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Auckland Times, Volume 2, Issue 92, 15 October 1844, Page 1

Lamentable Insurrection and Massacre at HAirr. —The following lamentable account of the insurrection at Haiti we copy from the Jamaica Gazette of the Bth April :~"The French brig Adelina, Captain Tahet, arrived in this port on Saturday evening, bringing disastrous intelligence, and no less than 140 passengers, including 25 chil-dren,-all persons of colour, and compelled to fly from their native land, to seek refuge under the flag of foreigners. Our readers remember that the new President, Herard, had marched with a large army for St. Domingo city, to quell the insurrection in the eastern portion of the island. Taking advantage of the absence of the general and troops, the black people rose en masse on Sunday, the 31st ultimo, and commenced an indiscrime slaughter of the brown popula-

tion. On Wednesday, the. national guards of the towm of Aux Caves, went out with two pieces of ordnance to suppress the rebellion and punish the rebels, but as we have learned, their own general commanding delivered up the cannon 3 to the blacks, jvxilCvl.fchi g-b----ened, they drove the national guard back to Aux Caves entered the town, and commenced a relentless butchery murdering every brown person, without regard to sex or age. The wretched inhabitants had no means of defence, no refuge, save on board the few foreign ships lying in the harbour, French American, and English. Into these they crowded in confused and huddled batches,—men, women,- and children literally covering the decks, and exhibiting a distressing spectacle of misery and sudden destitution. But the decked vessels were not sufficient to hoid the number of wretched refugees ; the port was dotted over with small open boats, each containing as many human beings as it could hold, who dared not remain on land to await certain massacre, and yet could have little hope of escape by sea. Captain Tahet, a man worthy of his country and of humanity, could not for a moment think of leaving to a miserable fate those who had fted to his protection, and the guardianship of the tricolour. He was bound for France, and had but provisions sufficient tor his crew To Cuba, or Porto Rico, which would have been on his route, He; could -ring his poor for there they would not have boen received. With disinterested generosity, therefore, he sailed for Jamaica, and here has safely landed his unhappy freight. Most of these made their escape from land without any other property than their wearing apparel—some, indeed, with scarcely that. At eight o'clock on Thursday evening i'ast, Captain. Tahet set sail, and at that time the work of blood was going on, and the port crowded in the manner mentioned. We shall probably have some of the other vessels with the refugees arriving here to-day. When the Adelina left, her commander had just got his letters from St. Domingo ; and, though ru*mours were rife, there was no certain information of any encounter having taken place between Herard arid the Spanish revolters."