The National Register. — London, England, 1818-10-04 00:00:00

314 JAMAIC.I PAPERS. KINGSTON, AUG. 3. ..... _ , With regret and horror we have to add one more to the &sadist' catalogue of barlerroue and cruel mertlers which have been latch committed in this island, a crime which for merly very seldom fell to our lot to record. On Winans' cecina?, the anU lilt. about five o'clock, the body of J. INI‘ Crel, Ceche:doe ir Plantation, in MillielliollC4l,Vlll9 found on the wail, not far from Iris (eau resistance, quite lite• less,weltering in his blood, w ith his skull dreadfully tcareered iu several places, and having other mark' of savage and fe rocious violence recently inflicted, and %%Welt are tripposed, by the contused appear:sere of the wounds, to have been given by a hoe: one fracurre of the interior portion of the occipitit I bone MIS SU very e•tcte4ive 33 to have permitted the escape of a 0)11441er:11de past of the brain. On the day fill townie an imptisttion was taken on view of the body, by D. Patterson, Feil. a Magistrate of that parish, (the Coroner Li ill 4 entitled by an issilispiiNition) and a respeetable Jury, vain .1 a %filet investigation was very properly instituted, but fri.e, welch trolling, we are eary to suss , transpired that conl , i kale to the diseeviity rut lire pasty gent y el this most Minim:el minder ; the Jet c !tavern, after a deliberate and patient examination lit cvoli•siee, lints tied a verdict 40. t lel Minster, by :t pet.iin or 110 sons 11114.1111W11." N,I act of Mr. M'Leil. could have elven it shidow of provocation for this most ittrocions needier. lie was exceedingly infirm, being an invalid, mil lot tile itith v ear of his size, the greatest part of a hicir be 114, It sided tte ;he teas a• vs 'slower, but two datiellid rs strrsise to Istimut their father's dreadful fate. Since the above we feel much gratifieetion in communi eating to the Pnblic, that she untr.lerere 3lr. Ml...end have 'been apprehended. The cirenanrieuee which led to their i-appreheasslon are as ((thew : Mr. Rose, tile nephew at Mr. M'Leod, suspecting that the Negroes Out the plantetiun were concerned, •took one of them (a steds) into is room. and atter terestioning het. minutely on the subject, she at kneel% enneissedl th,it ewe slaves, one the property of Mr. G. elinot, of Portland, and the other be longing to Ruse Garden estete, hail perpetrated the murder, and were at • the time secreted in the Negrueiteuscs. Oa re ceiving this information Mr. Rase vent to rev er al el the neigh. • bouts requesting their assistance, arid in the afternoon rode I out in qui...t of the miscreants. Out their way to Eeelesdown at night, one of the servants who followed heard a reftling in the bushes, erre observed that some person must certainly be secreted among these. On repairing •to therapist they dis covered a Negro named Williaer, betengiog to • feciesitewn, who lead been a notorious rnitaway, anti a lance in his hand, • making uhf. In the attempt to escape he tell and was secured; when he made a great twice, •but was immediately gaged. A careful search was new made, and they (11,i:riveted a hot In which they tieing' Mr Nlieroes Negro asleep, and the one belonging to Rose Gerdes) smoking ifs pipe. 'The I . OllllCr on awaking called to the latter for Iris CHI:133,1111i they were both - smeared before any weapon could •he used. William are knowkdged that he had employed tue Negroes above men_ Coned to murder his master, and that they waited O'er the op. portotrity. On their seeetine Mr. NPLeod, it appeues thatesie I of Melts gave the unfortunate gentleman a blow on tire fere. bead, when he exclaimed," Oit God '" This was followed by smother on the back of the heatewhicli brought him -from his horse to the round. They then contemplated using their cutlassd a, but Williesir told the runt deters suet bechop him, as the white people, on seeing the chops, would env-hide that he had been murdered; blot advised them to nee large stones and wash his head well, which they eccoriliugly did. • The body was then removed to a neigh twining guilty, audWilliam stationed himself on the mad side, to Nonce Mr.