Star. — London, England, 1802-03-26 00:00:00

FRANCE. PARS. x GERMINAL, MARCH as. On the arrival of the French troops in St. D. rningo, Toussaisr LOUVIitTUKE fled into the piain ; already he has retreated to Dondon, and tas offered conditions of fubnittrion. The Republican troops march again% CHRIS- Top ri E. who had retired to Grand Boucau. Le bus its, a Negro General, continues faithful to us ; it is to him that the Cape o•.ves its fafety, and it was before him that CHRISTOPHE fled. The brave men under the command of General ROCHAMSEAU carried Port-au-Prince by form.— This General knew well the influence of honour on the heart of a Trench foldier, when, in the middle of the anion, he threw his hat among the ranks of the enemy, and exclaimed—" Com rades, you will furely not leave the hat of your General to remain in the hands of the enemy."— This exclamation decided the vidory, and the Ne sroes were routed. EXTIACT OF A PRIVATE LETTER FROM ST. DOMINGO. No perfon was killed at the Cape —every one c. , :ne back into the town. A number of Black Ovid: furrendered, and among the rest the Chief of battalion Louts, who commanded Lemonade, and preferred that diftria. It appears that we may already reckon 1200 Blacks to be under his orders. He came to (wear fidelity to the French Government. and General Lact.ssc railed him to the rank of Chief of Brigade, and decreed to him a fibre of honour. It is reported that the divilion of General CNRISTOPNI is difpofed to join the French party. It is raid that TOUSSAINT is at his country-houfe on the plantation of Harricourt. BENIZECN, the Coonfellor of State, has gone to the Cape, where he will be employed in repairing the confecoer.ces of the conflagration. According to report. the Civil and Judiciary Officers irere not to enter on theexercife of their funaions till the whole Wand has been reduced to a Rate of fu bordination. General LECLERC and Citizen BENnrcH have refolved to fix their refidence at the Cape. The following are a few traits of the bravery played by the French foldiers:— A Chalreur, of the sth demi•brigade, eager in the affair of the Cape, to fee the fort fall into our hand., took his cap, threw it from him, and ex - claimed," Igo where the cap falls." It afloally fell within the fort. Citizen LACHARTS, and aide de-camp, animated by a &tiler love of glory, imi tated the example of the *Chaffeur. An honour able death was the price which both of them paid for fuck generous devotion. A Serjcant, not lefs brave, bat more fortunate, (prang forward, and with a hatchet inhis band, broke open the doer of the fort, and opened an entrance to our troops.— " What do you want ?" exclaimed the rebels.— " A fibre of honour," replied he,µ and that will be the third I have obtained." Brigadier-General Caesar has given an account of the motives that prevented him from embark ing with the St. Domingo expedition. Attacks of the gout and other infirmities rendered it impoffi ble air him to be of any fervice. Betides, it ap pears by a letter from the Minifter of War before the departure of the fleet, that he had been ap primed to another fpecies of fervice. Thus the want of a Commandant of Engineers in the expe dition is not attributable to hips. On the t 7th the Vast. consuz went to the Hof pital of Invalids. He vifited every part of the et tablithmeet, the infirmary, kitchens, &c. and took an account of the ameliorations of which the efta blithment is fufceptible. He received the foldiers with much kindnefs and intereft, and received from them moll lively marks of gratitude and ad miration. In general he appeared fatisfied with the different apartments. The tranquillity, good order, and difeipline that reign in the hofpital, together with the excellent Rate of the infirmary, particularly engaged his attention. He expelled his fatisfation to the Comthandant in Chief, the Adminiftrators and Officers of Health; ordered an extraordinary diftribution of provifions to the invalids, and granted them, by way of gratifica tion, a month's petition of their petty wants. An old man; of 134 years, having atk:d to be treated as Captain, on Account of his great age, the Con ful acceded to his donand. .1 young (hummer of fourteen, whofe thigh was cart ied otT while per forming a brilliant action, was ordered to be i placed n the Prytancum. The Parttca of °RANO, ailed at the Sitting of the National Inaitute, of the lath intl. A Memoir was read on the ftrueture of the Primary Moon tains, and a portion of the Pyrenees ; alto a Me moir, not lets important, on the theory of the Moon, and a defcription of Tome new experiments