Gazette Of The United States And Daily Evening Advertiser

BRIDGE-TOWN, (Barbadoes,) July 1, 1794.

The arrival of several vessels from America, with a timely supply of flour corn, &c. &c. must afford infinite satisfaction to the community, at this time of general scarcity. The late high price of flour, renders the supply of that article the more acceptable, as from its scarcity our native provisions had consequently risen to so enormous a price, as almost reduced us to a state of starvation. In the present want of almost every thing, we contemplate with regret the high price of meats, by which the provident house-keeper; and more particularly those whose circumstances are narrowly circumscribed, must feel most keenly.

Our present peaceful intercourse with America, must afford us, at this time of European warfare, great consolation, as from that rich and fertile continent our Western colonies are supplied with the most useful and necessary articles of life: but how long we may enjoy this valuable blessing is uncertain, as from some late Congressional proceedings and the clamours of the people, there is a strong indication of a propensity to break the league of friendship. We have too forcible an instance in the French, of the effects of wild and desperate fanaticism, not to suppose any thing from Republican folly; and at the same time that we are slow to make political conjectures; it is yet, however, a question whether, from the capture of the French West-India islands which consequently, in case of a war with Great Britain, would deprive the United States of their greatest trade, it would be politic in them to involve themselves in the present contest, which we think ourselves inadequate to decide.