The Express.
London, England, 1866-03-03 00:00:00

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MarshaL He seems to have regarded this appoint-
meat as endbwing him *►ith absolute and unlintittd
authority, and to have exercised that authority in

a manner which even many of those who were the
most firmly persuaded of the necessity for strong

mamma a; not attempt to justify. One pain-

cipal, if not the principal, scene of his operations,
was at Norant Bay, and there it was that
he caused the man Marshall to be hanged because

he could not endure the agonise of flogging with
becoming patience and resignation. The miaow:*
given u to this ease by Mr. Masshalleoh, aegis.
trate at Morant Bay, and other witnesses, was
that after Marshall had received nearly fifty

Lesbos he shrieked, writhed, and drew up his
body. At the same time he turned his head
towards Ramsay, probably with no very pleasant
expression epon his oountenanoe, but we have as yet

had no evidenoe that be made nee of any threaten-

ing expression. Ramsay at once directed that he
should betaken down and hung. He was remoted
from the gwltc which heliad beenfastened whilebeing

flogged, sad, his hands sod feet being beth,tied, he
was shoved aloes towards the Oomirhowoe. He
was boils* tn walk, and fell 1111111 i .S *Y.*
more. A rope was then attached to his neck, and
Mr. Marshalloch described the occurrence ; he wee

drsgged to the steps of the Court-house ass barrel
is hoisted up the side of a ship ; or, as another
witness said, " I rope was rove round his meek ;
they ran it round the Court-house steps and got
it round the railings, and he was housed right up."

One whines stated that there were several alone
of the lat West India Regiment present, but his
evidenoe upon that point has not yet been con-
firmed. Mr. Marshalled; although a jastios of
the peace, neither interfered at the moment nor
gave any information to the government as to
what had been done. The explanation which he

gave to the Commissioners of lie conduct in this
respect was, that the magistrates were treated with
the-greatest disrespect by the Provost-Marshal, and
were afraid to say a wort This reticence did not,
however, save him from ooming into collision with
that dreadful official, and he had to complain to
the House of Assembly that he had been illegally
arrested, and confined without trial. The most
striking account of the conduct of Ramsay yet sub-
mitted to the Commissioners was given by George
Clarke, an intelligent black, and the brother of
Samuel Clarke, who was hanged at Morant Bay.
George Clarke lives about a mile from Stony Gut,
and is the husband of Paul Bogle's daughter. He
told the Commissioners that be was taken to Morant
Bey in custody, and that while he was asking ques-
tions of some men who had made charges against
him, he was several times struck with a eat.
Ramsay was there at the time, and snatched the
shirt-studs from his bosom, and pocketed them,
saying that they "could not belong to a nigger."
He saw James Marshall flogged. At the forty-
', eighth lash Marshall called out " Lord a'
mercy ! " and Ramsay ordered him to be hung.
Ali the prisoners were taken out to see
him hung, and Ramsay shouted out to them,
" Look at him, you brutes, you thieves ; the whole
of you will be hung like him." He himself was
♦tied by a court-martial, consisting of Mr. Espent,
Hutchins, and Mr. Leiria. While he was
ander a shed waiting foe his trial Ramsay took
hold of him and asked, " Will anybody give evi-
dence against this brutal" Two men gave evidence
against him, and the court asked Ramsay whether
that was all the testimony that he had. Ramsay said
that some other persons had promised to oome,
but bad not done so. Witness was told by the
wart that if he bad any evidence to produoe, he
was to ask Ramsay to send for any one who could
'eak in his favour. He accordingly asked Ram-
say to send for some persons whom he named.
I Ramsay said, "If you open your mouth to me,
you brute, I'll shoot you ; how dare you 1" He
afterwards attempted to speak to a constable
named Williams, who could have given evidence as
to his character, when Ramsay said, " Who is
allowing this man to talk—give him a dozen ; " and
he accordingly received a dozen lashes. He saw
George William Gordon in custody. He spoke to
an old man, when Ramsay said to the men who
were guarding them, " If you see him speaking to
anybody, biow out his brains." Ramsay afterwards
showed Gordon, who had not then been tried, the
gallows upon which a man was hanging, and said,
"There is one of your friends, you will be hung
like him." Ramsay called out to the prisoners
that anyone who gave evidence against Gordon
would save his life and be rewardei. Imme-
diately a boy named John Anderson said
that he had seen Gordon at Stony Gut,
and heard him say that the white men
ought to have been dead long ago. Another
young man also offered himself as a witness, and
the two went away with Ramsay. George Clarke
himself was charged with preventing the execution
of the warrants at Stony Gut, but the charge was
not read to him before the court-martial, nor was
he called upon to plead. He remained in prison
till the expiration of martial law, and was tben
discharged, when Ramsey said to him, " You
must not be seen in a vestry, or in a public meet-
ing, or in Morant Bay. On going home he found
that his cottage had been burned down and his
provisions dug up. His brother Samuel was
flogged when he was taken into the prison. He
was hung an hour after be received his sentence.
If a man did not give as much evidence as was
desired, he received a dozen lashes. One man who
was so punished gave evidence against three men
who were hung. Twu others who were flogged in
this way were afterwards hang, and a third would
have been so but for the interference of an officer.
A man named Penton was made to give evidence
against his son, and then both were flogged and hung.
The charges of cruelty which are made against
Provost-Marshal Ramsay are not, however, con-
fined to his acts at Morant Bay. Evidence has
been given that at Stony Gut he caused seventy-
five lashes to be administered to a woman named
Louie°, in batches of twenty-five ea h, in Paul
Bogle's chapel, because she would not tell him
where Paul Bogle was. This charge rests mainly
upon the evidence of two witnesses, one of whom
spoke only to one flogging, and who, it is fair to
add, also differed as to what afterwards became of
the woman ; one saying that she was tied up out-
side the door, and the other that she vas made to
cook for the soldiers. It is in evidence be-
fore the commissioners that after men bad
been flogged they were, when they were let
down, compelled to run between two lines
of men—soldiers and sailors—by whom they
were pelted with atones or struck with sticks. It
was suggested that some men bad, under these cir-
cumstances, been struck at with bayonets ; but the
witness to whom the question was put said that