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port were fhe might anchor.]—T entertained a feeble hope of finding Rear Admiral La-roues+ E at the Canary Wands. I have learned that this Officer had fteet et! there diree from Rochefort, and had wait: _I there tour days in expectation of our fleet. I made the Ifle of Palma on the sth of January, without meeting any vac), and I proceeded with out delav to condua the army to its dellination. —The contrary winds, which defeat alike our power and our prudence, did not, however, pre vent the arrival of the Army at Cape Samana, the 29th of January in the morning, forty-fix days atter its departure from Brea. On the fame morn ing I met again with Admiral GRAVIN A, the iqua dlon from Rochefort, and all the Spanah and Deitch Vac's which had parted from the Fleet, ith the exception of the Duquefne, the Cornelia, Rhinoceros, and the two Packets, which were :,lilted to anchor, the one at Corogne, and the at St. Ander. _ _ * On the 3oth January, the Syrene frigate, winch I had difpatched to Guadaloupe, brought me the details of the events which had occurred in that Colony. This intelligence, and come indired information refpeting the movements which have diftraded all the Antilles, at the fame epoch, in fpired us with a juft doubt of the reception which we were about to experience; we concluded we had not a moment to lofe, to ftifle or prevent a general confpiracy. Hence, General Lee ac re quelled me, on the fame day, to difpatch for St. Domingo, General KEATEASIAII, with his Divi fion, and the reit of the Army continued its route. It was neverthelefs fill doubtful to the Agents of Government, whether they Should difcover at St. Domingo, in the charafter who for (coeval years had pirated himfelf of- the whole authority, a faithful Frenchman or a rebel African ? Whether TouSEAMNT LOUVLAT U A t had retained the Colony for the Mother Country, or for its enemies? Whe ther he would fecond the generous defigns of the Firft Conful, and deferve a grand national recom. peace, or enkindle the flames of civil war, to glut an ambition as cruel as unbounded ? You know better than any one, that Government partook of cur doubts, !ince we had orders to be equally pre pal ed for war or peace. Our matures were con certed in conformity to thefe two fuppofitions, equally podible. When I had reached the heights of La Grange, and had provided myfelf with tome Skilful Pilots, whom I fent for from Monte Chrilli, the Fleet and Troops were divided into three divi lions. The firft under the orders of Rear-Admiral LATOUCHF, was intcoded to difembark at Port All- Prince, a body of Troops, the command of which the General in Chief gave to General BOUDF T.— The fecond, was defined, under the orders of Capt. MUM, to difembark at the Bay of Mancenille the divifion of General Roc If AM sear', and to fe cund his attack on Fort Dauphin. I conduded the ref of the Fleet and the Forces which General Lacer ac had refereed to take poffeffion of the Cape Town and the neighbauring quarters, the mot important points in the Colony. " On the evening of the 2d of Fehrnary, having finiffied all our diapofitions, I -made a fignal for Rear Admiral Larouc t and Captain MAGI)! to execute their orders • and on the morning of the 3d, I prefented myf elf, with the reft of the arma ment, before the Cape. You are aware, Citizen Minifter, that the entrance of the Road, fo diffi cult for velrels of every defcription, is not without danger to (hips of the line of the fame rate as the Ocean; that it is pradicable only with the high wind that rifts regularly about eleven in the morn ing, and blows during a great part of the night. On the fame day, I or dered the Clarinda and Ura nia f•;.,:ates„ and the Aiguille cutter to fail at the entrance of the Road, to difcover if there were any buoys oat, and to r:connoitre the fate of the fortifications. The frigates made fruitltfs private Signals to the land, and the cutter having ground ed in the ',adage, the fort I'icollet fired on her with rid hot balls. Lieutenant Os e r, the Commander of this fmall veffil, did not &RR from his objed, and anchored in the Road of the Cape, although the buoys were removed. On thee circumilances a mulatt hrarred LANCES, who cxercifed the func tions of Port Captain at the Cape, came on board my veltel. So far from contenting to pilot the Ocean, he dt clarc d that the Black General CH ars 'fora t ordered him to acquaint us, that the Whites would be maffaered, and the Town fit °n fire, the very itilarit the fquadron Should enter the P. it we refuted to await the return of a courier whoni he had difpatched to Governor Touss Al NT LOIFFF A Tv