The New Hampshire Gazette

From the Baltimore Morning Chronicle.

Slave Trade—We have conversed with a gentleman who left the Havana on the 8th inst. who informs that there are no less than eleven fast sailing vessels well-armed, now fitting out for the coast for negroes—intending to take advantage of the rainy season, when armed vessels are fearful of visiting the coast on account of the sickness which prevails at that period. He also states that, great alarm existed in consequence of the pirates again making their appearance. Of 37 vessels wind-bound on the bank, 14 were missing, and as it was ascertained, two were taken by the pirates, it was apprehended, the others had met with the same fate. The Spanish fleet had sailed five days previous in pursuit of the Colombian Fleet. To man the Spanish fleet, a general impressment had taken place in the Havana; from the medley of the crew, there was every apprehension that they would be captured by the Colombians, should they come to action. A slave ship had arrived there as has been before mentioned, and, it is true that 176 had been reported to have died in twenty-four hours—this, however, was false, as they were smuggled on shore, and to evade duties, had been reported as dead—in fact a healthier set of blacks had never before arrived in the Havana. There was no U. S. vessel on the coast.