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No. 495.

(JAMAICA.)

LAW OFFICERS to COLONIAL OFFICE.

Temple, March 6, 1868. MY LORD DUKE,

We are honoured with your Grace's commands, signified in Sir Frederic Rogers' letter of the 30th of November 1867, stating that he was directed by your Grace to send us copies of a correspondence which had passed between the Colonial Department and General Salomon (now Minister here of the Haytian Government) and his legal advisers, and also between the Colonial Department and the Government of Jamaica, with reference to a claim made by the General for compensation for loss suffered by him in consequence of his being arrested, detained, and subsequently expelled from Jamaica in 1865.

Sir Frederic Rogers was also pleased to state that he was directed to send us a copy P. Grant, 16 Nur.

Nalomon to Lord

1866.

Petition of Gen. ell, 11 No. Note pour servir

sux developpe ment de mes Kriels.

C. O. to Bir J.

of Part I, of Papers relating to the Jamaica disturbances, and that the references in 1864 this case are to the different pages of this book.

That the insurrection in Jamaica, as we are aware, broke out on the 11th October 1865, and Murtial Law was proclaimed on the 13th of October (p. 16),

That General Salomon and some six other Haytians (whose names appear at p. 152) were arrested at Kingston, where Martial Law did not prevail, on the 20th October. That they were taken into custody (as appears from Mr. Eyre's Despatch of October 20, p. 10) by the Executive Committee, on the ground that they were suspected of being mixed up with or encouraging seditious movements.

That as it may be of importance to ascertain, as far as possible, the grounds for the original arrest, he was desired to refer us to paragraph 59 of this same Despatch, which was written upon the very day of the arrest, where Mr. Eyre says that " various Hay- "tian refugees suspected of being mixed up with the leaders of the insurrection have been apprehended.

Sir Frederic Rogers was further pleased to state that as regards General Salomon's conduct at Kingston prior to his arrest nothing more is known than what can be gathered from the enclosures in Sir J. Grant's Despatch of the 23rd February, and from the letters in p. 140 of the Blue Book, which point to his probable complicity in plots against Hayti, but in no way directly implicate him in the Jamaica insurrec- tion. He was desired also to refer us upon this point to letters of Mr. Westmorland and Mr. Hosack to Governor Eyre (pp. 25 and 26), and to state that Kelly Smith and Goldson were arrested on the 19th October, and afterwards tried for using seditious language before the insurrection. That Goldson was convicted and sentenced to 20 days' imprisonment, but Kelly Smith was acquitted.

That General Salomon and the other Haytians who were arrested at Kingston were taken to Up-Park Camp and there detained until the 4th November, when the orders to leave Jamaica in 14 days were served upon them.

That with reference to the reasons which influenced Mr. Eyre to give these orders to leave, he was desired to call our attention to Mr. Eyre's letters (pp. 154, 155, and 156 and to the opinion of the Attorney General of Jamaica (p. 144).

Sir Frederic Rogers was pleased to add that it may be well to state, for the purpose of preventing any confusion, that five other Haytians (whose names will be found at p. 145) were seized on the schooner "Oracle," at Port Antonio, on October 25th. That the circumstances relating to this schooner and the seizure will be found pp. 141, 147.

That it appears that these Haytians were imprisoned until the 2nd or 3rd November. when they also received orders to leave (pp. 146, 147) and for similar reasons to those assigned in the case of General Salomon.

That of these Haytians, General Lamothe and others have made claims for compen- sation; and for Lamothe's case he was desired to refer us to a parliamentary paper on Jamaica (pp. 5 to 24), a copy of which was annexed for reference.

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Sir Frederic Rogers was also pleased to add that the orders to leave in the case of General Salomon and the Haytians arrested at Kingston were similar in form to that in p. 147; and he was desired to call our attention to the heading of the order, which describes the “ persons as now detained under "authority of Martial Law"; and further to state that Governor Eyre, in a Despatch to Mr. Cardwell (p. 138), states the fact of the deportations, and the reasons which induced him to pursue this course, and he further added that he was desired to call our special attention to Mr. Cardwell's

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