Alexandria gazette & daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1817-1822, 1819-05-04
Charleston. April 81.

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LATEST FROM THE HAVANA.
By the schooner Marv-Ann, Captain
Croft, we have received from our atten-
tive correspondent Havana papers 10 the
I4th inst Inclusive, and letter, from which
the following is an extract:
"Nothing has occurred of much moment
since my last (per Legal Tender.) For
several days past some rumours have been
spread that the Island of Cuba was about to
be coded t." Great Britain. that a ne
gociation was actually pending relative to
that purpose-It has occasioned some stir
in the private political circles, but the idea
is entirely rediculed
LET US cancel the debt, they exclaim,
and if is rejected, LET US claim our lnde-
pendence. We are faithful, we are 10y
al people, and would she'd our last drop of
blood to restore our country from the height
which she has fallen.-We cannot never
submit to foreign yoke" nuncn nnnca ia.
mas" The British brig Of war Beaver.
Capt. King, arrived here from Jamaica on
the l4tb inst.-saiIed in company with II.
B. N. ship Ephiginia, with the Admiral
of that station. Sir II. Popham-this vessel
has not yet arrived.
&C The schooner Walton, Gray, Of Bal.
timore, bouna for this port, was lost on the
9th instant, on the Berry :lslands-passen'
gers, captain, crew, and most of the car
60 saved.
The schooner Margaret, Sustache, for
your port, is nearly ready for sea-schnr.
Joseph, from and for your port, also load.
ing-brig Milan, BonnelI, discharging.
"Our market Cor American produce
has declined-rice is a difficult sale at 81
dollars lard 20 Goldfish, a and a. hairs,
"a mould candles 81 spermaceti. do S
IS per ID ; soap. Ia l2dolIs.; -four keeps
steady-for prime Philadelphia, 8 dolls..;
N. Orleans, ISL boards, 81 hoops, Go;
slooks, IL rs. each, with heading ;plank,
IS dollars scantling SO spars in de-
mand, price according TO size.
Sour own produce molasses, 8 to 83rs.
Muscovado sugar, l4a to II rs; brown II
a l6 RS whites. 10 to "a rs. per arrobe ;
coffee 234 a "a.
"Prices at St. Jago de Cuba, on lst A.
pri herewith hand you price current Of.
The John Adams still remains in port
Tho Gather basaet in extremely hot-but
few cases of fever has occurred as yet
Bills on New. York, per cent premium
Philadelphia, do ; Baltimore, 2 per cent.
Boston, par anddull y Charleston, l5a2
per cent premium.
81 called this morning on the Rev. MIR.
Frost and bis brother, whom was glad
to find considerably better-they will 60 to
Matanzas in few days in the steamboat.
Times.
The Ceres and Diana, sloops OF war.
which conveyed the Spanish troops to Pen.
sacola, arrived at Havana on the 9th inst.
Ibid.
FROM THE "couarER's" coRREspoNDLST.
"Hauona, AprI is. 1919,
"I send you few Jamaica papers, just
received, The U. S. ship John Adams,
capt. Wadsworth, sailed this morning for
Norfolk. Brig Joseph. West, from Boston.
arrived yesterday-fell in with brig Cor1e.
liza, Tolman, on the Bahama Bank, with
the loss Of part Of her deck load, from Port
land bound here. Alse arrived yesterday,
brig BrutLs, Clark, from Boston, and ship
Madison, Cunningham, Of Baltimore, from
Antwerp.
"Several vessels are about to sail for
Charleston. The brig Galen, Heating sails
for Boston tomorrow brig Dolphin, Will
liams, for do in a week; ship Henry, Knox,
Of Boston, for Europe. soon.
"Cofee, s93 Is; white sugar, To- le;
brown do. a 8; molasses, 8 81 rails per
keg."
COMMERCIAL LITTER.
"April 17.-Five dollars per ewt. is all
that has been offered for the rice, per schr
Calypso, from your port. There are 1900
bbls. now aHoat."
Boston, Ap-il e.