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LITERiITURE.
EJ opera, preium cogo•cere. Hon.

auc.roay OF THE MAROONS, FROM THEM
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CHIEF TRSDE AT Sll:sn A Lrosn ; INCLUDING THE
• txPEDITION TO cI:I3A, FOR THE PURPOSE OF PRO.
CUEING SPAN.SII CHAFsEURs; AND THIS STATE OP
THE ISLAND OF JAMAICA, FOR THE LAST TEN
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ISLAND PREVIOUS TO THAT PLRIOD,./If 2 VCAst
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PRISING AUTHENTIC DOCUMENTS.
In a splendid preface, Mr. Dallas informs Ls
readers, 'that "he has undertaken, at the request of
a friend, to write the history of a short way carrie4
on by the Government, in Jamaica, against the
body of black peiaple called Maroons, long esta.,
Wished in the interior of that island ; net ohly on
account of the uncommon nature of the SubjeCtß
but because the result of the contest was of great
importance to the colony a war in wl ich
ambition, aggrandizement, and the usual incen-
tives to hostility, had no part ; but which originated
%iin private resentment on one side, and was prose-
cuted on file other from the necessity of settling the
internal security of the country Consulting
Mr. F.dwards's work, he found very few of the
'partiEulars he purposed to detail, and saw, with
some pain, that in those few his own information
'did nut concur with it." His chief authority is the
Him. Wm. Dawes QtraVrell, of the Privy Council
of Jamaica, to whom the work is dedicated, and.
'wTo served in the Maroon war, and went commis-
sioaer to Cuba for Spanish chasseurs, and for re-
moving the Maroons to Nova Scotia. Indeed the
greater pat of the work was written while he and
the author were under the same roof.
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oreixed a Succinct History of Jamaica; extending
to 114 pages, which, owing to some visitation of
Providenc* on the author, was executed by John
Browne Cutting, Esq. of oston, in America.
Thelirst lettertets Out with a statistical account
of Jamaica, at the commencement of 'the French
Revolution, its prosperity, and the improved con-
dition of the slaves, by means of the Consolidated
Ad, which repealed the objedionable laws re; •tive
to them.

The author then proceeds to touch on that part
of the history of St. Domingo which is immedi-
ately conneEted ;rich his subjea, beginning with
the emigrations from that island in consequence of
the horrors " impelled by the political torrent of
the affairs of the mother country," and the appli-
cation made to the British Government, in 179',
by the planters who had fled. to England, to send
an armament, and take possession of St. Domingo.
This was refused, till the war with France broke
out in 1793, when Gen. Williamson, Lieutenant-
Governor, and Commander in Chief in Jamaica,
was authorized to take possession of such pans as
wert disposed to surrender. .More than half the
force in Jamaica was therefore dispatched to St.
Domingo. This not only drained the island of its
proper defence, but gave birth to the French pro-
clamation, abolishing all manner of slavery, the
ohje‘q of which was to put an end to the colonial
existence of the West Indies. General Williamson
was, in the end of the year 1794, appointed Go-
vernor-General and Commander in Chief of his
Majesty's possessions in St. Domingo, whither he
repaired in May 1795, being succeeded in Jamaica
by Lord Balcarres.
Letter 11. goes back to the conquest of Jamaica
by the English, in 1655, when most of the Spani.h
inhabitants retired to Cuba ; still maintaining hosti-
lities with the English, whom they attempted to ex-
pel, but were subdued themselves. Previous to their
final embarkation, Large bodies of their slaves had
fled to the woods in different parts of the island, and
ultimately formed that body of men called the Ma-
roons, or hoghunters. But in 1690, there was an
insurreaiou of slaves in the parish of Clarendon;
who found a secure retreat in the interior of the
country, where they occasionally recruited their
numbers from the plantation negroes, and commit-
ted such excesses that frequent complaints were
made to the legislature, who at length listened to
these representations, and resolved to reduce the re- .
bels by an armed force, that
,should penetrate the
recesses of the woods, and discover them if possible.
Upon this they concentered their force, and eleaed
a chief, whose name was Cudjoe, a bold, skilful, en-
terprising man, who, on assuming the command,
appointed his brothers Accompong, and Johnny,
leaders under him; and Cuffee and Quacisubordinate
captains.
" While the Clarendon rebels were carrying on
their depredations on the South side of the island,
the Maroons in the East continued theirs, and for a
long series of years rinaered every attempt to settle
near tlits.en impraL'iicable. Ineffeaual efforts were
made to subdue them ; and, although they mitered
greatly in several surprises and well-p,rojefted at-
tacks, they remained a rallying point for all who
Were disposed to quit a state of !about and to in-
crease their body. They were joined from time to
time by a number of slaves, principally those im-
ported from the Coromantee country, a people in-
ured to war on the coast of Africa.''