Star.
London, England, 1824-09-10 00:00:00

KINGSTON, JULY 31.

We have lately received the following communica-
tion from a tespectab:e and intelligent Correspondent at
the North side, and, as caution and vigilance, which can
do no harm, seem to be recommended by it, we readily
give it place:
" Living in the country, and upon the high road of
communication round the Island, I have an opportunity
of observing negroes, goers and comers from all parts;
and, notwithstanding the outward shew of civility which
they put for ward, I can discern deceit in the back ground.
" Just as you may have observed ants upon a floor,
passing and repassing, and every one seeming to have
something to communicate to the next one they meet, so
is it now with the negrues; and my belief is, that they
are generally informed of every occurrence, although,
were you to inquire, they would pretend ignorance.
" A few weeks ago I met an old negro, who said he
was from St. George's, with whom I had the following
dialogue :
Well, old man, where do you come from From St. George's,
Sir.'

• flow everything do there?'—' So, so, massa, berry well, me no
Terre noting.'
• I am glid of that, and hope the negroes won't turn fool again.'
—' Yes, mama.' Here was a sort of pause, when he resumed—
' but, massa, rim( no for trust; dem face co tan good.' This I
understood to imply, that the examples made had not had the desired
effect. On parting be said—' Bye t'ye, massa; and shortly turning
round—' but, mama, yerre, you mitit look sharp this time.'
" Negroes, you know, most commonly speak by
inuendo, and! think there is much to be conjectured from
this halt arid half conversation. But there are many
persons who would treat such things with-.contempt."
The Montego Bay Gazette, in its account of the exe-
cution of the Golden Grove Negroes concerned in the
late insurrection, says—
" Upon the clergymen going to Henry M'Kenzie,
he desired them to go from him —he did not want
consolation. He knew that what he had done was
right; he knew that he was free, and that it was with-
held from him—he was sure GOD would receive him
.with open arms; that the clergymen only wanted to
get something out of him to save their own necks; that
the white people thought the business was done, but it
had scarcely begun. Upon his going into the cart, he
looked at his handcuffs, and in the presence of the mul-
titude, said—' If he could only on:e more get them
off, he would make Lucea know how to make law for
negroes.' On his way up. to the estate, he invited all
Ithe-negroes he met to go to his funeral. An unfOrtu-
[nate occurrence took, place from the breaking of the
rope by which he was suspended ; upon his falling, he
in a moment was upon his legs, and appealed to all
I around if it was not a mark of his innocence, as the
ALMIGHTY would not permit his being hanged. A
little confusion took place its consequence, and as the
women appeared to be pres ing in, the Officer faced the
force under his command outwards, until Henry
M'Kenzie was again suspended. One of the rebels ob-
served to one of the militia, that he had better take care
of his red coat, as he would soon have enough to do
with it. The negroes belonging to the estate, so far
from the appearance of anything like decent sorrow, set
up the howl of demons disappointed of their revenge."
JULY 26.—The Hussar, 46, Captain Hart is, for Vera
Cruz; and Thracian, 18, Captain A. Forbes, for Hon-
duras, sailed from Port Royal yesterday. morning.

SPAIN.

MADRID, SEPTEMBER r..

Tile Minister of Mercy and Justice has putilibhed
what follows:

•1 The King, our Lord, is informed of the machina-
tions prepared by certain revolutionary Spaniards at
different points in the Peninsula. Deeply affected by
the serious evils which their criminal practices have
brought on the country, and considering the horrible
abuse which they have made of the bounty and cle-
mency which his Majesty skewed them by his decree
of the Ist of May, and convinced, at length, of the ne-
cessity which exists for departing, for a time, from the
01(1in:try course of proceeding, as also for causing
prompt chastisement to be inflicted, which may nerve
for a punishment to some, and operate as a check on
others, and in-pire, generally, confidence in the strict
and invariable justice of his Majesty, he has been ple4‘.ed
to decree, that all revolutionists who shall be taken with
arms in their hands, or who are proved to be implicated
in plots and seditious against public order, and tending
to the re-establishment of the anarchical system which

To the report of General O'Donnell annexed a list
of the individuals who have been executed for high
treason. The band of Lopez Herrera consisted solely
of citizens and peasants; but these were several Ciinsti-
tutional Officers in the troop, at the head of which Val-
dez surprised Tarifa, among whom were the Captain
Pedro Gonzalez Valdez, Captain Manuel P. rtal,'Spb-
Lieutenant Mascarone (native of Milan), and Sub-Lieu-
tenant ltuis-Gil (native of Malaga).