•Kase as lee posed by. A full confession of all the circumstances of the murder was made, and Mr. Mistot's•Negro, a very:powerful • nod athletic fellow, declared that-dead he bcenawakeiand poet d olthe cutlass whet they-came to the Init,lte would have killed all the party. In contiereseuee et the confession, other Negroes are supposed to be concerned, and some have been secured. Examiumtions were going on when our informant left that quarter. Mr. Niinores Negro, en Iris way to gaol, dropped clown and anon after expired, and it is supposed that Ise had poisoned himself to escape the fate which awaited Dim. Mr. Rose is entitled to the greatest praise for his per severance in discovering theaeurderers, said afterwards as sisting to scenic the miscreants. The following inatance'of wanton depravity, degrading to the perpetrators, and it ',miens to the character of Entomb men, we have received t root-respectable authority :—A boat's crew, from a Greerttaud ship beir , etcg to this port,. landed on Tour Island Pant last Joae, wt , ..7.0 a winter house was bn.lt fur the residence of a D.inish tr r. ly ; itr inhabitants at the time were some distance from we piece, and the seamen plundered the house of all it containzd brought away a butt nearly full of seal oil, two spars, a gun, a crab and eapstern, and a quantity of wood ; Slat! frieshtd the dCpredation by burning the building. The bodies of several Lscrointattx, which bad been hit Ord there, were dug op ; among twin was carpenter, who tied beard nee of she ships in Doris's Straits, and was b•••••••tt on the • ilane, stlt.luine 1818, and 'whose body waste pes'e . to be itlesitilied by t he (Apt* in and crew of toe slop tie uf.4.,geii li, and who had the body' again decently interred. 'I be c , :ttin•was broken to pieces, sod the shirt ton off with bretal • depravity Ad. • rertiser. Among the papers laid before' l'enliamet:t.last Session, is a correspoudeuce•betweea •railitAtlmrst and Lient..tiorernor Bentiocl, leeching the treatiocnit of, female %Live on a plan— tation at Ilierhiceemainsid iner appeArs that this poor creature had Iseen.lloszed .lay order et N 41:11..11 of colcor, wile of the r of a pLitit.tiou,• fors .nee a'.l. , erd inr rinnnee, 41111$ the following given by um 'reran Beotiuck of the hell' It tol•lre;fried on tier ; t. conceive for a inniment t •,• sih•• t: ta ort rang men with heavy cart-whips coaled, 11.1„ ; :i.14 .4 poor untiii In nate pi egnuta woman, last flat or her ars y , ‘tre.:elied on the ground naked, ai'la tier h.aids•and frm to stokes, re • ceiving upwards of one striver an mic a id e , and the other on the-after. every stroke estitioe deep suet fetching blood; after which 1.11 0 was uk And both her fret wade fast it, the stocks fora t • is•.aist•oi morr,ly tug with leer wounds upon a fiat form of i..ro•-k.uoue.t.s a state of preg nancy, and mole of h'e friootiv• .scrwittrai• to give her any thing to eat. r Wit) lie t , 41,1.4 was on•cessury, to prese•••• .1 . to •.•ii Inv •. .np 'hi!' lin -•• • t • - r• 're; i,lore Of the cved pin t ~ is. •s •.•• . • ir. •en mete ri,M.ra. ••• •e • ...• .••r• ••• n• : • ' , A n and va luAnle seraani. •. • s t : .." d tin• for.onate rna.A.stropm• v V . . ..• Lk the - T Joy -lamp THE NATIONAL. WEGIffiTEX ASSOCIATION IN TUE N'ETIIERLANDS FOR 1:N11 . 1.011St; Tun I'OOR. Preliminary Report made to Lis Royal Flightless Prince Frederick of the Netherlands, fium the General Committee of an extensive Association formed in the Netherlands for employing the industrio:ts poor. HAGUE, SEPT. 17. M. Van den Bosch, 610 Asses , or of the CemmisAion of Benevolence, hap' presented, in the 11a410 of the remanent committee of that Inetitotion, a very importaot report to Royal ilizliness Mince Deck:lick, as preAideni eml p.ttrun of the Scriety. It aititrars by this interesting tiortimect that the Com mission of lienevolenc, , , tit ord; r to estaliosit tite....r , t. colony, has piti..liastd a lurzeetttate,catleil Westet “t, in 1)1 ;lithe, on the lottrdets of ovcrysto I, ;tad :shout hail a length: froo Steen wyck This purchase con,ist4 of tam maroon., r,f•aelt uliotit two act es,) 1 0 0 Of which are wood, arable, act . ' meadow land, aiiil the reira!ad'er heath. The latter ineindes a portion of marsh, lint tint whole it capable of haul: roar ertetl into feint,. at ably land. Soot:. ett:tisantis tiees offer at owe a gnaw ity of build• in; and the cutting - et tinder wood, w Lether for sale or foe Ilse, will he very advantagt. outs. Tlicie are Int,itlits num) this elate gent haw hiputt home: fur the director of the colon., ant: situated ion. .)1?.tz:..1. A canal MN-41y partly•nwi„thle, intpro.ct+ the -who., and facilitates the trauvurt of commut it!e% iow.nd and outward ; thti timid proorkes to be hercultrr a muutee of great Imola. Tue situation is healthy and agree.tble.. Tl:e hood of the Aa renders the aece.