Star.
London, England, 1819-06-17 00:00:00

" NEGRO INSURRECTION.

" Accounts from Georgia state, that a plan has
been set on foot by the Negroes of Augusta and the
neighbouring plantations, to set fire to the city and
destroy the inhabitants : they were to assemble at
Beach Island, and from thence to sally forth. While
the city was under patrole of its inhabitants, a Mr.
Robert Russell, neglecting to answer the hail of one
of the guards, was shot through the body, and im-
mediately expired. .

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Two of the Black Conspirators have been tried '
and found guilty, and sentenced to death ; four others
remain to be tried. In the investigation the Court
has evinced an examplary patience, and a determi-
nation to sift to the bottom a conspiracy which for
atrociousness can only be surpassed by that of St.
Domingo. The poor ignorant wretch who has been

convicted and sentenced, WAS the originator, and had
the plan only in part been executed, it must have been
attended with serious consequences, although there
could hate been no ultimate chance of success. We
understand they intended to have taken possession of
the shipping of Savannah, and to attack that town,
and that Florida or St. Domingo was their ultimate
destination."

When the Republicans of Georgia talk of the sur.
passing atrociousness of this attempt of their negro
slaves to effect their emancipation, it would be well
for them to bestow an eye of revision on their laws
as affecting these poor people, the exclusiveness and
severity of which must be revolting to every humane
mind. In one of the Statutes of this free State, we
meet with the following disgraceful provisions—" It
shall not be lawful for any free person of colour to
come into this State, and each and every person or
persons offending herein, shall be liable to be arrested,
kc. and on failure to pay 100 dollars, shall be sold
by auction as slaves."
Again, " It is provided that every will, testament,
deed, or contract, intended to effect the manumission
of a Slave, or to allow him to labour free from the
controul of his Master, shall be utterly void."—Can it
be very atrocious ira persons possessed of the feelings
of human nature to emancipate themselves from such
abominable thraldom as this ?
Accounts have been received at New York, by a
vessel from the Sandwich Islands, that a Russian
frigate, which it left there, hid beat uu the 4.thi4t

California, which,m4cording to the repoft Itiii.
sian Captain, had beau ceded by Spain to Russia.
The frigate was expected at Macao, whence it pro-
ceeds to Manilla:

Mr. W. D. ROBINSON, the American Gentleman
whose imprisonment among the Spaniards is well
known to the Public, is said to have effected his
escape and arrived at Gibraltar.

The Paris Papers of Monday have arrived this
forenoon, but, as those of Monday usually do, cone
min little important in the way of information.—The
Ktsc was expected to be able to attend service at the

chapel of the Tuilleries, on Sunday, on occasion of
the Fete-Dieu, but his MAJiarry heard Mass in his

apartments. The Ministers of Marine, Finance, and
Foreign Affairs, had afterwards audiences of his MA•
JESTY.—A Petersburgh article says, that some per-
sons of distinction believe that the Emperor ALEC-
ANDER will make another grand journey, in the course
of this summer, in order to confer with his august
Allies on the present state of Europe.—A courier
from the Swedish Ambassador at St. Petersburgh, •
arrived at -Stockholm with dispatches on the 27th
ultimo. The departure of CHARLES Jonw, for the
camp at Scania, is stated to have been fixed for the
2d instant.