Winchester gazette. [volume] (Winchester, Va.) 18??-1826, 1822-04-06
SPANISH MAINE.

10 days from Curacao we have received pa
pets To tho Cd March, containing the follow
fDs extracts:
Currdco1, Eiarck 2-Accounts received
from Puerto Cab-lIo, state that General Mo.
Ts'es left that place on Saturday last, 10 the
Hercules brig of wsr with about l25 men,
principally officers and non conmi.sioned of,
hcers, To join division OF troops az Chichhi-
bichi. Subsequent account, from the coast
represent that the general had landed ct the
above place, end that the Hercule. had sail,
I'd on her return to Puerto C.bei'o.
4 Gen Ia Tore, it i. said, Ia. been appoint.
pointed Governor Of Porto Rico, aud was a.
bout to take his departure from Puerto Ca.
oello Tor that Island. General Morales sue.
ceeds to the chief military command in We
nezua.
Arrivals f'om ST. Domingo bring accounts
oil the whole OF The slave population of ST.
i Domingo having been emapcipated. No.
thing les, could have been eA pected from the
politicai change which so lately took place
IN Mat territory. 1t is in perfect conformity
with the constitution of Hsy,i.
The following is an extract Of a letter dated
st, Pierre, Martinique, February H.
Yesterday ship Of the line, 3 frgates,
) gabarras, briggs, and 4 schooners, having
on board 2ooo men, and so pieces of field
T..
tion Is destined for SANTANA, at which place.
II will throw up Notifications and will
speedily be reinforced. when en- attempt
will be made To ret6kc Spanish Santn Do
Iningo from the Haytiens :; and in the event
CT success may probably lead TO extensive
operations for the overthrow of that sable
government EmgraIts arrive daily from
st Domingo. Tha unfortunate planters
are ruined, IN consequence of ;heir slaves ha-
wing been declared free by an act of the
hayhea government. Seven piratical YES
sells have oeeo taken by the French cruise
and sent 20 this island. The Columbian
cruiser Josrfa has had an engagement with
the SPsni.h schooner Panchita, in which The
later mad her main-msst carried away by a
shot. She had gone tn Porto Rico to re.
par, ana take in a cargo of cocoa for Ca.
d!z. considerable number were killed
and wounded on both sides"
In addition to the information contained in
the sbnVe extract, We Iearn from ST Tho
mas, that the French fieet wa, seen passing
10 the north cf that lsiund on the 9TH cit
The Joseta, we understand, had taken
Va'uao'e Spanish schooner, from Porto Rice,
rev hours rrevIOns to her rGcuunteT with
Inc f"uchfa and but from the circumstances
OF he latter vessel losing her mast, it was
the retention ct he; commander 20 make eve
AIRY effect to retske the captured schooner.
FRANCE.-Private letters from Paris
state, tnai alr. Gai.atin, who was expected
h"ne this spring had determined 20 remain
another yesr IN France. We consider this de.
l. rmlnation as ldvsntageoas to the United
State for there ere few persons as we'll quail.
stied as that gentleman TO arrange the com.
merciai differences bstween the two coun.
tries.
Extract ola letter from French gentle
man to friend IN this city, receiSeG 5y
the LiDerpool Packet
sour domestic politics have Just undergone
: th''"hs' cnAog The King, who wa. per-
IectIy satisfied with his late ministers. has
oesn Competed 20 take u ne " get out of the
ranks ch'tse Aitras, who, though fsr from re.
presenting the interests or opinions of the
greater part or the nation, had, notw iihstand.
ing, succeeded in obtaining majority in the
House ofDeputies. Although do not ore.
Senh TO JUSTLY all ;he measures of the ex.
ministry, especiaHs that fatal bill of elections
parsed In 1916, Of which they have Jus. now
reaaed the bitter fruit, still It is but Justice
30 say that their internal administration has
oten gentle aud paternsl, and that. owing
TO their influence, tn the happy c;rcum
N""'' tuey uhU tNe fortune To De
placed. France has been raised To a very
unusual degree OF prosperity at bone, & has
maintained her sccustomed resprctaoiiity q.
broad. notwithstanding all that has been
sa'a to the contrary, facts are better than de.
siamstion. know that thaugn our finances
Ar In toe most eligible ST. ua,ion, the ex min,
3s'ry may have been lavi.h Of The public mo.
hsE, aof mat thsy have done little more for
me cause NJ liberty than their predecs ssor.
ont not Tor this were they driven from their
P'sres. Their fault was in having refused
ms&Ing themselves su5ssrvieIt to any party
Ia the House of Deputies. and miS;skep
Saicui,tiCn in their uoi'sd strength aeein.,
ina Of two expeditions. God grant that with
AL their faults, we may not one day be csl!rd
TO regret them
However, it would be unjust TO Judge the
present ministry before they have declared
themselves openly. Most Of them, with the
execution ut Mr. DE VIlele aud .Ir Corbisre.
have had po 'hare 10 the government and
shs'r political life is jest beginning
Extract ofa letter from Harve, Fe6 5-"Ap
ga prevails here that matters will sooa be
made up between the United S;stes and
france, founded, I believe. on the contents
Of the last dispatches of NJ. de Melville; som,
pF"- osIlinn TO split the difference having