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The Jamaica papers were received in town yesterday, up to the 20th of November. By them and we learn, with pleasure, that the late rains in that island had fallen so seasonably, as to afford the most flattering prospect of abundant crops.
These papers are entirely silent as to any landing having been affected by either the Spaniards or French. We were therefore right in our first conjecture that the whole story was without any foundation.
The new regulations which, by a charter from this country, was to new model,
in some degree, the municipal laws of the island of Jamaica, are fast put in
force. The mayor and 24 aldermen, together with the prescribed number of Common
Council Men, etc, have been chosen and have commenced their functions, ex officio.
The following is a list of the names of their, all the men, and, cancel my,
as returned at the election, which took place at the courthouse, Kingston, on
the 15th of November: --
Mayor: the Hon. John Jacks, Esq.
Aldermen: George Kinghorn, Wm. Savage, Stuart Bruce, Robert Rainford, John Hinde,
John Gutzmer, James Stewart, John Bull,? James Amos, W. Ross, Benjamin Waterhouse,
and Alexander Thompson, Esqrs.
Common Council men: John Burrows, Joseph Barns, Stephen Menot?, John Garnett,
James Muir, Richard Chamberlain, William Mitchelton, Thomas Stevenson, William
Parke, Robert Hamilton, George Kenkead, and John Campbell, Esqrs.
The following seven sail of the line, of 74 guns each, are said to have arrived
on the Jamaican station, to reinforce the squadron under the command of rear
Admiral Sir J. T. Duckworth:
Cumberland, Bellerphon, Elephant, Ganges, Theseus, Vanguard, Goliath.
On the 25th of October, a negro man, named William Fuller, was tried on two indictments: the one for administering poison to five negroes, two of whom died; and the other for practising obiah for a number of years. He was found guilty, and sentenced to be hanged, and his head to be stuck upon a poll.
We are concerns to state, that as Dr Blair, physician of the fleet at Jamaica, was going on shore at Port Royal, accompanied by two surgeons, the boat was run down by a sugar dogger. Every person on board were drowned. It's blowing fresh at the time the dogger could not render them any assistance.
It is settled that in future the packets from Jamaica, are to call at Crooked
Island, with a mail for Bermuda and the Bahama Islands.