Star. — 1828-11-13 (London, England)

SLAVERY IN THE FRENCH. COLONIES.  The following facts, respecting the colony of Mattifugue, have come to our knowledge; we ttust they will convince our Ministers of the inutility of the new judicial institutions which they have given to the colony, so long as the laws shall not have securei personal safety and established an equality aif rights in the administration of justice: "On the 26th of last June, at the farm Gatineau, in the commune of Vouelin, a young planter desired a slave of the name of Dominic, who had been employed all his life in field woo k, to do snipe carpenter's work. The slave excused Novell, on the ground of his incapacity ; but his master reiterated his commands. The slave obeyed, but did his work very badly. In a paroxism of passion. the master caught up a carpenter's chissel, and inflicted a severe wound on the bogy of the negro; he then seized a pair Of cgmrasses, and ran the points of them.inks his slave's side. He then struck the slave on the bead with a hatchet. which killed him- on the 'pet. The murderer shortly alerwards embarked for St. Thomas's, and will be pro, ceesled against for contumacy. for not Appearing to take his trial. At the farm house of Madame Larougerie, in the commune of St. Anne, tour slaves were recently pot to death, who were employed in the cultivation of the ground. The negro Peter was first flogged to death, and his dead body was then drawn along the ground by oxen, and at last committed to the flames. The slaves; sliseau, his brother, and Martial, hi. nephew, who were confined in a dungeon during the punishment of Peter, ansi heard his plaintive cries, made several unsuccessful attempts to commit suicide. They were put to de ith in the same way a* their brother and uncle. A slave oil the name of Louis was also starved to death in a dun. geon. They cut his head and feet off. that the chains with which he had been confined might not be lost ; the slave who executed this order had such an impress, 'ion made on his mind by it, that he was found dead in his bed the next morning. A negro belonging to*the same farm, and of the same family as the others previously murdered, has been confined in prison since the month of Jaly, and it is supposed will be punished in a similar way to his relations. The police have nsat interfered in this affair, and it is probable that nothing will be done in it, as it was recently decided that the evidence of slaves.cVld not hr received in a Court ofJustice against their mater. Madame Larougerie, it is said, lives in France; these cruelties, therefore, cannot justly be attrihuted to her. The widow Marlet. of whose criminal violence lowan ds three of her slaves we rt centl v ave an account, and who was set at liberty by the Royal Court of Martinique, has been again arrested, .after considerable deliberation in the Privy Council, by order of the Governor of the Colour, General B arre. Thr tribunal of St. Pierre had deprived her of the right of ever possessing slaves in the Fielieh Colonies. On the appeal of ttais woman to the Royal Court of Niartinicrie, the pyrii*httient was reduced to three year'. banishment fro tr the Colony ; so that M idame M arlet may enjoy all her rights in France as if nothing had happened. The sentence to which %se have alluded. which was given in the Session of September, probably be appealed against by her to the CANE ot Cas. *a t ion."—Journal du Commerce.  DISCOVERY or rnic RELICS or LA