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FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE, APRIL 10.

DOWNING-STREET, Arita, 10.

Extract from a despatch addressed by the Earl of
Belmore, Governor of Jamaica, to the Right
Hon. Viscount Goderich, dated Montego Bay,
Feb. 10
have the honour to inclo,e the substance of the
accounts I have received since the date of my last
despatch, up to the 29th ultimo, the day on which
I embarked, at Port Royal, on board his Majesty's
ship North Star, for Montego Bay, where I arrived
in the afternoon on the Ist inst. Before I proceed
to relate the transactions which have occurred
since my arrival here, it is necessary I should afford
your Lordship some information not contained in
the annexed paper, which in fact is the original do-
cument from which the bulletins have been daily
published.
In my last despatch I informed your Lordship
that Mr. Burchell, a Baptist missionary, had ar-
rived from England, and that, in consequence of in-
hrmation which had been received, it had been
thought necessary to place him in custody. His
papers were examined by the Custos of the parish,
and, on the 17th January, I received a despatch
from Sir W. Co'ton, informing me that nothing
therein had been found to criminate him. By the
information of different negroes, and the confession
of others after condemnation, it appeared that they
looked forward to his arrival as the time when they
were to expect freedom, " that he was to bring
their freedom out," and in the disturbed state in
which this district still continued, it was thought
necessary to detain him. He was, accordingly, re-
moved by Commodore Farquhar from on board his
Majesty's ship Blanche, to the Garland Grove, the
ship in which he sailed from England. I have also
informed your Lordship that serious charges had
been preferred against a Moravian minister, named
Pfeiffer, and with my last despatch, I inclosed copies
of letters I directed to be written to General Craw-
ford on this subject. I have no a' the honour to in-
close a copy of the evidence given on his trial, by
which I think it must appear, that, at a moment of
great excitement, the officers who composed the
court-martial discharged their duty uninfluenced by
prejudice. In justice, however, to Mr. Pfeiffer,
who was acquitted, I must also add, that the witness
Sutton joined the insurgents after the trial, and has
since been shot.

Having received an offer from the maroons be-
longing to Moore Town, in the parish of Portland,
and Charlestown, in the parish of St. George, to
serve in this district, I ordered a detachment of one
hundred and seven men, under the command of
Captain Fyffe, Superintendent at Charlestown, to
embark at Port Antonio, and proceed to Falmouth,
there to act under orders from Sir Willoughby
Cotton, who speaks highly of their services, parti-
cularly in scouring the woods, a species of service
for which their habits of life render them particu-
larly efficient. I considered it important to avail
myself of their offer, not only on this account, but
also that by employing them, I thereby secured
their fidelity, a consideration to which I attached
much importance in the critical position of affairs at
,bat time.
The information I eceived from Sir Willoughby
Cotton caused me to suppose that my departure for
Montego Bay might be hastened sooner than even-
tually it was thought expedient for me to arrive
there. It became necessary, therefere, to summon
a Council of War, previous to my departure from
the seat of Government, to determine whether mar-
tial law should continue in force. The Council as-
sembled on the 21st ult., and decided unanimously
that martial law should continue in operation.
On the 25th of January, certain Wesleyan Mis-
sionaries communicated their desire to wait on me.
On receiving them, two of their members preferred
complaints in written papers against some of the
militia stationed at St. Ann's Bay. I immediately
directed copies of these papers to be transmitted to
Major-General Cox, who is also Custos of the pa-
rish of St. Ann, with directions that lie should in-
stitute an inquiry thereon. I have the honour to
transmit a copy of his reply, with the several in-
closures to which he refers.

