The Sun.
London, England, 1824-11-25 00:00:00

HAYTI.

(From Me New York Mercantile Advertiser, Nov. 2.)
REPUBLI( OF HAYTI.

" Port-au-Prince, Oct. 6, 1024.
(cmctiLAß.)

cc JOHN P. poyEN, PRESIDENT OPIfAYTI, TO TILE COM•

MANDANTS OF THE DEPARTMENTS :...--

" The Envoys who, upon the request that was made tome,
sent to treat in France of the recognition of the Independence
of Hayti, have returned. Their mission has not resulted in the
manner we bad a right to expect It would, because the French
Government, incredible as it may appear, still pretend to the
chimerical right of sovereignty over this country. The preten-
sion, which it appeared to have renounced, is for ever inadmis-
sible.. It is a new proof of what I have before declared, that
our only safety is in our own unshaken resolutions, and how
well founded were the apprehensions which induced the mea-
sures I have adopted. Under these circumstances it becomes
you more than ever to refer to the directions of my Proclama-
tion of the 6th January last, and the private instructions which
have followed it. Press with activity all the necessary works;
put in good order the artillery and munitions of every kind. Let
nothing be negleted. Put in requisition the workmen of the
army, and even if it be necessary private individuals, to have
in readiness the gun carriages winch are yet unfinished. Do
everything in such a manner, that in case of invasion by
the enemy you may not be retarded in any one point. Re-
member your duties, your responsibility, and act accord.
ingly. The -national honour demands (you will not lose
sight of this) that safety and quiet be assured to those strangers
who, upon the public faith, granted by the Constitution, may
be residing in this country. Protect them and their property,
SO that they may be in the most perfect security. It will be a
sufficient reflection to be sensible of the infamy which will he
thrown upon the nation, if, under any circumstances, we shall
act otherwise. Destroy the Implacable enemies who shall place
their sacrilegious feet upon our territory, but let us never dis.
grace our cause by a dishonourable action. In sending deputies
to arrange the forms of recognition of our Independence, I
yielded to the requests made to me by the agents of the Govern-
ment of the King of France. It was necessary to perform this
act, to take from malevolence every pretext for taxing me with
obstinacy. It was necessary to do it for my own peace of mind,
•and, in tact, to fix the opinion of the nation, upon this important
point.. believe in this respect that I performed my duty; but
I have the satisfaction of declaring that I have not been de-
ceived. The Republic is free, it is for ever independent, since
we . are determined to bury ourselves under its ruins rather
than submit to a stranger.. In the mean while the encodes
of Hayti rashly count upon divisions among us. What folly,
and ut the same time what duplicity ! Let us be eternally
united. Faithful to our duties we shall be, with the 'assistance
of the Almighty, for ever invincible. 1

" BOYER."
( From thc Baltimore Federal Gazette, Pet. 29.)
" nAY'ri.—The French brig Cosmopolite arrived at Part-,
un-Prinee on the tith inst. with the llayttan Commissioners, on
their return from an unsuccessful mission to France. The
failure of their attempt at negociation produced a deep sensa-
tion at Port-au-Prince, with a general spirit of animosity against
the French residents, who, it was believed, would be obliged to
flee (win the place:"

LETTER
From Mist INDIGO at Wort:ling, to Miss MARIA
LOULSA MAZARINE in London.

(From -the New Monthly Magazine.)

Air! my dearest Maria Louisa! you who are still enjoying
at the Institution the Lectures of the most elegant of all pro-
fessors; you who twice a week have an opportunity of wit-
nessing his ingenious experiments in pneumatics, aerostatics,
and hydrostatics, while he explains all the different 'ologies of
the.alphabet, from anthology to zoology ! You who are per-
haps at this moment inhaling the gas of nitrous oxide, or gas
of paradise; how do 1 envy you your sensations, and associa-
tions Most joyfully do I sit down to perform my promise
of writing an account of my journey to Worthing, not to in.
,dulge in the frivolous tittle tattle to which so many of our sex
are addicted, but to attempt a scientific journal worthy of our
studies,
ticular mention : the indications of the barometer, the mean
temperature of the thermometer, and the contents of the plu-
viometer, will be found in the tufts which we have agreed to
interchange weekly. In the meadows through which we oc-
casionally passed, I observed several fine specimens of the
mammalia class of quadrupeds, such as the bus tanrus or com-
mon ox; the ovis arias, of Linntcus, or sheep; the equus
caballus, or horse; the arinus, or ass, both Jenny and Jack; the
:apnea hircus, or common goat, both Billy and Nanny. By the
bye, these vulgar methods of discriminating genders are very
unscientific, and may often lead to mistakes. Learned lan-
guage cannot be too precise.