PRIVATE CORRESPONDENCE.
" Alabion, Aunest
" The dismay visible on the one hand, and the joy,
expectations, and exaggerations on the other, excited by
the insurgents in Tarita, have now subsided, bithe oc-
cupation of the place and Castle by the French and Spars
nish troops, on the 19th and 20th Instant. The official
accounts give but little detail, and, in so far, are very
unsatisfactory. The French made two attacks; in the
first they were evidently repulsed, though they only ad-
mit the loss of 17 men, and but 25 altogether in the
whole affair. They say they Wit taken '2OO prisoners;
but the Chief Valdez, escapea7 The accounts propa-
gated by the Constitutionalists here, who direct to be ire
active Correspondence, are, that tie French lost from
three to four hundred, ,te :4th regiment being paid.
culatly cut up; but.atener iniorm us whether the re-
mainder of the invaders retreated by sea or land; nor do
we know the object of their coming, and frt.tn whence
they derived their assurances of support. Even the
Gazette, which should give us a little news of what is
going on in the kingdom, has stated nothing, not evcn
A word of conjectute on the business, except the Lao
official accounts transmitted by O'Donnel. The Curate,
who writes it, is so taken up with what he knows
nothing about, the forging of letters and documents
from the Americas, of which the public are heartily
sick, that he can attend to nothing else, and except the
Decrees of Government, we should learn about as much
of affairs in and out of the country (torn a Gazette of
the Moon, as from this of Madrid.

" The private letters from Andalusia—those that are
delivered, say nothing, or are so enigmatically ex-
pressed, that they leave us to infer as much (If as little
as we please. It is reported there has been a landing
at Almeira, probably Valdez and his party, and a
rising also in the North, at Saturnia. But all these
landings arid risings, and rumours of them, though they
agitate for the moment, only tend to the disadvantage
of those who wish for a better order of things. The
French would, probably, have left the country in six
months—that event will now be considerably retarded,
and the Government is put on the avert. Already have
the Royalist Officers got a retaining fee, having re-
ceived a month's pay, and their hopes alive for another.
Imperative orders have been sent to the Captains Ge-
neral to watch the provinces, and on the least commo-
tion, to spare no mercy, but execute on the spot, aad
then to transmit accounts thereof here; and not unlikely
many of the imprisoned, those of most capacity, will
not be heard of more. In six months, the French away,
the Royalists unpaid and unemployed—misery every
where, from the high price of provisions—no work, no
employ, and the people ready to eat one another, the
interior would be ripe for anything. In the maritime
towns, nothing but a foreign force keeps the spirit of
the people in check.

A late letter from Carthagena mentions the inten-
tion to carry of the Perla, 40-gun frigate, with a com-
plement of 300 men, being frustrated. The frigate had
come out of dock, and the Governor went on board to
inspect her, to give a report. Whilst there, he observed
indications which left him no doubt of some plan being
formed, Viva la Constitution' was repeated among the
sailors, but with the noise and contusion the Governor
affected not to hear it. On coming ashore, the troops
were called out, and being about dusk, several hundred
were embarked in boats, and put on board tie frigate,
and taking the sailors by surprise, they were secured,
and a great many brought off. Early in the morning,
some smuggling vessels were seen nearing the frigate,
purposely come to tow her away, but their signals not
being answered, they sheered off again.
"It this had any connection with Valeez% movements,
we are left to conjecture, otherwise the Tarifa affair is
thoroughly Spanish, without any combined plan or ade-
quate means. Here many people, and marry who ought
to know better, really suppose the British Government
to have had a hand in this affair, and when shewn the
absurdity, then they say the English people have given
them money. It does not, however, seem improbable
that agents of the Colombian Government have pro-
jected it, and furnished the means, considering it better
to keep the Spaniards at home fighting among them.
elm, than have them to fight within their ground::