The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1812-06-26
FOREIGN.
HAYTI.

NE are indebted 20 the hohteneas ola gen
t!enian Of Nszv York for The .folio7ping,
esrtract Of letter, dated Port an Prince,
May 20th 1912.
- "On my arrival here in very short
passage from Alexandria, found nothing
but hustle and warlike preparations, the OBJ
Ject OF which IS to resist Christophe. who
has been for this month past in the vi
Cinity with his entire army consisting of
1900 men.--In the different late attacks
which he made on this city he was most
vigorously received, and has in every point
sustained great loss of his best soldiers
His first attack Oh Fort George has, cost
him 500 killed. The disposition he evinced
on hs hrSs appearance before this city to
conquer or die rather than return to the
Cape, has within these few days past very
much changed (; for instead of firing as usu-
al 200 shot day, for these few days past
we have not had one. The vexatious man
ner in which he treats his own subjects &C.
casions continual desertions, and more con
siderable ones would take place were his
soldiers not apprehensive for parents and
relatives they left behind being murdered.-
President Petion's army consists of is ,0Oo
men, we'll equipped and who are burning
with the desire of meeting King Cbritophe.
a force consisting of 5000 men under
Cen Burgeila the late commander in chief
OF the south, LETT this place for La Croix des
Boquets, where they are to remain until a
new order. 1t is reported that this force
is intended to intercept Chr,stophe's wheat
and follow him TO his fort Lafcriere, the
place where all his moncyis deposited. Ha-
wing inherited all Dessaine's treasury he
must have vast sums buried IN this fort
The prevalent opinion here is that after the
total destruction of Christopher armp, and
his hnnIIttl th n e To II
and Jercmic, Potion intends ia disband the
greatest part OF his men, and resort to the
cult Naton of this admirable island. 1t is e.
ven said openly, that he intends recalling the
former white Inhabitants providing they sub
nit to his regulations. These people by
their continual intestine wars have at last
fund out they cannot live without the
whites, x Potion being very humane man,
and very much attached to that color, since
the beginning of his administration has en-
Outraged this idea he himself sees with
pleasure tina. misery and wrctchedness haze
brought his subjects to a due sense of their
situatiOn--since the revolution which took
place in the south on the 18th of April last,
is favor Of Peticn, and the expulsion at shat
time OF the last remnants of Toussaint and
iigaud's leaders who finding 40 prop to rest
upon, had FED Co South America, these pco-
pic now daily report that it is impossible for
them to exist without the white Inhabitants.
and that they must be recalled, and that E.
very exertlon ON their part must be used to
conciliate their return--tbis will be done
before long. 1t is with pleasure see that
the few white French people who reside
here are the most confidential friends of the
president--hc often tells them " prencz-
courage, dams pea de TENS tout ira votre
gre" every one Of Christophc's vessels have
been surrendered, taken or dcstroyed.--Cof-
&c 6s. and dull Salcs--but few American
vessels in port. Pub. Iiv.