Alexandria gazette & daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1817-1822, 1819-04-15
sErUsLIc OF HArrs.

I nErGBLIc OF HAYfi.
| The following decree has been issuri ~
| the president Of the republic OF Hayti.
'"Jean P. Boyer. president ofthe repub-
| lie Of Hayti, seeing that tue public edifices
require repairs, lhat the planters are -
want Of materials to construct necessary
buildings, DEGREES, that until the 3ls, Dec.
1919, lumber of all descriptions Except
spars) may be imported free Of duty and
Wharfage into all the ports Of the republic"
[Sigaed at Port-aa- Prince, March l, 1919
TIE colors General Gemar, who com
mands large force in the mountains Of St,
Domingo, and agans, whom president Boy
er has lately marched, is said to be an in
dependent chieE-and that his defea, CT
success will serve Christophe.
From the journal Of ship New-(ia!en, arri-
we'd al Boston, from Bahia:
March |, lat. 3. 3S, s, lon. So, 90, W. at
10, A. NJ. saw schr to the westward bear
ing down upon us-soon after she fired a
gun-after speaking, The commander sta.
ted, thata few days before he was in brig,
and had captured the schr he was then in,
she being pirate-he begged to be report
ed as fol,ows-"schr General Montague,
Captain Bab5idge, boundto Margaret"
She was coppered TO light water L!ars,
painted white about to he bends, above
which was black.
The above schr was under the Buenos
Ayres flag, and appeared TO be about 100 or
I2o tons and TO have about 25 or So men OH
board, With large gun Oh pivot and Sc.
veral smaller ones.
Baltimore, April IS.
The Eagle, capt. lsley, from Rio janet.
70, was boarded March 10, in lat. a, II S.
long. go ". ry the big Fortuna, (for-
merly Fourth Of Ju'y) under the Patriot
flag was informed by the boarding officer
that three days before they had captured
large Portuguese ship, with valuable
cargo and on the next dey ieii in with
Portuguese man of war brig of 60 gmns,-
which they also captured alter sharp &C.
tion--hove all her guns over took what
they wanted out put the people of the
ship on board and set her at liberty. The
boats crew told the Eagles people, that
they had one killed and three wounded
and that they killed ten and wounded
twenty ofthe Portuguese.
Extract ola letter received by the Mary
& Susan, dated Rotterdam, Feb. 22, to
amerchant in this town.
During the first parts of the last year,
commerce was both extensive and pro6ta-
ble-proud of the success and confident
Of its continuance, immense engagements
were contracted, many of them became
due in the fall and former part of the win
ter, when money is generally scarce and
when our outlets lessen materislly.-1he
high rates of produce decreased the
demand, realizing became difficult, pri-
ces were depressed, and great embarras-
ment ensued. Stock jobbing was also at
tempted upon large scale, and ruined ma
ny fortune. For some time business
fuc.uated constantly, the stock Of produce
accumulated in the mean while, and a
great calamity soon broke out in every
quarter, with the most irightlul aspect.
Both in this and all surrounding countries,
failures of immense import become fire.
queDt. in England more especially we are
mortified to say, that they still CONT
nue. without interruption and money never
was so scarce there immense capitsls.are
lost, comm cree is entirely unsettled, the
want OF confidence universal, and the value
Of almost every article little more than no
minal. To increase the evil, considera-
bic public sales of produce are advertised
in Amsterdam, which only can have ten
dency further to injure the prices; 1t is
impossible to say when and how such
universal distres will subside, this depends
upon more circumstances than human sa-
gacity can foresee, but We expect when
once TO Attend, commerce will return to its
former regular channels, and shall be hap
| py to give you soon more satisfactory ac-