In the hedges, I recognized some curious flowers, particu-
larly the bellis, of the order polygamia superfirra, rag° the
daisy; the cardamine, to which Shakspeare has given the vul-
gar name of lady's smock ; the euitha, or marigold, to which
the lower order assign a coarser appellation ; the culverkeys,
mentioned in Walton's Angler ; ndthridate, mustard, or char.
lock; the primula, or primrose; violets, (you remember
Shakspeare's sweet lines.--

" Violets dim,
But sweeter than the lids of Juno's eyes,

Or Cytheraa's breath"),
fumaria, furnitory ; together with several fine specimens of
cardwts, or the common thistle.

On our Arrival at Worthing, we dined with our friends the
Tomkins, where we had the scapula of the ovis, or a shoulder
of mutton, with a sauce of macerated cepre ; two birds of the
gullinaceous tribe served with sisymbrium, or water creases,
and the customary vegetables of bruuica, lactuca, and spinacia,
through none of which the aqueous fluid had been sufficiently
allowed to percolate. There was also soup, which retained
so large a portion of caloric, that it scalded my palatic
epidermis, and the piper nigrum, or black pepper, with
which it was seasoned occasioned a very unpleasant degree of
titillation in the whole of the oral region. In the afternoon,

the water in kettle not having been raised to 212° of Fahrenheit,
or that point st which evaporation commences, the thea viridis, or
green tea, fomied an imperfect decoction, in which state, I be-
lieve, its dlarhoretic qualities are injurious. Mrs. Tomkins de-
clared she never drank any thing herself but the simple ele-
ment ; but I informed her that if she drank water, it was by
no means a sinple element, but compounded of oxygen and
hydrogen: aid I availed myself of the opportunity of instruct-
ing her that ameepheric air is also a mixture, containing about
7$ parts
only exclaimed,ofa7 tic,ttnti
tl of" Well,
oxygen gas, at which the ignorant
creature I
have seen myselfa good
masyied gas.hes &cetera the sky, particularly at sun-set." She
was dressed in a gown worn from the filaments of the plialtenn
bowariisoesilli worm, dyed In a red tincture of the small insect
called coccus Weis, by Linnseus, which, is found on the bark of
the quftcuS coccfirra
But, my dearest Maria Louisa, I may confess to you, that
I am daily more and more terrified at the sad blunders of
Mama, who has not, like us, received the benefit of scientific in-
struction, and yet, while she sits at the window knitting, will now
anti then catch a word which she fancies she understands, and
betray the must pitiable ignorance in her attempts to join the
conversation. For instance, while I was this morning ex-
plaining to Miss Tomkins the difference between hydrogen and
oxygen, she exclaimed, without taking her eyes from her work,
,4 Well, its a liquor I never tasted, but in my -time ]tooth's
was reckoned the hest gin."
casion to observe that cheese was obtained from curds by sepa-
rating the way by expression, when she told me there was no
way of expression, no not all the talking in the world, that
would ever make cheese!
aor showed me a lump of mineral earth, and I inquired it' it
was friable, she ejaculated, " Friable, you simpleton ! no, nor
boilable neither; why it isn't good to eat."
An to experiments, I have not yet ventured upon many, for
having occasioned a small solution of the continuity in the skin
of my fore finger by an accidental incision, I have been obliged
to apply a styptic secured by a ligature You are
aware that a phosphorescent light emanates from several
species of fish in an incipient state of putrefaction . For •
the illustration of this curious property, I hoarded a mackrel
in a closet for several days, and it was already beginning to be
most interestingly luminous, when Mania, who had for some
time been complaining of a horrid stench in the house, disco-
vered my hidden treasure, and ordered the servant to toss it on
a dunghill . . . . Mama has no nose fur experimental phi-
losophy; no more have I, you will say, for yesterday as 1 was
walking with a prism before my eyes, comparing the different
rays of the spectrum with Newton's theory, I came fullbump
against a door, which drove the sharp edge of the glass against
the cartilaginous projection of the nose, occasioning much stet-
mutation, and in considerable discharge of blood from the nasal
emunctories By means of nitrate of silver I hare also
formed some crystals of Diana, and I have been eminently suc-
cessful in making detonating powder, although the last explo-
sion happening to occur at night, just as our next door neigh-
bour, Alderman Ileavisides, was reading of the tremendous
thunderbolt that fell in the Gentleman's garden at Holloway,
he took it tbr granted he had been visited by a similar pheno-
menon, and to his apprehension shuffled down stairs upon his
nether extremity, being prevented from walking by the gout,
ejaculating all the way, " Lord have mercy upon us ! fire !
murder!"

