DAUPHIN PLANTATION: NEWS ITEM OF 1821

The following is a copy of a short article that appeared in the COLUMBIAN CENTINEL, Boston, No. 3871, May 16, 1821, page 2. (This newspaper was published two times a week, on Wednesdays and Saturdays, at "Four dollars per annum". It is available at the Library of Congress, Washington, DC, Bound Newspaper No. 8192.)

The article appeared in a column headed:

BALTIMORE, May 9.

We continue to receive "bloody news" from Hayti. The blacks of Cape Haytien have made another effort to throw off the yoke of the yellows, but have again been frustrated. On the 11th April Gen. MAGNY (Commander in Chief under BOYER) on suspicion that Gen. ROMAINE (an excellent officer and most humane man) had instigated the two regiments commanded by him to assinate BOYER on his arrival at the Cape, gave orders for his arrest. On the arrival of BOYER he ordered ROMAINE to be sent to Port-au-Prince, which was done, and the two regiments immediately revolted, and demanded the restoration of their General. Boyer treated their demands with contempt, and measures being in train to suppress the revolt by superior numbers, the two regiments surrendered. The Clolonels, Majors, and other officers, were immediately tried and executed, and fifty others were under sentence of death.

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The accounts add that affairs were not settled at the Cape and that business was much deranged by the revolutionary movements, and sanguinary executions, which were almost daily taking place. On the 27th April, President BOYER left Cape Haytien, with 400 men, to suppress revolutionary symptoms at Port Dauphin, and add a few more to his fussilades.

Bob Perdue

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