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s« crime was alleged again ft this Save, but that he alfo 
was a runaway. This was alfo the bufinefs of the owners, 
and not of the governor; but Mr. Macnamara, like Mr. 
Dawfon, was not beloved by colonel Pitfton ; and without 
profecution, and againft the wifh of Mr. Macnamara, this 
ilave’s ears were cut off, when he was (hortly after feized 
with violent fpafms, his jaws being locked, and he died in 
lefs than an hour after the operation. 
5. Alarcon was the fifth cafe before the privy-council. 
He was hanged by order of governor Piifton, in the 
fpring of 1799, for an alleged crime upon the high feas, 
therefore at any rate not within the jurifdiclion of colonel 
Pklon, who at all events hanged him without a trial, upon 
the voluntary declaration, made on oath, at Cariacon 
*'nd Martinique, of the captain of a veffel, who, by his 
own conftlfion, had killed and thrown overboard two of 
his crew, who he fays, with Alarcon, mutinied, infulted 
him, and got drunk. The captain depofes, that he left 
Alarcon in gaol, at Cariacou, an Englilh illand, while he 
went to Martinique. Mow it is clear, that a failor could 
not be committed to gaol in an Englijh ifland, but by re¬ 
gular procefs before a magiftrate ; and no magiftrate would 
have enlarged him, or have fent him on-board again, if 
there had been fufiicient ground upon which to try him 
for the crime alleged. His being allowed to leave the 
gaol, by this, magi Urate, was prima facie judicial evidence 
of the charge not being eftablifhed before an Englijh tri¬ 
bunal ; for no Englilh magiftrate would commit or en¬ 
large a prifoner at the mere defire of any man ; but, after 
being thus fent away from Cariacou, not by any writ of 
habeas corpus, nor by any other legal authority, colonel 
Piflon, of his own will and pleafure, did what a Britifh 
magiftrate would not do; he hanged Alarcon without far¬ 
ther trial, and only upon the declaration of the captain, 
who, as before itated, had by his own dory killed two of 
his featnen, and who therefore certainly had caufe to ap¬ 
prehend the accufation of murder from Alarcon, who, by 
being thus illegally executed himfelf, was effectually pre¬ 
vented from accufing the man that had killed two of his 
ihipmates ; and who had in the mean time threatened to 
charge the captain with killing thefe people. 
6. The lixth cafe is that of a Guyacaree Indian, who was 
SHOT without trial. The excufe for this execution was, 
that the boat (of which this Indian was patron, or cap¬ 
tain, in the prefent voyage) had, in the previous voyage, 
when the owner was with the boat, carried away three 
German deferters to the Spanifh Main. This Indian, there¬ 
fore, knew nothing concerning the alleged crime, nor 
was it at any rate a capital offence. He was, however, 
put to the torture for a confiderable time, and more than 
once; and, while being tortured, his life was repeatedly 
offered him if he would but accnfe fomebody of the crime 
fo falfely laid to his charge ; but he was not only inno¬ 
cent himfelf, but alfo ignorant who was guilty; and, 
though a falfe accufation of any body elfe would have 
faved his life, he fuffered the torture to the laft extremity, 
afferting his own'innocence, and his total ignorance of the 
■affair. No evidence did or could appear, to fwear to any 
concern this man had had in the defertion of the foldiers ; 
and yet colonel Pidlon, who attended at the execution 
himfelf, finding this captain deny till the laft ail know¬ 
ledge of the affair, told him, “Now I’ll make you know 
that you carried them away;” and, waving bis hand, the 
unfortunate Indian was immediately fliot, and direffly 
buried under the gallows. As the Guyacaree Indians are 
a diftinguifhed race, the governor of Margarita interefted 
himfelf in behalf of this poor fellow, and fent up a dif- 
patch to a gentleman of Trinidad, with documents to 
fliow the innocence of; the poor fufferer, by proving that 
the man who was in fault had remained behind, inftead of 
going back with the launch. But the colonel uttered 
fome coarfe expreflions againft the Spanifh commandant, 
laying, he would hang him alfo, if he could get hold of 
him ; ar.d that the documents were of no confequence; 
(nice the man was already executed. 
