130] ANNUAL REGISTER, 1815. 
of war: that the militia who had 
already withdrawn to their habi- 
tations should be protected in per- 
son and property, but that those 
who were still in arms should be 
treated as prisoners of war, and 
sent away: that no individual 
should be molested by the British 
AS pat on account of his po- 
itical conduct to the present 
moment: and that the laws, and 
private property on shore, should 
be respected. All the forts, re- 
doubts, &c. in the island, with 
magazines, arms, and every thing 
military, were to be delivered to 
the British troops ; and all persons 
under arms were to surrender 
them. 
By later intelligence from the 
West Indies it appeared that Gua- 
daloupe, though completely in the 
martial occupation of Great Bri- 
tain, was not reduced to a state 
of tranquillity. A number of 
French soldiers, who had deserted 
‘previously to the surrender of the 
island, took refuge in the woods 
whencethey carried on adesultory 
and ferocious war against the posts 
of the English, several of whom 
were killed in their desperate sal- 
lies. Many of the inhabitants of 
Point-a-Petre, who formerly pur- 
sued the trade of privateering, 
were suspected of holding corres- 
pondence with them, and supply- 
ing them with provisions and am- 
munition. Measures had however 
been taken to prevent this inter- 
course, and a force had been sent 
against the insurgents. A letter 
from Basseterre, dated Nov. 2nd, 
asserts that about 300 of Buona- 
Lae adherents in the island 
ad been apprehended, and that 
a ship load had been sent to Eu- 
rope, many still remainin under 
strong guard in the fort. An ex- 
act. police was maintained in the 
capital, by which order was per- 
fectly preserved, though it was 
evident that the French inhabi- 
tants looked upontheir conquerors 
with great aversion. 
Some important proceedings in 
the House of Assembly of Jamaica 
have been reported as taking place 
in the month of October. They 
originated from the receipt in that 
island of the copy of the bill re- 
lative to the registry and regula- 
tion of slaves, introduced by Mr. 
Wilberforce to the House of Com- 
mons in the last session. A com- 
mitttee had been appointed by the 
House of Assembly to take into 
consideration the bill in question, 
which in their report gave an 
opinion that a more solemn inves- 
tigation, by a committee vested 
with fuller powers, ought to be 
made intothe allegations and facts 
set forth in the bill. They also 
recommended that the House 
should, without delay, take into 
consideration the constitutional 
question arising out of the said 
bill, concerning the legislative au- 
thority within the island. With 
relation to this point, they drew 
up and offered certain resolutions, 
declaratory of what they consider- 
ed as the constitutional and un- 
alienable rights of the inhabitants 
of Jamaica. The first of these de- 
clares the right of the colonists of 
Jamaica to enjoy, so long as they 
have no representatives in the Bri- 
tish parliament, a distinct and en- 
tire civil government. 
sequent resolutions are supple- 
mental to the claim advanced in 
the first. The fifth, however, ac- 
‘knowledges the authority of par- 
liament to make laws for the ge- 
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