made by CovLoms, to prove that all bodies are attraßed by the loanone. Other intereßing Me ini.irs were read at this Sitting, and at that of the 7:11. In the latter Gs men, Engineer of Bridges and Roads, contineed the reading of a very in. firnaive dlartation on the Pyramids of Ghizee and Saccara. The Chief of Brigade read a Mc. moir on the fellies of conical wheels, as adapted to many commercial carriages in England, and an nounced a work on carriages of every defcription. They write from Milan, that it is certain the Republic of Genoa will be united to the Italian Republic. By letters from Cadiz we are informed that there ocen teen in that port, on board a (hip of war, a prifoner with a matk on, whom they were con- duaing to the States of America: no perfon could direr) 'er who he was. They write fiont Were!, that the Kim° of Pays. MIA has invited the Archduke Cmaaiss 'to alGll at his next reviews &Jena. - The Munich Gazette of the toth of March con tains the following official article—" His Elea& ram Highnefs ordains, that henceforward no FreneC Clergymen (thofe excepted who fairly fub rift by their talents, and the fervice which they ren der to the State) iltall'refide in the Eleetural do nsinione, At;,, agreeably to the Conordatuna agreed upon ween 'he Holy Sze and the French . Go• vetnit they can urge no reainnablc motive for 'I -doting to mom to their nativ, sotantri, which is ready to receive thenati ~ ..~.....i. Letters froorMadrid fix the approaching month of Anguli tiir the journey of their Caritoxec Ma .1E571E3 to Barcelona, where they are to meet the KING of NAPa.ES with his &righter A PITOINITTE, who is dellined to marry the PottNeC. of ASTURIAS. A body of about 20,000 men is to be formed near Barcelona, in order to entertain their Majefties with military evolutions. The fame letters an nounce the appointment of the Marquis de Mos o. Ambairador to Naples; and add, that the Count del CAMPO•ALANGF is detlined for the F.mbaffy to Portugal ; the Ptinee de Cssrst.s.itssco for that to Vienna, and the Duke de Fe.i.is for that to London. FROM THE PARIS PAPER c. ROl4ll, Fts. 27.—1 t can fcarcely he perceived here that the Carnival has commenced. The Pre late CAVALCHINI, who is charged with the depart ment of the Police, has publithed an Order pro hibiting, in - the moft rigorous manner, the life of masks, and all difguifcs with beards, paint, veils, &c. and all (uppers known by the name of Pic- A Courier is arrived here, chsrged with Dif patches, which it is Laid are of the greateftlimpor; tance. It is thought they contain the communi cation to his Hoke:, of the Laws eftablifhed re lative to the Clergy of the Italian Republic, and of Bologna and Cremona.—Thefe laft, it is un derftood, will not be publifhed till they have re ceived the fanetion of thofe Authorities which are interefted. MILAN, MARCH R.—The Vice Prefident publith ed this day a decree of the Prefident BONAPARTE, dated Paris, 24th of February, by which Citizen VILLA, Member of the Legiflative Council, is de finitively appointed Minilier of the Interior ; and General TRIONLZE, Miniller of War. The Counfellors of State Fttacs and I.soraz It• TR wan 1, fet off on the 3d.to Paris, to reticle there, as Counfellors of State. Boy RDEAO X i MARCH 16.—The Mater of a fmall veffel which came from Breit in fifteen hours, ie. poiti that he law a frigate enter Brea, difpatched from-St. Domingo by the Vice Admiral VILLA UT ;onus,. Hamsnacm, MARCH 10.—The Danifh Govern. ment having ordered a Cordon to be formed, for the purpofe of preventing the Brigands from enter ing Holftein, the Troops, with the content of the Senate, have been placed in fuch a manner as to proteit the Hambourgcois villages.. This precau tion ari fi ng from friendship and good neighbour hood, has given rife to a report, that the Danes were about to march hoftilely upon Hamburgh. VIINNA, MUCH 6.—We learn that the Arch duke Joon will make a fccond journey in the fpring, to the frontiers of the Aufirian territory in Italy, and that he will intpat at the fame time, thole places which are capable of being fortified. It is added that he will alfo examine the Rate of the different avenues to the Tyrol. WITZLAER, MARCH 6.—At prefent has occurred the very uncommon cafe of a State of the Empire prefentmg two Candidates for the Office of Alfeifor in the Chamber of Janice. • The College of the Counts of Wetteravia, of the Saxon fide, have lately fent hither the Royal Pruffian Diredor of the Circle, Baron Rarrzim mix, and the Coun. fellor of Government of IsTatfitt Ufingen, Natr- ReTH, that he of the two may be accepted, who !hall be bell approved upon examination. The Protellant Community at Mentz is now conllituted for the ereaion of a Church. The new Commilfary of Government, JEAN BON Sr. AN DR t, is himfelf a Proteflant, and was formerly a Cler gyman of this perfuafion. PRIVATE CORRESPONDENCE. Plats, Mecca 20..