I received a despatch from Sir W. Cotton, dated
the 27th ultimo, inclosing also a letter from Mr.
Barret, the Custos of Saint James, by which I
learned that both Sir Willoughby and the Custos
concurred in thinking, that the time had arrived
when a conditional amnesty might be proclaimed,
and that my appearance here might in some degree
serve to heal the moral wounds this rebellion bad
inflicted, and expedite the period when affairs might
be suffered to resume their ordinary course. On
my arrival at Montego Bay I found the favourable
reports I had received from Sir W. Cotton fully
confirmed. With few exceptions, the negroes in the
parishes of St. James and Trelawney had returned
to their estates, and in some instances the managers
of properties had begun to repair the buildings
which had been destroyed on the commencement of
the insurrection. The gaol, however, was crowded
with prisoners, and numbers still continued to be
brought in. Not one of these miserable wretches,
amounting fully to five hundred, would probably
escape conviction on the clearest testimony, for all
were engaged in the insurrection. Enough of ex-
amples had been made to render indiscriminate pu-
nishment unnecessary, and with Sir Willoughby
Cotton's full concurrence, I stopped in some measure
the trials by court martial, limiting their proceed-
ings to cases of great enormity. On the 3(1 instant
I issued a proclamation, a copy of which is in-
closed. Your Lordship may perhaps consider the
terms of the proclamation too vague and undefined,
that the names of those intended to be excepted
ought to have been stated, and all others admitted
to a free pardon ; but until the overseers could be
allowed to return to their estates, it was impossible
to know who ought to be expected, and at the time
of issuing the proclamation I also issued a general
order, a copy of which I have the honour to in-
close. When returns agreeably to this order are re-
ceived, I shall then discriminate even among prin•
eipals, by publishing another proclamation, should
be found necessary, excepting by name those only
whose offence), are of a nature which must exclude

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hem from pardon. Although ri. felt unab 22„*Tan
',one the proclamation exactly to -skly satjare. ti;,'!'
I did not on that account delay to issue ite-4erraVist44 ,{47 '
sir.,.. )
I hoped it might save some among theAttotgentho4l/
:laves from the destruction they were 4414--ex-,-
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posed to while holding out in opposition to ti • T
laws; and I soon felt happy to learn that many
'tad since returned to the estates to which they
belong. The day following I constituted a com-
mission of magistrates, in whose humanity and dia
cretion I placed much reliance, to inquire into the
nature of the charges against the prisoners, so that
none should be brought to trial who were not ac-
cused of murder, or had rendered themselves con-
spicuous as leaders in the insurrection. The magis
,trates having commenced an inquiry, many were dis-
chargedarid sent to the estates they respectively
belonged to; others were sentenced to receive cot-
poral punishment, on whom sentence of death must
inevitably have been passed, if tried either by court.
martial or in a civil court of law. Those whose
crimes could not be passed over were left for trial.
I had not long been in Montego Bay before I felt
convinced the period had arrived when martial law
might be discontinued; tranquillity had been
in a great measure restored in the parish of Han-
over. The returns I received before leaving the
.teat of Government, represented the number
of slaves absent from properties in Hanover at
one thousand six hundred. Soon after the publica-
tion of my proclamation, this amount was reduced to
little more than four hundred, the rest, with the ex-
ception of some killed, having returned to the estates
to which they belong. It became, therefore, a
matter of great importance to relieve the overseers
and book-keepers of estates, all of whom are Euro-
peans, from militia duty, and allow them to return
to the properties under their charge, for in their ab-
sence the slaves felt themselves neither under pro-
tection nor control. By the 48th of George the
Third, cap. 4, commonly called the Parry Law, the
Governor is empowered to order parties of militia
on duty in time of insurrection or rebellion, and this
Jaw appears exactly applicable to present circum-
st awes. With Sir W. Cotton's concurrence, and on the
recommendation also of Mr. Barrett, the Custos of
Saint James, I published a proclamation, declaring
martial law to cease. At the same time I issued a
militia general order under the Party Law, a copy
of which is enclosed with the proclamation.—
Having now accomplished all that I had hoped,
and more than I had expected, in so short a time
after my arrival at Montego Bay, I detertn'ned to
remain in this parr of the country al few days longer,
in order to observe how these to a.ures could
operate, anti to employ my time by travelling throne!)
the disturbed part of the country, and visiting the
properties which had chiefly suffered. Many per-
sons also appeared to doubt whether tranquillity
was sufficiently restored to dispense with martial
law, and I thought I could not more strongly show
that the insurrection was quelled than by travelling
through the part of the district which of late had
been most disturbed. On the 6th I proceeded to
Lucca, where I met the Custos and several magis-
trates of the parish of Hanover.
The prison there was also crowded, and I directed
the same course to be pursued, as I had adopted in
St. James's. The following day I crossed by an
interior road to Savanna-la-Mar, where also I met
the Custos of Westmorland and other magistrates,
to whom I made a similar communication.