RI:. We unanimoufly thought that fo fLrociaas a determination could only be fuggefled by unjuii fears of the French Government. The Commander in Chief wrote to CIFILISTOT HI, 10 make him acquainted with the benevolent put poles of the Firft Confill, and to endeavour, by diffipating his apprehenfions, to bring bim to a fettle of Ins duties as a Soldier and a Frenchman. LIAR UN, Signal Officer, Adjutant to my Etat Major, w as cn t ru ft e d w it h this delicate miffion, as well as to carry to the Cape a great many copies of die Fiat Conful's Proclamation. I detained the Port Captain, and night compelled the squadron to fad large. "On the 4th, Citizen Lanni, brought back the anfwer of General CHAISTOFHE an abfolute re- Nal to receive the army, an inflexible determina tion to burn the Town and Fields. Particular care was taken to prevent LABIUM from diftributing the Calfular Proclamation, and CoatSToras had fern , dly declared, that he Should receive and re eogi.:Lc no other orders than thofe of TOUSSAINT. 1 hi: cutter, Aiguille, having got out again with out ob(lacles, brought at the fame time a Depu tat:-.n of the inhabitants of the Cape, compofed cf the Mayor, the Commandant of the National Guard, th e Redor and three Notables. They came to implore the Commander in Chief not to at--,, , e the affront offered to the Government and Tench flag; they affured us, that on the firli fl real of a difembarkation, the town and country of the Cape would be burnt, and all the Whites roaffacred ; they confirmed the information we had received of the meafures taken by the Rebels, and :heir invariable refolution. The twenty-four hairs req nit ed for To u s s Al a v'sanfwerhadelapfed, and we had good reafon for believing that he was in the Town, or at koft, in the neighbourhood,. . , the insifible foul and mover of all that bad pallid. The General in Chief fent back the Deputation, with orders to the Mayor to read to his fellow citizens the Proclamation of the FIRST CONSUL, and to explain to them the perfidious intentions of their Chiefs. CS:?AIi Ti LEMACHUS, a Negro truly French, fulfilled that talk with heroic intrepidity : from that moment- we found that we mull either renounce all hopes of Living the Town, or fuffer the laws and t o of the French Government to be trampled under foot. In the evening of the ath. the ::y rece frigate came to announc e t h e Inc cefs of the Debarkation in the Bak of Mancenille, and the entrance of the Troops into Fort Dauphin. —The General in Chief took that part which he thought moll favourable to humanity, and the role objea of the expedition; he thought that liy bod ing all the Troops in the Bay of Acul, he tnight arrive at the Heights of the Cape before the Blacks fhould execute their defigns • and that out' Iltips after the debarkation, by taking advantage of the &ft favourable breeze, might force the entrance in time to fave fume part of Town. I agreed to this idea, and ordered the Troops to be imme diately put on board the Frigates, Sloops, and boats. Captain Torsesr, Commander of the Fu- Tiede. took them undet his convoy, and 'leered by night towards Limbe. Unfortunately he was pre vented b the calm from arriving there during the night. On the morning of the ph, the Divifion of Frigates had not yet reached their deßination, when an Aid-de-Camp of General ROCHAMSLAU brought me Difpatches from the General in Chief, and Details from Captain Maotn, of the Expedi tion to Fort Dauphin. The Blacks had oppofed the difembarkation in the Bay of Mancenille, ex claiming " No Whites I No French!" at the fame time firing on our canoes. Captain MAGER, how. ever ' effected his landing with equal activity and addrefs ; and while. the troops were on their march to Fort Dauphin, he made his Divifion prepare, with the fame rapidity, to force the nartow and difficult paffage leading to the Harbour. The calm frultrated his zeal for tome hours. General Ro- CHAMBRAWS troops had time to turn the forts of Lalxneque and Ance, where the Blacks obllinately defended themfelves. At laR Captain MAGER was enabled to prefent Itimfelf before the Fort, which received him with a difcharge of artillery. Two rounds made him mailer of that poll, where he found a confiderable quantity of cannon and am munition. Here all veils were removed from the defigns of the rebels, by finding orders written by General Ca aurora z to the Commander of the place, ordering him to fink all the French veffels, to defend himfelf to the /all extremity, and if forced to retreat, to burn every thing behind him. " The gallant condua of Captain Mac EN, and the exprefi requeß of the General in Chief, calls upon you, for the encouragement