•s CUPVCIIitIIi. rkitllNlVe fens in the neigb nein hood of the eoMity present to the in i tu s trinus eolonit , with regard to himself, moderate ad vantages at .present, but hold out in tune the pi 03p....rt of very protitaine !attune, and prepare Lt. Lis children the 11104/115 of soon earning a subaistenc•e. Situated neat Stretiwyck, and anreatinded by a -number. of small vrr..,ges, lit: colony will always have within its reach nietlicalatssisianee,schnolslillll platst s of puSlicworship. Uuder s uch a favourable ennortrrenae of circumstances, the committee, on their part, have neglected no efforts for the execution of the important plan which has been adopted, namely, to mule an experiment of a first colony, in which, in the course of this year, a number of indigent families should he employed in agriculture and manufactures. With this view, the importaut %oil. of establishing sub committees tics, in +hoeou,,c of a few neeks,been brought to a ecnsiderable decree or forwardness. These committees estalrhshed in eizlity towns. The vilbige civriurittees arc nearly all appointed, and IN similar ceisiniittees will soon be in activity On oughnitt !Manhole extent atilt noetheru krro winces. _ _ Through the meritorioes co-operation of the governors sod the burette's of the different towns, as . sell as tin °ugh the seal of the seb.coiumittres, a considerable porliou of the con. hibution•necrtaarr.for tlii; year is actually collected. The society, which already Cirlii;B4l of .niece than 27,000 members, is daily extending itself, and will Wu be el:creased by strum thousands more in different parts of the.emintry. With respect to the.works.in the CNlOity, the wood, iron, stone, how; Oct:. indsepensably necessary for Le dong of 57 Wives, have aireolity Mien conveyed to the eelony, •14i a con tract made en favoniehle terms. The canals i n an.t about the colony, requisite for transport, are already brought to o nevi gablestate. .The Madding of Yu houses is in a very ferseerd state ; the ground lot the remainder is 'narked trot, and their foundation lard ; and, in euitseirepee of the measures taker.. the whole estate will within a few days, be surrounded by a deep ditch. The advantages ot this arrangement for the in tensel police and ecomenty df the colonwsre incalculable. Fifty morgeas of gibed meadow laud, which are included withinitliis circuit, will, in the course of the ensuing Sprung, be allotted by the commission to another experiment ; or by giviug •to each family two cows, a cow-house, and the neces sary stall fodder, the interests of the society will be cone hilted with thefurther comfort of the colonists. The ground necessary for this purpose is already ploughed, and will be sown withilorin grass. All the inbabitunts in the environs of Westerheekeloot show the greatest zeal in-promoting the views of the society ; and, among other things, plough the land of the colony grat;s. Several persons, and more particularly Messrs. Van Royer, of ledder, Tette!, asd Schusezmau, of Steenwyck, merit the highest eulogies on the part of the society for the important se.dstance they have afforded. The ploughing of the ground before winter, besides its con venience fur the arrival of the colonists, further assures the Society, that all the ground that may be • let, off, even if the winter should be severe and of long duration, can be sown • before the ensuing-spring, and will give the opportunity of ascertaining by experbuents the best mode of raising stall fodder fur the colony. With respect to manure, the necessary measures have also been adopted. -A supply of about 1,000 lasts is now conveyed to the colony. The permanent committee hopes to be able, within a few days, to present a report relative to the measure, taken for sepplying clothing, lionsehoid furniture, and utensils, as with rerot-ct to all these objects they have already •made• a very fa•ottrable progrest. Meanwhile, they are busily and elec_ twiny occupied with the arrangements and purchases neces sary• for the provisionirg of the coiouy, and revisiting its interaldeconomy ; and they Isepe, before the end of the pre sentment:it, to lay before hie •Iloyal Highness and the other diemberevf the Commission of Benevolence a detailed state_ meet of theironecess In accomplishing these objects. The reporeitaneludes thns:—" An impartial view of what has been dome.:ia the course of two months, and above all within the last fortnight, is a :.