Alexandria Advertiser And Commercial Intelligencer

SALEM, June 22.

On Saturday last, Capt. Daniel Stone arrived at Newbury-Port from Point Pêtre. He left that place on the 1st of June, and fully confirms the account published by Captain Langdon, who arrived at Boston on Thursday, viz.—That Delgrès, commanding the black troops at the fort in Basse-Terre, left that fort on the night of the 23d of May, whether by stratagem or compulsion he cannot tell, and made a sudden push at Point Pêtre, burning and destroying all the plantations in their way. The white army followed, and had several skirmishes with them before their arrival at the Point, which was on the 27th or 28th, when they had a very severe engagement, wherein the negroes were beaten and dispersed, losing about 700 men, and the next day about 400 were taken prisoners & brought to the point, where they were immediately shot. Pelage was second in command in the white army, during the engagement. Capt. S. thinks that the business will soon be finished and yet from some circumstances he mentions, there is reason to apprehend it will not. He informs that all Grand Terre remained quiet, until the day he sailed, when he saw a number of large fires; from which it is to be feared the negroes on that quarter, expecting that Delgrès would be successful have joined in the rebellion: and if so, it will be a very difficult thing to quell them. However, this is only conjecture, and may not be realized. The property they destroyed in their route from Basse-Terre to the Point must be very great, as they pass through Capesterre, where are some of the largest and finest plantations in the Island. Capt. Stone cannot say whether the plantation Negroes joined the insurgents.