Jenks' Portland gazette. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1803-1805, 1804-08-13
Ml4If. NEWS.
rao.. TIE HAVANA

raol. TIE HAVANA !.
A letter fsona F'asanra, dated Tie 9Th Ju!yy
mentions that royal order had been receiv4
cd there, allowing Spanish ye1sls to export MOI
laHcs to the united States free Of duties. ard
10 ;n.por; lumber, lone proviliuns, and implea
ments of hnibandrv, ALTO free Of duty ;-that i
was expected. 4 royal order would be seceissdj
ilste:di6ting the importation Of hories in amer5
lean vefies as there are Spanifll veRes fa5icieiiE
to export all their mo.aRes l, is alto mentioned
th-t fourteen millions of dollars had arrived
there from Vera Cruz, and that eight millions
had gene to Spain, in the Amphitrite and Law
ina Giga,ss."
FROM NEW YcRk, hDsaA 8.
e On Saturday as fhe chip Eugenia, Mani.
field, was making the took, flir was taken poi
felton, of BY the Britfh flip Leandcr and fen6
TO Halif$x on fipicion of having French pro:
persy on board. Lieut. James 7. leorafd,l Ok
our navy, came pafienger in the Eugenia and
is bearer Of difpatches from MIR. isingiton to
oar government. He was put on hoard The
Englifh fch. Mars, with the letter bag Of the
fhip, and tent up to the city. he Eugcnia wac
this city.
The Coroncr's IndocA, which has been Ct.
ting iince the i3th uit after diiigent and las
borious inYeAigalicn Of witncies and circum-
fancrs, relating to the death of Cen Hamilton,
iait evening brought in verdict of MURDER
BY AARON BURR. We have not vet fSeii
the official pa?er containing the serdia, but
We undsrtland that il amounts TO Murder Of
the Tight degree. Nfseyorl Gas d4s 3.
Extra7 sfa Inter Jssm geshkmas IN Esszf,!,
y bs' jris"d IN Cbn'Afaan, dated 10th Jarr.
No doubt, ere this, yon have heard Of
the lcts our friend William II. Wgg, efls
s,ct with. His ovefeer, John Harragan, ac-
companied by two white men, by the nashe cf
Read and Myers, went into one Of his negro
houies in the middle of the night, and wanioii=
y dragged TO the door che Of Mr.. Wigs prime
fellows, and, notwithstanding the entrcaties Of
the raotherand fitfer ofthe fellow, a piltol was
discharged, and his head hattered almoh 10
peices by the lhot. IL is fid this tranfa ftoA
was owing to an old grudse. and that unpleaf-
ant conveiiation had taken ace between the
parties the day before 4 fter an inquiGton was
held Harragan and Read were committed to jail,
where they will remain till the court Of frfiony
meet, they not having gwen proper bail. N.Y.
ers is bound in rceognizanoe-- he having be-
came ttass's evidence. 1t sto belamcntsd that
the fate Legislature does not punifh thefe Of
ASssSSS Will ucStA1, AnatCA0 90 lac PtGlSut WoNS.
A few days ago Gays Raleigh papefJ John
High, .fon Of Mark High, Of this country, de-
Gberately fhot his neighbour. William Bib.
We are informed quarrel had for foae time
fuhfffrd betwixt the deeeafed and High, and
thar High had frequently Complained Of the a.
bafs he received from Bib. and on the day that
this unhappy affair took place, on Bib's tollar-
ing and triking him, he threatened that if he did
rot delft from troubling him he would ilsoor
him. Bib difregarding his threats High went
home, and brought his gun, and fome pesfons
who were prcfent getting beswixt them and the
deceafed, he fwofe he would FIRE upon them Il
they did rot move cut of bis way. Alarmed by
this menace, they retreated and the moment he
got the opportunity he fred, and lodged the
contents Of his piece (which was loaded with
buck ihot) in the breatt of the deceafed, who
died IN leis than an hour after-Whia the per-
IONS pretcnt were attending to the deceaitd, High
made his elcape. and has not fince been heard
OF. hish was overfecr to MIR. Norris, on
Whole plantation the affair took place, aud 70
whom the deccafcd was ION in-law.
An arrival at New FORK, from Barcelona,
mentions, that the French had taken and ftnt
INTO the Canarcs, n or IA fail of American
veiels. The realons aligned for this conduit
are not Hated. ~