The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1849-04-13
Particulars OF the Recent Insurrcction Mt
st. Lucia-Eight Persons Shot.

St. Aucla-ElKht Persons Shot.
From the Barbadian, March al
The only important which we can collect for
the readers Of this days paper has been received from
ST. Lucia and this intelligence is of painful charac-
ter, and comes quite xpectedy upon us We never
supposed that an emancpated peasantry, enjoying all
which com pared with some countriesi in Eurone IL rei
happy one, should have been ungrateful for the
boon conferred upon them, as to commence revolt
against the constituted authorities and themselves
into violent opposition to the law Of the land I'm
happily however this has been the in the neigh
boring island OF st Lucia at least there has been
partial rebellion, for have been informed of the
outbreak being general The Northern Colonial steamer
appears that a land-tax had been laid for several
years which the pcasantry Us well others, have
been paying but they seem to have been practised
upon by some mschievous agtators, supposed to
have been some French refugees from Martinique,
fellows who have, no doubt, been infected with
the red-hot repubcanism Of their mother
try, and their feelings have been worked upon at
last to determination to resist the law On the 9th in
slant some hundreds Of those deluded people entered
the town OF Castrics in tumultuous and violent
ner with gcstcuatons and threatenings of sanguina
ry nature demanding that they should be relieved of
the tax police called and many special
constables sworn in the limited population of the
town would aierd The magistrates placed themselves
meet the insurgents On requiring that they should
pcaceaby and warning them of their danger If they
persisted In rebellion the police officers received show
or OF stones ana other missiles such broken bottles
&c, and some Of the police struck The nsur-
gents also threw immense stones into the house of Co
vernon Darling, whose life in imminent danger
They seemed determined carry their point il thcy
could, and treated the civil power with contempt The
again with them and the riot
act was read twice but with effect The crisis then
appeared serious one, and His Excellcncy the Lieut.
Governor saw the necessity OF ordering the military out
part OF the oath regiment and Of the Sd West india
consequently quickly the spot, and under the
command Of the magistrates attacked the insurgents
Seven men OF them, and woman, fell by the fire
the troops and the insurgents fled in ali directions
Some of them were armed with asses but the great
stones and crokcn glass bottles. We regret to hear
that they had previously fire to the buildings on
several estates and had burned fields of canes;
the inhabitants Of Casries under great dread Of
seeing the town set fire to- We to hope that the
reinforcement SO promptly ordered from this island by
er names, Monday has. by this time enec tually
suppressed the rebellion This reinforcement consists
Of according to the statement in yesterdays Mercury
field officer OF the garrison, captain three subal
terms, and 100 rank and file Of the I'D regiment
gether with company Of the I'd West India regiment
gimcnt Extracts from private letter to gentleman
in this island, appeared in Mondays Globe, containing
particulars which have taken the liberty to trans
fer to our columns
ST. LUCIA, 10th March, 1s49
You Will be much surprised to hear Of revolt in
turIecton among some Of negro population which
heretofore were celebrated for good behavior from
what has passed the Martinique refugees runaway
slaves IRE the chief leaders Of this servie
warfare.
Amongst our impositions there is land tax OF four
ehillings per cultivated land these refugees
chiefly reside in the lset or northern quarter OF
the colony and many are located lands held by Dr.
