unsuccessful. Mr. KINGDOM said he would preach in ,P1 t
authorities; and this, we are told, produced the scenes orthe" hi,the threat launched against the authorities having lid.e erfk, a mob in their favour. It would have produced an va te ' fli:bt here, had it produced any effect. On the morning a meeting was held for the formation of a Colonial is, a Union for the expulsion of Baptist ministers; and the members were jeered as they passed Messrs. DEnsoWs, and told "to come and try"—to put their rules into act, we sup. pose. At night they did try, and sueceeded- " In the evening it was observed that the house was strongly fastened up; that several slaves, drawn up in line and armed, were in the yard ; and that the Messrs. Deleons and a few free persons, also armed, had occupied with Mr. Kingdon the upper part of the house. In consequence of this, a few of the in- habitants, although it was then _dark, went to the house totally unarmed, and knocked at the door for the purpose of requesting Mr. Kingdon to go away in a vessel, then in the harbour, which was to sail next morning, and also to assure him that they would pay his passage. The door was no sooner knocked, than, 'without any answer, a shower of boiling water was thrown from the windows on the people; which proved the preparation that had been making. The peo- ple then retired from the door into the middle of the street; when a volley of small-arms was fired from the upper part of the house and the yard upon them. The spirit of the people became dreadfully excited in consequence ; they ran for arms, and, .returning to the spot, were about to retaliate, when the Magistrates, assisted by the constables, appeared, and after all their exertions, pacified them. One of the constables, on going into the yard of the house, was knocked down by a man named Gibbs, who belonged to the armed party within, and wounded in the face by a ball from the house. The people who nciw assembled in a large force, loudly called for Mr. Kingdon and the Deleons to be given up to them. The Magistrates again pacified them by assuring them that they would take the party to gaol who were thus armed, and thus unlawfully firing upon them. All now appeared peaceable; and the Magistrates having entered by the back of the house, were just about to escort by the same way Mr. Kingdoa and the Deleons, when, unfortunately, another shot was fired upon the people in the street from the upper part of the house, and wounded a Mr. Medley in the back. Here, then, began a scene altogether indescribable : the people in the street retaliated, and poured in showers of musketry, scaled the house, and gut. ted it from top to bottom. Mr. Kingdon and the armed people escaped unhurt into the morass at the back of the gaol."
Next day, Mr. KINGDOM and his wife were sent by the Custos to his own house at Anglesey, six miles from the town ; they having in the first place been saved with great difficulty from the people ; but this was not deemed enough. The same evening, the people being joined by some others from the country, proceeded to the house of Messrs. DELEONS; which they pulled about its owners' ears, the owners themselves being rescued with great diffi- culty ; and on the following evening, they again assembled and pulled down two other houses, belonging to persons of the Bap- tist persuasion, notwithstanding every effort of the Custos and his constables to prevent them. The account states as a singular cir- cumstance, that the pullers down of the houses were so disguised that it was utterly impossible to recognize them. In the evening of the 9th, Mr. KINGDOM was removed by a warrant of a junior magistrate from the Custoes house to the common gaol. The • DELEONS and some dozen more have also been committed. So much for daring to be a Baptist in Jamaica. The Earl of -MULGRAVE, a few days before this affair at Sayan', nah, received an address of ,the Baptists. In his answer to the address, he observed- " With regard to any regulation limiting the exercise of your sacred calling which the Constitution may have reserved, I cannot too strongly recommend, on your parts, submissive deference, in the first instance, to the decisions of those authorities to whom the administration of the law is intrusted, and who are • themselves responsible for the due exercise of the functions committed to their chem."
We need not say who they are that in Jamaica the administra- tion of the laws is intrusted to—they are that same " people" who pull down houses and set fire to them, when they happen to- dislike the opinions of their occupants. There is no fear that they will not compel" submissive deference in the first instance," and in the last also.
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