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Several thousand persons remained outside the respective places, which were much too small to afford the accommodation.
Every thing was quiet and orderly when the post left. Says the Jamaica Gazette of Aug.
4th, a paper of the Old School--"In spite of all the endeavours of a _clique_ of self-interested agitators, clerical humbug and radical rabble, to excite the bad passions of the sable populace against those who have been the true friends of Colonial freedom, and the conservators of the public peace and prosperity of the country, the bonfire, bull-roast, and malignant effigy exhibited to rouse the rancor of the savage, failed to produce the effect anticipated by the projectors of the _Saturnalia_, and the negro multitude fully satisfied with the boon so generously conceded by the Island Legislature, were in no humor to wreak their wrath on individual benefactors, whom the envy of party spirit had marked out as the victims of truth and independence. We are happy to give our meed of praise to the decent and orderly conduct of the sable multitude, and to record that it far excelled the Loco Foco group of bullies and boasters in decency of propriety of demeanor.
A kind of spree or scuffle took place between donkey-driver Quallo and another.
We don't know if they came to close fisti-cuffs, but it was, we are assured, the most serious affray on the Course." The following is the testimony borne in regard to Barbados. _From the Barbados Liberal, Aug.
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