Weekly national intelligencer

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aome of the inhabitants but we have official news here to

day that they have been defeated by the troops of Port au

Prince, the leaders taken, and the insurrection suppressed.

Col. Bedouet has shot himself.

We have also official news from the Spanish part that an

engagement took place on the lftth, in the plain of Bani, (to

the eastward of Axua,) Iwtween the Dominicans and the

Ilaytiens, under Gen. MoitilTT, in which the latter lost six

hundred men and two cannon. The Haytiena appear to

have been taken by surprise. Thi^* engagement, however, iu

which the number loit haa probably been exaggerated, is, like

others which have preceded it, of little importance, as it set

tles nothing, and leads to nothing l*il the destruction of agn

culture and commerce. The President is desirous of carry

ing on the war vigorously againat the Dominicans, but disaf

fected Havtiena in the south and west, where the President is

not popular, take advantage of the absence of troop* in the

Spanish pert to create internal dieturbances. In this devil

ment, which the President appears to consider as peculiarly

his own, every thing is quiet.

Neither the French Consul here noi the Colioul General at

Port au Prince have yet left, nor is it probable (for obvious

reasons) that the order for their leaving, which was issued in

the heat of the moment, will be preased by this Government.

The trial of Polly Htxlinr commenced in New York on

Monday last. Thisis the fourth time she has l?een tricl for

the offence of which she stands charged. Twirr the jury

could not agree, and nncf she was found guilty, the case car

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Weekly national intelligencer. (1845). Washington [D.C.], 1845-10-18. Haiti in the American Press. Library of Congress, Chronicling America: https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn83045784/1845-10-18/ed-1/?sp=3

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Library of Congress, Chronicling America: Weekly national intelligencer, 1845-10-18.