Letters from Havannah, da...
Letters from Havannah, dated the 13th ef fMay, were recein,ed yesterday by way of Charleston. The discontent of the merchants and planters of Cuba at the interruption to the commerce of the islaud by the Colombian privateers was daily increasing, so much so as to threaten, at no very distant period, a separation from Spain, unless the evil was removed by some amicable arrangement with the colonies. In periods of European warfare, the traders of Cuba were reconciled to any privations and disasters they might be ex- posed to by the increased price which produce borein the markets of Europe. At present all produce is low, and the losses to which they are exposed far greater in proportion, for it is estimated that of late one vessel in three which has left Havannah has become prize to the Colombian priva- teers. Even the small coasting vessels were not secure against their enterprise and activity. In consequenceeof this state ef things, and beiug unable to obtain froiA Spain any support or protection, the commerce of the island was almost wholly at a stand, and the opinion was becoming general, that the only step which could rescue it from ruin, was the aclinowledgment by Spain of the independence of the colonies.