m "The Jamaica papers of the 16. of September say, in a letter from Lucca : rately. The white people will not sub-fon their own resources by giving, or ramit, nor can it be expected of them, to ther being made to give, a fair equiva Orders in Council or out of Council: lent in labour as an exchange for all they can interpret the law almost as those indulgences. On Sunday they well as the attorney-general, and cannot may be seen lying down about the works but feel mortified and angry at any mis- like hogs, and nearly as filthy. constructions of it to their prejudice, which may have received the sanction of the highest authorities in the island. Sept. 13. It is with deep regret "There seems daily stronger cause we have to announce, that in many dis-to fear that insurmountable difficulty tricts of the country a most alarming will attend the taking off the expected and nd dangerous spirit of sulkiness and crop, On one of the best-conducted insubordination has been manifested by estates in this district, having a steamthe new apprentices; and it is feared, engine at work, they cut canes for plants, with fair reason for the suspicion, that and begin to make sugar with the buts. there are some evil instigators amongst Last week, as soon as the shell was them sowing the seeds of discord and blown for the field gang to take their discontent. An intelligent correspon- dinner time, the whole spell gang drew dent from Morant Bay on this subject off, leaving the engine, coppers, &c. &c., observes: I cannot conceive what has to work by themselves, and no persua thus influenced the people in this quar- sion could induce the people about the ter. At first they were genery orderly works to resume their duty at the works and thankful. Some demon of discord until their time for shell blow to turn has got amongst them, which, if so, out had expired. It is notorious that trust he will soon be discovered and the apprentices on this estate have been emple of, or when crop com-under most regular and humane treat pt ten hogsheads of sugar will ment: and it is currently rumoured that be made, where formerly two hundred the general feeling of the apprentices is were. If such conduct had been mani- not to work, or keep spell beyond the fested by the apprentices on the first or hours they may be compelled by law,, even second week of August, much al-even if a reasonable rate of wages lowance might have been made, but not be offered them. at this late period; the more especially "An experienced planter in St. Ann's, so as almost all the apprentices who under the date of the 17. inst., writes have thus misconducted themselves have us- The apprentices in this parish are not only had the law and various pro-daily becoming more insolent and lazy; clamations explained to them by their so much so that a great change for the masters, but by the special justice, and better or worse must soon take place. they admitted they thoroughly under-They are not earning fivepence per diem. stood them, and the change they were This the master cannot stand. From to undergo, and they now take every Hanover our correspondent writes: It opportunity to tell their new masters in is really laughable to find people the field, We know the new law as awakening from their reveries, and dis well as buckra, and the new law we covering that the apprentices are not will have, and not be imposed on any likely to work at all except in the hours. longer by buckra.' Their daily or which the law prescribes. weekly labour is not even a tithe of "At a plantation called Belvidere, the what they heretofore did; and it is per-property of Mr. Cuthbert, the appren fectly clear that the most of them, if tices struck work: and upon the ar only coerced by admonition and left to rival of the special magistrate and a themselves, will do no one thing so long body of the police on the estate, they as they are entitled to the maintenance hooted and pelted the magistrate, and they now enjoy from their masters, and set fire to two trash-houses, which were they never will do so again until thrown burnt to the ground. should 1 481 siqooq suidw T vision In the Gazette is the following ac-with regard to the characters of all the mad to betonqas di na yon count of the ebullition: wodel actors now upon the stage; it is neces"We have been informed that the sary for him to read this book, which fire on Belvidere was happily got under clearly develops hall the proximate at about eight o'clock at night, and causes of the present difficulties, enbarthat the police force and a militia guard rassments, discontents, and dangers. It were stationed on the property during embraces the most interesting period of last night. The apprentices attempted the history of our country; it takes a to rescue the prisoners, but were re-look back too; it shows us how we pulsed. The cause of this affair is said have been brought down and plunged to be this: the stipendiary inagistrate into that deini confusion which now had visited the estate on the day above-reigns throughout the kingdom; it prenained, and had ordered several of the sents to young men especially the means apprentices who liad been guilty of mis- of clearly understanding, that without demeanour to receive corporal punish-a knowledge of which they cannot well ment on the estate. It had been stated know what they now ought to think and to Mr. Lyon, in the early part of the ought to do. In order to give the pubmorning, that the people on the estate lic as full a description as I can of the were extremely unruly, in consequence contents of this book, I shall here insert of which he ordered the police force to the CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE, which is be on the property, and when the pu- published at the end of it, the perusal of nishment was to be inflicted on the dea which Table will show the readers of linquents a body of them prevented the this how various and how interesting order of the magistrate froin being car- the matters are which are contained in ried into effect. Immediately Mr. Lyon these two little volumes. odqur n had left the property a messenger was sent to him, stating that the apprentices had set fire to the work. On beings and interp informed of this, Mr. Lyon applied to GEORGE IV. born. Pomp 201-innatud 1762. dog!! another magistrate at Morant Bay, to turn out the militia, but that gentle man