The New Hampshire Gazette And General Advertiser

Saturday last arrived Capt. John Tucker, in the brig Diamond, from Martinique, and St. Eustatius.—He left Martinique the 4th day of June, at which time a report prevailed, that News had just arrived from France and that all the Ports in the French West-Indies were ordered to be shut against the Americans.

On the 3d of June an insurrection took place at Martinique, among the Mulattoes and other people of colour, they attacked the fort in the town of St. Pierre, and killed the Captain of the Guards: In consequence of which all the Inhabitants flew to Arms, overpowered the Mulattoes and immediately hung up between 40 and 50, and confined in jail between 70 and 80 others who were to be executed the next day.—Capt. Tucker set sail at 12 o'clock when preparations were making for their execution.

Extract of a letter from Martinique, June 3, 1790.

"This day according to the custom of the French, is a high holiday, and preparations was making accordingly. When a plot was discovered that turn all their mirth. The Mulattoes had combined together to murder every white person in the Island, but by good fortune it was discovered by a Mulatto girl. I have just come from the shore, and Oh! my God! such a scene I never saw. Many hung up and stabbed in fifty different places, others shot down dead in the streets, the same as wild beasts. then stabbed and trampled upon. All this I have seen not ten minutes since; every man under Arms; no sooner a Mulatto is discovered, than he is shot or hung without any trial."

On Capt. Tucker's arrival at St. Eustatia. he saw the Ordinance of France published in the Gazette of the Island, which forbid the admission of our Flag in the French Ports.