Alexandria advertiser and commercial intelligencer. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1800-1803, 1802-11-11

they would be Obliged TO return to fave
ry, while this diiturbed their troubled
minds, they Jaw, contrary TO all good
faith, their beloved Chief feized, put in
irons, tent on fhip board and convey ed no
one Of them knew whittier, added TO this,
all the towns in poaeiiion of the French,
were like Eiop's Sick Lions Den, where
the prints OF many feet were ieen going
in; but nonc of .hcse returning, or in
other words, many, very many OF the un-
la!picious blacks, when they entered the
towns on buineis or other locations. we've
feized and ioon hung, fhos or III ione
other way defroyed. This alarmed lhofe
that were ii the country, and they wee
convinced that il was better to die with
arms in their hands, than trujl to the faith
of the French general.
Among thoie thus taken and executed, !,
were feen many marks Of the m1it I'M
daunted courage, coatemst Of death, and
averiiun to',heir eyecueioners. One gen
/ lieman TELL u.s., thar hearing thei, uidaunt-
CO behaviour, lie was induced to attend
| tome OF the executions, at one of them,
/ FIVE fellows were ordered to be lhot, on
the way they truck. up dance, fang and
drank, as if they were going on q party
Of pleaiure when they came TO TIE line
THAI was drawn for them they moved 10
It with bold, undannted itep, kneelcd
dnown, itretched their bodies and head
erect, and cried,
:" Ere a7vsy, yox Mwa<,Mg Wrrtebes ~
Another day. our informant went to
fee an old negro hang when he came TO
the ground, lie looked up, and laid to
The officer of the guard. So, captain,
you have honored me with new gibbet. 2
He al1ed for drink-it was given him by
the execusioner, who, pouring it too fat,
he black jerked away his head, and laid,
Damn you, DONE hoax me before my
| time" Previous 10 the fatal moment,
he chas.ed 10 thoie around with as much
SANG FRoID as any Of the fpettators.
When ordered, he mounted the ladder,
and iaid il would iopn be over ); he lean
ed 70 as TO faorten the rope, and when he
[ fiw it made fat, he threw himfelf off the
ladder, with as much eaG, as if be was
diving into the river.
/ Ia' Auguf, laR, the blacks after having
lain by for fome time, feeling nothing but
death or flavery before chem, and finding
the fever had 70 thinned the ranks of ,he
Europeans, that they would havea chance,
if not of gainiog their liberty, Of crafty
ing their revenge, and die Ike men and
not like dogs, once more few to their
arms ! AMI it is now faid, they have thirty
| thouland of thefe bold undaunted fellows
| who, probably are determined TO corquer
or die, TO contend with; mott of whom
| the French mua kill, tranfport or dearoy
| before they can obtain quiet poaeflion OF
| the iNand.
Accounts by late veGels fay, that after
many Actions of various confequences, the
blacks had about the beginning of OCT.
drove the whole of the army, bosh horfe
and foot, that was encamped or the plain
between Cape Francois and the bills, into
| the town and had 70 far hewn their fu
| periority, that Gen. lie Clerc had ordered
all The inhabitants of the Cape TO embody
lhemlelves TO hpport The army, when call
ed upon las per the proclamation or edia
in oar lait & il is added, that had Tot the
imal reinforcement of troops they received
ri Sep enbel, arrived at th t critical juno
ture, they mali have Acd to their chipping,
or tecn cur off. Ia fhort the French are
/ il the utmsf want of men and money to
fupport them in their forlorn hops.
The account publiihed in Our laf fays,
that the Cape is not the only place in
danger but in all probability, Port de
Paix and Jeremie e 'erethis cut of. We
may therefore expect all our accounts
from thar devoted iland, for fome time
RI come will he ipterei1iup m hum anitv