pointed in their defperate undertaking, by meeting the
rebel's or buih negroes on the fécond or third day Of their
tnktêh i Thefe, notwithstanding the foîénan protéftatidrîs
of the foldiers, that they rvere come without any evil
ihtehtion towards them, and their intreafies^to l’éhîhem
pafs by Tjnmolefted, were fnfpe&ed of being fen t : Out to
fpy and betray them ; the negroes therefore infilled that
they fhould lay down their arms'at mercy, w^ibh'fhe de- '
fetters having complied with,the rfeb&lfmmediatdly dreffed
them in one rank- Then havingldcked out ten or twelve
to affift them in attending the fidk and wounded, repairing
their arms, and trying to make gunpowder, (in tvh'ich
however they mifcarried) they condemned all the others
to death, which was inftantlyputin execution, and<-above
fifty-of thefe Unfortunate iuén were one by- one ihot
dead upon, the fpot.
It may well be fnppofed, that fhofe ù h o were' laved
alive by the negroes muft have fpun out rVêi-ÿ m elancholy
exiftence among them, and indeed raoft of-them
•died within very few months after by ill trealmeht,
hardfhips, and want; and when the rebels Surrendered
themfelves to the Europeans at difcretion, the few remaining
miferable wretches that were ftill found alive,
-were directly loaded with irons, and fent back from the
•colony of herbice to Surinam, where three of them were
executed in the town of Paramaribo, one being hanged,
and two broken alive upon the rack, One of thefe mi-
ferable wretches was *a Frenchman, called Ren&uM^ who
Seemed to have imbibed the fentiments of the negroes
by
by ?fhe|m. With.>a truly heroic chap
^aGdqihp^epwho. was a Qerman, IR*
arW. m Wowq by^biS Tide, J i j f t ‘ready tWreceive the
dre^dfuFl ^ S ; 'he ^e|b|(rtecl'him^ lysbeoo-
B B B B B H j n > tC? 'wojllf f b ® be
buyer, .yH ile 'h is^ n bones. w |itfb e ’aking lyt fh ^ execu-
11 ,
T p& ring.-leadihg* ne§r>Q^| rp^fted ^ a l||e ^ y ^ a lf
' manzjer^jbjeigg' <jhpijo,ed to Ra^e§- in t
• ^ m^s^ ^ i ^ ^ r i d vwithpui
coip^i^ratio^i; and" |
a*-
naod/pf,plipm
to.^npilconciudt^rby; tyranny j.aqd ^ppreRion: at th e -
4gtwvtp fpppprt. that.
dj^lj^np^ai^ ^ fnbprdji^ajtiQy /(yyhqn tempered
ty yf^ff^yi^hfolpteiy npceifary amongft a l l b o d i e s *
?bf vpeo|)le, of whateyey claifs^ or delcf'iption^netpn^y for
tht% AH;g eheral, but^|th§Are%.means
individual (th e ^ f ii^ .c p p f ^
queng^of too mucjirieaity)r,^nd of j^eifg painfully;pb-
liged to-^ablilh-gpod orde^at^aij-^y^perpetual.round
of relll ^ ^ | S j^ |jj| apd. chalh:femea.t. —77-W^ wbl^now
leaye thqfq ^ble^ce^es, aiy}. point apt wjhat happened^in
tb®!colony o f S.upinam, dpriag its Ihort and.ftourilhing
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