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7. The feventhcafe fubflantiated by evidence before the 
privy-council, was the cafe of Celejlino, whofe only crime 
was getting drunk; and upon this occafion, in his drunken 
ftate, he made a difturbance about the door, and at length 
daggered into the houfe, of an old Spanifh woman, called 
Perez, making a noife there. To get rid of him, fhe ap¬ 
plied to the deputy commandant to turn him out; but, 
the drunken man being infolent, the deputy fought for 
afliftance ; and, not finding it at the commandant’s houfe, 
applied at the barracks for fome fobliers, who proceeded 
to the old woman’s houfe, which, before their arrival, Ce- 
leftino had left, and was found in the neighbouring houfe 
of a coloured woman. Celeftino was put in the docks, 
from whence he was fent by the commandant to town, 
with a letter to colonel Pkton, recommending him to 
fend Celeftino off the ifland as a troublefome perion. The 
relations and affociates of Celeftino, well knowing the 
feverity of colonel Pifton, apprehended the fatal confe- 
quences, and requefted the mafter, for whom Celeftino 
ufually worked, to go to the governor and interfere in his 
behalf. This gentleman arole from his bed, to which he 
was confined by ficknefs, mounted his liorfe, and pro¬ 
ceeded to town ; the friends of Celeftino anxioufly hurry¬ 
ing thither in the mean time. But, in confequence of this 
gentleman’s infirmity, he was tardy in getting ready, and 
flow in proceeding ; and, having feven miles to ride, he 
could not travel with a rapidity equal to the promptnefs 
with which the governor executed his fentences ; for, in¬ 
ftead of Celeftino’s being banifhed at the requeft of the 
commandant, colonel Pici.011 had recourfe to a lefs trou¬ 
blefome mode of getting rid of him ; for the event was an¬ 
nounced on the road to the horror-ftruck mafter, whofe 
ears were aflailed by the fhrieks and lamentations rending 
the air from the returning friends of the departed Celel- 
tino, who was already hanged, and buried under the gal¬ 
lows. 
Thefe are the feven cafes that were fubflantiated upoa 
oath before the council, not by documents, but by viva- 
voce evidence, which has very generally fpread itfelf abroad. 
In addition to thefe cafes, he was charged with the tor¬ 
ture, mutilation, and death, of the following people, upon 
the abfurd pretexts of Jorcery, divination, witchcraft, and 
the black aB, and poifoning by means of charms ; viz. La 
Fortune, Ambinor, Louis Caefar, La Rofe, Pierre Fran- 
coife, Bougui, Leonard, Thifbe, Felix, Antoine, Louif- 
fon, Theolifte, Nicholas Julie, Manuel, Michel Gardon, 
Jofeph Fauftin ; alfo for cruel feverities infliffed on Be¬ 
noit, Pyrame, Petit George, Serpent, Elizabeth, and Ra¬ 
chel, detained in prifon under circumftances tantamount 
to torture, although upon their trials no evidence appeared 
to condemn them. 
Fourteen German foldiers were executed in 1797 witheut 
trial —not for deferring, but only under the luipicion of 
attempting to defert. 
One cafe mull be added here, which was given in to the 
privy-council ; but, only one evidence being prefent, no¬ 
thing was done therein ; another evidence arrived after¬ 
wards from Trinidad, who could prove all the fafts of the 
cafe. Prefent, a negrefs belonging to Mr. Thomas Kenny, 
merchant, bad been abfent from her owner fome time> 
but was brought in fome months after the capture of the> 
ifland. The governor, being at dinner at the time, Mr. 
Kenny put.off his application till next morning; which* 
however, was too late, for fhe was hanged at fun-rife. 
No complaint was made from Mr. Kenny, the owner of 
this unfortunate Have; and no man had aright to rob 
him of his property, or the Have of her life, unlefs fhe 
had been charged and convicted of a capital crime; which' 
was not the cafe. 
All thefe charges were fubmitted- to the privy-council j 
but tire council did not advife his majefty to inftitute any 
proceedings thereon. Colonel Fullarton’s death foon re¬ 
lieved Mr. Pklon from any farther accufations; and h@ 
has fince (1808) been promoted to the rank of major-ge¬ 
neral, ami created K, B. having ferved with diftinetion un* 
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