GRIN AD A; i? 
to form a fettlement here, under an appearance of pur- 
chafing land from the native Caribs. Difputes foon 
arofe between the Indians and the new comers, which 
ended in the deftruCtion of the former, and the ruin of 
the colony; fo that M. Parquet, who had firft under¬ 
taken the fettlement, fold it, in 1657, to count de Ce- 
rillac, at Paris, with all the veflels, arms, &c. for 
90,000 livres, or 30,000 crowns. The count fent fuch 
a -tyrannical brute to govern it, that the better fort 
abandoned tire ifland; and the reft who ftayed beiiind, 
after feizing him, (hot him dead. Neverthelefs, in 1664, 
the count fold this ifland to the French Weft-India com¬ 
pany for 100,000 livres^ though only one hundred and 
.fifty, planters were left, out of five hundred that were 
upon the ifland when he took poffeflion of it: and, in 
1674, the company was obliged to give it up into the 
hands of the king. 
In 1714, things began to improve in Grenada. Veflels 
from Martinico, in failing to the Spanifh coaft, touched 
at Grenada in their way, to .take in provifions. The 
trading privateers, who undertook this navigation, 
taught the people of that ifland the value of their foil, 
which only required cultivation. The execution of every 
project is facilitated by commerce. Some traders £ur- 
nifhed the inhabitants with Haves, and utenfils to eredt 
fugar plantations. An open account was eftabliflied 
between the two colonies. Grenada was clearing its 
debts gradually by its rich produce, and the balance 
■was on the point of being clofed, when the war in 1744 
interrupted the communication between the two iflands, 
and at the fame time flopped the progrefs of the fugar 
plantations. This lofs was fupplied by the culture of 
coffee, which was produced, during-the hoftilities, with 
all the.adlivity and eagernefs induftry could infpire. The 
peace of 1748 revived all the labours, and opened all 
the former fources of wealth. In 1762, the ifland was 
taken by the Englifh, and confirmed to the king of Great 
Britain by the peace of 1763. 
Grenada contains about 80,000 acres of land, of which 
upwards of 70,000 paid taxes in 1776 ; the exports of 
that year, together with thofe of the little iflands de¬ 
pendent on it, were upwards of 23,000,000 pounds of 
fugar, 818,700 gallons of rum, 1,827,166 pounds of cof¬ 
fee, 457,719 pounds of chocolate, 91,943 pounds of cot- 
tort, and 27,638 pounds of indigo. In 1779, Grenada 
was taken by the French, but reftored to the Englifh 
by the peace of 1783. In the year 1771, the number of 
white people on the ifland was more than fixteen hun¬ 
dred ; in 1777 they were lefs than thirteen hundred; 
and in 1793, hardly one thoufand. In 1787, the exports 
were, 175,548 cwt. of fugar, 670,000 gallons of rum, 
S800 cwt. of coffee, 2700 cwt. of chocolate, 2,000,000 
pounds of cotton, and 2800 pounds of indigo, befides 
mifcellaneous articles to the value of 64,5451. fterling,-, 
amounting, in the whole, to upwards of 6oo,oool. fter¬ 
ling, at the London prices. 
Juft as the ifland was thus rapidly advancing to com¬ 
plete profperity, a fatal infurredtion, almoft as fangui- 
nary as that which took place at Hifpaniola, blafted the 
fair hopes of the planters, and defolated the whole 
ifland. The revolt originated with the free people of co r 
lour ; an intermediate clafs, generated between the 
whites and the blacks, the offspring of licentious indul¬ 
gence, who were permitted to wander about the coun¬ 
try in vicious idlenefs, a burthen to themfelves, and a 
nuifance to fociety. We may hence remark, that the 
conduct of thefe people affords a ftriking proof that 
freedom, without civilization, is not always a blefting 
to its poffelfors. Thefe ignorant and lawlels men were 
confidered, by the French republican commiflioners at 
Guadaloupe, as fit inftruments for exciting commotions 
in Grenada; and they were not miftakei). A very ex- 
tenfive confpiracy was formed, at the head of which was 
Julien Fedon, a free mulatto, of fome property. It 
does not appear that this man had any realon to com¬ 
plain of the conduct of the whites towards him. He 
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was allowed to enjoy all the privileges of a Britifh fub- 
jedt in their fulled extent : but we are told that, in 
manners and capacity, he was, to the laft degree, de. 
bafed and ignorant. Perhaps on that account he was 
thought a proper perfon to be appointed commandant, 
general in fuch a fervice ; and moft off the free mulat- 
toes reforted to his ftandard. The night of the 2d of 
March 179 5 was appointed for the execution of the plot. 
