tated insurrection was on Martin's Penn, the pro- 

 perty of Lord Balcarras, where the overseer is an 

 old man of the mildest character, and the negroes 

 had always been treated with peculiar indulgence. 

 Above a thousand persons were engaged in the 

 plot, three hundred of whom had been regularly 

 sworn to assist in it with all the usual accompany- 

 ing ceremonies of drinking human blood, eating 

 earth from graves, &c. Luckily, the plot was dis- 

 covered time enough to prevent any mischief ; and 

 yesterday the ringleaders were to be tried at Black 

 River. 



March 17. (Sunday.) 



The Cornwall Chronicle informs us, that, at the 

 Montego Bay assizes, a man was tried on the Mon- 

 day, for assaulting, while drunk, an officer who had 

 served with great distinction, and calling him a 

 coward ; for which offence he was sentenced to a 

 month's imprisonment and fine of 100/. ; and on the 

 Tuesday the same man brought an action against 

 another person for calling him a " drunken liar," for 

 which he was awarded 1000/. for damages ! A plain 

 man would have supposed two such verdicts to be 

 rather incompatible ; but one lives to learn. 



I remember to have read the case of a French 

 nobleman, who was accused of impotence by his 

 wife before the Parliament of Paris, and by a 

 farmer's daughter for seduction and getting her 

 with child before the Parliament of Rouen ; he 

 thought himself perfectly sure of gaining either 



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