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‘tlre Blacks from Nova Sec tia, a Charter of 
Juftice waso tane'; anda {mall military 
force from.Goree was ftationed at Sierra 
Leone. Seven thoufand pounds were al- 
lotted_by Parliament to the Company for 
‘the erection of a fort: aad 8000]. more 
were promifed for the fame ufe. Govern- 
ment, about the fame time, paid 10,0901. 
to the Company for their expence in fet- . 
thing the Blacks from Nova Scotiae And 
40ool. were, alio, voted by Parliament, in 
fupport of the civil government of the 
<olony: . 
About the fame time, the Directors of 
the Cempany’s affairs, upon a propofition | 
was exactly at this fum, that the expence 
from his Grace the Duke of Portland, 
then fecretary of ftate, agreed to receive 
into the colony the Maroons from the 
ifland of Jamaica. They had a promits 
from government of an allowance to de- 
fray the expence of fettlng the Maroons 
in Africa ; and, they were encouraged to 
expect an ‘increafe of the fum annually 
voted in Parliament, equal to the expence 
which government weuld, by this arrange- 
ment, be relieved from, on account ef the 
Maroons feparately. The Maroons ar- 
rived feafouaoly, in the monih of OStober, 
2800. Their afiftance was then of great 
ufe, to quell an infurreG&ion cf the Nova 
Scotia Blacks, who had endeavoured to 
feize the government of the colony. Of the 
infurgents, three were killed in the con- 
teft; many were taken, and breught to 
trial; three weré:condemned to death, and 
executed; feveral were banifhed ; fome 
of the :ingieacers efcaped, among the na- 
tives, into the interior of the ccuntry. 
Atter thefe events, ic was thought that 
molt of the primary difficulties had been 
furmounted 5 bat, whether excited by the 
runaway imurgents, and by the dealers in 
the flave-trade, or hoping tu feize and di- 
vide the whole goods of the c. loniflts, as 
a fpoil, or fearing.a project of ambition 
in the Engiifh to extend their dominion 
wide over the inland country, a body of 
- natives-cf the Timmaney, led on by two 
of the fugitive iniurgents, made an at- 
tack about day-bieak on the 18th of No. 
vember, 1801, cn the unfinifhed fort, 
within which the government-houfe was 
fituate. They were repulfed, not without 
fome lofs of lives on both fides. They 
were afterwards compelled to retire from 
a fituation. which they had occupied, in 
the immediate neighbom hood of the co- 
lony. A truce was concluded ; but it was 
believed that the Timmanee chiefs would 
émploy this inrerval in endeavours to form 
2 more exten‘ive alliance of the natives, 
wholly to expel the Englify feulers from 
Prefent State of the Colony at Sierra Leone. 
that part of Africa. Sixty-five foldiers 
were brought from Goree, and a thip of 
war remained in the river, for the cefence 
of the fettlement: but, in the mean time, 
trade and cultivation were almoft wholly 
interrupted, It became unfafe for tlic 
colonifts to venture out to any diftance 
beyond the near vicinity of Freetown 5 
and in their indolence and defpondency, 
the people of that place, began to with 
and expeCt’ that the colony would be 
abandoned. ; . 
in. 1802, Parliament again voted 
10,0001. to the Company, for the necel- 
fary annual expence of the fettlement. Te | 
had been eftimated by the Dire@tois. in 
February, 1803, it was intimated to the di. . 
rectors, as the opinien of Lord Hobart, 
that it would be for the advantage of the 
colony, that the civil and military poweg 
fheuld be entirely transferred from the 
Cempany to the Britthh Government. The 
D.regiors, upoii this, came to a paufé in 
their undertakings, tor the neceflary go- 
vernment and fupplies. ~The Britifh Gos 
vernment had fent out Capt. Hallowell to 
make certain inveftizations' refpe&ting the . 
condition of the fettlement ; and, till his 
report fhould be received, were unwilling 
either to accept the furrender of the Com- 
pany’s civil-and military powers, or ta 
procure tne renewal of the yearly grant 
from parliament. But, in February, 1803, 
Captain Day arrived trom England to af- 
fume, by the Company's appointment, the 
directicn of the affairs of the colony. He 
immediately formed a militia of 270 men 3 
erected biockhoules fir temporary de- 
fence; began a ftoné wall, conftruéted to 
Sive permanent defence againit any at 
t. mpts of the natives, and to refit cannon 
pointed agaist it from the fea ; raifed a | 
bittery of eight guns on a point of land 
commanding the bay and the thipping i 
the harbour ; and fo re-animated the {pirit 
of the colonifts, that cultivation began to 
be refumed. | 
Captain Hal'owell had arrived at Sierra 
Leone, onthe rath of January, 1803. He 
found the colony in a Gtuation of extreine 
wretchednefs. During a tray of about a 
jortnight, he made the proper enquities 
with creat diligence; but he feems to 
have, too foon and too eagerly, embraced” 
an opinion that the fettlement ought te 
be abandoned. He reported to Govern- . 
ment, at his return, that the Maroons: 
were diffatisfied with their fituation, as 
one in which they could not poffidly find’ 
fubfiftence; that they could not raife yams 
nor corn, on account.of the ravages of aw 
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