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many deftroycd thenifclves. About the lime of their breaking out, 

 feveral other confpiraciL'S were in agitation: in the Vale of Liildas, in 

 St. John's, the Coromantins had agreed to rife, ravage the cftates, and 

 murther the white men there; they fixed a certain day for commen- 

 cing hoftilities, when they were to break open ilie houle at Langher's 

 plantation, and feize the fire arms lodged there ; after which, they were 

 to (lay all the Whites they could meet with, fire the houfes and cane- 

 pieces, and lay all the coinitry wafte. Three Negroes, who were 

 privy to this machination, difclofed it to their overfecr, in confeqiience 

 of which, the ringleaders were taken up, and, upon convidtion, exe- 

 cuted; others, who turned evidence, were tranfportcd off the iiland : 

 and thus the whole of this bloody fcheme was providentially fruftrated. 



In the parilh of St. Thomas in the Eaft, a Negroe, named Caifee, 

 who had been prefl'ed by fome Coromantins there to join with them 

 in rebelling, and deftroying the eftates and white inhabitants, declined 

 at firft being concerned ; but recollecting that fome advantages might 

 be gained to himfelf by a thorough knowledge of their Intentions, he 

 afterwards pretended to have thought belter of their propofals, and, pro- 

 fefl^ing his zeal to embrace them, he allbciated at their private cabals 

 from tiine to time, till he became mafter of the whole fccret, which he 

 took the firft opportunity to dlfcover, and moft of the confpirators 

 were apprehended. 



Confpiracies of the like nature were likewife detected in Kingfton, 

 St. Dorothy, Clarendon, and St. James, and the partizans fecured. 



In Kingfton, a wooden fword was found, of a peculiar ftructure, 

 with a red feather ftuck into the handle; this was Tiled among the Co- 

 romantins as a fignal for war; and, upon examining this, and other 

 fufpicious circumftances, to the bottom, it was difcovered, that the 

 Coromantins of that town had raifed one Cubah, a female flave belong- 

 ing to a Jewefs, to the rank of royalty, and dubbed her queen of King- 

 fon; at their meetings fiie had fat in ftate under a canopy, with a fort 

 of robe on her (lioulders, and a crown upon her head. Her mnjefty 

 was feized, and ordered for tranfportationj but, prevailing on the cap- 

 tain of the tranfport to put her afliore again in the leeward part of the 

 ifland, (lie continued there for fome time undifcovered, but at length 

 was taken up, and executed. Thefe circumftances fhew the great ex- 

 tent of the confpiracy, the ftri6l correfpondence which had been carried 



on 