-- 0 The objetls which claim the attention of Government here are certainly va rious and important, and yet in the mida of there leifure has been found for the framing of a New Conaitution ! Such in fact it may be termed, though crated on the bails of the laft, from the magnitude and number of the alterations. Some of thefe appear to be highly neceffary ; of the others, as we know not the grounds, thole who are In inclined will give credit for the motive. I be lieve the following outline to be correct, as I have every reafon to place reliance in the quarter whence I received the communication: " The prefent form of the Confitlate is to be wholly done away, and the fecond and third Con fab abforbed" into the Confervative Senate.— BONAPAILTII retains of cootie the reins of Govern trent, and for life, under the title of Prefident.— The Senate, Tribunate, and Legiflative Body, re main on their prefent footing: with the nomina tion only of a perpetual Chairman to each of the two former. The Chairman of the Senate is to prefide over the affairs of Government, in cafe of the abfence or demife of the Prefident, until there fltall be in the latter cafe a new eledion. Lucas BONAretra is to be appointed perpetual Chairman of the Tribunate, with a falary of 60,000 francs (2,4001.) per annum. " The diftribution of the Republic into depart. ments is to be preferved ; of the too departments, each four as to be confolidated into one, under the title of a province, to be governed by a Prefea.— The prefent Prefeds are to fink into Sub-Prefects, and. the Sous-Preitts are to take the appellation of Intendants. To each of the 25 provinces is to be appointed a Prefed, a Genet al, and a Byhop, to fuperintend its Civil, Mikity, and Religious Concerns. " The R 0211411 Catholic Religion is to be the effablifhed religion of the State, and its Minifiers only Arc to be paid yalarier) by the Government. In addition to the 25 Bithops, who are eligible to the National Liu, and capable, of courfe, of being appointed to the fir& Offices of State, there are to be 6000 Cures (or Vicars) with other inferior Clergy, according to the extent and . populatiotsof the diflrid. The expence of thisrelipous eftablifh ment is calculated at 42 millions oflivres per ann. Every other mode of religious worlhip is to be to. lerated, with this Cole difference, that its Clergy is to be maintained at the expellee of each con gregation." GffßiimNr. Httarstixtra, MARCH 9.—The Impe:ial Cham berlain Count Eitw F.I 'I, of Shoenborn Wiefentheid, fecond fon of the reigning Count, is to be married to th2CountefsFe. /I DI MANDE, of Weflphalia, daugh ter of the Imperial Minitler. The contra& has been executed at Frankft,rt, from whence his Excellency is foon expeEled here. D•am STADT, MARCH 9.—To the general regret, Colonel Cusp:, in the Prince's fervice, was within there few days (hot in this neighbourhoixl, in a duel with a French emigrant Officer. He had wounded his opponent in the right hand, where upon the.latter, with his left, difcharged the deadly fhot.—On the following day, in another duel, both parties, a Count and an Officer from Mentz, were fevercly wounded. DENMARK. • COPENHAGEN, MARCH 9.—Many attempts have hail made in Seelaod, by digging up the earth under old flablis, to obtain lilt-petre, and the King has now permitted two Swedifh falt-petre boilers to be fent for, with the proper apparatus. The falt-petre, obtained by there means, will• be fent to the Royal College of Admiralty, at a price to be artery/aids fixed. In the Bifhopric of Bergen in Norway, on oc cafion of the drafting of Kamen for the (hips of war, intended for the Mediterranean Sea, and other places, fome difturbances were obferved among thole who were enrolled, and for the pur pofe of quieting them, a !hip of the line and feve ral (mall ('hips of war are vial; from hence to Bergen. SWEDE N. STOCKHOLM, MARCH 2.—The offers made to the Crown within thefe few days, for the L'..:livery of foreign fpirits, were too high to be attended to. Befides, the marketplaces in-the provinces are.well provided with corn ; and the Crown has furnifhed Come to the diftilleries from its confiderable maga zines, from whenie foreign fpirits may be fpared. MARCH s.