-titficimit pledge that, in spite of the already advase,ed period of the season, there will still, before the whiterekc as many families housed, clothed, pro vided with food, and set to work in the colony, as the (mid. of the society are capable of placing in that state. And thus will the nation in the. very outset be convinced that she has not bestowed her charity in vain, nor (laced an iniptuper coeudence to a•society, the members of which rejoice that, nuclei the government AO gaidance elan illustrious Prince, they have autropied .eoßatung towards the bettering of the deplurableetet air their destitute feilow men, awl that they have thereby-been ofscrviee to their cuuutry." 'The Gineniorwo -f liayti (the- division cf Port au-Prinees, silow 'et the witiow t• e•itin an annuity of coo outfits. and to e.wth of his nephews, son vut y of 1500, as • pro oithe tuitional gratitude, los Wee:vices =untied by list lste eteudent. COMMON HA kL: ELECTION OF LORA) MAYOR. . TitePAlay being )11,•hoeirtia% (lay, Alm Live' y were esverehled hi Cimarron Hall, for the pitrpwo ; of electing a tit pilaw, to bt rye the office of :Emil Mayor Arr theenviiing year. The , Common Sergeant sal.l,. ; •that the livery were rolled upon to select two tit and prAver peraoroi (situ( the nomb re of those .Altlernien who had "ervril the office of Sheriff.-- Tilt se two Caere to be rot.' piled to the Court of Ablertneir, who were to choose one oa thou to till the ()Mee of Lord 3lav or. The names of the Aldc!leen were • theet put tip areartlim; to seiliarit). Upon the nemarf Ahleramn. Atkins being Plays .1 on the huard, there was a •laige show of lia;:ils %sill, consider. aide applause, tithed, ' ems ever. with newly an eii:ost ,nare of ilisappiahation. Tina next name was that of Aldirmart Good bdtere, mum wh: tit the show Or IldOC;4 044 mule ettin.T. ons, the applait.e waci a:so el s edit'V, though rot at 411 general, there being many who loudly expressed their t:isa pp ru it %Tall. TAM name of Mr. Alderman Thorp was the next iimm wh:ria many hands were up. The IllOnlbra.4 a ere.iu appear. since Hut numb, if at all, byte t:nr to those f.c hilt upon this the opiMahs of the Livery eme very much 1[14%614,d. SOM.: 14thlly that Thorp bud the majority, whilst others as . s , ou Ily maintalliot that it •resit.l matt Alti. Atkins. Daring tiiis romilii.t ()elitist " Ilkorp kis it, - and " ,114!ms Ms it," tile Slreliffi app.:llrd in etasnit tiQviln . r, and having agreed as to the s!tecessfal candklstes. doormat) S'ergeilla come fOl''.l,l'd to announce tht.;l - Silence was instantly restured,,-lief the lie pronounced tisat, in the mo.:doti of the edges ars, the choice of ttie Livery had fallen upon %Women Ai:Mars a ollCimilbetherr, a mingled shunt of iliss..iiStac:iim and. applause, was :t o Vk hick WAS alisointo:y and•eontitiac.l so for saute 011011itS. 1 lie Slierif:' ioaliPdiately retires; to make their rt nun to the Court „id. rattn, 4ittid thr a ecutriderallie time after their depart pre, Litoccunif: he ht and but opposing cries of "vhonte"—' • 'is a "ali'afuir"—" Use ... rip:.o•e , oerrei." In about duet:quarters elan hoe: the Lord Mayor, accom panied as before, rent to the whim the Recorder annointeed that the cietre. of tttp Court of Aldermen had fallen upon 0ti.0...% Li n ', ukosu he theicloie declared duly alerted. At this the saute ru'naleil shoots at liefore were set up, and coutinlied Vie Lord 1i '}•;:r elect was in vested with the chain. .Af:er ti.is e , rciiiony was performed, he came forward to return (hall' , 5, !int the Hoists of thuse !to lappeared to approve and disapplove was too loud to have a ll y thing else Award for some time. At lenizt:i teas on. iteistood to express Ilk sincere thanks for the %cry high hiv. nom. which had been sloulerreel upon him. He asured the Livery that theyssliould have no reason to rcl,Pret their choice, but that lie si Id at 4111 times be found to the duties of his hielt.officeAsitli tkat zeal, hittigrity, and imper -1 tiality, wisich