On the 9th I continued my route in New Sa-
vannah, the residence of Mr. Salmon, in the parish
of St. Elizabeth, where I met General Robertson,
commanding the militia in that district. Accom-
panied by General Robertson and Mr. Salmon, on
the I Ith, 1 proceeded on my return to Montego
Bay ; by the western interior road, through an
estate called Woodstock, to Struire, a post now oc-
cupied by a detachment of militia. but where the in-
surgents had made a stand; from thence through
the estates of York and Greenwich to Hazelymph
and Seven Rivers, Lord Seaford's estates of Old
and Nevi Montpellier, Anchovy Bottom, and then
descending the hill, to Montego Bay. I rim parti-
cular in describing this track, because it leads
through the country which lately had been the seat
of the insurrection, and from whence, looking across
the Great River, I could see Cataduna, Lapland,
and Ginger Hill, places, the names of which your
Lordship will find frequently mentioned in my
former despatches. The whole of this country pre-
sents one scene of devastation, the buildings on
every estate being burnt down, and the greater part
of the canes destroyed by cattle. On either side,
but especially in the eastern direction, to a large
extent, the same work of destruction has been con-
tinued. On all the estates, however, through which
I passed, except the estate of Greenwich, I heard
that the negroes had, with very few exceptions, re-
turned, and were conducting themselves in as orderly
a manner as could be expected. The overseer at
Greenwich complained that several of those who
had retnrned, had again left the estate, and that two
of the slaves had killed an ox, a day or two previous,
and had not since been seen. I assembled the
slaves I found on this estate, directing my observa-
tions chiefly to the head men of the property, de-
siring them to explain to any now absent, that the
proclamation I had issued offered a free pardon to
all but principals in the insurrection ; that every one
must now see how vain and hopeless any attempt at
insurrection must prove, and what distress and
misery they had brought on themselves by the de-
struction they had committed ; that they were now
houseless, and in a great degree their provision-
grounds had been destroyed, sharing the same fate
as the cane-fields of their masters; that all before
me had been guilty of rebellion, and thereby had ex-
posed themselves to suffer death, but that pardon
was now offered to them provided they continued
in lawful obedince, whilst those who should return
to their former rebellious practices would be de-
prived of all benefit of forgiveness. I then caused
the proclamation to be read to them, and inquired if
they had any complaint to make. Silence ensued,
when an old woman said they had no complaint to
tell me of, but promised they would be good, and
were sorry for what they had done.
On my arrival at Montego Bay, I had the morti-
fication to learn that a new scene of disorder had
occurred during my absence. A part of the 84th
regiment had occupied a chapel belonging to the
Baptists, by order of Sir Willoughby Cotton, during
the insurrection, and this detachment having moved
to Lucca, on the same day a large mob assembled
and razed it to the ground. I have the honour to
inclose your Lordship a copy of a letter I this day
received from the Custos, informing me of this dis-
graceful proceeding. I regret also to learn that the
Baptist chapels at Falmouth, Lucia, and Savanna-
la-Mar, have shared the same fate. Such turbulent
and disorderly conduct calls for my immediate in-
terference, and I inclose your Lordship a proclama-
tion which I shall cause to be printed and distributed
to-morrow, this day being Sunday. It is certain,
however, that an opinion generally prevails that the
insurrection, which now happily is quelled, has been
the work of the Baptists, and the houses and small
settlements belonging to free people of colour, many
of whom are in the militia, having shared equally in
destruction with larger plantations belonging to the
white inhabitants. I greatly apprehend that the
mischief may not be confined to the extent I am now
acquainted with.

SINGULAR INDICTMENT FOR PERJURY
--At the Old Bailey sessions yesterday, Thomas Stone, lately in
business as a hop-merchant, was indicted for perjury, in swear.
ing that he was years of age, in order to obtain a marriage
license between himself and Miss Mary Hannington, whom he
also had sworn to be of age. The indictment was preferred by
the young lady's father, an attorney, residing in Nelson square ;
and it appeared that the prisoner frequently visited the young
lady with the knowledge of her mother and other persons in the
family, after her father had forbidden the prisoner the house ;
and on the 30th April, 1831, he married her by license, not for
her fortune, for it was ?roved that she had none, but for the at-
tachment he bore her. The 'mother knew that the marriage
was to take place, as did the young lady's brother. These pro.
ceedings were instituted, it would appear, in consequence of
the prisoner refusing a separation; and while the prisoner was
confined in the Poultry Compeer on another charge, his wife
had been taken away by her father, who would not allow him to
know where she resided. The Jury acquitted the prisoner, to
he apparent delight of a crowded Court. It Was stated that
the primer and big wife are gittooraiy Mood to wail Choc.

