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and marders. We learn that the brigantine Queen

Vietoria, of Trinidad, Capt, Tucker, fromn Port au

Prince, bound to Hamburyg, with a eargo of coffee,

&e., put into Motant Bay on Thursday last to pur

chase stores, as none could he procured at Port au

Prince, in consequence of the state of matters at

that place and that Capt. Tucker reports that he

has I»ruught dispatehes from the British Consul

there to Com. Bennett, on this station requestinge

that a vessel of war should be immediately sent

to Port au Prince, where o serious disturbanee had

taken place —a large number (some say upwards

of a hundred) of the colored population ‘mving

been massacred by their bluck brethren. The cause

of this outbreak has not been fully mentioned. but

it is said that the lives of people of color were

daily being sacrified in large numbers, This de

termination on the part of the blacks to ¢xtermi

nate the browns ’l.’ul been brewing for o long

time, in fact since the tyrant Soulonque has been

President; and it is now being realized with a

vengeance that none but savages would be guilty

of committing.

The commodore, we learn, has been unable to

comply with the requisition of her Britannie Ma-

Jesty’s Consul at Port au Prinee. there not heing

u single vessel of war at Post Royal at this mo

ment, excepting the guard and storeshivs, which

are useless in t‘:':ir present state,

The Alarm. Daring and Vixen are, it is said,

cruising off the island of Cuba, and it is not

known when they will return to Port Royal.—N.,

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Republican herald. (1848). Providence [R.I.], 1848-05-24. Haiti in the American Press. Library of Congress, Chronicling America: https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn83021460/1848-05-24/ed-1/?sp=2

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Library of Congress, Chronicling America: Republican herald, 1848-05-24.