CHAPTER I.

 Uneasy position in Saint Domingo from fnsnfflcleney of food,
 the existence in IIis army or large bodile of blacks, and especially
 a most deslructive Cever.

 BELONG, the natural consequences of the ravages which
 had been carried over the country, and of the abstraction
 agriculture of a large portion of the population, were felt
 amity o' provision-, the rather that Saint Domingo did not
 ad in arti. les of human fuol ol' a *ulperior kidl. This
 y was aumn-ented Iy the n ecriity of supporting out of
 public magazine- a large niimbhr of &Aldi&i.r; flr. ihough the
 ean part of the armn wa mnauch r.-dui..d, a large number
 lacks and men of'color had bwn thrown on the government
es. Shortner" of tfod, and the high prie s whi h ensue, are
cially trying to a gorr-rnment of rore. Complaints began
| spread among the native population, and not without diffi-
lty were the servants of the Salte supplied with the necessa-
6 of life.
:Application Ifr aid wai mad': to the governors of foreign
Ibaessions in the nt-ighblrhood. The Spaniardl furnished sup-
Ies with chivalrous generosity; hut those supplies were very
ir from being suffi ient. The Englih, who had not antici-
ktedthe success of the Fren b arms, and saw that surcess with
heasinese, refused to give succor. From Americans a similar
Bawer was received. The conduct of their agents disclosed
Ie regret which their po-rernmi-nt; tilt in lint fiining at Saint
oemingo, under the Fren. h saay., the :,'mnmercial advantages
which they eijoyvd while it was rul-d by Toussaint L'Ouver-
we. The state of the island, combined with the native polite-
es of the French character, caused attentions to be paid to
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