Star.
London, England, 1811-11-30 00:00:00

INSURRECTION MARTISIQUE.

'Orr the 17th of October las!, informaties leas
given to the Procureur du Roi (the ketg's At-
torney), that on the ensuing evening, at 11 o'clock,
an insurrection of the free people of colour and the
negroes was to take place ; when it was intended to
het fire to the populous town of St. Pierre in several
places, giving the alarm of fire, to force open the
stores, where there were cutlasses and bill-hooks, and
then make a general massacre ot the white men as .
they made their appearance in tke streets ; but the
women were to be spared for other purposes. In case
they did not succeed so the utmost of their wishes,
then they were to storm St. Martha's Battcey,"on the
left of the town, and turn the guns open it. By. the
fortunate discovery of the plot, on the eve of its exe-
cution, measures were immediately taken for its pre-
vention. Some of the chiefs ot the banditti were
-.sized by the police in the course of the day others
of them withdrew from the town. At seven o'clock,
P. M. several people were seen on the heights which
immediately overlook the town, and also an inhabi-
tant came in with the intelligence that ttom 70 to 80
of these miscreants had assembled at his house, with
swords, pistols, &c. and that they were fast increas-
ing. Lieutenant Colonel Mackie, of the 3d battalion
of the 60th Regiment, and C mmandant of Saint
Pierre, lent immediately a detachment to surroand
them; at their approach the banditti fired at them,
and immediately took to theirteels ; after a fatiguing
pursuit the whole night for 19 hours, the detachment
conlinot succeed in taking more than three cr four
of them: During the whole of the night strong pa-
troleA of the 60th paraded the streets, assisted by
most of the Wilke male inhabitants, uncertain when
the fatal moment might arrive, or the dismal cry of
44 Fire" heard. On the following morning, several
of the ringleaders were taken up and lodgod ia the
gaol.; a strong detachment from the purism and
parties of the militia were sent out to scour th: coun-
-1 try, to restore tranquillity.
On the 21st the town was again thrown into a
state of alarm ; from 4 to 500 slaves, headed by five
of their chiefs, endeavoured to enter the towu,expee-
sing there to be joined by a considerable number of
the domestic slaves. As the mob were teen collect-
ing from all parts cf the country, the houses were
again shut up, andlidspAir reignedonceip4rethrough-
out the place. By the active exertions of Lieutenant
Colonel Mackie, assisted by his men, three ot their
chiefs were taken, the negroes dispersed, and Octrd
again restored.
The head of the insurgents, thus baffled in all
his attempts) privately entered the town at night,
and endeavoured to make his escape on board a
small vessel ; but not succeeding, he blew out his
brains. His name was Moliere, a free coloured mAri,
and nat:ve of this is4nd ; he had been for some t me.
at St. Domingo, and returned hire with the title ot
Viscount. About 130 of the insurgents had been
apprehended, and at their trial 15 were round guilty,
and hung on the 10th of October.
The distinguished and meritorious part acted by ens
British garrison to quell this dangerous revolt was pub-
licly noticed by Major-General Wale, Commander of
his Majesty's forte in the isLnd, as well as bytbe
bitants, who testified their grateful acknowledgments
in a letter transmitted by the Procureur de Roi.