Port-au-Prince. Most of the citizens attend the funeral of general Amitié.

Most of the citizens of Port-au-Prince attended, on 11 April, the funeral of general Amitié, who had died the day before. He was highly esteemed and had fulfilled, with much honor, a long military career. He was 71 years old. A fine deed of his life was recalled. At the time of the Darfour affair, in 1822, several representatives of the people were arrested and imprisoned. A colonel commanding one of the regiments of the garrison of Port-au-Prince conceived the idea of gathering some officers of his corps at his house and proposing to them that they go to the prison during the night and massacre those prisoners, who were said to be accomplices of Darfour. Amitié turned him from this criminal project, expressing himself thus when his opinion was asked: “Your proposal will set a very bad precedent for the future; you yourself may one day be its victim; these men are accused: let them be lawfully tried; if they are condemned, they will be publicly executed; do not soil the government with an indelible stain.”