Accordingly, the fmall towns called Greenville, or La. 
Baye, and Charlotte-town, were feized nearly at the fame 
hour by different parties. At the former, the.free peo¬ 
ple of colour lurrounded the lioufes.about midnight; 
and, as the inhabitants looked out of their windows to 
inquire into - the caufe of the difturbances, they Were 
immediately fhot. The revolters at length entered 
into the chambers of the devoted victims, and, dragging 
them into the ftreets, fet them up as marks to be Jhot at ;• and 
afterwards mangled the deadbodiesin a manner too fli'ock. 
ing to be related. They fpared neither fex nor age. 
At Charlotte-town, the infurgents^aCled with lefs cru¬ 
elty. The women and children were fpared, and per¬ 
mitted to remain at a plantation about a mile from the 
town ; but the men who were made prifoners, were fent 
to the rebel camp. 
The Britifli commander in chief, lieutenant-gover¬ 
nor Home, was unfortunately at a confiderable diftance 
from St. George’s, when the news of the revolt was 
conveyed to him. Conceiving that his prefence was 
immediately neceffary at the feat of government, he de¬ 
termined to proceed thither by fea, and embarked in a 
ftoop with fome other gentlemen, at a place called St. 
Patrick’s Bay. On coming off Charlotte-town, which 
was in poffellion of the rebels, the Jort fired at the 
ftoop ; and a veflel, which was thought to be a French 
privateer, appearing at the fame inftant to be making 
towards them, the governor and every perfon on-board, 
except the mafter, came to the fatal determination of 
going alhore in the boat, and trufting to the mercy of the 
enemy. The mafter remained on-board, and, fteering 
his little veflel out of the reach of the privateer’s guns, 
got fafely to St. George’s. The governor and his party 
were furrounded on landing by the rebels, who forth¬ 
with conveyed them to their camp at Belvidere, and 
confined them in the fame building with thofe who had 
been taken prifoners at Charlotte-town. 
The capture of the lieutenant-governor was a fatal 
circumftance : moft of the French white inhabitants, 
notwithftanding that they had fworn allegiance to the 
Britilh government, and had lived under its protection 
upwards of thirty years, now openly declared for the 
infurgents, and repaired to their camp. The negroes 
followed the example of their matters, and the whole 
ifland, except the town of St. George, and a few plan¬ 
tations in its neighbourhood, foon fell into the poffeflion 
of the rebels ; and the work of plunder, with the de- 
vaftation by fire, became almoft general. Our limits 
will not allow us to enter into a detail of the fubfe- 
quent events and military operations ; yet we cannot 
pafs unnoticed the miferable fate of lieutenant governor 
Home, and his companions. Early in the attack made 
by the garrifon on the camp of the infurgents, fifty Bri¬ 
tilh inhabitants, among whom were the lieutenant-go¬ 
vernor, and feveral of the moft refpeCtable characters, 
who had been captured, or induced to furrender, by 
the treachery of Fedon and his adherents, were delibe¬ 
rately majfacred by order of that inhuman monfer 1 They all 
met their fate with fortitude and refignation. 
Taking advantage of this favage infurreCtion, the 
French republicans, in December following, difpatched 
an armament, and took pofleflion of the ifland. But 
in the month of June 1796, it was retaken by the Bri- 
tifti, under the renowned general Abercrombie. Lat. 
12. 10. N. Ion. 61. 30. W. Greenwich. 
GREN'ADA, a town of Nicaragua, and audience of 
Guatimala, in South America, lituated on the Lake of 
Nicaragua, by which means it has a communication with 
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