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London, England, 1823-10-17 00:00:00

continuance, they, were drawn up on the dam, and Co-
lonel Leahy contrived to attack them on both flanks ;
they stood two or three fires and returned them. very
ineffectually, however, and then upon the advance they
fled. There were afterwards various skirmishes on dif-
ferent estates ; there may be about 200 killed and
wounded of the negroes, not more ; a great many went
into the Bush ; many have been taken there, and some
have voluntarily surrendered ; and it is supposed there
are not above 200 remaining in the Birth. Twenty or
thirty of the ringleaders, caught in arms, have been
shot on the coast, and we have had a regular Court-
martial in the town for several days, trying the prisoners,
of whom about 10 have been already condemned, and
executed, and the Court-martial will require to sit for
weeks, if it is proposed to try all the prisoners that have
been taken, who are nearly 100.
" We have in prison on suspicion, Mr. Smith, the
Methodist Parson on the east coast, against whom many
things have come out in the course of the evidence
before the Court-martial, and who, it is supposed, will
be tried; a Mr. Hamilton, a late manager on that coast,
and Mr. Elliot, another Methodist Clergyman, are also
in custody; these .are the only white persons supposed
implicated. There are several negroes and coloured
people of this town also in custody, as having had com-
munication and acting iu concert with the revolters.
" 1 might have mentioned, that in those estates where
resistance was made by the Whites, the negroes opposed,
and two or three overseers have been killed, one or two
are also missing, and are either in the Bush, or have
been murdered in the Cane Pieces.

" For my part, I have been attached as a supernu-
merary Captain to the provisional battalion of militia,
aid I have not seen much service out of town. We have
been under martial law for twelve days, and are likely
to continue so for at least a month ; so every kind of
'business is at a stand, and the immediate object is, sup-
plies for support of those under arms, and for the town.
I think we may reasonably suppose that the present in-
surrection is got under. By the accounts this morning,
the negroes have returned to their work on all the
est 4tes, except two, add\ these are small ones, and
where a part of the negroes are in thesl3ush."

CONSPIRACY AT HAVANYAIL

EXTRACT FROM A LETTER WHITTEN ON BOARD lIIS

MAJESTY'S SHIP ESK.
liAvANNAN, AUGUST 18.
_ _

" In my last, by the brig Retrench, I hastily men-
tioned the discovery of a serious plot at this place,
having for its object the massacre of the Governor and
all Europeans nor attached to the party of the conspi-
rators, and the plunder of the property. I now add
such particulars as have since transpired. Many per-
sons have been arrested in consequence. The mole te-
markable are Don `Francisco Garay, a Regidor, or
Officer resembling our Sheriff; a number of the City
Council ; the printer and his associates ; a Lieutenant
of Artillery of Vie Line ; a very rich individual from
Puerto Principe; besides other white persons, negroes,
and mulattoes. lie who was to have been made Go-
vernor has escaped, as has al,o the intended Gene-
ralissimo of their forces, a Lientenant-Colonel from the
Spanish Main. It is not likely though that they will be
able to quit the island. Garay was to have been In-
tendant. Among his papers have been found vatious
dispatches, as well as blind: appointments, bearing his
signature as Intendant; also a list of the principal houses
that were to have been plundered, viz.—Campos, Boni-
facio, Gonzalez, Draket, Mitchel, &c. &c.
66 They have also seized the very handsome uniform
he intended to wear as Intendant—a quantity of Wigs,
ccckades, and upwards of 5,000 proclamations of the
most seditious nature, together with a great quantity of
arms, &c. The flags are the French tri-color, upon
which appeais a rising sun with diverging rays. • The
cockades are green and red. Report states that there
are yet above 2:X) persons to be arrested; and I have
heard from good authority that full forty thousand
people without the gates bad sworn to the independence.
It seems that their plan was to have begun outside, by
burning the Salud and Jesus Maria, where the houses
are chiefly built of wood, and thatched, and then, as
soon as the town was thrown into confusion, and the
troops and urbanos sent out, to have commenced the
work of pillage within the town, assisted by those from
Itegla and Guanabacoa, and the negroes and mulat-
toes, the greater part of whom were already engaged.
The timely developement of this diabolical plot, skews
strongly the merciful interposition of PROVIDE cz. Their
plans were so well organized, that, although the' Go-
vernment had for some time suspected that something
was in agitation, yet nothing positive transpired, and
they could gain no clue till within a few days of that
appointed for carrying the plot into execution. Some
say the 12:11, others that the 14th inst. was the day
fixed. • The discovery took place in the follon in; sin-
gular manner: A negro, a poor fellow belonging to
the 'pi inter, but who had not been intrusted with the
secret, had observed that his master and fellow-work-
men had for a considerable time past been constantly
employed at night. but what puzzled the fellow's
brains was,that the papers printed, instead of being given
out, were always put away in a large t; unk. This mys-
terious conduct excited his curiosity so much that one
day he stole one of these papers from the trunk, and
took it to his Querida(a black woman)desi ring her to carry
it to some white person who could make out the con-
tents. The woman obeyed this injunction, and happily
placed it in the hands of a well-affected person. It
proved to be one of the Proclamations disclosing the
plot, and was by this person immediately carried to the
Governor, who caused the printer and his associates to
be taken up that night; and from his declaration, and
the papers seized, they were enabled to unravel the
whole conspiracy. It is thought that Martial Law will
be proclaimed here in a few days, as, if the parties were
to be given over to the Judges, they might escape
through bribery. and it is said that the Governor is
determined to make an example of the offenders. I have
just heard that an Alcade or Magistrate of Jesus del
Monte, a village about three miles off, has been arrested ;
but I shall be able.to tell you more in my next. In the
mean time all remains perfectly tranquil here, and I do
not think there is any longer reason to apprehend dan-
ger. A report is current, but Ido not know if it is well
founded or not, that disturbances have broken out at
Matanzas. Certain it is, however, that for some' time
parties have been very violent there."—Giesgoto Courier.
Extract of a letter, dated Havannah, August 30,
1823:40*-Conlirming our last respect of the 11th inst.
we merely purpose by the present to acquaint you with
_a circumstance which occurred here lately, and which
American Papers will not omit to represent in their cm.
tomary exaggerated style, and thereby cause you some
uneasiness about the safety of your gootlabers Some
seditious characters, the greater part of whom being
insignificant, and without fortune, had formed a plot