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FRANC: E. PARTS, JANUARY so. Admiral Leroy co s‘ Taevi ca.,. who lately re turned from St. Domingo, is gone to Breit with focassfecret inftruaions. General Rate is employed .in the armament at Toulon, to which place he conveyed fecret infiruc tions for Admiral CANTHEAUME,who is to command the expedition preparing there. We expel daily here the chofen battalions of the Italian Legion, defiinctl to augment the number of the Confular Guards. At Morlaix, an brigade is forming from pa triots, prifoners, and dcferters. It is nearly complete. The Grand Judge, and Minitter of Police, has 'Written to all Prefeas, chat Government detires to be immediately informed of any occurrences that may difturb the public tranquillity. In the Weighbutirhood of Dinant, feveral thonfand 'apple.trees were blown down, or (battered by the 'storm of the ,6th left month. Number of families are ruined by this accident, as cyder is the only pro aation of the country. At Calais there has been taken up as a fpy, an Italian, who fold rags in the morning ; and in the afternoon. in an elegant dress, frequented ell public places. He had upon him a number of guinea's.— Another Italian is arrefted as a fpy at Boulogne. In the forells of Belgium, 36,000 oaks have been cut down for our navy. The. German, Horneman, who travels for. the Tsndilh African Society, is,gone towards Goodall', and intends Coon to return to Europe. Count Mat tore arrived at Vienna on the 3d init. He does not go, as was reported, to live upon his! effates in the Ukrain ; but is invited by his Sovereign to St. Peteriburgh, where, many think, he is intended to occbpy an honourable place in the Ministry. The Dutch Government has ordered the fhip of the lifts, Old Barneweld, rtow at Ferrol, to joiw the French• fquadron there; the •deflination of which matiot long ofernain a fecret. 'Me officers and biters of the Englifh frigate • Bassoon arrived at Rouen on the 36th left month. The_fornser were depoftted in the houfe of St. Lo, apd libtr*WW in the Convent tithe Urfetines. The fai- SW *Parted on the slith for Beauvais, and the offi iflßlillitbe 29th for Verdun. They all arrived and dioneeed under an ecort of Gens d'Armes. Linen from Italy fay, that great aaivity prevails is the Italian Republic to recruit the army. The ftledications at Legnego are continued without kliettetpelon t and this place, is well as Mantua, with and Piaaighetotte. are ordered to be pro. WM a numerous artillery, ammunition, and proident. • Itds again reported, that Mate.. the Vice Prefl &sat of the Italian Republic, on account of his bad lane of health, it to Mira. The Prince BORG H ISI. fosse perfoets think, is intended as his fucceffor. fieveril Ruffian harbours in the Black Sea art or• dared to be vivid elienals, to build or repair the Ruin natT o ls that ka. tilm•••••••1 EAST INDIES. •01111 M • Slay. 6.—You mat have heard of the *operant war is which we ate now engaged in the tscigltbontisood pf this Prefulency, with the hlahrat ti 'Sven tusk" the celebrated SCIIIDIU. At the eommementent of this war the troops experienced iamb bark fervice, but the refult of the conceit proniks to fulfil our molt fanguine expeflations. We have already captured the Rrong fourth of Ale- Malnaghur, one of the moll confiderable in the ter. ritory of Scindea, and the very key of his domi nions. Seindea calculated with the utmoß fecurity that it would have Rood a fiege of from three to four Months, and in that time he believed that he fhould be able to come to its relief. The vigour and promp titude of our military operations, however, com pletely dikoncerted his plans. The place was taken id three days by efcalade. The 74th and 78th regi ments and a battalion of fcpoys particularly dillin gtdtbed theralelves on this occaCon, and had the principal that. in the fuccefs. We have to regret the lots of Captain HuIdRIRSTON, of the 78th (fon 'of the Colonel of that name) and Lieutenant A Noka• spa * who fell fighting bravely in the attack. I have Dot heard of any fuperior officers of thole corps killed or wounded dangeronfly in this affair. Colonel MAI. west. and Major SCOTT I can name as having been formate enough to efcape unhurt in the arduous bakers in which they were engaged. The fortrefs of Alemadnaghur is of more impnr. lance than even General We ta.ssLEy had previi,ufly iasagined, and its early capture will have the hap pica die on the future campaign. General Wit.. aastar and Colonel ST iViN SON are now in purfuit of &indea. Our troops have already crt.ff_d the