“The manager who shot the man in the water is named Crone, living on Mr. H. Rowe’s plantation in Saint Lucy’s parish. The man was an African, a slave to a Mr. Colbeck, the manager to a neighbouring plantation, and had accidentally strayed from his master: Crone seeing him, pursued him with several Negroes; the poor creature pelted his pursuers with stones, and at length took refuge in a pond, where he was inhumanly shot by the dastardly manager, and taken out of the pond; I repeat, my Lord, what I have heard, though I could hope, for the sake of humanity, my information has been false, _and buried him while yet alive_. “Nowell, a butcher, living in Saint Joseph’s parish, is the wretch _who murdered the slave for letting his wife out of confinement. The circumstances of this horrid barbarity are almost too shocking to be related. On discovering the poor creature had been instrumental to his wife’s escape, he obliged her to put her tongue through a hole in the board, to which he fastened it on the opposite side with a fork, and leaving her in that situation for some time, he afterwards drew out her tongue by the roots._ “This, my Lord, is what I have heard relative to the cases on which your Lordship desires information; and as I have heard the circumstances I have mentioned from different persons, told in nearly the same manner, I am led to suspect that the statement will be found to be but too correct.” Papers, &c. p. 7-10. “_Extract of a Letter from the Right Honourable Lord Seaforth to Earl Camden; dated Pilgrim, 7th January 1805._ “I enclose the Attorney General’s letter to me on the subject of the Negroes _so most wantonly murdered_. I am sorry to say, _several other instances of the same barbarity have occurred with which I have not troubled your Lordship, as I only wished to make you acquainted with the subject in general_.” “_Copy of a Letter from Mr. Beckles to Lord Seaforth; dated 19th November 1804._ “_Bay Plantation_, “MY LORD, _19th November 1804_. “I have delayed to answer your Excellency’s note of the 19th of September, enclosing queries as to some cases of cruel murders committed upon Slaves, with the hope of being able to establish the facts, so as to communicate them to your Excellency without any doubt of their authenticity; but, notwithstanding _every inquiry, I can make no discovery of the murder which had been currently reported to have been committed by one Nowell, of the parish of St. Andrew_[8]. The fact is by many supposed to be true, at the same time that it is denied by others; and all that I can ascertain is, that _Nowell is in general a cruel man to his Slaves_.