The Recorder, Or, Lady's And Gentleman's Miscellany

ALEXANDRIA, April 26.

IN our paper of Saturday, we mentioned the arrival of the son of Mr. Lear as a passenger in the schooner Harmony from Cape Francois. and the intention of our consul general in St. Domingo of shortly embarking for the United States. We are happy in having it in our power, by the publication of the following extract of a letter, to remove any impression which may have existed of the intention of Mr. Lear having arisen from his receiving improper treatment from the French government of the Island, or experiencing unnecessary impediments or embarrassments, in the discharge of official duties.

Extract of a letter, dated Cape Francois, April 8th, 1802 per the schooner Harmony, Captain Levering:

"I send him now (Benjamin L. Lear,) at the hot weather is coming on, and I am apprehensive it will be very sickly in the city, from the ruins of the buildings, the numbers confined in the few houses and sheds, and a variety of other circumstances. I shall follow myself in about six or eight weeks, for a visit."

We can assure our readers, from unquestionable authority, that the accounts of the maltreatment of American seamen at Cape Francois are greatly exaggerated, and that the publications in American newspapers on this subject, have been a cause of serious regret to our consul at that place; who avers, that the declarations of the officers of the French government have uniformly been of the most pacific and friendly nature. The American captains are not compelled to dispose of their cargoes to government, and are not prevented should they disapprove of the terms offered them by gen. Le Clerc, from leaving the island. The exportation of specie is prohibited.

NOTE.

The Recorder has always said that they were full of falsehoods.