Godavery. and it is expelled that they will loon reach Burhampoor, the place to which the fcc has retreated. The Bengal army, we underfland here, is in mo tion under the command of General Lek,. It is laid that they hare palled the Junin... We hear that the fiat attack will be upon an important rid, w h ere General P 1 M IS 114 S grand depot. It ha, beet► reported, that General NUM'S had A deign of coming over to us with a body of 12,cC0 which are wholly denoted to him, and will follow him in any fervice. A few days ago the tcws reached ns, that tt- Bombay troops, iinJer the command of Lieutenant Colonel Wormincros, had taken Bernath, in the Guzzerat —The details of this affair hare nio yet been received ; but the . only e:Kzer killed is Captaia TF mpLt, of the BCrth regico,rt. A :4rsat took place of the Arabs in the lure, as the bulincfs war decided br , the bayonet. General W conducts all operations IA it!: uckt vigour as mull encore a freedy stud f..eccc•ral termination of the eontell Hitherto HOLKAIt has kept aloof from ScinZea, and it will not he very difficult to determine him to neutrality by the hope of (baring in the fpoils of his rival. Avo. 16.—The war againft the King of Candy, is a fubjea on which a well-wither to the Britilb caufe will not be anxious to dilate. It has nor, as you may have heard, been fo fortunate as was ca. peeled. It is thought that to reinforce the army there will be neceffary. Whether any are going from Bengal I cannot fay. At Madras they might fparc Come force. In the beginning of the "prefent month two embarkations of troops were to take place at Calcutta, but on the fpot as well as here their deflination was a profound fecret. Report Pays, however, that one of the expeditions which had failed was deltined for Balambaugour on the coat: of Borneo.—That Rim!, which was formerly in our poffeffion, would be of great importance to us as affording a place of rendezvous and fecnrity in that dick of Wands. The objet of the other is Paid to be fome ifland in the Gulph of Siam, to fuppreft the Veguins, or rather the Burmahs. ------- RETRACT OF ♦ LETTER FROM A MILITARY OFFICIR ON BOARD THS ATALANTE FRENCH FRIGATE, DATED. PONDICHSRRY 10503, JULY 12, 1803. " The French fquadron arrived in there roads to. day. lam among the paffengers on board of the Atalante, as Lieutenant of one of the Regiments of Sepoys, in the fervice of France. We failed from Breft, in Brittany, on the 15th of February. Two days after our departure, we experienced a (*even gale in the gulph of Gafcnyne, when we had been very nearly loft, but got over it after much trouble and danger ; almoft all my papers, h ffetts,&e. were ' either loft or fpoilt. My poor companions fuffered equally. I (ball leave this with General Mourroar, who is appointed by the FIRST CONSUL Governor of Chandernagore. I have failed with this Gentleman ; be is an honeft man, and polliffed of great abilities and knowledge. 44 Our fquadroa was compofed of three (hips of the line, five frigates, and four tranfports ; but the gale we met with difperfecl the whole fquadron.— Pour only arrived here, of which one (hip is called the Marengo, and the frigates Belle Poule, Semil. tante, and PAtalante. They wait orders from Cal cutta to put us in poffetfion of Pondicherry. Our General es Chef Is called MORES; ; the others, who are under his orders, are General WENDIRMASSE, a German, &HAUT, and DARSOAVILLI ; our Colonel is called Purim= Winans*, a native of Pondi cherry, formed y Lieutenant Colonel of the regiment of Pondicherry. The commander of the naval forces is called Rea: Admiral Liuots. The other (hips that compofed the fquadron will arrive in a few days, probably fifteen."—Boaday Gazette, Sop. 7. On Monday evening failed to the fouthward, hit Majefty'a (hip Csartra roil, Vice Admiral Rata tsar accompanied by the LAIICASTIR, TRIDENT, WtL HELMraA, and VICTOR 1100 p Of war. His Majefty's !loop of war RATT , Capt. G. CILZMER, arrived on Tuefday evening.---Nadrar Gazette, Aug. 11. Advices from ' Madras mention the arrival of a French cutter at Pondicherry. It is Paid Elie failed from France on the Gth of April. Soon after her. arrival the French (hips that were in Pondicherry Roads weighed and proceeded to (ca.—Banks Ga za', Aryl, 3. On Sunday morning, at day break, minute guns were fired from the Fort, announcing the death of his Highnefs the Nizam of the Deckan, and at twelve o'clock a falute of nineteen guns, on the ac ceflion of his fucceffor.-1/m/rar Gazette, Aug. 18. SHIP CALEDONIA.