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The two ringleaders of the proposed rebellion 

 have been condemned at Black River, the one to be 

 hanged, the other to transportation. The plot was 

 discovered by the overseer of Lyndhurst Penn (a 

 Frenchman from St. Domingo) observing an un- 

 common concourse of stranger negroes to a child's 

 funeral, on which occasion a hog was roasted by 

 the father. He stole softly down to the feasting 

 hut, and listened behind a hedge to the convers- 

 ation of the supposed mourners ; when he heard 

 the whole conspiracy detailed. It appears that 

 above two hundred and fifty had been sworn in 

 regularly, all of them Africans ; not a Creole was 

 among them. But there was a black ascertained to 

 have stolen over into the island from St. Domingo, 

 and a brown Anabaptist missionary, both of whom 

 had been very active in promoting the plot. They 

 had elected a King of the Eboes, who had two 

 Captains under him ; and their intention was to 

 effect a complete massacre of all the whites on 

 the island ; for which laudable design His Majesty 

 thought Christmas the very fittest season in the 

 year, but his Captains were more impatient, and 

 were for striking the blow immediately. The next 

 morning information was given against them : one 

 of the Captains escaped to the woods; but the 

 other, and the King of the Eboes, were seized and 

 brought to justice. On their trial they were per- 

 fectly cool and unconcerned, and did not even pro- 

 fess to deny the facts with which they were charged. 



