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jn-evious to tljcfe felf-murders, they had generally maffacred their 

 women and children. The affembly ordered 562/. 125. 6 1^. to be 

 paid captain Hynes, for his difbiirfcmeats, and as a recompence for 

 his Cervices. Thus terminated tliis rebellion ; which, whether we 

 confulcr t'ne extent and lecrely of its plan, the multitude of the con- 

 fpirators, and the difficulty of oppofing its eruptions in fuch a vari- 

 ety of different places at once, will app ar to have been more formi- 

 dable than any hitherto known in the Weft Indies ; though happily 

 cxtinpuilhed, in far lefs time tiian was expeded, by tlie precaution 

 and jud^ ement of the lieutenant-governor in the difpofitlon of the 

 forces, the prompt affiftance of the admiral, and the alacrity of the 

 regulars, feamen, militia, and Marons, who all contributed their 

 fl-iare towards the fpeedy fuppreffion of it. The lieutenant go- 

 vernor, under whofe prudent conduft this inteftine war was fo fuc- 

 cefsfully brought to a conclufion, was a native of the ifl;;nd, and 

 had a property in it at ftake ; but if this may detraft any thing 

 from the merits of his exertion, it proves at leail:, how mucli more 

 may reafonably be hoped from the affiduity of a gentleman of the 

 ifland, who is interefted in its welfare, and in whom a perfeft know- 

 ledge of the country is fuperaddcd to natural ability and public 

 fpirit, than from others, who, having nothing to loie in it, may be 

 lefs anxious for its prefervation. There fell, by the hands of the 

 rebels, by murder, and in action, about fixty white perfons; the 

 number of the rebels who were killed, or deftroyed themfelves, was 

 between three and four hundred. Few in proportion were executed, 

 the major part of the prifoners being tranfported oft the ifland [a]. 

 Such as appeared to have been involuntarily compelled. to join tliem, 

 were acquitted; but the whole amount of the killed, fuicides, exe- 

 cuted and tranfported, was not lefs than one thoufand ; and the 

 whole lofs fuftained by the country, in ruined buildings, cane-pieces, 

 cattle, flaves, and dilhurfements, was at leaft 100,000 /. to fpeak 

 within compafs. 



[a] Mort of them were fent to the Bay of Honduras, which has long been the coininon rerep- 

 tacle of Negroe criminals, banifhecl horn this ifland; the confequence of which may, fome time or 

 other, prove very troublefome to the logwood cutters ; yet they make no fcruple to buy thefe out- 

 carts, as they coil but little. It is ditVcuk to find a convenient market for fuch flaves among the 

 neighbouring foreign colonies; but, if poflibly it could be avoided, thefe dangerous fpirits fliould 

 not be fent to renew their outrages in any of our own infant fettlements. 



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