In conchology, I cannot boast of any very important., •
dons to my collection, having encountered few of what
calls the parcelancous class, and none of the multi—t:
Among the bivapus, however, I have met soma curimitC,
wens of the otirra Midis, or common oyster, the cardi7i 'Or
cockle, as well as several of the wrinkle and periwinkle class.

But geotagy, or to speak more accurately, geognosY, mY
favourite study, ah I dearest Maria Louisa, could you imagine
that I could leave my researches for a moment unprosecuted ?
No, no, I have pursued them with enthusiasm. Providing
myself .with a hammer and basket, I mounted a donkey, and
George accompanying me on his favourite colt, we proceeded
to the Downs, where we soon discovered a chalk pit exhibiting
strata Of flint in an horizontal direction, and some describing
an angle of forty-five degrees, occasioned apparently by a par.
dal subsidence of the soil. . . . A piece of granite, in a
state of dialnttration, displayed an interesting union of quartz,
aispar and mica • and I stumbled upon a bit of sandstone or
grit, divided by
fissures
airing it, George came galloping up to inform me he had just
into parallelo pipeds. ViThile I was
discovered two beautiful specimens, one of amygdaloid, or load.
stone, the other of primitive crap,
Geognosy, 1 ~4,-.. and as I had just been read.
in; of the, latter i
erly hastened to the spat. Guess my disap.
n Mr. Jameson's Sketch of the \Vernerian
pointment when I found the former to consist of a large toad
squatted also a
white ears, which George,
great pebble, and tile latter to be nothing but
a hole dug in the turr, and provided with a springe to catch
with a horse laugh, maintained
to be an indisputable example of primitive trap. By way of
making umenog, however, for his unfeeling joke, he declared,
with a serious face, that he had passed a perfect specimen of
quartz ; and :misting meto dismount, he clambered with me
to the top of a steep
pealed to my own candid bosom, whether it did not contain a
hill, and pointing to a sheep pond, up.
great many quarts of dirty water.
Being determined to submit $lO longer to such egregious '
foolery; feeling, moreover, considerable craving in the diges-
tive ventricle; and a stiffbess in my'knees from want of synovia
to lubricate the capsular ligaments I remounted my donkey
and made the best of my way biome, and have devoted the i
afternoon to the preaent narrative of my scientific achieve- l'
meats. . I

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MASONIC NOTICES FOR NEXT WEEK.
ENGLAND.
Monday, Nov. 29, Lox Dow, Nos. 91, 458.
COUNTRY. No. 227, 246, 455, 553,
707.
Tuesday, -- 30, Loarnox. No. 86.
CO UNTILY. Nos. 68, 471, 497, 501,
528, 579, 668.
Wednesday, Dec. 1, LoNnow. Nos. 35, 75, 226.
COUNTRY. Nos. 84, 95, 124, 126, 129,
146, 207, 229, 339, 400,
465, 468, 487, 491, 605,
513, 526, 529, 577, 581,
5115, 606, 656, 699, 705,
711, 713, 725. Quar-
terly Communication.
Thursday, -2, LortDox. Nos. 61, 239, 277, 326,
409.
COUNTRY. Nos. 48, 70, 113, 171, 182,
214, 234, 416, 451, 453,
466, 469, 518, 555, 560,
561, 599, 627, 642, 679.
-. 3, LoNnox. No. 210.
COUNTRY. Nos. 13, 28, 30, 51, 56,
470, 533, 538, 650, 055,
709.
Saturday, 4, Lownott. No. 173.
Coux•ruY. Nos. 356, 675.
IRELAND.
Wednesday, Dec. 1, Con K. Nos. 1, 41.
Friday, -3, Conic'. No. 3.

Friday,