VOYAGE TO SENEGAL. 
for from this instant the disconteiited, led by the chiefs of their 
districts^ who were called Hundreders, committed the greatest ex- 
cesses, refused to submit to any authority, and on the 25th 
of September^ 1800, issued a formal proclamation, in which 
they forbade the inhabitants, under a penalty of 201. sterhng, 
from obeying any orders of the governor and council. They then 
published ii new constitution, which vested all the authority in the 
hands of the hundreders, and established a maximum for the sale 
©f articles of sustenance. Certain crimes, such as the steahng 
40 f cattle, adidtery, defamation, disobedience towards parents, 
the destruction of fences, &c. were punished by fines ; and the 
debts contracted by the inhabitants towards the company, were 
left to the decision of tlic hundreders, who interdicted not only 
every kind of reimbursement, but even the paying of tlie interest, 
imder pain of banishment from the colony. 
The revolters, whose numbers amounted to about fifty, were 
headed by three fellows named Robinson, Anderson, and Zirier. 
The colony then had at its disposal eighty Negroes and twelve 
Europeans, who were determined to defend it. Nevertheless, 
though their force was so much superior, they made no attempts to 
siibduc the insurgents ; but chance dn^ew in their way a great assist^ 
ance : for at tiiis very time a large English ship arrived from Nor- 
va Scotia, having on board, under the command of Lieutenants 
Smith and Tolley, forty-hve soldiers, and five hundred and fifty 
Maroons, besides a number of other men, women, and children. 
The revolters were therefore attacked on the 2d of October, 
and easily overcoo)e ; thirty-five were made prisoners, three af 
Tvhom were found guilty of various crimes, and condemned to 
dciith; and seven were sent as malefactors to Goi;^e: the remaiur. 
der were transported to Bulam, on the northern coast of Sierra 
Leone. 
llie Maroons who came from Nova Scotia, have assigned to 
ihein the town of Granville, where the government watches at- 
tei^dvely over them. This measure, however, is uniiecessary : for 
Rs late as the month of May, ioOl, they had not shewn any disr- 
position to oôend the laws ; and it is expected that great advan- 
tages may be derived from their industry. 
Hitherto the commerce of the company has not been attended 
with much success; it has lost one after another, four large ships, 
îhe cargoes of which w^ere worth upwards of 30,000l. I'he 
Freiîcli have also taken two other vessels belonging to this esta^ 
blishment, worth about 7>000l. The company has received from 
the British government a grant of 2I,000l. ; and at the end of 
Î7j)9; its capitcil consisted of about 82,3321. while in December, 
1800, It amounted to 122.5031.; and hs debts at the last mentioq- 
e<l period wtre 26,9951. It therefore possessed at that taiie i\ 
capital of 9'3;567h 