—It iS NHII extreme concerts we have to (late the melancholy fateof the fhip Cac v DON lA, Capt. THOMAS. The CALEDONIA left Balafore Roads on the 114th of May, bound to Bombay, with the fol lowing paffengers on board : Mrs. THOMAS ; Lieut. Colonel James PATERTSON, of the Bombay Military eflablifliment ; Mr. Ross, Lieutenant Kimmins., and thirty-feven men of his Majelly's 78th regiment, four women and feveral children: On their pafrage they fell in with an American (hip from Prince of Wales's Ifland, bound to America. On Friday the 29th tilt. they bad (truck foundings and were in about 45 fathoms running is for the land, blowing exceeding frefh, and a heavy lea, running under chile reefed topfails and a forefail, when about eleven o'clock in the forenoon, when Captain THOMAS tA':IS aft on the poop, looking out for a double altitude of the fin, not having had olifervation for fume days before, a fmok,7 was oblervrd corning rip the fore hatchway, and a cry of file. The buckets were imm:diately filled with water, and every precaution taken ; but on removing the f;re hatch the flames and Imoke broke out In ra pidly as is fuppofed to have fuffoc.ated fume of the pent„:, and tae flames raged with fuch extreme vio lensze as to preclude the poffibility of flopping their I r -mei,. The (hip directly before the wind, with a cicw of preventing the fire from communicat. ; the boats were boated out, and people id.iccd in them to prevent the crew from deferting the :114), or permitting too many to get on board the beats, In as to endanger their fafety. It was (or'n difeovz!ed Coat the fire had communicated generally in :i.e hold, the main and atter hatches baying been bind optn by violence of the flames. It now be• carne Lecetliry to attend tz, the prefervation the cf as many of the CfCW as their means •.uld admit rat. Captain TiioM AS, 'qrs. THOMAS, C'olourl s sow, !kir. Mrs. jk t, fer:;aLt•ma•rir's wife of the Bengal artillery at Tannah, Mi s. r &use and one child, wife of a private of the 76th, in all fifty•three people, embarked in the long boat. In the pinnace, ten lea tunnies and lafcars quitted the flip, (even of whom were unfortunately loft on the rocks when landing. In the jolly boat there em barked from the Nip, the gunner and fourteen lafcars, four of whom were dallied to pieces on the Turf on Malabar point in attempting to land. The total number of fouls on board were 157, out of which only 71 were Laved. We are forry to add that Lieu- 1 tenant KINMEDY, of his Majetty's 78th regiment; Mr. Ttionesos, the chief officer; Mr. HERRING, the 2d officer; Mr. COLLINS, the 3d officer ; and Mr. CRANSTON, the 4th officer, were left cn board the flip, and it is fuppofed mutt have perifhed. The pre. fervation of Lieutenant Colonel Parsasos's life was truly miraculous, having jumped from the window of the quarter gallery, at the time the long boat was dropping Atm. The fituation of Mrs. FRAZER may be caller conceived than defcribtd, for although fhe efcaped with her own life and one child, the was un der the neeeffity of leaving two other helplefs infants to fall vi aims to the flames. Imthediately after the boats quitted the flip the mainmatt went over the fide, and loon afterwards the !Lip blew up abaft, having about fourteen barrels of gunpowder on board; in a few minutes after which (he difappeared. The fire is tuppoted to have originated from Come oil having leaked down upon the gunnies in the hold, and eauling a fpontaneous ignition. The following is a MI of the people who em barked on board the long boat, and who landed at Vertovith on Saturday morning lall : Mrs. _ Gee, Tholes, Canunander ; Colonel tiessiket, Mr. Rofe; Mrs. Joyce, Selman Major's wife of the Rawl Artillery at Tannah ; Mrs. Frazer, and one child, s prl- 1 t'oe's wife of the 78th Regiment ; James Coats, carpenter; An thew Rer„ botcher; Donald Mackay, ferjeant; Finlay M'Res, =monk W. Mayo, Donald Frazer, Robert M'Lean, John Skeetland, George Luke, Finley Mackenzie, John Bowman. Robert Macquesious, John M.lver, Murdock Frazer, Chrillian Conftance ,Owen hisequerls. Andrew highs, Finley Henry, and Alexander Mackay, privates In his Majefty's 78th Regiment ; Baum= Allemande, fea canny ; Brim fyrang ; 16 lakars ; two fepdys, and 17 (errant, total 33. Government immediately difpatched the Wass, Lieut. Saw.. Spool, in quell of the wreck of the CALEDONIA' which veal is fine returned after an ineffectual cruize.—Bombay Caw*, Av. 3. LONDON. The Latin Verfes and Notes from the Ifle of Wight are too long for oar Paper. We found fame good lines in the Poem, but we were Bopped by an Hexameter offioe feet. A minute (mu tiny might, perhaps, have dicovered our of from, whish would have completed the mew, I ' WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY :. TRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK . Conf. for gooney. 