he trusted lied already marked his conduct as a t Magistrate. (Applause, and some hisses.) He continued to .peals formulae int ((((( mt. longer, hot it %err. impossible to col ' Iret what he said. Wilco he had rutircd, Mr•. S. Dixon value forward to astlnnit a 'notion on whiolt he we, cet tato •Isuolif.be no ditfesence of opinion. j Wltb a motion of thanks to the trio Sheriffs fur their very iirawbuorthy conduct while in office. (Cries of •' Give it . . . only to este," and " Let the. motions be sepai ate.") To hint boils the gentlemen were •strasigers.when they came into office, kat he bud since known them as roust zealous and indstalizable in the diseharge .of their vet y arduous duties. lii the Imb-election there. was none who saW their c luct, irt h() had act reason to admire •their strict impartiality • La every respect their conduct had entitled them to the thanks of their fellow citizens, intuits mothing more than in then hu mane attention to the situation of the prisoners in the differ ent piisons, every • one of whom they had endeavored to resider as comfortable as their situations would admit. He concluded lay moving, that the thanks of the livery he Rhea to Sir Francis Deranges and Sir George Alderson, Knights. the late Sheriff/4 for the very zealous, active, and able manner in which they had discharged the duties of their office, for their strictly impartial conduct at the late contested els:diem for the City, and fur. .thoir humane and liberal attention to the situation of the . prisoners. This was seconded, anti carried almost unanimously, and with much applause. 7' Sir G. Alderson, in returning thanks, expressed his regret that his colleague, Sir F. Desanges, was not present on this occasion, as he would offer thanks in a touch better manner than lie could pretend to. It was however a duty which he ' owed to the livery to express to them how highly he valued. the honour which they had just conferred .upou him. For this he begged them to accept his .most sincere thanks. It was, as they would recollecLnow twelve months since he had .been called. fwout the ranks of his fellow citizens to.till the high and important office with which their confidence had invested bins. He had endeavoured, as far as his humble. abilities permitted, to discharge its duties with real, integrity, and a constant attention to the,public interest. Mr. Blundell next came forward with a paper in his hand, wide!' was understood to contain a resolution, expressing some disapprobation at the conduct of Ike new Sheriffs in making the return ; bat . before. be moved it, the crier, by order of the Lord Mayor declared the hall adjourned. This was commented on in strong terms by many on and. near the hustings, who sewed to have been aware of the ob ject of the intended motion. After the Coneincu Bell, the Lord Mayor held a Court of Aldermen, at which Mr. Norton, who. was on Monday last elected Common Pleader, in this BOOM of the late Williana Watson, Esq. attended, and was sworn into othee. TORGSD NOTIII.—A. remarkable proof of She extensive circulatien of forged Bank notes was authenticated on Mona day. A respectable house in town having had transmitted. to them 100 one pound notes to be paid into the Bank of Lug. land, one of the partners proceeded thither for that purpose; when, to his astonishment, no less than 20 of them were de— clared br forged. They were all taken, in the course of his business, rty. a. respectable.market gardener, of Covent Garilre maristt. 'lke public will .regret tolern, that Ahe..dnott nefarious frauds have ii.reti attempted. on the Waterloo and Putt iniie hands; auJ that some hare been very successful. A woman nunßivetl by a lung train of .latricate eurrespondenc.e, and many t inged certificAUts, to gaeherseliplserd as .a seleatit'S widov.'. With threwehildren, on the-Waterloa fund. in ortkr to avoid dete.ctun, she moved herresitlence evcry six month:, and at last pa) ing..a visit to Edinburgh,. was detected, but eluded appiadiension. This woman. it Is suspected, is now travelling UPe northern coantits, and ha. three r t,u , ris %% al l ire , rut Nov. of shorn she had drawn 131.-atiteli, 41. for the other, MU I per annum. As thews is nothing stationsty in this world. we must not he stir ptised to .hear that Milk has risen—sit was .m=1:0) , possible lac /.., , udon Wilk to be loan ed, 10 r #