Gazette Of The United States

NEW-LONDON, Sept. 15.
INSURRECTION OF NEGROES.

Last Tuesday evening arrived here the Brig Three-Brothers, Capt. Edgerton, in 20 days from Cape-Francois. In this vessel came Mess. Rutan and Fauras, who are deputed from the Assembly at the Cap, to solicit assistance from the United States. They inform, that on the 23d ult. a general insurrection of the Negroes took place in that quarter of the Cape—that they had destroyed all the plantations by fire—that they massacred without distinction every white man in their power—and that the morning this vessel sailed, the village of Petit-Ance, within three miles of the Cape, was destroyed—that the negroes are in immense bodies—that they have cut off all communication with any part of the country—have entirely surrounded the Cape, and are within two miles of it on every quarter—that a general embargo had taken place, and all the sailors were on shore doing military duty—that all the Shipping were crowded with women and children, and effects of the inhabitants. Expresses have been sent to Jamaica and the Havanna, to procure assistance.

NEW-YORK, September 19.

Extract of a letter from a gentleman at Cape-Francois, to his friend in this city, dated Aug. 26, 1791.

"The day after my last (Aug. 22) an insurrection broke out amongst the Negroes and Mulattoes, and they are now destroying every person and thing they come across. There are now eleven plantations on fire in sight, and where it will end God only knows. The inhabitants are in the greatest fear the town will be burnt, and every American here mounts guard nightly. The inhabitants will not suffer any vessel to depart, fearing they will be under the necessity of embarking."