whelmed by the soldiers rushing in upon them. The leaders were first seized and secured; then all the rest yielded to a power they had no means of resisting. Their arms were tightly pinioned behind them, a gag placed in every mouth, and they were conducted in a body from the spot, the whole gang surrounded by the troops. Not a life had been lost! not a gun had been discharged and the formidable conspiracy had been annihilated with a single stroke: so well and skilfully had the measures for that purpose been designed and carried out. The ravine was in a short time left to its usual silence and solitude; and the reign of "Klaas, the slave king," was over. The conspirators, being conveyed to the capital, were soon brought to trial. The testimony of Cuffee, Robin, and Quelch sufficed to secure the conviction of the whole; and disgracefully barbarous were some of the punishments inflicted upon the offenders. Klaas, or, as he was more generally known, Count, with Tomboy and Hercules, were broken alive upon the wheel. In their last moments their fortitude did not forsake them. They gloried in what they had intended to do; and their last words expressed undying hatred to the whites. Some were gibbeted alive in a place called Green's Bay. Frank, who belonged to Mr. Chester, and several others, were burned alive in Otto's pasture, at the outskirts of the town, on a spot which now serves as the Wesleyan burial ground, where I have often been called to conduct the funeral service. The rest, who were looked upon as the dupes of their reputed king, were banished to the Spanish coasts. Quelch was pardoned and rewarded; but, as is usually the case with informers, he was regarded with universal contempt, as the betrayer of those who had placed confidence in him. Old Morah, the Obeah woman, escaped trial and punishment by dying immediately after the capture of the band in the ravine. It was the general opinion that fear and apprehension of the consequences to herself, because of the part she had taken in the conspiracy, hastened her death. She was understood to be not less than a hundred years of age when she sank into the grave. The terrible fate of the conspirators had the effect that was no doubt intended, by intimidating the slaves and inducing them to submit quietly to the yoke of servitude. No attempt at insurrection among the Negroes occurred after that to disturb the peace of Antigua. Cuffee and Robin were emancipated from slavery to reward the courage and fidelity they had displayed in relation to this attempt at slave insurrection: the country paying to their owner from the public revenue the full sum at which they were valued. Manuel, who had given valuable information to Cuffee, concerning the designs of the conspirators, was rewarded by a grant of money. Julio, who was never informed of the relation that existed between Klaas, the slave king, and himself, would have been made free, only it was considered that his twofold infirmity, and his removal from the kind family in which he had been brought up, would render emancipation an evil rather than a blessing in his case. Consequently a sum of money was awarded to him, the interest of which served to secure for him, all through life, many comforts and conveniences that would otherwise have been far beyond his reach. He died before he attained the age of ripe manhood, continuing to the end to be the petted favourite of the family to which he belonged; whose members always looked upon him as the instrument, in God's hand, in preserving them from the untold horrors which would have followed the success of the Gunpowder Plot in the ravine. III. A Revival Incident. Man, proud man! Dressed in a little brief authority; Most ignorant of what he's most assured, IS SHAKSPEARE. AMANA BAY is described as the most superb harbour in the West Indies, where, it is well known, are to be found many commodious and noble bays and harbours. It is situated at the east end of the large and beautiful island of Hispaniola, now un equally divided into the Dominican and the Haitian Republics; the first using the Spanish, the latter the French language. The entrance to the Bay is narrow, which renders it all the more safe; and there are a number of islands in it, upon which forts can be erected, so as to make the narrow channels which afford entrance to the upper part of the Bay impassable by hostile ships. This noble Bay, embosomed in the surrounding hills, stretches nearly thirty miles from the entrance to the point where the river Yuna discharges her ever-rolling tide of water into it, and being from twelve to twenty miles in width, exhibits a scene of beauty and grandeur seldom surpassed. The mountains on either side rise to a considerable height, richly clothed with a verdure to their summits, while groves of the beautiful cocoa-nut palm, laden with fruit in all stages of growth, as it blossoms and puts forth every month, line the shore, and, interspersed with glistening patches of white sand, give to the richly diversified landscape the aspect of an earthly paradise. About five or six miles from the mouth of the Bay, on its northern shore, lies the city of Samana, or more properly the town of Santa Barbara, at the foot of lofty mountains by which it is surrounded on three sides, leaving only the fourth open to the sea with two or three beautiful small islands in its front. The town is small, containing probably not more than a thousand or twelve hundred inhabitants, and lies snugly nestled at the foot of the mountains at the west end of the Bay, most of the houses being of a very humble character. One of the most prominent objects in the wide-stretching landscape is the white Methodist church, which stands on a hill somewhat in the background, overlooking both the town and the Bay; and behind it the thatched cottage which serves as the residence of the coloured Minister and his family. Somewhat back, behind the hill on which the church is erected, in a pleasant-looking valley, several tombs and crosses painted white mark the |