INsURREcTIoN IN PORTO RICO
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The Boston Patriot learns from Capt Ma
son, who srrived at Quarantine, Boston, on
Wednesday week, from Ponce, =. X. that on
the 22d July an intended Insurrection .mong
The Blacks near that place to destroy the
white inhabitants had been discovered. and
the principal leaders app:chcnded II ap..
pears their intended plan was TO so in the
night to the doors CT the white Inhabitants
as they passed on the road to Ponce, and give
an alarm of fire, and as the white people
came ont of their honses to murder them.-~-
They likewise intended, the better to carry
their plan into effect and draw the whites
out, to set fire to onc or two of the estates
nearest to Ponce; and then rush into the
place and get possession of the arsenal aud
the fire arms OF the militia there deposited,
arm themselves and destroy all the whites.
They were discovered by one of the black
slaves, who informed his master. The au-
thorites had taken up and examined a great
many and had found "a Of the Leaders, who
would undoubtedly be executed when the
Captain General. who was daily expected.
arrived from the city of Porto Rico. 1t
seems they had this plot in view tor FIVE
months previous.