POLICE I \ TELLIGENCE.

BOW-STREET.

AITLICATION FOR PROCEEDINGS AGAINST THE
LITERARY ( iAZETTE.—Yesterday,Mr. Judge, a gen-
tlemats ronnected, we believe, with some portion of
the Public Press, came before Mr. MiNsum, and ap-
plied for a summons against Mr. Wm. Armiger
Scripps, the publisher of The Litera,:,sGazette
and Journal of the Fine Arts, 6-c., to show cause why
he should not be made to ptiky a fine of 20/. for pub-
lishing articles of news tap unstamped paper.
Mr. Judge applied tin behalf of persons deeply in-
terested in the 'question, and his appliratfon was
grounded upor, the Act of the 39th ()to. 111. cap.
7S, which imposes a penalty of nut less than 20/.
upon cry person who shall print or publish any arti-
visa of news upon caller than stamped paper.
Mr. iThysnum—Can you show that the publi-
cation of which you complain contaito, r7,-!•ws ? It is
a ritost difficult matter to define what is and what is
not to be considered news within the meaning of
this Act of Parliament, Mr. Judge said he tholught
he could show the Magistrate to entire
satisfaction that the publication in question did
ciinrain net's, and banded in a nnmber of The
Literary Gae/te, in whic!, were several marked sr
tides which he said those on whose behalf he ap-
peared considered of such a description as came clearly
within the meaning of the Act. 11c believed it had
been already decided that reports of proceeding at
public meetings of literary societies, or of any
other institutions of any kind, must be considered as
forming a record of the passing events, and there-
fore were most decidedly articles of news. This
publication, his Worship would find, did contain
such reports, besides other articles of intelligence of
a miscellaneous kind.
Mr. MlNsuret. glanced over one ot two of the
marked articles, and said he was of opinion with the
applicant, that the publication did contain news
within the meaning of the Statute.
Mr. Judge—Then, Sir, I presume you will grant
me N summons against Mr. Scripps.
•Mr. MINSHULL—Yes, Sir. On what day would
you like the case to come on for hearing Mr.
Judge—Why, Sir, as I have every desire that the
defendant should have ample notice, in order to
prepare in -the best manner for his defence, I would
sty nn Wednesday next.
Mr. MlNsttuee—Let it he to; and a summons
was accordingly issued for the attendance of Mr.
Scripps on that day.
It was understood in the office that this proceed-
irig has originated with the proprietors of some of
the cheap publications which, have increased so
much in number recently. The question will, doubt-
less, excite much interest in the literary world.
HATTON-GARDEN.

Yesterday three young men of respectable ap-
pearance, named Evill, Orr, and Siddons (disciples
of the Rev. Mr. Irving), were charged with ob-
structing the thoroughfare, and creating a mob, by
preaching in Eliza-place, Sadlet's Wells. The po-
lice had previously cautioned them against dr:ing
\vrong, but they insisted on their right, and pro-
duced the Bible, from which they read extracts,
curl endeavoured to show that the people of Eng-
-14,4d had roused the anger of their God, who was
about to punish them with plague and pestilence.
The secretary to the New River Company appeared
en their behalf, and observed, that the defendants
were highly respectable young men; and he was
convinced it was their intention, if possible, to do
food. When taken into custody, they were preach-
ing near his house to a very orderly assembly, and
he considered they were doing no harm.
Mr. ROGERS remarked that, as respectable men,
they ought to confine themselves to places set apart
for public worship. It was not his wish to stop
the progress of Chri,tianity, but it was not proper
that streets should be blocked up in the manner re-
presented to him. If they were again brought
before hint, he should hold them to bail.
The Secretary wished to know under what Act
the defendants were liable to be held to bail ; but
Mr. ROGERS said that he had disposed of the case,
and more on the subject he would nut say.
THAMES POLICE.
Yesterday Hyman Isaacs, a wealthy Jew, aged
60, and Afary Ann Timms, a woman of loose cha-
racter. were charged with stealing about 161. from
Mr. Smith, of the Excise-office. The affair was a
strange one. The prosecutor was induced to ac-
company the female to Isaacs' house, when it .ap-
reared that Isaacs entered the room in the course of
the night, and stole 131. in notes from the prose-
cutra's trousers'-pocket. The female subsequently
took the silver, when the Jew, in order to make a
show of honesty, pursued the gd.l on her retreat, to
cover his own crime. Both prisoners were com-
niitted for trial.

