knowing the cause of it. We shall there fore endeavour to perform this unpleasant ecty, a thrugh we feel considerable dilficuity in the attempt. At so early an hour as two in the woriiing ot Easter Monday, this island was placed under martial law, in order to quell a perfidious league ot slaves in the parishes of • St. Philip, Christ-church, St. John, and St. George ; who, in their mad career, were setting fire to fields of cane, as well as pillaging and destroying the buildings on many estates, and other wise pursuing a system of devastation which has sel dom been equalled. The inhabitants of this town were apprised of these nefarious proceedings through the personal exertions of Colonel J. P. Mayers, of the royal reginaatt of militia, who. upon receiving the intelligence, instantly proceeded trona his plantation; and having ou his ; way acquainted Colonel Codd, in command ot theJ garrison of St. Ann, the troops were immethatel) called to arms, and put in readiness to march in the route ot these incendiaries. This prottptitude on the part of the commandant was followed by his kindness in supplying the St. Michael's militia with some arms that were required, and likewise with ammunition, so that by day-bre.ik they were ready for service ; upon which the Aank and so - ne other companies, headed by Cal. Mayers, were soon afterwards dispatched, and on their mach they joined aim* body of regulars, cotnotanded by Colonel Codd, with which they p roceeded to the scene of desolation. _ . The life-guards, too, were sent in that direction, and, being divided into squadrons, they frequently tell in with parties of the insurgents, some ot wli , nu they killed, and dispersed the rest ; and, tram the facility with which this body conveyed intelligence to the troops, it was found to be a most essential corps on this calamitous occasion. The enterprising spirit of Colonel Best was con spicuous in this affair ; for, with the (.`hrist-cistneli battalion, he was on duty in the very midst of the rebellious, and contributed in a great degree to its 'dispersion in that neighbourhood soon after their commencement, but in effecting which several ot the insurgents were shot. . Those troops from the garrison, as well as the militia, were, upon approaching the thicket (one of the estates principally concerned in this outrage), sent in divisions in different directions, with the hope of disaovering, before night, those places to which the rebellious had retreated upon perceiving them advance. In the performance of this duty, the troops surprised many parties of them, and some of whom lost their lives in attempting to escape. Besides those that were killed on the following day, many were taken prisoneis, and upwards of , Ism have been sent on board of the v?ssels in the bay, to await the resalt of their trial, agreeably to a Frock:nation issued' by President Spooner. Many hive been condemned in the parishes that revolted, upon full evidence of their guilt, hclore a Court•mintial ; and a Court of Inquiry is sitting in town, before whom several have been convicted, and their sentence of death has been carried into effect on those plantations, to. which the offenders belonged. It having been deemed advisable to.aequaint his Eicellency, Governor Sir James Leith, G. C. 3. Am the state ot the country, an express was sent to Goa daloupe on the 16th inst. and his Excellency lost no time in proceeding hither, having strived on the 4 2-I.th in a French schooner of war that happened to be at that island. The Governor has since thought tit to circulate the following Address.: AN APDRESS Ti) TDB SLAVE POPULATION OF TUX . ISLAND OF BARISADOVS , appearing that the late insurrection of slaves' ,o. the parishes of St. Philip, St. George,. Christ church, and St. John, was principally caused.by the misrepresentation and instigation of ill-ciiiposed per-, sons, who have been endeavouring to induce a belief, that the slaves were actually made free, but that their manumhsions were improperly withheld from them, I think it my duty at once to remove• all miccoaceir ... . • ~ 1 . , tion on a subject as o great invert Ince fo r t e e quillity of this Colony, and for the weli.b . ei e " wh fl4 Slaves themselves. "I do not mean to enter into the nrl e in „, titre of shivery, farther than to prevent e el 1,2 erroneously supposing that boiidage is ever ie ... L i" t Z t i or exclusive lot. " Slavery is not the instiution of ant colour, age, or country:—it his ever exisi e t, does still exist, among khite as well as black n te ," every quarter of the earth. That the BL e k: Africa have countenanced Slavery, and wee Whites have been its joint authors in the We e is a fact personally known to all cif you 71 to eat come from Africa under the ce!ntilsive te eni f eil your persons by your own crime - erten, by r you were held in lelndage in r•tt: a.ttivz .." azd .were there disposed of as Slaves, 6 ‘ That our humane and equitable Severele assie the. British Nation, &sans - tweed the trafa : e; - from Africa, is kiowa tit yen ;as re e l; has consequently beeo proeieited be the 1 4 ,e ate has long ceased. is It is eqtally a feet, +at the Black P ze - 0 1, Able.' still continue d.tve-v, not may atriungt te e: selves, but that they d4ily barter their f e t„, e , i tl every age and sex t 3 any pet son who chooses no el them, while Great Brit alone a eetts her pete r i 3 prevent an increase of slavet y, and to render ea* who are now unavoiciafily in that stele ev ery mali. cable service which benevolence suggests ,, Bu't are most wise and juszetten, the most hatnme ami rt . i. lous advocates of the ;iholition of the Slere'l'tacr, who eo-ie?.ss priedeel knowledge, and the mee t cere friends cif d.uee wh ate actually in slavery,L ee considered their eniancipation, except in pettiest, ' cases, as the reward of fidelity and condutt, to l e morally impracticah:e, w,;einer such a measure regard the good ender of the community at larg e (4 the well being .of the genet ality of the daces thew. 