Gazette Of The United States, & Philadelphia Daily Advertiser

KINGSTON (Jam.) April 30.

The following address was this day presented to
his honor the Lieut. Governor.

We, his majesty's dutiful and loyal subjects, the
assembly of Jamaica, beg leave to offer to your ho-
nor our most sincere and cordial congratulations on
the happy and complete termination of the rebel-
ion of the Trelawny-Town Maroons.
This great and important event must be produc-
tive of substantial benefits and salutary consequences
to the country, in every point of view in which
it can be contemplated : tranquility and the en-
joyment of our civil rights are restored ; public cre-
dit, so essential to the support of government and
to the prosperity, if not to the very existence of the
The country is reestablished; and our internal security greatly increased and confirmed. We look forward with confidence to the augmentation of the revenue, and which in time, we trust, will compensate all the losses and expenditure of treasure unavoidably incurred in the prosecution of the war. It is with peculiar satisfaction and gratitude we acknowledge the lively impression made on us by the energy displayed by your Lordship in difficult operations of the war, which affords the most convincing proof that the zeal, ardour, and activity, manifested in your military conduct, have only been equalled by the sound policy, and decisive measures, which marked the wisdom of your councils.

Mr. Speaker, and Gentlemen of the House of Assembly,

His Honor's Answer.

Your address excites in my bosom every sensation of pleasure the mind of man is capable of receiving. The picture you have drawn of the future prosperity of the Island is strong and impressive. After contemplating the unavoidable calamities of war, a sentiment arises, grateful and soothing to a feeling heart. That during your contest with an enemy the most ferocious that ever disgraced the annals of history, during your contest with an army of savages, who have indiscriminately massacred every prisoner whom the fortune of war had placed in their power, no barbarity, nor a single act of retaliation, has sullied the brightness of your arms. I pray that the energy, the vigor and the humanity, which you have so honorably displayed, may descend to your children, and secure to them forever those blessings which you have hitherto enjoyed, under the mild and happy government of the illustrious House of Hanover.

May it please your Honor,

Ordered, That the following message be sent to his Honor the Lieut. Governor.

We are ordered by the House to wait on your Honor, and to request that you will be pleased to give orders for the dismission of the chasseurs and the dogs, the rebellion being now at an end. We cannot but take this opportunity of expressing our acknowledgments of the eminent advantages derived from the importation of the chasseurs and dogs in compliance with the general wishes of the island: Nothing can be clearer, than that if they had been off the island, the rebels could not have been induced to surrender from their almost inaccessible fastnesses. We are happy to have it in our power to say, that the terror, excited by the appearance of the dogs, has been sufficient to produce so fortunate an event; and we cannot but highly approve that attention to humanity so strongly proved by their being ordered in the rear of the army.