QUEEN-SQUARE,
EXTRAORDINARY OUTRAGE AND RIOT AT THE
I4'E:4TMINSTER HoSPITAL —Ofr Wednesday after-
noon, tlie inhabitants in the neighbourhood of the
Westminster Hospital were throw►► into great alarm,
consequence of the following daring outrage corn
mitted-by a body of Irishmen at that Institution.
It appeared that an Irish labourer, who had been
for some time ih, died in the Hospital about two
o'clock in the morning. Between twelve and one
o'clock the same day a body of men came to the
Hospital, and made a forcible entrance. Their
numbers were so great that all resistance was use-
less. The mob ransacked every pl.ce to find the
body of the deceased, arid at last broke into a room
where the body had been deposited in a shell.
They instantly hoisted it on their shoulders and
went away. By this time the crowd assembled out-
side was very great, anti it increased as the men
carried the body through the streets. Information
was instantly sent by the authorities at the Hospital
to the station-house in the New-way, and in a very
short time Mr. Lowry, the superintendent of the B
division, and about 60 men, az rived, and they traced
the corpse to a house in Somers-yard, C iburg-row,
Tothil!.fields, a place chiefly inhabited by Irish la-
bourers. After some resistance, the police forcibly
entered the house, and found the body in the shel►,
which they hoisted on their shoulders, and carried
it through the streets again to the hospital, followed
by an immense mob, and surrounded by a number
of policemen. As they approached the hospital,
about 20 men were sent forward to clear the way,'
and keep the people from the door, and the corpse
was at last safely deposited in the place from whence
it had been taken. Several persons were taken into
custody by the pollee:- and yesterday they were
brought before Mr. Gregorie, at this office, and un-
derwent an examination.
Michael Gibbon, a labourer, was the first pri-
soner placed at the bar.
George King,
.tlie porter at the hospital, stated
that about half-past twelve o'c'ock in the afternoon
a body of men, consisting of about 150 or 200,
clime to the hospital, broke open the students' room
and carried off the body of a man that had died that
morning; they also took a shell and a sheet belong•
rug to the establishment. The prisoner was one of
the men. He stood at the door and instigated the
men, He heard him cry out " Uo and get stories,
and if thepolice come, - them, stone them well!"
Other witnesses corroborated this statement.
The prisoner, in reply, said that the deceased
was a relation of his, and that the si.ter of the de-
ceased had applied early in the morning fur the
body, and it was refused to be given up.
Mr. Sydney Cruker, the Secretary to the hos-
pital, stated that, on the application of the friends
of any deceased person who had died in the hos-
pital, the body was always delivered up. No appli-
cation had been made by any person for the body.
The porter at the hospital confirmed this state-
ment.
The prisoner was ordered to find bail for the riot,
to answer the charge at the Sessions.
Warrants were granted against several other persons.
Ou inquiry, it appeared that none of the party
were in the slightest degree related to the deceased,
lthough most of them claimed being cousins. The
sister of the deceased, instead of wishing the bod)
to be removed, had requested that it might remain
until Saturday. During the whole of the afternoon,

om the variou3 rumours which were afloat, a nurri-
er of persons surrounded the hospital, and it was
found necessary to station a body of the police
i.ear the place. Towards dusk the mob had in.
reared to nearly 2,000 persons. They showed no
il,spoiiitivn to riot ; hut, for fear of another ettath,
a body of men were placed inside thr lmtplial, and
another party were statione4 *diltside, and there
was also a reserve at rlic`,ll distance, should they be
yawed. No tr.Tlher disturbance took place during
the tlifhtsolnd the people, finding the police so strong,
went home.