... WEST INDIES. Intelligence highly satisfactory has been received at the Colonial Office from the important colony of ’Guiana, the 15th ult., stating that the labourers were entering into bargains with great readiness, and that most the estates were in ...

... WEST INDIES. Extract of a letter from Kingston, Jamaica, 9th Sept. 1823:—“ The Royalists are done up in Columbia, except at Porto Cabello ; part of the blood-thirsty Morales' troops have arrived in Cuba from Maracaibo. Slaves here are unsaleable reason ...

... WEST INDIES. The affairs of Hayti, which is now the theatre of another revolution, is occupying the attention of the Jamaica press. The proclamation President Herard, announcing that the Spaniards on the western side Hayti, had again attempted to declare ...

... WEST INDIES. The news from our West India possessions any tiling but satisfactory. The Jamaica Despatch to the I9lh of January, the Barbadoes Mercur* to the 7th, and the Guiana Chronicle and Grenada Free Press to the 3d of the same month, have been received ...

... WEST INDIES. Kingston, Jamaica, No». 22 —In the Honourable House of Assembly, on Tuesday, -Mr Grignon rose for the of moving for the appointment of a Committee, for considerin'* of some measure, which shoo show w fiat the feelings of that House were respect ...

... WEST INDIES. The following proclamation has been issued Major-Gen. Stewart, in Lucia : •• PROCI. ATI ON HIS EXCELLENCY DAVID STEWART, MAJOR GENERAL, &C. David Stewart. Governor. Whereas his Majesty, taking into his gracious consideration the loyalty and ...

... WEST INDIES. The London Gazette contains the details of an action on the 20th August last, betwixt the boats of H.M. Sloop Icarus and a pirate vessel near Havannah in which the latter was taken. On boarding they had the satisfaction to release 9 Americans ...

... WEST INDIES. Accounts have been received from the West Indies to the end of August, which are generally favourable. In those islands in which tumults had taken place, tranquillity was partially restored. Several of the islands, as Barbadoes, had experienced ...

... WEST INDIES. The population of Hayti has inc-?ascdr since the abolition slavery in that island, one-third, and it is impossible to doubt that the same result would follow the cultivation of the British West India possessions men receiving wages for voluntary ...

... WEST INDIES. Letters from Havannah, dated the 24th of Julv, have arrived. The warlike operations in the Peninsula were regarded in Cuba with the greatest solicitude and anxiety ; but the sentiment of a great majority of the people ap|>eared to lie to ...

... WEST INDIES. Accounts received from St Jago Cuba, state that the most awful earthquake experienced for fifty years, took place on tiie morning of the 18th September, between three and four o’clock. One half of the town was destroyed. There were two shocks ...

... WEST INDIES. A dreadful hurricane commmenccd the of October at the Havannah which extended during that and the following day over the whole Island of Cuba. the 2j‘h two shocks an earthquake were felt the I lavannah. The waves rose to a tremendous height ...