thinking he had not the power, applied the clerk of the peace for advice, who informed him that the senior officer on the Bay could order out War against the French Republic began. the companies, that were the order was therefore given, and two companies, with the constabulary force, Prince's marriage mounted on horseback, proceeded to Prince's enormous debts paid a second Belvidere, where they apprehended the ring-leaders. These men were marched off to Morant Bay jail, al though an attempt was made to rescue Princess Charlotte born ban ond them by their fellow-apprentices; who Separation of the prince from his wife. were with difficulty repressed, even at the point of the bayonet." HISTORY OF GEORGE THE It is necessary for every one, who nd especially to form a sound judgment Report of the bullion committee. Cobbett's punishment for writing against THE BOOK published in London. -the flogging of English local militia The city of London, on the motion of men at Ely, under a guard of Hano- Mr. Alderman Wood, address the verian bayonets. princess, and carry and present the address at Kensington Palace. The secretary of state (Sidmouth) refused to publish the address in the London Gazette. 1811. Regency established. First provocation given to the Americans by the frigate Guerriere, Capt. Samuel Brod. Pechell. T he English ship Little Belt mauled by the frigate President. Two English ships of war taken by an American frigate. The English fleets taken on the Lakes by inferior force. 1814. The princess is prevailed upon by Canning to go abroad. Burning of Moscow by the "magnanimous "Alexander. First fall of Napoleon. He goes to Elbá. Peace of Paris, 30. May. mongers at seeing France left in so good a state; and loud complaints that her museums were left her. Rejoicings in England, roasting of sheep and oxen; visit of the Russian autocrat and the king of Prussia, Disgraceful public delusion.. Base conduct of "the ladies of England." Glorious victory over the Americans, of the Serpentine River, in Hyde Park. Waste of the public money on shows and exhibitions. Threats against JAMES MADISON (the destroy the American navy at once. Pacific professions of the English government while it was preparing to ravage the American coasts. Tierney deceives Mr. Bayard. Canning's insolent and contemptuous language with regard to the American Sackings and burnings at the town of English driven from before Baltimore and Lists of all the ships taken on both sides Battle of Sandusky, where a handful of Treaty of peace, 24. December. And the =treaty at full length. The conduct of the English government in proclaiming this peace.. 1815. eturn of Napoleon from Elba, and the Light of the old battered Bourbons to Declaration of the allies against Napoleon. roceedings in parliament relative to the 10. 496 rals Packenham, Gibbs, Kean, and Lambert, and over Cochrane and Cockburn, with their ships and their gun-boats. Horrible slaughter of the English army, while the American general lost only seven men. (April.) The killing of the American prisoners of war in Dartmoor prison. Complaints about taxes, and numerous The parliament passes a corn-bill, to keep meetings for a repeal of them. up the price of corn. 1816. An address attempted to be got up at Maidstone: the people about to throw the addressers into the Medway. 1817. Marriage of the princess Charlotte. 1819. war against Napoleon. Ever-memora- Dreadful slaughter of reformers at Man ble debates. Battle of Waterloo. Japoleon at Plymouth. Tapoleon sent to St. Helena. reaty of Paris, 20. November. astlereagh, on his arrival from Paris, he nation begins to find that it has a reckoning to pay, and sadness succeeds joy. be effects of a diminution of the quantity of paper-money. rious victory (8. January) at New Orleans, gained by the American General Jackson, over the English army (seven times his number), under Gene chester. PEEL's BILL passed. History of the Bank-restriction" from its commencement in 1797 to 1819. The famously stupid and mischievous Act at full length. How this operated on the base borough- SIX ACTS passed. Opposed by the 1820.. Thistlewood, Ings, Brunt, and Tidd, executed for having formed a plot to kill the ministers. Their defence; their unequalled bravery. Napoleon's death. tonot positively asserted, that she would not quit the country, and beseeching Queen Caroline's strange conduct in bother to make such assertion, in a public hastening to England. In June she arrived at St. Omers, in She slips away from these two envoys, Her reception by the people; their exces- King's message to the two Houses, 6. June A negotiation carried on to get her out of the country, by Wellington and Castlereagh on one side, and by Brougham and Denman on the other, the result of which was, that these latter agreed that she should go, on certain terms, which terms the other party would not agree to. She makes the assertion, which he was so anxious to see. Ngong Cobbett's motives for acting this part. The queen having come to this resolution, The Bill read a first tinie' on the 6. of July, and the trial (or second reading) put off to 17. August. The bold proceedings of the press and the people during the interval, and the state of complete seclusion in which the king thought it, prudent to live The outeries against him: the odiuu brought upon him. The SECOND READING of the Bill of The proceedings against the queer opened by the attorney-general Gif ford. Great surprise and indignation and suspi-"Peep at the Peers" published. "Letter of the Queen to the King" pub Cobbett's private letter to her on the subject, depicting the certain ruin to her which must arise from consenting to go, on any terms. The House of Commons now address her with a view of getting her out of the country. Cobbett's private letter to her, advising She rejects the answer proposed to her by Her answer. Prodigious circulation and prodigious effect of these publications. The witnesses against the queen (26 in number), Swiss, Germans, and Italiane, hunted out of England by the people. and shipped off to Holland by the go vernment. Brought back by water in an armed vesse and landed near the Parliament Housi in a sort of fortress, from which the were conducted into the House Lords by a subterraneous passage. London surrounded by troops and cannes the streets barricaded, soldiers and p licemen stationed everywhere.. |