The Sun.
London, England, 1832-02-23 00:00:00

No. 28.

Falmouth, January 4, 1832.
Stn,—You may imagine the state I was in last night, from not
being able to sign a letter I 'sent you by post; in fact I was so ill
that the people about me got mch alarmed. I am free from
fever and better this morning; and, agreeably to Sir W. Cot-
ton's orders I address you on the present occasion. From a repre .
sentation made to him by Col. Cadien, he has instructed me to ap-
ply to 3rou immediately fora supply-of arms. Col. Cadien states the
quantity required to be one hundred stand.of muskets complete,
and 30 ball cartridges, which I hope will be sent round as soon as
possible. It is the intention of Col. Cadien Warm theartillery.com.
pany with muskets; except as many as may be necessary to work
•the few field-pieces which we have got. Though Sir W. Cotton has
been made acquainted with my resignation, 'yet he has given
orders to Colonel Cadien to act entirely by my advice, which will
be most freely given cs long as I am- able. Had Colonel Tyler
rifted in the first instance with the promptitude that I wished him
to have done,'l,lo not think things would have gotto such a head
in this parish, but the three magistrates formerly alluded to, per-
suaded him-that I ha? not 'sufficient grounds to order a company
of Militia to York estate, but I knew the people we had to deal
with better than they did, and lam convinced that a vigorotis act
at first would have intimidated them before they had committed
themselves so far ato endanger their lives. lam now, however,
happy to inform you, that the acts of vigour which have been
pursued, have induced most of the negraes of this parish to re-
turn to their work. Orange valley, and one or two estates in
that neighbourhood are still holding out, but from its
being reported to one this-morning that the noise of artillery
has been heard in that direction, I am in great hopes that
Major Neilson,- With his strong detachment, has fallen
in with them ; and my advice to Colonel Cadien was, to
take as few.prisoners as possible; these pile (Orange-valley)
had quitted. their houses with their valuables, and retired to the
woods; this they would not have had any opportunity of doing
had my . advice been promptly, complied with ; advice, in fsct,
was the .only- Mode in- which could act until martial Was
proclaimed. We have here now about one hundred and fifty
prisoners; Sir W. Cotton has sent up orders to form a court-
martialawhich is just now sitting, and I hope they will be able to
bring acts of rebellion home to ' ham, to enable us to make such an
example as will intimidate the ethers. Sir W. Cotton has ordered
such as cannot be convicted to he dismissed, after having his
Majesty's proclamation read to them ; but this they were all ac-
quainted with before, as immediately on my receipt ofit I had two
liunaed copies thrown off and distributed all over the country.
There does not appeal.to have-been any combination formed by
the negroes in this parish, which I consider fortunate. I find the
court-martial has adjourned until-nine o'clock to:morrow.
• There is no circumstance of mylite that I regret more than
not being able to mount my horse, the moment the first intel-
ligence of the business at York reached me, as I think I would
have acted with such vigour as would have nipped the business
in the bud, but as no act of violence took place at York after the
burning of the trash-houses, I hope his Excellency will be pleased
to pass over what I consider the improper conduct of the magi-
strates ; the facts are these, the moment I took the deposition
on oath of the hook-keeper, I issued a warrant against five
of the negroes whom he considered- as the ringleaders, with
orders to send up the constables with a company of militia
to have it executed; the great error of these magistrates
was the 'preventing the militia accompanying the con-
stables who I was certain could not execute the warrant without
any assistance, and which I told them the moment I name
down to Falmouth, and that they had taken great responsibility
upon themselves in disobeying my orders; my fears proved cor-
rect, and the delinquents escaped lam sorry the letter they
wrote is at Fontabelle, tut I consider it my duty to mention their
names, viz., Mr. Lamont, Mr. Dyer, and Mr. -George Miller, as
I wish minutely to acquaint his Excellency with every circum.
stance that cbmes to my knowledge. I must beg leave to state
that I highly disapprove of the conduct of 'Mr. Moulton Barrett;
it has been stated to me that he was seen riding out of town With
a Mr. Box, who I had ordered to be taken into custody as one
of the incendiary preachers; under some pretence he was per-
mitted to quit the Court.house, and by that means made his
es,Cape, supposed to Kingston, where, I hope, he will be taken
into custody.

I am hapy to inform you since writing the above that Major
Neilson has reported to me that many of the Orange-valley ne-
groes have turned out to work, their depot of valuables having
been discovered- and burnt. I regret to say that the Kent ne-
groes still continue refractory, having every thing from their
houses, even their children, but strong measures are to be im-
mediately punned against them. lam happy to inform you that
every estate under my charge have continued faithfully at their
work and completely protected their master's property, which is
very gratifying -to me. Ido not wish to make any insidious re-
marks, but if other gentlemen had acted with the same kind-
ness, and taken the same pains to explain the real nature of
things as I have done, I do not think that this unfortuate insur-
rection would have been so general, as in St James in particular
their vengeance seems to be pointed against certain individuals.
I am happy still, to bear testimony to the cool, vigorous, and
determined conduct of Colonel Callen ; begging, to refer you
to the despatches of Sir W. Cotton, Colonel Lawson and Colonel
Cadien, it is unnecessary for me to add any thingiurther.
I have, &c.
William Bullock, F,sq., &c. JAS. MACDONALD.