—Since the appointment of the new President at War, Baron CEDERSTROESI, there reigns in that department an extraordinary alivity. By the sit of April the whole army put on their new uniform, which, although eirentially modelled after the coftume of CHARLES XII. will yet be extremely tally, and much more brilliant than that at prefers in ufe. Several regiments and corps will wear gold and raver on their coats. For the recruiting of the garrifon of the Swedifh Weft India Eland, St. Barthelemy, which has been long fence delivered up to our Commandant there, Adjutant-General and Colonel ALIKARDEIM, by the Englifh, young recruits are railing here, who mutt each, however, have learned come art or ufeful handicraft, to fail thither by the frigate Jarramas, which is fitting out for that purpofe at Carlfcrona, as foon as the water is open. The young Baron WACHTMEISTER attends the frigate as a volunteer. A large encampment of ten thonfand men of the Finland army will take place at Parola, in Fin land ; and as their Majefties, according to report, are to take a journey to Finland, and the Northern Provinces, ftmilar to that which they did laft fum mer to Schonen and the Weft= Di ftrids it feems they will review this encampment. Perhaps too on this occafion a meeting on the Ruffian Fron tiers may take place between the Ruiflan and Swedith Monarchs. P4RLIAMENT,Mr PROCEEDINGS. HOUSE OF LORDS, THURSDAY, MARCH 2S. Lord Aavaimer fat again this day as Speaker. Counfel were beard In continuation relative to the Scotch Appeal, Wilton Henderfon and Melville, namely Mr. No lan an the part of the Appellant, and Mr. (idles for the Re fpondents ; after which their Lordfhips deferred the farther hearing till to-morrow. The Bills before the Houfe were forwarded in their refpee tive Rages. Lord lioatAND acquainted the Houfe, that it was not his intention to bring forward a propofition relative to the affair of the Civil Lift to-morrow, as he had propofed; as he under- Rood it would be inconvenient to tome Noble Lords to attend on that day. Ha alto under-Rood, that the Noble Lord who bad hitherto come forward on the occafion, had pollponed his intended motion from to-morrow till Monday. lie mould. 4herefore, 011 that day take an opportunity and come forward with a propofition on the fubjea, to the general Meet which be had mentioned on a former evening. The Galway County Gaol Bill was brought up from the Commons by Mr. Tics cu, and read a &ft time. Four Private Bills were alto brought up ; two by Mr. VAN - 'UTTAR r, and two by Mr. 'ODD II ILL, which being read abet time, their Lordibips adjourned till to-tmorrow. HOUSE OF COMMON& On the motion of Mr. SHAW L , the order for a Committee to confider the Report of the Committee on the Pe tition for improving the Port of London, was difeharged, and fixed for Monday next. A perfon from the Conuniffioners of Caftans prefented an account of the quantity of Grain and Rice imported into, and exported from Great-kh Itaiu, from the toth of Odiober tBoz , to the 3th of January tfloa, dittinguiling the ports, and the countries to which exported, and from which the fame had been imported.--Ordered to lie on the table. The kith Revenue CoUedlion Bill was read a Second time, and committed for to-morrow. Mr. CORI' prefmted a Petition from the Met Farming So. clay, praying aid. He alfo prefemcd an Eftimate of the Ex pellees of that Int/Button fur one year, ending the sth January, ,i805.--Ordered to Ile on the table. He alfo prefented as Efti mate of the Expence of the Paving Board of the City of Dub lin for the prefent year.—Ordered to tie on the table. Ordered, on the modal of Mr. Jowls, that there thould be laid before the Houk an account of the profit and lots on all Exchequer Bills which have been Breed In purfuanoe of leveret Ads of Parliament, from the stb of January tBOO, up to the Weft period at which the fame could be made out, dlitinguilh ing the dates, &c. Mr. Wm. BOOTS-I,in order that time &odd be ..flowed fully to confider the merits of the Parith Apprentice Regain. Bill, ;moved that the Committee upon that meafurs which hood for this day, amid be poltponed to Thurfday next Ordered. Mr.STCAIT prefented a Petition from certain inhabitants of Melcombe-Regis, complaining of the high Price of Bread, and praying that tome regulations should he adopted upon that fub jedt calculated to benefit the countryo—Ordered to lie on the _ _ - &111171I GAIICOIOIIIII prefented a Petition from the City of li►erpool, praying tone heard by Counfelagainit the Lancelter County Rate 11114—Ordered that this Petition Amid lie on the table entU the (wed reading el the Bill, and that the player et it Scald be granted. COMMITTEE OT