of the fervice, to raife him immediately to the rank of Rear-Admi ral. His talents and fery ices demand this dillinc ton. I waited with extreme impatience till this difembarkation was effected cn the sth. I did not lore fight of the frigates under fail, and the alar m guns which were flied along all the coati, and the fames of fume of the fettlenients, plainly difcovcr. ed the defigns of the rebels. As foon as I thought the debarkation was effated, I ordered the (hips le Scipio and le Patriote to prefent themfelves before the entrance, in order to draw the attention of the enemy. As loon as the Scipio came off Piccolet, the cannon began to play upon her and le Patriote with ball and bombs. I had ordered LANCES, Captain of the Port, to moor the Scipio dole by Piccolet, fo :s to demoliflt it ; but night prevented Gen. DELmom from executing this or der. The land wind began to blow at the approach of nigh; when the height of the Cape, and the reflec tion Of the thy, announced the burning of the town, and we were obliged all night to behold the flames without having a it; our power to render the wretched inhabitants any affiflauce. On break of day the flames had not reached the plain.- 1 called the Captain of the Port again on board the Ocean, and taking advantage of the fira breeze, made for the harbour, ordering all the fquadron to follow me. Forts Piccolet and St. Jofeph had been abandoned; forts Belair and St. Michel con tinued to fire on us; but the fquadron gained the anchorage without firing a Ihot. I commanded le Patriote to fire on the rebels, while all the !hip's companies difembarked ; and General HUMBERT, with a body of aoo men, marched to take poi feffion of Fort Belair. By our united efforts, and the dexterous manoeuvres of the General in Chief, the plains are completely Caved. General Ro camas so i on his fi de , advanced as far as Limo. nade, of w hich he took polieffion, as well as of Caracol, and of all the country fituated between the Cape and Fort Dauphin. Thus, we have only to regret the deßtudion of a great number of houfes at the Cape; there have been but few maflacres. The prefervation of the country affords certain means of re-building them, and promifes to commerce a fufficient guarantee for the advances which it may make to the inhabitants. " On the 7th of Febr uary, all the frigates em ployed in the difembarkation of Limbe rejoined the fleet in the Road, except the Furieufe, which I keep critifing before the harbour. " Yetterday morning the Wattigny, the Fu dente, and the Clorinda, let fail for Port de Pair. The plan of the General is to get poffeffion of the fort of that town, and of the Mole. Private in telligence leads us to hope that the latter will be ,furrendered to us. If this expedition be fuccefs• fill, as we have every reafon to hope, the Army will obtain many advantages and refources, of which it Rands in the great& need. " My total want of light veffels has prevented me from giving fooner any news of the Army, and it was not before this day, I could difpatch the Syrene frigate, the Captain of which I greatly regret, as he executed all the millions I have en trailed to him, with a zeal, activity, and (kill, beyond all praife. May I entreat you to fend him back to me with another frigate, and the reward due to his talents. I cannot conclude without eureffing a teflimo. ny of the exalted praife of our ahies, the Spaniards, to which they are in honour and truth entitled. Above all, Admiral GILAVINA, in all his tranfac tics& with us, has (hewn a fraakatts, loyalty and fiirnners, which chara&erize the perfet The allonifbing celerity with which he repaired his ship; that fingular a&ivity in a moment fo de cifive, and his arrival at the rendezvous off Cape Samaaa the fame day with the ref of the fleet, have excited univerfally a furprife, which is the fineft eulogy of M. de GRAVINA. General VI t.- LAVICENCIO, who, during his abfetice, command ed the Spanifh divifion, difplayed, during the pall fage, to the Captains of the two fquadrons, an ex cellent model of precifion and vigilance in every branch of navigation. " In the mielft of the things which ptefs upon me, I cannot fend you an account of the !late of the ammunition found at Fort Dan phin, theofficial papers, private correfpondence, orders, Ste. &c.— You will receive them by the &It velfel which I fend. I have thought it proper not to lofe a Mo. meat in acquainting the Firft Conful with the Rate of the army, the events which have followed our arrival at St. Domingo, our regret, our hopes, and our unreferved attention to the inteiefts of the Itepultc and of Government. ‘, Receive, in the mean time, Citizen Minifter, the affurances of my telped. VILLARET." _ACT4OI 7 TUE GOVERNMENT. Citizen Dejean, Conniellor of State, appointed 'Meador of the Admitnitration of War, with the rank and fut a Of Minilter. Citizen Meldles, CounfcNor of State, is appointed Member of the Council of the Adminiltration of WA'. FROM THE PARIS PAPERS. 