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accident, nor injury of confequence could de- 

 rive from it, we, who were recently from 

 Europe, were quite diverted at their fruitlefs 

 and incompetent efforts ; but Captain — < — , 

 ■who was with us, and had refided long enough 

 in the Weft Indies to have accuftomed 

 himfelf to the arbitrary treatment of flaves, 

 feeing the ftupid way in which they at- 

 tempted this new talk, immediately gave 

 one of the poor fellows a cruel cut, with a 

 large horfe whip, acrofs the face and eyes ! 

 We remonftrated with him on this unnecef- 

 fary and unmerited feverity ; and could not 

 but mark it, in our minds, as an a£t of wan- 

 ton cruelty ; which, if I may judge from the 

 impulfe of my own feelings, will long ftand 

 againft him. We defired the poor negroes 

 to put down the box, and convey it according 

 to their own method ; and, in fentiments of 

 indignation, left the Captain to the remorfe 

 which ought to be his punifliment. 



You will be pleafed to know that intelli- 

 gence has juft reached us of the defeat of trig 

 brigands at Grenada, in an a&ion with our 

 troops, commanded by general Nicoll. Their 

 lofs is faid to amount to three hundred men* 