'selves. 44 What would be the fate of the old, the infirm, • the tick, the helpless children, and a laree prop er e„ a of your whole body, who have been brought tiptoe, pend entirely upon yeur masters for your subsistence; and from that circurte:tatice, its well from the to of knc,wledee as artifice: s, and in other respects, woad be little able to provide fur your wants, if a raiii sure of eeneial emenzipation were at once to deer tl.e mass of the sl.tve population into a new cue of society, under the flattering but fallacious name freedom ; in reality, however, presenting only ti. dangers of general disorder, and producing, exccp:Li a le w, the miseries of contusion add want, leedine to the commission of crimes, and to the abselete see version of puhFc order and tranquillity ? letterset. templating such danger to the community, it is r.it necessary to go into tee origin and nature of three, in order to decide on the impracticability of its abe hams, where it actually exists, excepting by a sin and unremitting system A anneiieretion, by Clic!! it will gradually produce its own tel . :mance. by such means alone, and not by the attempt of a rot and destructive cenvulsion, lets slaves y impel ceptible safely, and happily changed, in every countty w'rere it had ever existed, but has now ceased, from the :ie. - ginning of the world to the present time. " I have learned that a general belief had hies mischievously propagated anteng you, that I was •s possession of your manumissions, and that myeetten to Berbadurs would have put you ii, pOsteLAisors your freedom. I can solemnly Assure you, that my arrival has been one of the must painful periods ti• my life ; when, in performitig my duty, I have nit only had to minim you of the cruel deception weicit the enemies of the State, and still more yourowa 'Jit ter foes, have practised on both, but to Lei nosel called on by the offended laws to seek out and sti.lat punish the guilty. • 4 4 Perhaps never was there a more delic.rte suh*Ject to touch on with .yeu than your condition as shoes, especially under the unhappy circus etences is w!:irfi too many of you have involved yout selves, and by which the guilty had .planned so much mnenti to diis colony ; but I shall never be deterred from ere mulgating truth when mrduty . points out the note sity, however difficuloit Mil appear to give it ci,c.t. " I conjure you. all, ttien, to return wit ness to your dunes, where it will be intioitcly mg! consistent with my desire oar see you act from mote than from force. 64 Every thing which the paternal gnvernmee ri the Prince Regent cam practically effect ter your well bting, ,yoer progressive prosperity, and h.tp,n. has been and will continue to be done. Lanes' with confidence to yourselves, whether your proprie tors also have not generally done much to render your situations comfortable. 66 In that which regards my authority, yen may rely on a strict and watchful execution of my duty whatever regards your interest;; but do not me, in expressing the benevolent feelings which I Audi ever entertain towards you, to mislead you into lo liet that I could for a moment permit you to resist with impunity the just exercite of that authority which the law has placed over yeu. 66 It is melancholy to LIMA va the. numbers of men who in the late instorecti.al lost their lives lit the rash anti wicked contest against the laws, into which they allowed themselves to be hurried, wie,out a shadow of hope that their effects would hive fen 1 successful agaitee the powerful means within my elate mond for the preservation of public tranquillity. " I cannot omit to express my satisfaction at tie good een , ,e and feeling of so large a proportion of yogi who rallied round your masters and their fanellee when your deluded brethren so shamefully forgot till ties of duty and gratitude wiser? IRaelits bad txca conterted oa thcm. • " I trust, however, that the example of tho:e whit fidelity-1 hare justly commended, even more than e.. 4 tate of those who hove lost their lives, and the retinae ing.reatem of the deluded, will save me from dm p:attful task of using the ample power at all titres to my hands to crush the refractory, and purtisii the guilty. " It will indeed be to me a 'source 91 true gratiFe cation to witness the speedy return of general cowl• deuce and industry, and of that comfort and ear. fulness which so large a portion of you seemed to enjoy. . (Signed) " JAMES LEf tr. " C./overman I-louse, April gG, tele." Sir James Leith, as soon as the insurrection was suppressed, issued a Proclamation, taking off the ern bur on the votes lying in Carib!, Bay. 4