The Virginia Gazette

BRIDGETOWN (Barbados) December 15.

Extract from a Letter, of the 30th of November, from one of the Honourable Council Board at Tobago.

"A Conspiracy of forty Coromantees has kept us in continual Alarm these seventeen Days past. Thank God, it is now quite over; as most of them are either killed, hanged, burnt, or taken. I had four out, who lay down near Rockley Bay, cut one another's Throats, and died mutually in each other's Arms."

From another Letter.

"Upon the Whole, we think those People argue not irrationally who propose great Benefit and Credit to accrue to us, in the Event, from this rash and unexpected Insurrection of the Negroes, in our Infancy, as we may term it; for it must necessarily cause the Planter to provide himself with able white Servants, and with Arms and Ammunition, and be ever watchful and upon his Guard. The Slaves, from the easy quashing of this, by our own Strength and Resolution alone, and by the Examples made of the Ringleaders, will be deterred from any more of the like Attempts; and the Legislature of Tobago will, no Doubt, apply to the Government at Home for more Troops to protect us; and it will very soon be convinced, from our Imports to Great Britain, how deserving we shall be of its utmost Attention, and that, from the Quantity of Sugar, and the peculiar Quality thereof, made in this Island, it will, in a short Time (scarce credible) be the Nonpareil, for its Size, of the whole West Indies for this Commodity."