Scots Magazine Or General Repository in London, Middlesex

Turkeys Partition Plans and West Indies Mutiny Update

June 1802 report outlines Europe’s plan to partition the Turkish Empire as it crumbles, with rival powers ready to divide. It notes General Grinfield as Commander in Chief of the West Indies, preparing a large military establishment. Jamaica reports high prices, butter at 13a per pound, while Saint Domingue reports Toussaint’s surrender per Leclerc. A mutiny in Dominica’s 8th West India regiment ends in deaths and brutal retaliation, with Africans behind the revolt and Creoles largely uninvolved. General Johnston arrives with troops to restore order. Dispatches from Sierra Leone mention Timmianys in the past week.