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I ; ' W^TSS c'ol <- of th,.t n.,;.,,. .; 



annually ;" ''"'-' , nan 1.. fit. But tl, the 



borr ' mule, and horses ; but :,, ' >' . rifli Jg t() ,, 



t nearly equal t<-t ; rf the "y rt ^ of Bonaparte, after the 



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under the command ot General I.e ( h 



dition was, in the highest .1- ^acetu! anddis 



. l',y an act of the great e-t dnplicil 

 sah.t indeed was removed out of the way ; bi-.t t 

 French troops, after being repeated,)- defeated, am 

 losin-an immense number of men. WCTt e. ,.,],,-,! 

 to evacuate tl.c island, "ith the exception of I 

 small force which withdrew to the city ot Doming- 

 The blacks now formed them-ehc, into a regular go- 

 verm, nt. and their chief DesMuines juwnned f 

 preme authority. I Ie w as of a im-t icrociom dispoi 

 lion- and having exercised Ins cruelty ,>.,,, hi 

 Sects', as well as on such whites a, fell into hi, 



' l ,1 1 *!.., f'.vfrviiit- I hf> I'll' 



Vuppa ty 800.W 



lly sent t.> make up tin- balance. I hew was 

 able trade between the United Mates 

 !, M Domingo. In 178.0, i, from 



. .,11 average measuring TO tons, arrival in 

 ', poitsofSt Domingo. Their cargoes con- 

 ,i~tcd principally of provisions, l.-t India mod*, 

 -h manufactures, and lumber; utd they t<jk back 

 the various productions of tlie island The annual re- 

 turns wre estimated at between eight and nine hun- 

 dred thousand ]x>und,. 



Of the commerce of this island subsequently to in 

 periixl, few authentic particulars are known. From 

 tlie year 1 80-1 to IPO*, according t<. Mr Walton, "75 ves- 

 sels, on an averatre, annually visited her ixirt* with small 

 .cs, ill all amounting to the value of about L 150,000 

 sterling, which they laid out chiefly in wood." Silenaii 

 and English goodf were imported by the Danes, and 



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author last quoted is of opinion, that this island is ca- 

 pable of furnishing ;.r,muilly 10,000 logs of mahogany, 

 each containing on an average 300 feet, 500 tons of 

 lignum viu, .'()() tons of fustic, 100 tons of logwood, 

 nearly 1,000,000 pounds of coffee, 10,000 hides, besides 

 cotton, indigo, &c. ; and he reckons the animal amount 

 of duties which St Domingo productions pa; in Lng- 

 land in war time, at the SUIT, of L48.7/i(>. By a cors- 

 mercial treaty between Major General Caimic.iael and 

 the governor" of the Spanish part of the island, execu- 

 ted in August 1809, all vessels bearing the British 

 flaT, are to pay the same duties tu Spain,!) vessels, by 

 which regulation, the import duties will not exceed :> 

 per cent, and the export duties (i per cent. 



The Spaniards held undisturbed possession of tlie 

 whole island of St Domingo for upwards of I'M years. 

 About the rnddle of the K.'th century, a number of 

 French Buccaneers, most of them natives of Norman- 

 dy settled on Tortuga, a small island lying to the north 

 ofSt Diniingo. From this place they made constant 

 incursions against the Spanish settlements, till at last, 

 by tlie treaty of I!y,wick. that part of the island in 

 which they had established themselves, was ceded to 

 trie French king, who had acknowledged them H hi, 

 subjects, and taken them under his protection. No 

 other c'.ci.t of importance occurred in the history of 

 the inland, except the attempt made upon it by Adnu- 

 ral I'en. which has h*cii already noticed, mid a dread- 

 fill mi rt.ility, occa-iom-d by the measles and small-pox, 

 in the yea/HiMi. which is' still rnneiulx-red by the ap- 

 m-llation of l.a Traprdia de lus seitis, the tragedy of the 

 When the French revolution began to unoM 



Id and violent character, the immediate and un- 

 ,.,-( pared fiMilom of the flavcs in their West India 

 island* w.is one of their first measures. The COIIM-- 



ces in St Domingo wen most dreadful ; the sla\e 

 I the whites, and in a \ery short 



.tin- Inncli division was rendered desolate and 



t, u well M on -ch whites a, fell into hi, power, 

 w-.s put to death by the former. The empire ot 

 Haiti (lor so it was denominated) was disputed by 

 many' chiefs after the death of Dessaline- 1 he most 

 celebrated and successful were I'etluon ai C hnstoph. 



Woody wan tave token place between them; but the 

 population under Christophe is the most ."" 

 His troops amount to 10,000 men ; and h- U 

 of superior talc nt, and great decision of character. At 

 the commencement of the Spanish revolution, h 

 ties broke out between the Span.,!, inhabits 

 French troops who were in that division ot the island. 

 The latter being defeated, t.x.k refuge m the city ot . 

 Domingo; but they were obliged to capitulate and to 

 evacuate the island, in consequence of General ( 

 chael, with a considerable- body ot British forces, join- 

 in.-- the Spaniards in the summer of ISO!'. [W. s.) 



DOMINGO. ST, the capital of the is and, ,s m tlu- 

 division belonging to the Spamards. It 

 North Latitude, and in 69 <> \\ t Longitude on the 

 bank of the O/ama. It wa, founded by C olum- 

 ,, iiui and received its name either because lu- 

 ll tlie island on a Sunday, or in honour ot his 

 father. It WU originally built on the cast side ot the 

 river but a great part of it having been destroyed by a 

 Violent hurricane in l-HW, and this calamity ben, 

 tmv , a hv pestilential visitation of destructive auts , 

 ,-,, i,' was removal to its pre-cut site. I he port, 

 thou.'.h onlv tit tor smaflvesseto, is conwmentand safe, 

 ,,! 'eonfuns a natural ba J i" which a great number 

 of vessels may car,,-,,. The ton,, of the city is that of 

 tv,,,e/ium of about ; ',1O fathoms on the CMt-Side along 

 ivcr, nearly :1(K) fathom, the south side bordcr- 

 n .r< w the sea. and about 1 HiX> fath.,m in circumlerencc. 

 | he- street, art straight and broad, crossing on. 

 ,1,,-r at right angle. ; fn of them run from north to 

 south and two Vron, eall to west. 'I he whole C, y I 

 smround.-,! by a rampart S feet in diameter, and ,, 

 10 feet high ;" the fortifications, however, are not .strong, 

 , ,1 it is\-ompletc!v commanded by son, 

 l,..;.,l,,< The appeaVance of the town's rep. 



.. but rather gl<:o,,:>. L> reMOH ot t 

 unadorned 







