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. The ſtench that aroſe from the putrefaction of the dead bodies, which remained for many without interment (and to numbers of which  rites of burial could not be adminiſtered), occaſioned a kind of peſtilence, that ſwept away a  proportion of thoſe who had providentially  the firſt deſtruction. Almoſt every perſon the town and neighbourhood was affected; and  faculty were rendered incapable, through,, to attend their patients, many of whom  from the inclemency of the weather, from  of attendance, or ſupply of food; and to add  the general apprehenſion, the negroes poured  in troops to the ſcene of devaſtation (and, I  ſorry to obſerve, that many white people were , opon the ſpot, of promiſcuous plunder);  having made free with the rum that was floating in the inundations, began to grow inſolent and ; and, by their threats and conduct, occaſioned an alarm which it was found neceſſary, by exertion and caution, at once to ſupprefs: and what the , at ſuch a time of general confuſion  dread, might have been, had not the puncheons been immediately ſtaved, can hardly, even at  diſtance of time, be reflected upon without.

That the unenlightened negroes ſhould be led to, when they could do it with ſafety, the curbs of morality and religion to restrain them, is a circumſtance not to be wondered ; as it is conſiſtent with the common depravity of  nature; but that thole who ought to be a  upon that licentiouſneſs which they themselves perhaps have taught, ſhould ſtand forward to  miſery of its laſt ſupport, and even plunder  itſelf of is utmoſt farthing, is a reflection  thoſe who can diſtinguiſh black from white