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ties with the Dominicans.

At present, the orders to both the English and

French Consuls are said to be, to blockade both

Port-au-Prince and Cape Haytien in such an emer

gency. As a truce has been agreed upon by Sou

louque, it is hardly possible that such a measure

will have to be resorted to.

In regard to the claims made against the Haytien

Government by American citizens for damages done

to their property during the intestine troubles of

the last half century on that island, the "Travel

ler" understands that this Government declines to

resort to forcible measures for a settlement of the

same; whether from a doubt of the justice of the

daims, after so long a period has elapsed, or from

a feeling that it is hardly magnanimous in a strong

Government to attack and injure a weak one for

such a purpose, the Traveller is not informed.

It is stated that the Haytien Government, within

a year or so, has paid to the French Government

about half a million of dollars of the debt of indem

nity due to France.

The island is now in a more quiet state than it

had been for a long period of years, showing that

the Imperial Government is doing away with the

bad effects of the misrule of the half despotism half J

republic which it has succeeded.

Two curious literary discoveries, of a similar

nature, have been simultaneously ma^e in England

and upon the Continent. The latter is that of the

manuscript of the Trial of Socrates," a tragedy

written by Collot cTHerbois in the beginning of the

year 1791. It is known that this famous convert

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Daily national intelligencer · Washington City [D.C.] · August 21, 185121 de agosto de 1851 · See the original pageVer la página original

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Weekly national intelligencer. (1851). Washington [D.C.], 1851-08-23. Haiti in the American Press. Library of Congress, Chronicling America: https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn83045784/1851-08-23/ed-1/?sp=3

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Library of Congress, Chronicling America: Weekly national intelligencer, 1851-08-23.