1825.]. 
horrors of anarchy, and to tremble in 
the breath of every rumour, with all. the 
guilty fears of retaliative vengeance. 
Guerilla parties of constitutionalizts are 
said, with probability, to maintain them- 
selves in different parts; and,a report, in 
spite of its improbability, seems to have 
been believed, of a powerful body of 
exiles having Janded from the opposite 
coast of Africa, which has been assigned 
as the reason for the continuance of the 
French,—equally hated, it should seem, 
by the Liberal and the Royalist parties. 
Such is the permanent pacification of 
Europe, effected by the Holy Alliance. 
GERMANY AND RUSSIA, : 
especially the latter, instead of politics, 
present us only the most frightful and 
heart-rending details.of devastations by 
floods, unprecedented, it should seem, 
since the days of Noah, in the history 
of the world. On the 19th November, 
the city of Petersburg was inundated by 
the overflow of the Neva, to such an 
extent as must have suggested the ap- 
prehension of another universal deluge. 
The dépots of merchandise, the public 
arsenals, .&c. have been completely 
under water, and all their stores de- 
stroyed. Ships of great. burthen have 
been ‘stranded im the streets, houses 
swept down; and but for the general 
solidity of the buildings there, it seems 
probable that every trace of human 
habitation might have been swept away. 
Whole villages, in the neighbouring 
country, have been. so swept; and it 
has even been estimated that 15,000 
people have perished; while, from the 
almost total destruction of the means of 
subsistence, famine seems to stare in the 
face of the survivors, 
Accounts almost as awful have been 
received from some parts of the north of 
Germany. In the city of Darmstad, in 
particular, the inundations rose so sud- 
denly aud so high, that the inhabitants 
had no refuge but on their house-tops, 
where they sat, in trembling expectation 
of being swept away by the augmenting 
deluge. 
SOUTH AMERICA. 
In those extensive portions of South 
America, heretofore Spanish, no event 
of any decisive or discriminative charac- 
ter bas occurred. Ferdinand still keeps 
up the farce of. appointing, promoting, 
and, conferring ,honours upon nominal 
functionaries of Ais. dominions there; 
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but his warfare, in the way of supplies, 
seems to go no further. ” 
HAYTI. 
The stability of this sable empire, or 
republic rather, is again to be menaced, 
if we may credit the following extract 
of a letter posted at Lloyd’s :— 
* Portsmouth, Dec. 25—The Captain of 
a merchant-vessel, arrived in’ six weeks 
from Barbadoes, reports that the French 
had landed 8,000 troops at St: Domingo.” 
Population of Hayti.—The original native 
population of Hayti, previous to its subju- 
gation by the Spaniards, was estimated, by 
the Bishop of Las Cases, at 3,000,000. 
This race has long been-extinct; and the 
island was. divided, in the 17th century, 
between the Spaniards and French. So 
late as 1798, the Spaniards were estimated 
at 110,000 free persons, and 15,000 slaves. 
The French, on the contrary, imported 
great numbers of slaves from Africa; so 
that, in 1726, the population of their part 
of the island was estimated at 100,000 
negroes, and 30,000 whites. In 1775, it 
was estimated by M. Malouet at 300,000 
negroes, and 25,000 whites. In 1779, the 
numeration, as stated by M. Necker, was 
249,098 slaves, 7,055 free persons of colour, 
and 32,650 whites ; in all, 288,803 persons. 
In 1789, the slaves were estimated, by M. 
Moreau de St. Mery, at 452,000; and by 
Mr. Bryan Edwards, at 480,000. In the 
same year, M. Prieur, in the National 
Assembly, calculated the population, ‘in 
round numbers, at 500,000 blacks, and 
40,000 whites : adding this 540,000, which 
is probably rather exaggerated, .to that of 
the Spanish part, the utmost amount of the 
whole, at the commencement of the revolu- 
tion, could not exceed 665,000, By an 
actual census, the island, which forms now 
one Republic is found to contain 935,335 
inbabitants. Thus, we see a free black state, 
of nearly a million of souls, possessing an 
island which formerly contained three mil- 
lions, and which is physically capable of 
containing six millions, established in the 
immediate vicinity of our most valuable 
West-India colony. Its population is in- 
creasing rapidly, without the aid of impor- 
tation; but that will not, henceforth, be 
neglected. The President, Boyer, in a 
correspondence, in May last, with the New 
York Society for African Colonization, offers 
to receive and allot lands, in the course of 
the present year, to 6,000 blacks and men 
of colour, from the United States; to pay 
part of their passage ; and to furnish them 
with agricultural implements. He is, at the 
same time, promoting. public: instruction, 
The armed force of. Hayti is fully. corre- 
spondent to its population. 
INCIDENTS, 
