National Gazette

Advices from Cape Francois, and other parts of French Hispaniola, to the beginning of July, are as unfavorable as ever.

A spirit of discord seems to have taken possession of all descriptions of people, which threatens, we may say has nearly ensured the total ruin of the colony. The people of Port-au-Prince, Cape Nichola Mole, and Port Jeremie, have refused to accept the decree of the National Assembly, granting certain privileges to the mulattoes and free negroes.

At Port-au-Prince, they fitted out five cruisers, to prevent supplies from being carried into any of the out-ports; they likewise sent a twenty gun ship, and four smaller vessels, armed, to the Mole, to bring down a general to command them. He accordingly embarked with 300 volunteers, 500 stand of arms, and every thing in proportion. On his way down he was taken by a 74 gun ship, and carried into St. Marc, with one of the sloops; the other three escaped. The day after, the governor of Hispaniola arrived from the Cape, with another 74 gun ship and a frigate, when the captive-general, Borel, was ordered into close confinement, and all his men. The governor then received on board 400 volunteers of St. Marc, and on the 22d instant, sailed for Port-au-Prince, with the two 74 gun ships, a frigate, and a 20 gun ship; at the same time 2000 mulattoes marched down upon the back of Port-au-Prince, with the French Commissioner, who had arrived from France, a white general, and a commander in chief of the mulattoes, in order to enforce the decree. On the 24th, in the afternoon, was heard a very heavy cannonading, for about two hours, supposed to be at Port-au-Prince, from which it was probable that a total destruction of the remains of that town had taken place.