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H '.YTI

Port a ta•Prinre, March 1:1, 1807.
Extract from the Jout.tal oldie Sr,,ate, GI their Sosiui, March
9, 107, 4th rtr or t''.. todeireotk.ice t f Hayti
•' the Smote aasearblcd agreeable to the 68th article attar
Constitution.

A member observed, that since the rebellion of Henay
Christophe, nominated Pies.delit of Hayti, by the Constitution
Assembly, at its Scums of the 2EM Dec. Ifh.'6, the Pie-ideate,
had b•rt vacant, anal that the public good imperiously ac-
quired that it should proceed, without delay, to the cicalae of
a new President, conformably to the lOoth and lbeth articles
of the constitution.

" The subject being dellhitiated urn, it was r ^solved
unani.noud., to proceed to the election of a new President ;
and urgency decreed
" The balote being taken, there were found to be 16 •otes
anal that General Petion had 13 votes.—Whereupr n Gene-
ra Pe Con was pr. lairnea President of Hayti.
" Signed, s H 1.1 fI6R, President
" In the name at the Republic

" The Fmk!Wm of Ifavti inching that the above act of the
Senate be publivbcd and executed ; end be vetted with lb.
s-al of the Republic. " PETION."

Ell %A ICU —Under the H.. 341 of Cerlifieues;•l4st week, for
Gssqte Roffey and Rickard Swinton, not orgy George
Roffey,

THE BRITISH PRESS.

LONDON,
THURSDAY, Juwa 4.

The dispatches brought ley the Mama., from
La Plata, state, that tl.e town of Col..nia di Sacra•
mPrsto, which is immediately opposite to Buenos
Ayres, bad surrendered to the British troops, with-
out opposition. It was from this place that the
Spanish troops, from Monte Video, crossed the
river, when they retook Butnos Ayres. The pos-
session of it will very much facilit.tte our operations
against that plate.

The Tre;sury rapers, of yesterday, state, that
" General &comma means Iss loathe n, alsaek •nr she
!!td alt." We can state, upon the best authority,
that of Major MORGAN, who has brought the last
•dispatches front Lord HUTCHINSON, and who, on
the day of Lii departure from the nussian Army,
had a personal interview with General Enantossx,
that a different sentiment prevailed :n that General's
mind ; his determination being, as he expressed to
Major Weasel, cot to alla.k the Fretted, but, in
case of being attacked hy them, Is gior arms a
SIMMS 'veggie's. Major glosioAts is, from pro.
fessional experience and local knowledge, se
evrell qualifiod to form a eofreEt opiniun, hav-
ing accompanied the Austrian and Russian ar.
miss in every campaign, during the war, that his
judgment may be relied on. To raise flit siege of
Dantaie is certainly a mess importaut ohjell ; but,
perhaps, important as it may be, it it not worth
hazarding the fate of an army, on whose soceets or
defeat the condition of Europe dej ode at this
moment. Bert SIGSLPI seems to adopt int principles
of FASiel M116111,41:S ; and it ie to be hope 4 that the
result of his condua will be equally ausp,;:ious to
the civilized world.

In our Paper of the 29th last, we gave a c(
of the New Constitution of St. Domingo, all.l
Hayti, and of the Proclamation announcing it, and
declaring General Hann,: Czatsvoena, First Ma-
gistrate, by the title of PROSIDINT of H•Yri.—
The Constitution, including the appointment of
Cmaiseorna for life, was proclaimed on the 17th I
of February last, and report stated, that the new
order of things remained without any change in the
beginning of April.—We have, however, received
American papers, which, though not of a later date
thanthose, the arrival of which we announcedoaTues-
d.y, contain an ankle, from which it appears that
the power of Cu ais ro e has been short.lived, cad
that some new convulsion has taken place in that
unfortunate island. It is pu i:t a New
York Paper, of the 17th of April, an I purports to be
an extraa from the Journal of the Senate of Hayti,
in their Session. March 9, 1807, appointing Gen.
Pct lON, President of Hayti, in the room of Cm ais-
Torre. The at ticle states, that .4 since the rebel-
lion of Hexer C 111111701411, nominated President
of Hayti, by the Constitution Assembly, the Presi-
dency bad been vacant. and that it banante neces-
sary to proceed to the election of a new President.
a itlyru! delay." The ton on rebellion his not b:tu usu- I
ally applied to the head of a state, and we can form
tin conj-flare respelling the event, denominated a re-
bellion, which &Fired Cnaistorna of the Presi-
dency for He, and led to the appoimmer t of Parton
as his successor. The system, htmever. dor, not at.

