The Rhode Island American, And General Advertiser

MAIL ARTICLES.

BALTIMORE, March 21.

A gentleman of respectability of this city, informs us, that he has received a letter from his correspondent at Cape Henry, (Francais) St. Domingo, which states that Christophe, in the expectation of an attempt by the French government to repossess St. Domingo, was strongly fortifying the Cape. It is known that Christophe has been preparing himself a place of retreat in case of a reverse of fortune. That place is Fort Ferrier, situated on the lofty summit of a ridge of mountains, about seven and a half leagues south of the Cape, the passage to which is through the plain de Cap, Petit Ance and Millot. For half a mile the road from Ferrier is scarcely passable for horses, and has been cut through in a serpentine form. Its outer wall is six feet thick, entirely of stone, and twenty feet high. Its terraces are well mounted with heavy artillery, and its magazines well stored. On the west side from the base of the walls is a tremendous precipice nearly perpendicular, from which a rock let fall could not be impeded in its progress for more than a mile. In the fort is a building for malefactors, a house for the commandant, &c. Such is the consideration in which Christophe holds the security of himself in this place, that he is reported to have desired the destruction of all the cultivated places and towns within his control, and to consider himself safe in his retreat, with power to annoy, if driven to the last extremity. The construction of Ferrier was commenced in 1809, and has ever since continued with unceasing assiduity.