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ing of a black fluid refembling the grounds of 

 coffee. 



Among the diftrefsfulfcenes it has lately 

 been my lot to witnefs, I may tell you, that a 

 few mornings ago, I chanced to be at Stabroek 

 at the time of the execution of the captain of 

 the Bufh Negroes whom I mentioned to you 

 in a former letter. He died faithful to his 

 caufe, and no information could be obtained 

 from him regarding the encampment ftill re- 

 maining in the woods. He was fentenced to 

 be fufpended by the neck for a fhort time, and 

 then taken down, while yet alive, to have his 

 head fevered from his body. The executioner 

 was a negro, who, without any feelings of 

 compunction, or of forrowfor his countryman, 

 exulted in the adroitnefs with which he took 

 off the head at a fingle blow. 



After the execution I fat a fhort time 

 with the officers, at the barrack of the 99th 

 regiment ; when another painful fcene was ex- 

 hibited to our obfervation, in the flogging of 

 a party of negroes, before the fifcal's door s 

 upon the public ftreet. 



