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.==.==- REVOLT OF THE NEGH.O&S IN DfcMtiKAKA. The Marquis Camden packet has ar- rived trom the Leewanl Islands with the mail, hiving sailed from St. Thomas's the 2d September, She brings some import- ant and melnnrholy intelligence from De- merara relative to an insurrection among the necroes of that island. From such accounts as h;iw transpired by the private Jotters in the City, we are en- abJed to collect, that on the 18th of Au- gust the principal pnrt of the negro po- pulation of that Colony fl -w to arms, in mccevdamre with a preconcerted sigtial.- In cot*eqaetice of this, the regular troops and miliria of the were hastily assembled and marched against the re- volters, and on the-21st they came op -witii them and a desperate conflict en- sued, in which 400 of the people of co- lour are reporied to have been killed by the troops. These are all the particulars we are able at present to obtain. The following is an extract of a letter Teceived by a Gentleman in I,Iverpoot 4i Denterara, <22th Aug. 18123.Coiii mercial business is for the present ex- changed for arms, in consequence of an insurrectiou among the negroes having rendered it desirable to put the Colony under martial Uw. Tiiis fotmidable in- surrection broke out on tfte night of the 18t 1) itist o I a slase belonging to a friend of mine disclosed to his master the secret of the conspiracy, on the morning of that dav and 1 consequently became apprised of it, the second white person in the country-, which afforded me time to re- move my family illto a place of s;ifety i We also gave immediate notice of it to the Governor, when military means checked at once, and in a few days entirely quel- led, the rebellion. An awful example is now making upon those taken as promi- nent actors, which must strike a lasting terror into the minds of the disittfecled. 1 can state, nit hoot hesitation, that the plat) ol Inis insurrection originated among the people who gather round and receive the half-political doctrines of the Mis- sionaries ("two of whom are now under arrest,) and the greater part and the most active of the insurgents were belonging to cotton estates, where they have al- most no work, and eujoy the greatest plenty of food. 1 he late discussions iu Parliament, and the pamphlets sent out here, have been greedily laid hold of by them, and nothing less than a black Go- v rnmeut appears to have been their aim. So numerously have the militia, both white, and free black and mulatto, mus- tered gii this occasion, as to convince every observer of the utter hopelessness of any enterprise ot tlvis sort on the part of the slaves, who are well oif, and wowWl be happy, if allowed to remain quietly at their daily labour." By the St. i.ocia, Capt. Affleck, which arrived here yesterd y from St. Lucia, which she -left on the 7th Sept. we learn that the i->iaud reinaiued perfectly tran- quil. The following is an extract of a letter received here from Jamaica, dated 29th jttly.- I- 'I'he delusion A hic-h has been practised upon the. people and Parliament of Mugland, is beginning to turn the heads of the negroes iu this island, whoare well informed of what is goiivr on, though ig- norant of the secret and ruling motives which actuate the pretelldedphilallllaro- pits. These fatal ideas when once im- bibed will never be eradicated. Negroes I which formerly sold for ,£JW to £ \40 currency, will only fetch ill Lie Marshall's sale £ (i0 or 1370 currency, if so much, and property in general is almost wholly unsaleable. The prospect before us at present, as to life and property, is dread- ful in the extremt'o -'I-

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