530 The Colonists. [Nov. 



" The wife and three daughters of INI. Faville, while imploring mercy 

 for him, saw the husband and father cut to pieces before their eyes by 

 the savages. Carried away captives, they were reserved for a more 

 horrid fjite. 



" On the estate of ]M. Gallifet the negroes had been treated kindly to 

 a proverb. When the revolt began, ]\I. Odeluc, the attorney, thinking 

 they would remain faithful, went out to the plantation with a friend and 

 some soldiers. He found them in open rebellion, and their standard was 

 the hodif of a white infant, which theij had recently impaled on a stake. 

 Himself, his friend, and most of the soldiers, were murdered without 

 mercy, a few only of the patrole escaping to tell the dreadful tale. 



" jil. Blen, an officer of police, was nailed alive to one of the gates of 

 his plantation, and his limbs, one by one, chopped off with an axe. 



" A poor man, named Robert, a carpenter, was dragged from his 

 hiding place, and that he might die in the way of his occupation, the 

 savages deliberately sawed him asunder. 



" IM. Cardinneau, a planter of Grande- Riviere, offered two of his own 

 mulatto children money to remain faithful. They took the money, and 

 then stabbed their parent to the heart. 



" In the parish of Limbe, at a place called Great Ravine, a venerable 

 planter, who had two beavitiful daughters, while he was tied down, saw 

 his eldest ravished before his eyes by one barbarian, and his youngest 

 delivered over to another to be subjected to the same fate. 



" Near Jeremie a body of mulattoes secured M. Sejourne and his wife 

 in their own house. The monsters murdered the husband before the 

 eyes of his wife. She was far advanced in pregnancy. They ripped 

 her up alive, and threw the infant to the hogs. They then (how shall I 



relate it ?) sewed up the head of the murdered husband in ! ! ! 



" At another place, a favourite negro murdered his master. Stretched 

 on the dead body of his master, the villain's mistress was afterwards sub- 

 jected to the assassin's lust. 



" All the white and mulatto children whose fathers had not joined the 

 revolt were murdered, without exception, before the eyes, or clinging to 

 the bosoms of their mothers. Young women of all ranks were first 

 violated by a troop of barbarians, and frequently afterwards put to death. 

 Some of them were reserved for the further gratification of the savages ; 

 and others had their eyes scooped out with a knife." 



And these are " the great acts of justice that must speedily take place" 

 — such are the scenes which the Anti-Slavery Society wish to have re- 

 newed. These are the tender mercies of a body who pretend to be ac- 

 tuated by the principles of Religion ; whose charity towards the negroes 

 is so abundant, that they would fain indulge them with the diversions of 

 murder, and violation, and torture, at the expense of the Christian com- 

 munity, their own compatriots, who, under the sanction and in full 

 reliance upon the truth and consistency of the British nation and its 

 government, have established themselves in those distant regions. 

 Faugh ! the pretence is too gross • and for once, at least, we thank the 

 Anti-Slavery Society for having thrown off the mask and shewn the 

 hideous purpose they contemplate in all the nakedness of its atrocity. 



Tiie writer of Westminster, who, although he has the ingenuity to lay 

 a trap for the Anti-Slavery Society, into which their purblind worships 

 have fallen, has his own views, which are wholly distinct from those held 

 by that venerable and most humane body, brings in, as if by accident. 



