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sliii,. fir nnt sending an earlier answer to the several
ell —iiims respecting the Negroes who have of late
l.,:ii,i most wantonly and inhumaid:- murdered. The
delay ais been owing to the dirficillty I have met
with in procuring any thing like satisfaftiary in-
forma,ion as to the last of the cases ; and, the:ref-ores
I shall hope for your Lordship's excuse. -
With respeft to the first ; a man if the name of
Halls, belonging to the Royal Repiment, WAS re-
turning home from his exercising duty, on one of
the militia days; several Negroes were upon the
road before him going on very quietly, and amongst
them a wom'n big with child. Halls was in li-
quor, and was constantly bawling out to the Ne-
groes and abusing them, and telling them, it they
did not get out of his way, he would make them.
On his beginning to run after them, they all got
out of his reach, except this unfortunate woman ;
Halt roe np to Ipr, and, without the bast prorocation en
her port, iter.i rm;iy and deliberately sinblicd her several
' lilacs in the hreaat with his bayonet. The wainan, I
believe, was not kined upon the spot, but died soon
afterwards M. Harding, the overseer of the So
ciety Plantation, was on his was: home, and saw the
whole trans:ietion ; he imnie hately secured Halls,
and bad him takeo to ganl, where he now is.
As to the second; hfr. Colbeck, who lived over-
seer on Cabbage five Plantation in St. Lucv's pa-
rish, had bought a new Negri, 6.,y net of the yard,
and carried him home ; taking a likinl, to the bay,
lie brought him into the house, and made hint wait
at table. Mr. Crone (the overseer of Colonel
Rowe's estate. and which is near to Cabbage Tree)
visited Colbeck, had noticed the bay, and knew
him well. A tire happening one night in the neigh-
bourhood, Colbeck went to ghee assistance, and the
boy fuliiiived him. On Colbeck's return home, he
missed the boy, and, as he did not make his appear- i
ante the next day, Colbeck sent round to the neigh-
bours, awl. fonrtirul:mln to Crone, informing them
that the boy was missing, and desiring them to send
him home, if they should meet with him. Two or
three days elapsed, and the poor creature was first
discovered in a gully, near to Colonel Rowe's
estate ; and a number of Negroes were soon as-
sembled about the place. The boy, naturally ter-
rified with the threats, the noise, and the appear-
ance of so many people, hid himself under a rock
in the gully ; by this time Crone and sonic other
white persons had come up, a fir was ordered to be
pat is the place where :.Se b,:y war, and he SC3S actually
darned out. From this hole the boy ran to a piece
of water, which was near, and some of the Negroes
went in after him. The boy, it is said, took up a
'zone and threw it at one of them. Crone, who, it
stew*, had brinight • gun with him, letmded it et the
bey; ea 441,./ barn : and other glum, az I have under-
Maui, were also fired. The pc°, wretch was Shea dragred
set of the water, and, wittinut mem seadvis to his mai-
ler, a hale sae ionseliivel, dee, and be was put into ii
lig Crone's levier. I hare been told Met the hay vat not
trite weed maim he was basin]. Colbeck, the owner,
soon afterwards came up, aad bed the boy taken
oat of the ground ; and there cannot be the least
doubt that Crone must have known him to be Col-
beck's new Negro who had been missing. A man
a this name of Hollingsworth, it was said, also filed
et the boy, and Colbeck brought his anion in the
Exchequer., under the Aft of the Island, against
Crone and Hollingsworth. '['he cause was ready
to be tried, and the Court had met for the purpose.
When Crene and bollitigrworth thought proper to
par double the aulue ai the. boy, and 2sl. tor the
use of islani, with all the tents, rather than suf-
fes dee . iara.
go On; Apliatie, / ewe trills rorry to
sa s wet . sok r50i4.04 .6kb rank i lie iveldoajae go
hariansus salt *inure, a MOW. The Attorney Ge-
neral and myself were retained as Counsel for Col-
bick, and received irs.ruftions to the above pur-
port. The case did not appear so strong against
Hollingsworth • but I we, ;ly Wiser that, os agoi,mt
Crone, it await; hare been substantiated by the fattest
moaner& It is due to Colonel Rowe to observe,
that he was in England when the horrid transaltion
took place.
As to the third ; a man of the name of Nowell,
who lives in St. Andrew's parish, as I understand,
had been in the habit of behaving most brutally
towards his wife, and one day went so far as to lock
her up in a .room, and confine her in chains. A
Negro WWII/II belonging to this man, ionehrel with
,i,,,,p4ission for her unfirtanate mot iiiii undertook pri-
vately to release her; Nowell found it out, and, as
I first heard the story, had the Alegres langur to-n -
ettat,-;1, rut oat Pearly by Me root', et which she insiasitio
died. I have since been told, that Noon' had the
poor creative's tonpue put thraitysk a hole in a door, and
ink a part #' it of bresse(f: but that she is 'fill alive,
This casabas been told different ways ; and I have
not, after many inquiries, been able to satisfy
myself, as to the real truth. Thus mulch I have
AO doubt is certain, that. the wretch, Newell, has
emit iierdias,su(s, and cruelly used this Negro, merely
heetiase she &sled a tad and eonspantonate port towards
her Af,itrest*.
Permit me now, my Lord, as a Barbadian, to
return you my warmest thanks for the zeal_ you
have sbewn in this business; and I trust the day is
not far distant, when, through your Lordship's ex-
Sons. I shall see that Act in our Statute Book re-
reeled, which remains a disgrace to my country.
I have the honour, &c. M. COUL IHua bi .
The Right lion Lord heaterth, Sic. he.
• The reader will, so desk, draw s comparison between
the coopessemate Negress earl her esercdese meter
CDs be ecettiessed.)

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Thurday sennight, the smen,Jlllnff Dranefiehl for
*rape, MartioMoodoxnd George Kennedy for a high-
way robbery, Peter Gardner for burglary, and Jays
Corgewer for hone stealing, were executed at the 7al-
- on Pennenden Heath, near Maidstone, pursuant
to their sentence. Coepeeter condoeted himself with
gnat depravity. On his coming from the cell, he told
the others he should not came to prayers with them,
but should pray by himself; that the Clergyman
w inted ti obtain more intelligence from him, than
Le wished to 4ive, and thereforebewould not see him.
importunity c
before he left the
••••• the Chap-
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to suffer,
, who was
Gaol, for
Rochester,
name of
called

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No importunity could prevail; and before he
prison, boasted "he had completely done the
Lin." His behaviour at the galluws was 'et
daring; he denied the fail for which he was to
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