Star.
London, England, 1803-01-18 00:00:00

THL MARINE AND COLONIES.

IL. LACROSSE, REAR-ADMIRAL, CAPTAIN GENEP AL
OF GUAD %LOUPE*, AND 'ITS DEPEND!•NCIES, TO

THE MINISTER. OF THE MARINE AND COLONIE.•
Barre Terre, Nov. Ts, I3ti2.
CITIZEV MINISTERI have already had the
honour to give you an account of the crimes coal•
mitted in the night between the 6th and 7th of
aFtober, by a band of brigands of all colours, who
affatlinated 23 citizens in different quar.ers of
Guadaloupe.

A fpecial Tribunal was charged with the prole-
cution and trial of there crimes, tonne Red with a
confpiracy, which the punifhment of the Chiefs
has extinguifhed.

The principal of thefe confpirators were Millet
Lagirardine, John Barbe, and Peter Barfe, all
Blacks, thine,' with every fpecies of crimes.
The fird two deflroyed themfelves after they
‘-ere condemned to fuller death ; the third was
.:xecitted with his accomplices.
Since thefe examples the Colony of Guadaloupe
has been much improved in regard to internal
tranquillity.

Thofe from whom the colony mull be freed
arc computed of the remains of rebels, wandering
about in the woods, where they are daily pei ifhing
by famine and want.

If there !Ulf exit' in the communes of this ifland
a few partifans of thefe crime;, they conceal them •
(elves I but I have taken loch meafures as will
loon enable me with certainty to difcover them.
I had the honour to inform you, that I had
received intelligence of ♦arious bodies of rebels
who were forming, in the iflands of St. Thomas and
St. Bartholomew, new plots again! Guldaloupe,
1 have obtained certain information of this cir-
cumaance, by the return of the frigate la Didon,
which I had difpatched to demand thefe rebels to
be given up, by the refpedive Governors of thefe
two colonies.

Some vefels belonging to rebels, who had
efcaped from Gila&loupe, and which were em-
ployed for keeping up a communication with their
confidential friends in that ifland, were therefound.
One of them had dill on board a fmall quantity of
ammunition, part of which they bad thrown intn
the lea when they law the French frigate approach
ing. But notwithdanding the precipitation em-
ployed in this bufiners, they had not time to com-
plete it when the frigate cart anchor clot to them.
The brigands abandoned the vette] and went to
conceal themfelves in the woods. M. •DEW• T.
Tea STOIT, Commandant of the Danifh iflands, has
given aria orders for their being arrefted. But
at Saint Bartholomew, M. HAI KIR H rem, the Go-
vernor, did not think himfelf author iced to purfue
the faiyie Reps.
I fetid you my corrcfpondence with the Swedifh
Governor, in order that the Government may de-
liberate on the conduct, which the tranquillity of
the colonies reqnires from all the powers of Eu-
rope ; for it is not certainly the intention of the
Snedifli Government to give an afylum in its por-
ta-inns to brigands, who, after having polluted
with all their crimes the French colonies; hope
to make preparations with impunity for the corn•
Er:i(rr,n of nes, ones, in a neighbouring test itory in
fr:,:ndthip with the Republic. Health and relive].
(Signed) LACROSSE.
This letter i. followed by another from GATE.
Isle, Comn:ifiluner of Government in the
vial frihan l of Goad iloupe, to Rear Aumiral
Lac K R, containing an account of the trial and
death of the principal confpiratcrs. " The inicide
cottimiqed by ft VI BARBL," Pays the Commif-
frotier, .. in de prirdn of Saint Anne, proves boss
ranch lie dreaded the jt.ilice of the tribur,A, and
the hidden death of GI It SIDI EaL in tl.at of Point.
a•Pitre, gives ui rearna at !raft to pret'ame that he
willied to avoid the Came of pile:jou:at.
.. The czarnii-.ation of PE.? i a BAR sr., who alone
},ad a.c courage oi furtive the co.aeMon of In_
crimes, wil! make kno,en to .you the plot Is hi, h
they had ',anted, %lien th• it minds
%%etc htn!cd fpir:tuous liquors with 5e1,,,.?;
y often got inio‘ieeted at the Louie of Mt i L I
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