THE REVOLUTION AT PORT AU PRINCE.

Auckland Star, Volume VI, Issue 1689, 17 July 1875, Page 2

THE REVOLUTION AT PORT AU PRINCE.

The details of the revolution at Port Au Prince shew that the leaders of it were former leaders of revolution. The plot was discovered, and the police and military went to the houses of the ringleadera. At General Pierre's house they 'summoned the inmates to surrender. The summons wa3 answered by the report of a rifle fired down from a window into the crowd of armed police, who thereupon returned a volley. The firing continued on both sides for some time until the"General had exhausted his sixteen-bar-relled Spencer rifle, when he showed himself at the window, and with remarkable coolness, revolver in hand, shot himself in the head and disappeared. Simultaneously a similar attack was made at the residence of General Brice, who, after bearing the charge of twenty men, and being literally perforated with bullets, sought refuge at the British Consulate, where he died almost immediately. General Canal had been wounded and routed : the three escaped through a narrow mountain path to the couutry residence of the American Minister. It is feared that the American Minister will be forced to surrender the refugees, as the United States Government will no longer permit its legations and consulates to be made asylums for fomenting discord and rebellion against Governments to which accredits" its agents. Forty men fell in .these several encounters. One, Rosambert Jerome, was captured and shot on the spot. The Government has lost several soldiers.