pear t 3 have sir red any change, the appo•mmea
of PCT:os being according to the Ism prascrauel
by the new Constitution. •
T.se New York. Papers, to the 4:11 of M .y,.
as we stated on Tuesday, annanneed, that the
!nip sloop of war sailed froze Washington,
on the 2-}th of April, for England, with Mr. ,
?ViIVIANCE, late Secretary to the Arneriun
Legation at our Court. When the Way was
first ordered to be in readiness to sail for Eng-
land, it was prediaed that the British Treaty was to
be sent back in her. It was, however, e.►derstood at
Washington, the 25th March, that the Treaty would
not be sent back, but that aft,s range discussion and
explanationisetween the reyeEtive Governments, it
would ba finally submitted to the Senate of the
Unite 4 States. Mr. Pu AVI .V4C F. Is prlbably come
to Ehglarid with instruaions to that effea.
A New York Paper, of the 11th of April, con-
tains an extra} from a Ph.lad •Iphia Journal, stat-
ing the arrival of a vessel from Re :via, wah an
account of the destruaion of two frigates, and 16
other armed vessels, near the Dutch batteries. The
date of the arrival of the easel, is not meationed ;
and although The Pedadelrina.bermal promises eie
details in its next, we find no further notice of this
achievement in the New York papers to the 4;h of
May.
The American papers,. as we lately stated, are
filled with the preparatory business to the Election ;
and, as has been uniformly the case upon similar
occasions, party spirit runs very high. Connie'.
for TIWg AS Aunts Estates •continues to he one of
the leading persons is the business at Nlw York, in
which he appesrs to have acquired considerable in-
fluence. Sir Facade BURLICT Tis not so much the
snbjea of cowmen:, of praise, and dispraise. in the
London papers, as is Mr. EMI., IT. is those of New
York, and even his enemies give him credit for su
perior talents, and amiability in private life. Due
of the charges brought against him, is, that he has
endeavoured to convert Toe Hiaaaatas Paovr•
D•MT Socierv, an establishment formed in that
city, on a principle of charity and national benevo-
lence, into a political engine. The several parties
deal largely in scurrility, in personal and national
reflnaions of every kind. Mr. Emus. in his at-
tacks upcn Rcrus Keasi, formerly Minister to cur
Court, asserts, that when a lad. •" f e was "aervan:
to, and wore the livery of his, Mr. Eslstat's ances-
tor, Sir Gapaoa Texet s i" and the partizans of
Mr. K ;No retort, „Irish Jacobit and reahor."—
Such is the spirit in which the Elea:clattering Can-
vass is carried on.

The Ministerial Prints dart• abound with reports
of the assembling of transport:, And other preoara.
tions for the immedrtte E *ilia); of the long-rumour.
cd expedition. None of t:•;e troops, however. have
yet received orders to em!lark.

On Friday last, thirty-two sail of transposes. hay-
ing on board some batte.;lns of the King's German
Legion, sailed from the Cove of Cork, for Ports-
mouth. under convoy of His Majesty's brig Seagull,
Captain CaIITWRIOUT, and Wrangler gurt-htig.
A cartel arrived at Portsmouth yesterday from
Franc-. It brought over Capt. Woanerrr, late of
His MAIM Y'S ship Catarte, which was takes
in the yrar It-04, on her pa...sage with convoy from
th. iftleoa. by the Rochefort squadron, after a
mr.si determined resistance. We have not heard
that the cartel has brought any news.
Yesterday, a Court of OireClots was held at the
East India Hourr, when the fullsowlng ships were
taken up, viz.: Sara. 6 Chrieimm, Tvis, Alms, Giory,
Sir William Path "Av. Itiorthalloptun, Mann and
Mien. The Court adj .urned at biz o'clock, tilt
to-morrow.

The Eagle, Vitt.t.i aMs, from the Cane of Good
Hope, went into Buenos Ayres, and is seized
ter. e.

The Ellen, WATSON ; 7JAAct. CAL DIM ; Surrey,
BLACK; Am I miss ; &Amur, I)
John, MONDAY; Prince V Woks, D•IL ; Tnrus,
CONNOLL Y ; flees lbesleers, PA IlltYS /Meaner,
‘.VIIOIAPION ; Fez, C4cmaatt.t. ; and the Prises-town,
Foossn, from London; Clarkson, STIVLNSON,
hot."' Finn ; Qattn Cbarlette, ANOR KWh from the
car', vr Good Hope ; Favekrite, CLeves. Ann, from
Guern; .y; Ocean, CRAY/USD, from Liverpool ;
and the Resiie. PIAILY, from Fal-
mou*, arc arrived at
-Monte Video.

The Fre& iGeueral DANICAtc, who formerly had
a command in 4.a Vendee, and who placed himself
at the head 01 the Sedions of Paris, on the 13th
Ventlemaire, 17y,ti, in opposition to Bow AAAAA c,
who commanded s of the Direttory, re-
turned to this count!). in slne of the last Packet-
boats, from the Continent. He experienced consi-
derable diffictilty in effeaing 1, is escape from Al-
tons, M. Bounicums, the ft. -neh Minister at
Hamburgh, haring m.rde ever) elertirn lo his
power to arrest him.

- We are informed, that when Gent's 11 Bala""
sumndered to the Spaniards, they s
him 1:10
miles into the country, where, being schfiereatly
treated, he refused a parole, whence on n "king his
escape, and arriving on the shore side, :it Mire"
with two Spanish Loatmen for 1000 dollars, t 3 be
put on board an English cutter, then ertrisii‘ /WU
the ; shortly after getting on hoard, his ts, -ePe
was discovered. and the two boatmen. on tbvie. •
turn, were takea and tarrnetliarcly hanged.
Sunday se:might. the 97:h regimen:, and 71.
Garrison battalion, quartered in Limerick, receives!
the route, the Ist divi.iun,A use jib marched on
Tuesday morning tor dirt and on Wednesday
the Ist division of me Garrison Battalion marched
to Galway; they are to ise rep,accd by the Cush
and St st reg,rneats, as present arm sheis march fur
limerick.