Gazette Of The United States, & Philadelphia Daily Advertiser

Extract from a French Paper.

France possesses at this moment only three colonies in the West-Indies. Cayenne, which was never reckoned as any thing in the commercial scale. Guadaloupe, which hardly supports itself the produce of which does not amount to one quarter part of what it did before the war, since France gets nothing, and the United States very little.

St. Domingo is divided between the French and the English. The latter possess that part formerly called Grande Anse, comprehending Jeremie, Abricots, Cape Dame Marie, Jeremie and Cayemites. They have also Port au-Prince, la Croix de Bouquets, le Mirebalais, Port au-Prince, St. Marc, and the Mole; that is, in all ten parishes. There remains then to the French forty seven or forty eight. In this number are the parishes of the north part of the island, which, before the revolution, were the richest and most opulent of the colony.

The quarters which are in the hands of the English, produce four times as much as those which pertain to the French.—[The paper then proceeds to assign the reasons for this difference. The principal one is, that in the places possessed by the English, or those under their command, the negroes work. In those possessed by the French, the mulattoes have the ascendancy, and there the negroes will not work, but pillage, burn and destroy.]