An attempt is making to c...
An attempt is making to create an alarm respecting a French expedition to St. Domingo, than whichl, we believe, there is in fact nothing farther from the contemplation of the Frenzh Government. Independently of the absurdity of such an undertaking at the pre3ent moment, and with suci inadequate means as are said to be employed, there are facts sufficient to prove, or to furnish a strong presumption, that no such dlesign is entertained. By letters received yester(lay from Havre, it is ascertained that vessels are loading in that port for St. Domingo, freighted in part with military stores and equipments for cavalry, which would not be permitted if hostile measures were in view. A negotiation was but recently pending for the acknowledgment of the independence of the,island, -which at one stage was thought so near completion, that the Haytian Commissioners lhad ma(le propositions for raising in England the sum of money which was to be the price of the concmsion ; and although two of the Commissioners have returned to Port-au-Prince, one still remainis, we believe, in France, with the hope of renewing the negotiation tinder more fav3urable auspices, in conse- quence of the accession of the present King. The mea. sure is well known to be anxiously desired by thle French mercbants, who feel that the only consequence of delay will be to throwv a monopoly-of the trade into the hands of the Englishl. Shortly before the death of Louis XViii., whose illness and the unsettled state of the French Cabi- net were probably, the ahief causes of the suspension of the negotiation, a very spirited remonstrance on the sLub- ject was presented to the Government by the merchants of Havre, but which, through the interfercnce of the censor. shin, did not find its way into tho journals. In this they cxpoea with equal force, the uttcr impossibility of re-con- quering an island, in" the attempt at whicll the flower of BUOiNAPAftTE'S army had perished, and the advantages that would result to the Prench commerce from an anmi. cable arrangement with its present rulers. These repre. sentations vill now be renewed, antl have tbo much reason in them not to produce an effect, in the altered situation of the French Government.