Fowle's New Hampshire Gazette And General Advertiser

MARCH 23.

A letter from St. Eustatia, dated February 12, contains the following frightful account: "Last Monday there was a melancholy scene acted here. A negro slave, either out of his senses, or possessed by a devil indeed, broke open his master's room, from whence he took a large cutlass, and immediately proceeded into a school next door, where he inhumanly murdered a sweet little girl: Two others he wounded in such a manner, that it is thought they will not recover.— He then went into the street, and gave chase to a gentleman on horseback: but on finding he could not overtake him, he stopped, and pushed into a house, the master of which fortunately was at home, and had posted himself at the chamber door, in which his wife and three or four women had taken shelter. The wretch attacked the master of the house so quickly that he could not procure any means of defence, except a chair. The negro made several strokes at him, which he parried with the chair; and watching an opportunity, struck him with the leg of it, on the forehead, which stunned him so that he fell down.— Some assistance being had, he was properly secured. I have not seen him, but it is said he shows no signs of madness. It is not yet determined what dreadful death he shall suffer. Some say he will be broke alive, and then hung up in gibbets: others that he will be burned. No death is too cruel for him—for after he had split the child's skull, and thought it was dead, the little creature having attempted to crawl away upon its hands and feet, the inhuman monster perceived it, returned, and gave it two or three strokes on the neck, almost separating the head from the body."

Another letter from the same place, dated Feb. 19. says, "To-morrow, a negro man who committed a horrid murder here, is to be broke alive, and then beheaded. His body is to be burned, and his head placed on a pole. A dreadful warning to other wretches."