13Eswi, MARCH s.—The Senate has pated a very remarkable Decree in favour of the Cantons of Uri, Schwitz and Unterwalden : It dates, that the Helvetic nation ought to have at heart to give to the three Cantons, whole anceflors founded the liberty ofSwitzetland, and who themfelves faired fo much lately, a proof of its efleem, and the in. tereß it takes in their misfortunes : the Senate thererore orders, that from the extraordinary con tingencies to be furniihed for the general expences, there (hall be paid to the cantons of Ilt i, Schwitz, and Unterwalden, the fum 720,000 francs. Our Contlitution will not be fubmitted to the finaion of a General Diet 2 St will be fent to the Diets of the Canton, which after approving of it, will appoint five Members, to compote, with five other citizens chofen by the Senate, the projea of the Conflitutions for the different Cantons. This commillion will be obliged to finial its labour in the fpace of three weeks. The Conflitutions of the Cantons will be examined by the Senate, and, af ter its approbation, they will be prefented for ac- ceptance to the Communes: when put into aaivity a General Diet will be convoked to proceed to the definitive eleaion of the Members of the Senate, and the Supreme Tribunal. LONDON. FRIDAY, MARCH 19. PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK; 3 per Cent. cwir. 691—for aCCOUnt 69i 4. 3 per Cent. Ann. tot 1 I. rittcr OF STOCKS YESTFRDAY : 3 per C. Coa 6d 69 A f Excbeq. Bills 21.10 11 9TIIIII. S per Cent. Ann.1.,1! I Englilh Tickets tB. t is. India Stock 2131 Conf. for Ace. 69 I Imp. AIM. 13 7-16 ConE for Money 69* Laft night we received Paris Journals to the tsth, and this motning thofe of the 16th intlant. Their contents are interefting. We had learnt before that the French armament had reached St. Domingo, but we were not informed what kind of reception it experienced. It now appears that the Mulatto thinks himfelf as well qualified for rule as if he were a Cortical). It is impoflible to calculate all the confequences that May refult from a comet} in that quarter. By comparing the details in the Paris papers with the Grenada Gazette, and with reports contained in letters from St. Vincent, refpetling Guadaloupe, it appears that the French iflands muff be in a de plorable (Late. The Moniteur, in an article evidently from an official quarter, expreffes great furprife that it could ever have been doubted in England, that the French Government was not fincere in its de fire for the fpeedy reßoration of tranquillity, and it attacks with pec►►liar feverity the principles and conduit of the WIADHAM party, both previous and fubfequent to the figning of the Preliminaries. As the article is curious, we here give it at length:— " Paris, ss Ventofe, March is, " For there ten days paft all the Englifh Journals are crying out like madmen for war. Some ora tors of the Parliament do not difguife their opi nions more. Their hearts Mil but gall. " The FIRST CONSUL does not with for peace." The Minifters to whom Europe and humanity owe fo much, Mr. ADDINGTON, Lord Hawassauay, &c. arc impofed upon ! 41 Yet it is now a fortnight, if we may believe perfons worthy of credit, tlnce all the articles were agreed upon at Amiens ; that the difcuffions with refpte to the wording of (la redaaion) the articles were terminated, and that if it be nit figned, it is only that a fait courier is ,expeded from London. " What fignifies, then, the language of there tur bulent writers ! The advantages which the Preli minaries give toGreat Britain are rufficiently great. But the ton.inental power of France mutt be re (trained ! Why then did the King, and the una nimous voice of the nation ratify the Prelimina ries ? and if it were necefrary to impofe upon France continental facrifices, why, Mr. GREN- ViLLE, did you not treat when you had allies, when their army was encamped upon the Alps, when eitelltufGan armies were yet doubtful of making a retrograde . march, and when La Vendee, (till fmoking, occupied a portion of tile French army? And fence you did not thank that France was fol. ficiently enfeebled to attain your end, but (till thought you ought to continue the war, it was ne• celfary, Mr. WINDHAM, to dire& it better; it was necedary that thefe 25,000 men, who were parading ufelefsly, and at fo much expence, on the coats of the ocean, and