A deputation of the West India Committee waited on Tuesday
on Lord Carnarvon, to explain to him that the disturbances originated with the Governor, who, they said, had employed the police to disseminate exciting statements ; who had, in a small and disreputable public meeting, told the poor they were oppressed ; and who released prisoners, so as to give an impression that the Executive Power differed in opinion from the ordinary justices. Lord Carnarvon in reply said it was almost incredible to him that Mr. Hennessy should have lent himself to such an agitation, that he should have concealed such facts as the Committee had pub- lished, or that be should have suppressed all mention of the scenes supposed to have occurred. For himself, he had directed the Naval force off Barbadoes to be strengthened, but he trusted such precautions were unnecessary. He rebuked the deputation for demanding the recall of the Governor before evidence against him had been substantiated, before he had been heard in explanation, and during a time when, by their account, there was a risk of general disturbance throughout the Wand. Altogether the Committee showed itself excited, angry, and irra- tional, and the Government, if anything, over-reasonable and temperate. The effort to force its band, and so bring authority in Barbadoes to an end, needed even a sharper rebuke.
