The New Hampshire Gazette And General Advertiser

PORTSMOUTH, May 31.

On Wednesday next the General-Court are, by the Constitution, to convene at Dover.

Extract of a letter from Cape-Francois— April 15.

" In the western districts of the island every thing wears the most horrid appearance. The troops are in a state of anarchy, and subordination generally at an end, while the wretched remains of Port-au-Prince are surrounded by an enemy, from whom an attack is every moment expected, and from whose mercy (if conquerors) nothing is to be hoped. To give you an account of various assassinations, murders, tortures, and excesses of almost every kind that have been committed within these few months, would ask a volume. Vast numbers of opulent people are reduced to a morsel of bread, by the ruin of their plantations, and are going (many of them) almost pennyless into foreign lands, for the preservation of an existence which has become altogether precarious here. We are willing to hope that the ocean which surrounds Hispaniola, will check the extension of the spirit of revolt; for, if it should become general through the islands, it will require almost half Europe to subdue it. As to myself, I will endeavor to leave this once delightful though now miserable country, in all June; a country which has become alike ungrateful to the sailor and the mechanick, to the merchant and the philosopher—

a country,

" Where cruel passions the warm heart infest
And banish pity from the human breast.
Where hostile ruffians draw the vengeful blade
And stain with infant gore the blushing shade !"

I turn, disgusted, from this horrid scene Of tortur'd captives, slaves, and murder'd men,
To where the far-fam'd Massachusetts strays,
Renown'd for justice and for length of days."