Robinson from whence short and easy roads commune
cate with Castries for the vent Of provisions and
obtaining supplies in return Many have objected to-
and avoided payment Of this tax and aterly infected
the fame principles to their neighbors, exciting them
to discomfort most audacious and
eventually to brigandage Last week several with
an unsigned petition to the Governor Monday the
9th instant, SO 90 demanded an answer with
nenaces If they not relieved from the tax tho
magistrate OF the district reasoned with them and
every endt avorto induce them quietly they
became the more outrageous when the few police We
have exerted themselves to arrest two of the
leaders; but they felled the police with stones and
poured volleys into the windows of the government
oice where the Governor was until four five of tho
Sd West India Regiment came when they fed this
occurred unexpectedly that the inhabitants were
astonished Soon after, 1t reported that n largo
assembly negroes was ON the Chauses or road Mt the
cast end OF the Castries mcnacng other ourages
Commissary of Police going to rcconnoitre, was feed
with stone on his head. In the meantime special
constables were assembling and detachment Of the
oath from the garrison who with the
proceeded to Chaussce where they found upwards OF
two hundred negroes armed with sticks, stones, and
cutlasses-these driven of and some 70 or 80
arrested. They ran towards Gros Iset and made a
stand when being further pressed by the constables
whom they Pelted with stoncs some few random shots
were fired by the military to intimdate induce them
them to retireon which the troops and constabes re-
turned to town ut about p. M.
"1hey had sent emissaries out 30 the country, and
previous to 3 p. M. they were approaching to
town in large bodies armed with cutlasses &c and
taking up position at tho north end Of the Chaussee
with abandoned house eminence in their rear
where they found stones and glass bottles extending
themselves through the bushes to another road The
constabcs and military proceeded to the spot ma
giTrates went forward and warned them sf the
act was read twice and explained they then demanded
that the prisoners made should be released and one
was now near six o'clock the consables seized ON him.
he resisted immediately volley Of stones glass bot
ties, &C., were showercd the constabes and one SOL
der was struck down by large stone the magistrates
gave orders to fire. platoon Of four Eve did So but
made little Impressions; stones came more rapidly
firing then became general when they fed leaving
the road; more made their escape were carried of
as they were not pursued. PATROL formed to protect
inh nd nVinIau
anticipations Of what might be done In tho coun-
try; there they burnt the megass house. and
nctcrre estate belonging Mr. Mutcr also some canes
on Bots d'Orange shd Cornthe estates and u large
megass house Marquis estate; other mischief was at
tempted Alarming reports came in from the country
next moIning, and communication with eros Islet by
land was cut of entreaties made to the Governor
to send small detachment Of troops to Gros slet
but vacaton, disbelief and undetermined acting was
the order Of the day. and he could not harrass the
troops Thvt evening most alarming intelligence WAS
brought by from Gros lslet During the night
the mill and works Of Bell estate were burnt and
some canes on the Union estate this at last caused
order for 70 men Of the 3rd. w |. Regimen awith
magistrate &c, to proceed to eros Islet by sea but
here htardiness occurred for sending them up by
French manof-war schooner with contrary winds, in
stead despatching them in boats which would have
landed them in three hours they did not land till
megass houses Corinth estate burnt, two
hogshcads Of sugar Of Union estate were rolled
into the sea, another broken open and gutted.-
Boausejour estate was to be destroyed next but
the arrival Of the military, magistrates &C. changed
the scene. Constablcs- collected arrests were male
conservative measures taken, and carly morning
battue was made into the locality from whence all
this has emanated more arrests made and some
found wounded. We are now in comparative tranquil
lty this, you may imagine has caused much ankle
ty ard put check to business fortunately, all other
quarters are quiet and it Is pleasing know that tho
few late imported Africans located at ros Iset Quar-
ter sxcrtcd Themselves to extinguish the fires and
restcd two Of the parties accused policeman Mt
Union estate, on Monday on returning to town, he
was prevented with threats Of violence IL he proceeded
he stated that large numbers collecting and
rchng to town. when, at clock they checked
by the runaways with accounts OF their having been
fired &c II is evident, that II they had deferred
their to later hour, aud been joined by the
others they might have burnt and pillsged the on
Monday night for II IL probable the troops would havo
returned to the garrison, and the inhabitants would
not have been so much on their guard. ,...
"What reflections will be made on this at home! Here
counter part Of the collision at Ceylon Internal
taxation the eause and the colonial office TO blame
Lock at oil the crown colonies, bent down with extra
and expensive governmental for purposes Of PATRONAGE
ruined with low prices Of thar produce by the acts of
wing administration, which encourages the slave trade