Le Cap. 91 vessels entered between 14 and 24 January

Americans and Englishmen, out of Charleston and Jamaica, came to tack about in the gulf of La Gonâve. The Indigenous barges, laden with coffee, cotton and cacao, came alongside them by night and exchanged this produce for arms and ammunition. From 14 to 24 January, 91 vessels, of which only 45 were European, had entered the port of Le Cap; the others came from the roadsteads of the colony, or from Puerto Rico, Jamaica and Philadelphia. One sees how far commerce had declined; and the cargoes of these ships consisted of nothing but biscuit, flour, rice, maize and salt pork. Cloth, linen and dry goods in general were lacking in almost every market of the colony. European ships, finding no return cargo, no longer came to the coasts of Saint-Domingue.