The Sun.
London, England, 1824-10-07 00:00:00

WEST INDIA COMMISSION%

EXTRACT OF A LETTER FROM TRINIDAD, DATED JULY l 2:
" You will have observed, by our Island Ga:
wile of the 7th instant, that his 11Iajesty's Commissioners of
Legal Inquiry had taken their departure for St. Lucia, where it
is to be hoped, for the sake of all who may have an interest in
that island. that their labours will not be one-tenth of what they
had to contend with here.
" Mr. Maddock arrived, in company with Mr. Dwarris, its
January last, and they proceeded immediately to business ; the
latter gentleman was, however, obliged to return to Europe for
the recovery of his health ; but Mr. Henry, the senior Member
of the Commission, arrived previous to the departure of Mr.
Dwarris. The investigation continued without intermission,
so that nearly six months were taken up in hearing complaints ;
and it is a well-known fact, that numbers who felt themselves
most seriously aggrieved, were deterred from exposing their
sufferings, under the impression that the authority of the Com•
mission extended only to the inquiry as to the existence of
abuses, without any power to grant redress • consequently,' the
dread of giving offence, whilst being obliged to remain at the
mercy of the party against whom they intended to complain,
naturally kept many silent, who would, under more favourable
circumstances, have greedily solicited a hearing.
" The visit of those gentlemen to this unfortunate colony
has given rise to hopes which every upright man connected with
us must wish to see realized ; and these hopes have been
strengthened by the knowledge of our fate being in the hands
of men of honour ! Mr. Henry possesses superior qualifications
for colonial investigation, having for some years presided over
the law courts of lkinerara ; be was also employed in Italy us
one of the Commissioners of the late Queen of England, and
afterwards as a Judge in the Greek Islands. This practical
knowledge of foreign laws, combined with his expenence.in
England in the prosecution of colonial appeal causes, rendered
him, in all probability, the most competent person that could be
found in Great Britain to fill the situation of senior member
of the Commission for Legal Inquiry in the colonies.
a c
ti"ti !ern
en
rnut possess
for h
ness, and patience in investigation, combined with the beat
feelings of a liberal English gentleman, made him also a nuist
desirable person to visit this colony on an evatessy of such lin,
penance. very
attention powerful to blegust,
" It was highly satfActory to witness the cordiality which
existed between those gentlemen ; and on the subject of the
great question which involves the fate of all West India pro-
perty, their opinions are such as must always be looked for from
impartial and upright judges.
" It is believed that those gentlemen proceed from' St. Lucia
to Demerara, and from thence to Jamaica : and the only sp-
prebensien that remains with the inhabitants of this colony, it
with regard to the time that must elapse before their distressing
case can be laid befere hiirMajesty'e Ministersaind consequently
before the friends of the colony can have the benefit of an ex-
amination of those gentlemen before Parliament."

ASSAMNATIONS IN CoIISICA.—On August 7th,.
there was found at a place called Ca' po di Pieta Cala, the
corpse of Jean Lecca, son of rablen, of the same Commune.
accused of poisoning. it was. Ascertained that this man had
been killed several days ago by means of a blow with a stiletto,
and by a musket shot. The authors of this crime are lira.
known. •On the 18th a quarrel aeon at Calenzina between
Antony Turquini, 18 years of age, and Simon Jean- Aquaviva,
14 years of age. Tarquini was mortally wounded by means of
a pointed suck thrown at his head by his opponent. On the
~ th. towards nine o'clock in the evening, Francais Pasqualini;
of Ostiporo, was wounded in the knee with a musket-shot, and
the assassin not discovered. On Sept. 2, Marc Marie Peretti,
of Olmeto, was killed as he was returning from his vineyard,
by Michael Pianelli, of the same place. On the 4th,- Nicotu
Chiana, a pedlar, of Zilia, found his horse had his ears, main,
and tail cut off, probably done out of enmity. in the night
of the 6th and 7th, four individuals, one accused of murder,
and the others of robbery, escaped fain the prisons of oOrte,
after cutting through the bars of the dungeon in which they
were confined. The gaoler was immediately dismissed, and
handed over to justice.