Star.
London, England, 1802-06-14 00:00:00

INSURRECTION AT DOMINICA.

Major HAMILTON, of the 2d battalion, 68th re-
r :at, landed at Portfmouth, at five o'clock on
iday afternoon? from the Fanny, Weil India-
and fet oS poll immediately for London,
b-ing the bearer of official difpatches from Gover-
n:7i COC MUM JOHN STONE, relative to the late mu-
tiny (-,1 the Sth Well India Regiment, and of dit,
patches from the French Admiral Lacaosis, for
M. OTTO.

" We are enabled to Rate.from anthcrrity, that
the mutiny of the Bth WeR India Regiment, which
brokn out in Domiaica, on the :nth of April
was completely quelled on the lath, by the aaive

lexertions and bravery of the Governor, Ailed by
58th Regiment, the Militia of the Wand, a
detachment of Marines, and his Majefly's Mips
Rationed off the Wand.
" At the fame time, it is with extreme concern,
that we have to relate that Captain CAMERON/Lieu-
tenant NIiCICAY, and Lieutenant WASTENEYS, of
the Bth Regiment, were put to death by the mu-
tineers ; and• that the (barter Mailer General's
Affillant, and the Commiffaries, with feveral of
the white Non-commiffioned Officers, &and the
fame fate. Mr. &meow, the Clerk of the Ord-
nance, was mortally wounded.
u The following is the account of the lots fuf-
tained by his Majefty's troops.
Itth Rtgimast-3 men killed, 55 vrounded.—Two Ma-
fillet, of the Magnificent; badly wounded.
Militia— t man killxl,6 wounded.—l
badly wounded.
" The lofs of the Bth Weft India regiment is
Rated to be, at the !call, too killed and wounded."
The public will be fatisfied as to the corrednefs
of the above particulars, when we Rate them to be
Minifters, with an anxiety to relieve the
public mind, which does them much credit, have
adopted the quickieft mode to give the intelligence
a fpeedy circulation. To have waited the ufual
time for publithing the Gazette, would have de-
layed it till to-morrow evening : it has therefore
been forwarded to us from the Secretary of State's
Office for publication, and we loft no time in giv-
ing it that publicity its importance demands.
The following unofficial particulars are extra&
ed from letters from Antigua, of the sad April :
“ Oa Friday the 9th inn. in the evening, an in-
furredion took place in the Bth Weft-India Regi-
ment Rationed at Prince Rupert's, Dominica.—
The mutiny broke out fira at Fort Shirley, where
the Mutineers commenced a muiquetry fire in all
directions. Major Gordon, who was in a hods
adjoining the Fort with Lieut. Mackie, immediate-
ly ruched out, and endeavoured to form theguard,
during which they were fired upon and Lieutenant
Mackie was killed. Capt. Cameron and Enfign
Wafteneys, the Commiffary and the Serjeant m
the Qoarter-Mater General's department, were
alto killed. They at the fame time alfo defperate-
ly wounded the Clerk ofthe Cheque. Capt. Ca-
meron was fhot by his own fervant. Enlign Wee.
teneys, a very young man, was feized, his hands
tied, and dragged by the feet from the outer to
the inner Cabot, where they tied him to a tree,
and after whipping him, flicking feveral bayonets
in his body, and keeping him three hours in that
fituation, fhot him, cut off his ears, and other-
wife mutilated him. Some of the Officers, with
the Ordnance Store-keeper, made their efcape
through a tally-port which ads from the lines to
the tea; they had a guard to pats, and on their
appearing, the fentry ordered them to flop, ast
to white men were to pats that way ;" en which
the Ordnance Store-keeper drew his (word, and
going up to the (entry, threatened him with in-
haat death, if he refufed to let them pars ; on
which he complied: they repeatedly called out for
Major Gordon, and demanded his head, but after
a fruitlefs attempt- to Rop the mutiny, he had
efcaped. Captain Bar and Lieutenants Cameron
and Rivington fe" nto their hands; they confined
them, butt treat them with refped. The detach-
ment of ft, ninety Rationed there, made
their -r- curgeon and his wife were in
' y broke out, but after two
through their room, made
, and by the greateft exertions in de-
.tg the precipice through brambles and bruit:-
,od, reached a rock, from which they were taken
off at daylight by a boat from the Magnificent,
almoft dead with apprehenfion fatigue, and the
lacerations they bad experienced in their defcent.
The other Ladies (three or four) fell into the
hands of the Mutineers. The Mutineers were en-
tirely compofed ofAfricans ; the Creoles to a man
Lad nothing to do with it, leveret of whom made
their efcape at the moment the infurre.Lion broke
cut, and fought Setter on board the men of war
by fwimming, and in fuch canoes as they could
find. In the interval between Friday night and
Monday morning, they offered to negociate with
tantain Giffard, of the Magnificent; who refuted
to hive any thing to do with them. On Mon-
(l..ty mcraing General johnftone arrived with the
norals, the 68th Regiment, and Tome Militia,
etc Matines were alfo landed from the men of
s 4r. Aftcr Lieut. Cameron had been fent by
•tru with feveral Flags of Truce, they agreed
to come to their Parade (between the two Ca-
br!:s). General Johnßone, in the mean time,
1-.4lfed the caufeway, and continuing his march,
tlttw lip his force in two lines, oppofite to the mu-
timer. ; the firit line (confifting of 90 of the
Rnya:, al.d two CoMpanies of the 68th) within
twent% ;arils of thorn. The mutineers, when on
the point of proceeding to the parade to meet
Comeril Johinflone and the troops, liberated
Bar, and offering him his fword, infifted
on his taking the command of them, and march-
; them down, both of which he declined, on
...di they threatened to Shoot him if he did not

