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to remain undifcovered. After much fatigue 

 in endeavoring to find it, the fearch was relin- 

 quifhed, in the idea that fome of the prifoners, 

 either by indulgence or torture, would be in- 

 duced to make it known : but this expecta- 

 tion has only led to disappointment. All the 

 means ufed have failed, and the prifoners, 

 faithful to their caufe, have fuffered torture 

 and death without betraying their foreft-affoci- 

 ates. 



The cruel feverities infli&ed upon thefe 

 miferable blacks have been fuch as you will 

 fcarcely believe could have been fuggefted or 

 pra&ifed by any well-ordered government : 

 for, however ftrongly punifhment was merit- 

 ed, the refinement of torture with which it 

 was executed ought never to have been tolerat- 

 ed in any ftate profeffing to be civilized. 

 Humanity fhudders at the bare recital of it. 



Moft of the ring-leaders were taken, and 

 brought to Stabroek, where they were after- 

 wards tried and executed, the majority of 

 them fuffering with a degree of fortitude and 

 heroifrn worthy a better caufe. One in parti- 

 cular, named Amfterdam, fupported the ex- 



