National Gazette

The following paragraph is copied from a Baltimore paper of Friday last.

"By the brigantine Greyhound, Captain Elias Porter, who arrived here in thirteen days from Cape-Francois, we are informed, that the situation of affairs, respecting the disturbances in Hispaniola, wore every day a more melancholy aspect—that all hopes of peace being restored, were relinquished—that the colony was, beyond a doubt, irretrievably lost—that, lately, some expectations were entertained of the arrival of more troops from France, but that every prospect of that nature had closed in despair—that attacks were made, almost every night, on the outposts contiguous to the Cape—that the military force was so enfeebled, that a general massacre was apprehended—that the whites were emigrating daily, and it was thought that in the course of a few months, not one would be found remaining on the French part of the island—that it was confidently believed, that some celebrated characters (among whom is supposed to be the well known Count D'Estaing, who had, a little before, arrived in a clandestine manner, from France) were the chief actors among the revolted Mulattoes; that the Colonial Assembly was in a state of the most ruinous anarchy, the members having on the day before Cap. Porter sailed, carried their differences on political opinions so far that they actually drew their swords on each other, and the house would have been drenched in blood, had not the interposition of some less turbulent spirits subsided the dreadful ferment."