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This old Impoftor was caught whilft he was tricked up with all his 

 feathers, teeth, and other implements of magic, and in this attire fuf- 

 fered military execution by hanging: many of his difciples, when they 

 found that he was fo eafily put to death, notwithlianding all the 

 boafled feats of his powder and incantations, loon altered their opi- 

 nion of bim, and determined not to join their countrymen, in a caule 

 which hitherto had been unattended with fuccefs. But the fame of 

 general Tacky, and the notion of his invulnerability, flill prevailed 

 over the minds of other?, as that hero had ellaped hitherto in every 

 conflift without a wound. The tr'Je condition of his party was art- 

 fully mlfreprefented to the Coromantins, in the diflant parifhes; they 

 were told that every thing went on profperoufly, that victory attended 

 them, and that nothing now remained but for all their countrymen to 

 be hearty in the caufe, and the ifland mufi: fpeedily be their own. 

 Animated with thefe reports, the Coromantins on capt. Forreft's eflate, 

 in Weftmorcland, broke into rebellion. They furrounded the man- 

 lion- houfe, in wiiich Mr. Smith, attorney to Mr. Forreft, with fome 

 friends, was fitting at lupper; they foon difpatched Mr. Smith and the 

 overfeer, and terribly wounded captain Hoare, commander of a mer- 

 chant fliip in the trade, who afterwards recovered. Three other Ne- 

 groes . belonging to this eftate made their efcape privately, and alarmed 

 the neighbouring fettlements, by which means the white perfons upon 

 them provided for their lives, and took meafures which prevented the 

 Negroes on three contiguous eftates from rifing. A gentleman, pro- 

 prietor of one of thefe eftates, remarkable for his humanity and kind 

 treatment of bis flaves, upon the firft alarm, put arms into the hands 

 of about twenty; of whole faithful attachment to him, he had the ut- 

 moll; confidence: thefe were all of them Coromantins, who no foonei' 

 had got poffeirion of arms, than they convinced their mafter how little 

 they merited the good opinion he had entertained of them; for having 

 ranged themfelves before his houfe, they afiTured him they would do 

 him no harm, but that they muft go and join their countrymen, and 

 then fainting him with their hats, they every one marched off. Among 

 the rebels were feveral French Negroes, who had been taken prifoners 

 at Guadalonpe, and, being fent to Jamaica for fale, were purchafed by 

 capt. Forreft. Thefe men were the more dangerous, as they had been 

 in arms at Guadaloupe, and feen fomething of military operations; in 



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