, 1866-03-13
From the Colonial Standard and Jamaica
Despatch, February "a.
PACKET SUMMARY.

AS the labours Of the Royal Commits
sion advance, the conviction grows
stronger in every mind, that the report
which it will bring forth will completely
vindicate Governor Eyre, the Military
and Naval authorities, and the irhabi-
tants, for the course which, in self-defence
they were obliged TO adopt towards the
rebels of Saint Thomas in the East.
Whilst witnesses, whose credit is above
suspicion, speak to facts, placing the fact
of an organized insurrection among the
blacks in Saint Thomas in the East be-
yond doubt, most Of the attempts made
to bolster up the charges of cruelty and
undue severity practised by the soldiers
and sailors upon the "inoffensive" and
broken down. Women and others al
legged 10 have been savageIy fogged, and
who have been induced to swear to that
effect, have been found, on examination,
to have received in some cases but, very
slight Cuttings, and ip one case that of
the woman she presented no traces of a
SINGLE stripe, One Slrah Robinson,
ON her examination, made out that the
soldiers had killed a woman in childbirth,
together with the "Grundee' (midwife)
who was attending her that they had
perpetratcd other barbarouS acts, and
that as they went along they took up
the unfortunate children in their way
and dashed the brains Of the poor inno-
cents out. The story no doubt struck the
Royal Commissioners, as it is apparent
many other stories of the same kind lad
struck them before as being rather sus-
picious, and his Excellency the P esident
intimated TO Mrs. Robinson, that she
would be required TO accompany him the
next or the day after ia IL. NJ. S. Con
stance to Moraut Bay, to shew him the
spot where these murders had been Com
mitted. Madam was rather taken aback at
this, and it is said made a variety of obiec-
lions against the proposal, which were all
lifted by his Exceiiency and eventually
on reaching Stony Gut near MIGRANT
Bay, and finding all further e~vasioas
impossible, she confessed that her en-
tire statement was a fabrication, and
begged hard to be forgiven. Facts
like these speak for themselves and
the pretended friends Of the negro in
England are morally responsible for the
wiltul and corrupt peri jury, which their
unwISe aud unj ust course in reference TO
the rebellion has called forth. The sus-
pension Of Governor Eyre the unre-
served condemnation of the authorities
here; the inf1ammatory articles published
in certain British journals and repro
duced here, that they might be read and
their doctrines imbibed by the people;
the sending out of advocates to plead, as
it is alleged, the cause of the people be-
fore the Commission the rumours circu-
lated that large sums of money would be
Forthcoming to "reward" those among
the people who had suffered the savage
denunciations uttered against the unfor-
tunate whites of this country by the ne
gro worshippers /; all have combined TO
inspire the ignorant negroes, with ideas
capable of leading them into any excess
or crime. They interpret all that we
have referred to, to mean just this that
they were in the right in using violence
to redress their wrongs, real or magma
ny (; that the British people consent to their
having the country to themselves, that
all who interfered to stay the rebellion