5511—Dlito, for February, SS i to 56. Reduced zit N. Old 3 per Ccnu. 8811—New 5 per Cents. Long Ann. t64 —Sbort Ann. 3; 3-tn.. PRICE OF STOCKS YESTERDAY.. .. Bark Stork 1551 :54; 5 Per Cent £797 51.:4 9 2 44 3 per Cent. Red. Ann. 56,11. Long Ann. t 6 9 t67-t6 3 per Cent. Conf. 56; 551 Imp. 3 per Cent. 55f; 4 per Cent. 73; 724 Omnium a}} chi% 5 per Cent. Navy 891 884 Conf. tor Ace. 36. DUSLIN, re. iB. Si per Cent. Gov. Deb. 1-5 per Cents. —. Courfe of Exchange—. Dublin on London 17 a Ili. We have pleafure in announcing the capture of' four more of the enemy's gun boati, three of whiih, according to our letters from i'ortfmouth, have ar rived at that place. From the tenor of our letters from Dublin, we fhould not be fttrprized if feveral ill founded t umours fhould this day b.: circulated refpetning Ireland. Our Correfpondent's letter will we hope have the effea to prevent the public from being impact' upon. The Gazette of !aft night contains a copy of the lall difpatches received from Admiral DUCKWOR rm, Commander in Chief on the Jamaica Ration ; but they are not of a date fufficiently recent to notice the circumftance of the evacuation of St. Domingo by the French troops. By the row York pare' sto the 3oth December, we have however received a confir mation of this important Wt. One of them contains the following intelligence relative to St. Domingo : " New Verb, December as. u Mr. Dawfon, who arrived hcrc on the atft init. In the brig Aurora, from Port-au-I'i ince, has furnilbcd so with the following infornistion 6. Agreeably to advie.es received at Port•au-Prince, front Gene ral Detfalines, he had, on the 21.1 ult. attacked the Cape with all the valve force be could mile, fold to the amount from to to to ze.ecoo MOT. The defcent was eff,..led from Pitome-du-Cap.— After having pailod the out-lines and feveral of the block-books, an adlon enfuedbetwocts the troops of Denslines and Rachambeau, which continued eleven hours with the greaten obftinaey, when °sacral Roehambeau was under the neeelGt y ui tapituladug fur the evacuation of the Cape on the ill itdlant. All the troupe pulled at the block-boufse between the Bann r, and Haut-du-Cap, (the out pone) were malfacred, a:, all poßbility of cfcapc front the town was cut off. Agreeably to ,ht eas.ittettion, korhambeau, with the army under his command, were to be embarked under the peace-dims of the Brine, cruising fleet. When Ikffalittes kft Port.au-Prince, he noroinvid l'esiun ;a Mulatto) General ofißri gade and cummandont of the ',lore, in hie abfence. The people of colour, particuLrly the la min, experienced the moll crud trent mei t, having been put to labour as the public work., with Nevin women to lope/intend then:. the Afiliai.Clll vent I , wit It pruritic*. s. catty compelled to part w ,;• t. the Government, •IA wi rr i•romifed payment in vitt.,- It. tht,c sr 1.. u, s .4 given a/rumness vt ft:, ca aid I reg.:1,41 to the American wh:k I. he h .J of ckcrt.. I;ta ••• LJwcs racral.:nts trittting at Putt-au•Fstat fo:vol v laac L'aw', so they dingle port. Der/liso is proclaimed Captain-Geyer/1 of the colony; elattveaus, Chriltaphe, Petion, and leveed other Mulattoes, are ranked as Generals of Divirion and Brigade" Another paper rays : " Cape Nichol' Mole had rat forreodered so the 4th of Decem ber. Captain Selby, in parang there ft that time, heard a great cannonade, and fuppofed it was attacked. If fo, be had oo doubt.. of its not being able to hold out logger than fire or fa days." On the fubjeft of Loniliana, a letter dated Walh ington, Dec. IS, gives the following information : " New Orleans is now in oar poikiSon : accounts were yeller day received from that place, dated the '9th of November. VAL:I - was to take pofferßou in the name of the French Republic, Ott the 3ctb. He was preparing a grand fete on the medlars He was to hold the place a week, and then to deliver It to the American CommilSoners. Money had arrived to pay off the Spain& troop, and to prokree order. I.'Autrat had organised the Militia d New Orleans, and had appointed the Officers, at the recommendation L. the American ConfuL We esped to have °facial information of the delivery of the place to cur Ooverinanalt on Sunday next" Letters and papers from Bomb: y f fo late a data as the 7th of September, have been received in town. What we feared refpeaing the war in Candy, ap pears to have been in fome degree realised. The war in that quarter has by no means been fuccefsful, and reinforcements will in confequenee be required for the army it Ceylon. . _ The prefent accounts _alio bring fome important particulars refpeeting the war wlth the Main attas.