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comply ; be, tvith the other Officers, then prifo.
nets, accordingly marched them down, and drew
them up on the parade, where they received Ge.
neral Johnflone with prefented arms and drums
beating. General J. inftantly formed, and then
ordered Captain Bar to make them ground their
arms, which all but Come of the grenadiers obeyed.
He then ordered them to advance three paces in
front of their arms, on which feveral cried “ No,
no," and were in the all of refuming their arms,
when Come perfon called out " fire! which was
inflantly obeyed,;and feveral of she mutineers fell.
Their grenadiers immediately returned the fire,
and the whole gave way, and fled in different di-
reetions. Many of them kept the road (which
forms an angle), to the Outer Cabrit,but the troops
pared ftraight up the hill, reached the fummit
before them, and, by that means cut them off.—
After this they fcattered in every direction, clofely
followed by their purfuers. Some of them, on their
arrival at the hofpital, are faid to have bayoneted
fome of the fick. Some were taken, and, when
brought in, ordered to be bayoneted, which was
inftantly done. Others retreating over the face of
the Outer Cabrit, were fhot—a few are fuppefed
to be Rill concealed in the bullies, and fome are
known to have got into the country. The muti-
neers had manned the Several works commanding
the approach to the poll, and when the firing
commenced, fired grape from the Inner Cabnt
upon the troops who had pall the poll, and were
drawn up between it and the Outer Cabrit, by
which, and the fire of the fmall arms, two or three
of the troops were killed, and near 20 wounded ;
two of the militia were alto killed. The number
of mutineers killed has not been afcertained with
accuracy, owing to feveral having been (hot on the
face of the Cabrit leading to the tea about 6o
were buried in one hole: it is fuppofed that more
than too were killed ; and among the pri6mers
are 4.0 wounded, tome of them defperately. Ihe
corps confifted of nearly Soo, of which there are-
Paid to be in dofe confinement or prifoners at large
on the Upper Cabrit, about 370 (including the 4o
wounded), of whom it is propofed to try about ts.
The caufes affigned by the mutineers are various;
but the having been obliged to work at the drain-
ing of the fwamp for the two pieceding days,
teems to have been the principal: it is a work that
would require a long time to compleat.
44 The mutineers buried the murdered Officers
with military honours—the whole corps attended;
they liberated the three Officers whom they held
in confinement, for this purpofe alto. The firing
party was felefted, and was compofed of the worft
charaders among them. The King's colours were
kept flying during the whole time the mutiny laft-
ed—the mutineers conftantly declared their rea-
dinefs to fight for King George ; and when Gene-
ral Johnftone and the troops marched in, the
King's colours were flying in Fort Shirley, with
the flag of truce above them.
.‘ Previous to the fire commencing between the
troops and the mutineers, Gen. Johnftone, who
had been in front, retired between the firft and
fecond lines, and defired the men to be ready.—
Some of the troops afked if they were to fire? the
Officers, who had been their prifoners, ran (loop-
ing into the line of the troops. This and the other
circumitances mentioned appear to have produced
an agitation on both fides. The mutineers, who
appear to have aded with great confidence to-
wards the General until that moment, returned
their arms, and the firft (hot ferved as a fignal to
both parties to fire. Probably a little addrefs at
that mount might have prevented the bloody
fcene thagfollowed. The accounts of eye-witneffes
vary with refpetft to the fide on which the firing
commenced, as well as to the number of the mu-
tineers killed—fome computing it at tco white
men, whilft others fuppofe it to have been nearly
double that number : poffibly the medium between
the two may be neareff the truth."
Another letter Rates, that the mutineers aimed
particularly at Gen. Johnftone, who had a horfe
killed under him, and received a flight wound in
the hand. Mr. Holmes, commanding the militia,
had alfo a horfe killed under him, and two of the
militia-men were killed. The mutineers had man-
ned the feveral batteries commanding theapproach
to the port, and when the firing began fired grape.
(hot, by which,and the fire of the fmall arms, two
of the. Royals, and about go of that and the 68th
Regiment were wounded. The mutineers fired
from the fort on the men of war, but without el:
fed, during which time many of themfelves were
blown up by explofions of cartridges. It conti-
nues—" The cattle affigned by the mutineers is,
having been obliged to cut wood for their officers,
which the latter fold; (port weight of bread ; no
fettlement of their accounts; and having been em-
ployed in draining a morafs, without being paid
for it. The latter teems to have been the princi-
pal cattle. They had only been at it two days,
but it is a work that will take a long time to.com-
plete. Forty of the regiment are Rill unaccounted
for; of which it is known that a corporal, and 25,
and chiefly grenadiers, are in the woods, with
abundance of ammunition: when joined by the run-
away mgroes,they may give contiderable molefta-
tion before they are fubdued."

Sittings appointed in Midcllefez and London,
before the Right Hon. Ricormus PEPPER, Lord
A:Afar:Ler, in and after Trinity Term, tiloa :