The New Hampshire Gazette And General Advertiser

JULY 30.

Extract of a letter from a Gentleman at Cape-Francois, to his friend in Baltimore, dated June 30.

"The people of Port-au-Prince, the Mole, and Jeremie, will not accept the Decree of the National Assembly. At Port-au-Prince, they fitted out five cruizers, to prevent supplies from being carried into any of the 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, 300 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. I arrived at St. Marc the same day, and 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 inst. sailed for Port-au-Prince, with the 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 arrived from France, a white general, and the commander in chief of the mulattoes, to enforce the decree. I left St. Marc the 25th, and no accounts from thence had arrived: but on the 24th, in the afternoon, we heard a heavy cannonade, for about two hours, which we supposed was at Port-au-Prince; if so, there is no doubt but a total destruction will take place. We are in hourly expectation of hearing from thence:--The people seem really fighting-mad--each port wishing to destroy the other; some in favor of the king; others for the nation, the mulattoes, the free negroes, the slaves, &c. What will be the consequence God only knows."