derstanding with the other agents of the public administration to have a
tabular state-
ment to this effect made out as promptly as possible, for the want of such
a document
has already been the cause of very heavy international reclamations against
the gov-
ernment, which it is expedient to prevent from this time forward.
  Certain individuals, after having been born among us, lived in our midst,
enjoyed
all the privileges attached to the quality of a Haytian, take a fancy, one
fine day, that
they do not wish longer to be our countrymen. That is of little consequence
to us as
far as they are concerned-for dignity requires that we should have for brothers
only
our brothers-but the object to which I draw your scrupulous attention is
the fraud of
which we are every day the ,victims.
  The administration has discovered that licenses (patentes) have been delivered
to
individuals as being foreigners but who are unquestionably Haytians, and
that this sort
of renegades, without any title, boast of this license as proof that they
have always
lived among us as foreigners. If they were only satisfied with the change
of denomi-
nation, without causing us injury, I would say again it is of little consequence
to us;
but it has occurred that by means of this fraud, besides the menace of their
pretended
all-powerfulness, they seek to fatten on the public treasury! the real object
of their
political apostasy. Consequently you will not, in future, deliver any license
under
the denomination of foreigner without lhaving first ascertained the fact
from docu-
mentary proof that the person is a foreigner.
  I depend on your patriotisui to follow strictly this measure, and salute
you with
  consideration.
                                                          JH. LAMOTHE.


                                  No. 361.
                          Mr. Bassett to Mr. Fish.
 No. 245.]                       LEGATION OF THE UNITED STATES,
                 Port au Prince, September 15, 1873. (Received Oct. 8.)
   SIR:" I have just learned through our consul at Cape Haytien that
 the Dominican insurgent leader Luperon, of whom mention is made in
 my No. 227, of the 27th of June last, had rendered himself so obnoxious
 to his companions and followers, that, after having made several at-
 tempts upon his life, they succeeded in banishing him from their ranks
 as an obstacle to their progress. He is now said to be quietly residing
 on a plantation about ten miles from Cape Haytien. I have always
 understood that Luperon was exceedingly unpopular in all parts of his
 country in which he was well known, and, in fact, that his cruel and
 overbearing character had caused him to be generally detested among
 his countrymen.
   It is reported that, since the enforced retirement of Luperon from the
 insurgent bands, they have met with some small successes on the fron-
 tiers near Monte Christo. But I scarcely think that these reported
 successes, if indeed there have been any successes at all, have thus far
 been, or are likely soon to be, of anyzspecial significance or importance.
   The Haytian war steamer L'Union, formerly called the Salnave, a few
 days ago left Cape Haytien, where she had been stationed for some
 time past, ostensibly to go to Fort Ltherte, but there are rumors afloat'
 to the effect that her mission is to keep an eye upon the Dominican
 man-of-war Capotille, and to lend aid, if opportunity should offer, to the
 Dominican insurgents said to be operating, I trust not very danger-
 ously or sanguinarily, on land near the northern coast.
   It is possible that there may be a grain of truth in a part of this
 rumor, but it strikes me, however, that the position of affairs in ilayti
 at present is such that this government will not feel inclined to inter-
 meddle seriously in the troubles of its neighbors for at least some time
 to come.
        I am, &c.7
                                           EBETT1E;ER D.T-%BASSEQZ1TT.


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