The Sun.
London, England, 1825-05-28 00:00:00

son of Colour.

Argyle, 14th June, 1824.
Examinant says, a wench belonging to me, came to me last
night; asked me if I had heard that the Negroes were going to
flee. I' replied, " Pohl. nonsense ! perhaps there might be
two or three of 111 r. Malcolm's going down to the Magistrates.,
and that's all." Then she said, "Ah ! massa, won't believe
thoSe things;' there are seven of Mr. Malcolm's Negroes gone
up' to St. Elizabeth's, to bring the Accompong Maroons down ;
for massa, have not you heard that they have been whipping
one or two at Montego Bay ?" She then told me that the Dun-
dee people was to join them, and that on their way up they
were to set the Trash Houses of Alexandria Estate on fire.
At day dawn this 'morning, on looking out, I saw the fire.
She also Said; that two of Mr. Hall's estates, in St. James, had
promised to join them, but. that she could not tell the names of
them. This morning early, when I was bustling to. get away
to the lowlands, I saw one of my men, and asked him why tie
was 'not at work Sooner, and that I supposed he had gone to
join the Maroons. He said, " No, Sir." Then he asked
me which way I was going ? I told him to Argyle,
through the short cnt. He advised me not to go- that
'way, fOr there was a great force, as Mr. Malcolm**
• people had brought down from St. Elizabeth's a, :great
force of them, who had passed Mr.lll4Caill's. In my way
corning along I met Mr. Malcolm's man, John Clarke, who
waa_in a blue coat, with a mascheat under his arm. He .said,
in a surly 'tone; " Morrow, Massa! " I said 44, 'Morrow,
John ! 7 His Wife was with him. When I arrived. at Knack,
alva 'New Ground, I saw a sulky-looking man dretsedapSt.
• clean, with a pocket-bock sticking out of his pocket, near, the
, hut. I saluted him, but-he took no notice of 'me. ' Thcn: I
ask.ed the freeman who was with me, who is that beau man ?
Ile said, "He is one of them." " What," said 1,,.4.0f.t1re
AccoMpongs " He said, " Yes, I !mew him." My 'women
also told me that they had stript all they could their houses,
and carried it to a new house they had built in the back pat of
Mr. 3lalcolm's land, and what they could not carry away they
buried. Some of the Ramble people came to my place yester-
day, to bring 'provisions, and said the Accompong Maroons
had told them to make:short frocks and short -breechegOlte
more easily to go through the hushes.
Richard Hanson, from St. Elizabeth's, but now residingaviile
the, last examinant, says : " As I was coming with Mr. Han-
mings this morning, we met that wan, John Clarke, and
than.. Reused to have a woman of Mr. Hemmings. When 'we
came to the hut at Knockalva New Groonds, we saw a man'
standing upon the road, with a bundle of umbrellas on the
wall. .Mr. Hemmings asked him how he was.; ho answered,;
r. Hovi•cl'ye. do, Sir ? There was nothing striking about,liiirn:,
I _adult he was Maroon, froth the manner in which the burniTei
was tied. John Clarke had on a blue jacket. I saw the fire `
this morning. I thought there was something -Wrong.;, thet
oceasioned,us to 'come over."
No. V.-,--Extract of a Dispatch from his Grace the'Duke•til
MAxc masa. E It, addressed to Earl 13anff:11ST, daied
King's, House, Jamaica, Ist July 1824. .
Knowing how anxious your Lordship will naturallystieto
I'e-
ceive the earliest information of the State affairs here, I avail
myself of the thande'of a private ship reaching England sooner '
than the packet, which will not, sail before the 13thinst., to ac-
quaint your Lordship, that' the late revolt of the negroes as •
Argyle Estate, in Hanover and on Alexandria, and Golden
Groxe Estates in the same ,parish, has been by, thegimposing
force, which was ,with great rapidity brought against them, ;pr
the present suppreseed. About 20 of the principal persons were
brought in. by the troops, two of whom immediately destroii'd
themselves; the remaining slaTes who had absented themselves
had returned to their duty,
The alarni'Which the affair at Hanover naturally excifed,
has been since Medi increased by an anonymous letter, which
'was addressed to a:gentlernan of high militia rank. at Savanae-
la-mar, stating, that gratitude for great services rendered to
the writer, induced him to disclose a projected massacre of the
white inhabitants in St. Elizabeth and Westmoreland, at the
knowledge of which he had arrived by having been secreted
e
to some secret society, and to which he acknowledged himself
to have been bound by oath not to divulge their plot.. fle more
.than insinuated that a portion of the Westmoreland' regiment
was not to be depended upon, and de' -I,nated by soine.corain
Slavon the estctes in that neighbourhood, who were deeplY
implicated in the plot, and ought to be apprehended.
. The intelligence which this letter conveyed was.so
stantial, and entered so much into detail, that it was ahourrt
prudent not to disregard it, and Sir John Keane, halting with
his, usual zeal made an offer of his services, he sailed eto:e
morning after this intelligence was received, in the .Husssr
frigate, for Savanna la Mar, taking on board with him a.. eh'
vision of the 92d regiment, and a party of the Royal ArtillerY:
lie found upon his arrival, that there did not appear any real,
foundation for the alarm • the negroes pointed out as the chic'
conspirators were apprehended, and examined before, the: Mtv
gistrates, who were so satisfied of their innocence, that rte.
were sent back to the several estates they had been brottOt
from, with an assurance that the Magistrates placed perfect
confidence in their fidelity. •
Sir John Keane's prompt visit to Savanna la Mai, hill
been attended with the best consequences. It has cOnyinco
the Negroes of the great rapidity with which a regulac force
can he brought against them. For the same reason, it hag
given encouragement and confidence to the militia.
cannot conceal from your Lordships, that the delusitA
which the Negroes throughout throughout the island have ge.
nerally participated in, that they arc entitled to their freetiore'
has not been removed by the publication of his illajestys,ro:,
clamation. They have been heard to declare, in various par:
of the island, that the Proclamation is a forget', and has bee'
fabricated in this country by their owners. %Vl:ether this ire'
pression will be. removed it is difficUlt to say, but lam ere
'tretnely apprehensive that some time will elapse before
island is again restored to a state of perfect tramtuility,