before Cadiz, fliould have entered Genoa the fame day MELAS did; it was neceirary not to give the world the hideous and almoil un exampled fpc4tacle of bombarding tile fobjeeis of a King; your ally, even hi his capital, without declaration of war, and almolt without having tent back his Ambatrador. " What di) you hope for ? to renew a coalition. The cannon of Copenhagen has defiroyed coali• Lions for so years. " What would you then ? Pull down the Mi. nillry, whole wife hand has been able to cure a part of the wounds you have inflicted. But at length, if, to afiliaf.ze your ambition, you timid draw your party into an abyfs of evils, your na tion will loon regret the Preliminaries of London, as it has regretted the armiilice of El-Arifch. " If the details of the Congrefs at Amiens were publilhed, the Englifh nation, which holds fuch a diftinguifhed rank in the world by their deep and correct -fenfe, and by the liberality of their ideas, would feel towards the FIRST Cotistn. of France a new movement of effeem and benevo lence, becaufe they would fee that it has not de pended upon him that the peace was not prompt, honourable and etenial. Your I.:w and difgrace frd pallion would be '!ifcovered, and !ou could not long govern a nation which, fpontaneotifly uniting its voice with that of the whole world, would point you out as the enemies of men." CORN MARKET. CORN INSPECTOR'S RETURN FROM OXBRIDGE, MAKCII tB. Wheat per Load, from 171. to 221. Barley per Quarter, from 21. to 21. 45- Oats per Quarter, from 11. as. to 11. Bs. Old Beans per glutei, from 21.45. to al. tos. New ditto per Quarter, from 11. z6s. to 21. Peafe per Q2arter, from al. to al. 4s. MARK-LANE, MARCH 19. There has been no arrival of confequence fince Monday : but, at the finith of the market on that d ty, and (ince, Wheat has fallen near 4s. per guar ter.-Barley is Is. to is. 6d. lower than our !aft.- Malt is heavy, and Oats are looking down.-Mot other Articles as on Monday. Englifh Wheat, 565. 78$. primal, 86s. Fore:pi Ditto, 465. 745. Bos. Rye , 4 05 . 44 5 . Barley, 265. 385.-(Malting) 4os. 415. 6d. Malt, 445. gos.--Fineft, sos. 525. Oats, 16s. 245. 255. Horfe Beans, (New) 3os. 345. Tick Beans, (New) 265. 325. Hog Peale, 335. 365. Boilers, 38s. 4zs. 445. Spring Tares, ss. to 6s. per bufhel. Carraway Seed, 365. to 41s. per cwt. Coriander, z6s. to 295. per cwt. Canary, 84s. to 9os. per cwt Rape Seed, 34.1. to 371. per lat. Flour, 6Di. uss. per 111 , :k. Red Clover, 5 4 .5. 705. Bos. 88s. per cwt. White ditto, 78s. To.i.s. 13os. isos. Trefoil, 265.405. 565. The importance of the intelligence received by the Jail French Journals, and the interetling bufi nefs in the City in regard to the Income Tax, have prevented us from giving in this day's STAR a re port of the cafe, tried on Wednefday at Maidllone Affixes, the ' King at the fait of HENRY JACKSON, Efq. v. Caron, fo r defamation. A full detail of this curious trial Ihall he given to-morrow. The Defendant was found Guilty. In confequence of Henry Coca, committed to Tothill-fields Bridewell, for forging three letters of Attorney, in the name of Captain Wm. Storey, of Chatham, and thereby defrauding the Bank of England of 70001. being fo ferioufly indifpofed as to prevent his being brought up for re-examina tion, Mr. BOND, attended by the Solicitor of the Bank, and the feveral witnetfes necelfary to prove the offence, went on Wednefday morning to the above prifon, where the feveral charges were fully fubilentiated, and the different parties bound over to profecute. This unfortunate man is of a genteel prepoffeffing appearance, rather fhort in tlature, and appears about twenty•eight years of age. DR : GARDNER, LONG:ACRE, LONDON, So well known for curing, by fimples, in the form of Pills, the fucking Infant, and the ftrong Man, of the many different diforders, that wafte and deßroy the conftitution—Continues his prac tice from nine to three every day, fees patients, an fwers letters (poll paid with a fee inclofcd), from America, Weft Indies, Ireland, &c.—As he pa pers every day give proof of the extraordinary cures, performed by his Pills alone, in removing all complaints in kidneys and bowels, all nervous complaints, whether from taking mercury, or owing to other caufes, likewif.: pains in the back and head, horrid thoughts, frightful dreams, dim nefs of fight, palpitation of the heart, dorfal con fumptions, trembling of the hands from hard drinking, and difeafes arifing from excefs of any kind, and will invigorate and Rrengthen the con fiitution of weak, fickly, and aged perfoas, even of eighty.-2 IS. 10S. or ss. a box, by venders in I own or country-.-fmall boxes for the poor as. 3d.