— It appears that General Watt's:. s v has proceeded with great vigour in his operations agaialt . Seindes, and has taken one of his principal fortreffes, called Alemadnaghur, by efealade. The particulars of . our lofs arc not mentioned ; but as the attack was continued for three days, it ma have been confider• able. Captain Hu ea eta stow and Lieutenant AMDSIL sou, of the 78th, were killed. This regiment. the 74th; and a battalion of native feapoys, particularly difinguilbed themfelves .in forming the place.— Scindea was clofely purfued. It appears that the Bengal army under General Lass, was alto in mo tion to affift chars:olW army. We fufpeit that too fanguine hopes are entertained of a fpeedy termina. tion of the comet. The Mahrattas are perhaps the molt warlike people in India. They will give us a great deal of employment. An important place. Baroaeli, In abs Guzzerat, has been taken by the Bombay troops. Capt. Tsm ems, of the 84th, was killed. Further particulars had not tranfpired. • It is impotable for us at prefent to give any opi nion of the policy or necelfity of the War in the Mahratta States. The prefent effeift of it, however. will be to create large demands on the Company ' for the fupport of the Wart and it is natural to wed that we (hall fee in this cafe what has fo often happened before, that funds defined for commercial objets will be diverted to fupport warlike operations. It is not known what has become of Liao ss. He arrived in Madras Roads on the Bath July. We have !ince heard that he returned to the Mauritius. The Bombay Gazette cf the 3d Auguit natal 1 011 the authority of letters from Madras, that on the arrival of a cutter from France. Liao' s diately left the Roads of Pondiche 'y and proceeded to Ira. Yefterday afternoon it was feared his Maissrx (landing feveral hours at the levee, as appointed for this day, would caufe a telapfe of the rheumatifm. In conlinuence of which, notice arrived at the Lord Chamberlain's Office, announcing that his ItlajEsTv would not hold a levee, but velinll be at St. James's. at two o'clock, to hold a Piivy Council. Several Malingers were in eonfequenee difpatcheil to the proper Officers belonging to the Court. informing them of the levee being put off. sieflerz!ay morning his MATzsev, attended by Generals SYF AC ER and MAtiNvlt,, in the Riding. houfe for about :in hour and aka _ Her MAJESTY and Princeilis AUGUSTA and ZABEr 11, touk an airing by Highgate and Hampftead. . . Print& AMELIA lOOk an airing by Streatham. The Duke of YORK had an audience of his M. JESTY. Prince& SOPHIA of CRC/OOMPH lined her MA• JESTY. Yetterday Earl SPENCER left town for a fey: tiny:, Yetlerday his Royal Highnefi the Doke of Y Olt K, and a very large party of Officers, dined at ‘Vit.t.ts's, the Thatched Hence, in St. Jame,'s iheet. The Hon. hlr. LEGaI is appuirted to the Caw: rnithonerthip of the Navy Board, vacant by the v.• motion of Mr. TRICKS!. Yederday a Court of Direttors was held a. • Eat India Houfe, when Carnal dirpatches 'ate. from Bombay by the Eirsaimast. were read. I Court adjourned at fa o'clock till this day. / Letters from Holland mention a which is probably well founded, viz. that isdnrii DE WllliT ER has pnfitively refufed to tale the con mand of the expedition againit this country from th. Dutch ports. His realm 1., that he confiders it icily abfurd and impradicable. His refufal has given the greatea offence to the Flair Corsus, became the opinion of an Officer of such tried courage and ac knowledged ability mull have the etre& to dikourage the whole of the forces, naval and military. detlit.ed fur the enterprise._ . - A Letter from Dungenefs Ckateh that on Saturday a cutter came in there with information that tpo of the enemy's gun-boars had put out of Boulogne. The weather was at this time very tempefitions. We are inclined to think that this report was merely an ex aggeration of the numbers or a detachment entering Coulogne Irom finite other port, or perhaps the ene my had come out cn an tier-erring party. Indeed the weather h.o nor been loch as to invite the attempt. and nothing farther has been heard of this movement. Yelterday morning the Brigade of Foot Guards were ntrillered on the Parade in St. James's Park, by Mr. A est, hl:tiLr Gcucral, afliltd by hi -1),!..ir•. Mr. 11.1,1:•