SUPPLY. MT. ALEXANDER breUght Up the Report of the Committee of Supply. The fcvcral Refolut:on a were read. Upon the Motion for the second read- 41 ing of the Refolution for an Indemnity to Lords St. Vincent and Grey, for the capture of certain American thips in the Well-Indies, Mr. ROBSON role, and expreffed his regret that however high the fame of thofe two Noble Lo:ds, and however much he refpeEted their character, h e could not confent to this grant, which in fact was no more or lets than to indemnify them for the confequences of a blunder committed in the erec tion of Courts of Admiralty in the Weft-Indies without any authority, by which Courts the Ame rican (hips were condemned. It appeared from the adjudication of the Court of Appeal on this lubjed, that thefe Courts were illegally con !dotted - and from the Orders of Council under which they were Paid to ad, it did not appear that the Noble Lords had any other authority than to de. tain neutral (hips. He remarked with regret, that very little attention was paid to what he faid— (a laugh) relative to the expenditure of the publie money—k was a mere wage of words—but Gen tlemen might go on in fmiling, he would ftill per fevere in doing his duty. Mr. VANSITTART commented on the obfervations of the lag Speaker. If, he Laid, any blunder had been committed in the tranfadion which gave rife to this Debate, it was not to be attributed to the Noble Lords on whom the Hon. Gentleman would fix it—for they aaed in (hid conformity to an Order of Council, and that Order was dictated in the fpirie of long ettablithed maritime law, which prefcribed that the Colony 'Trade fhould not be open in time of war, to thole who were excluded front it in time of peace ; and the reafon why the condemnation of the American flips was revoked by the Court of Appeal in this inflance, was, be caufe the Americans were able to prove that they enjoyed the privilege of trading with Martinique previous to the war. With relped to the prece dent which the grant might eftablifh, in this bufi nets, that precedent could not operate any further, for this indemnity would extend to the Officers, Crews, Sec. engaged in the expedition under thofe Noble Lords, who, as the Commanders in Chief, were died by the American Ship Owners ; and furely the Houfe would not permit thole gallant Officers to Cuter merely for having done their duty. Mr. NICHOLLS thought his Hon. Friend on the oppofite fide entitled to the thanks of the Houfe, for the folicitude with which he watched the expm diture of the public money, but difapproved of his fentiments an this occafion ; for in truth his grant could not benefit the Noble Lords whole names appeared in the motion—it was merely to releafe them from the confequence of certain judicial pro , ceedings taken againft them as the Traces of the public, and to repayp , the American merchants.—. Therefore his Hon. Friend was miftaken in the view he had taken of the fubjed. Mr. Joe r s admitted, from the explanation of the Bon. Secretary, that the Noble Lords alluded to had claims on the lattice of the Houle ; though they teed according to the old adage--; Purflte your orders, and do wrong." He milled from the character of Adminiftration, that if any other Officers fhould be found to have differed by a fimilarly rigid adherence to their or ders, they would meet with the fame confideration. Mr. V•NSITTART explained. Hs Laid, that if, as the Hon. Gentleman obferved, any Officer Ihould be known to have differed any lot's in the execution of his duty, he for one fhould have no hefitation in laying he ought to be indemnified.— (..f cry of bear, bear Mr. Jow Isom contended, that the cafe of the Noble Lards on this occafion, was not precifely of the nature defcribed by the lon. Secretary; for had they not rafhly, and without authority, con ftituted a Court of Admiralty, the American (hips would not have been condemned, and no fuch lots would have accrued; for the revocation of the Order of Council, of which they poflibly were aware, would have reached them in due time to prevent that condemnation, had the proceedings been-regular, However, in confideration of the great public Cervices of tilde two Noble Lords, he did not with them to fultain any lots in this bull nefs ; but in his opinion the fair way would be to take an account of all the prizes captured by them in the courfe of this expedition, and of all other extra profits, and fet this and other !cafes agaiult that account, bike the balance, and if any lois fhould ultimately appear, he would have no ob. jeaion to indemnity them, notwithllanding the rathnefs of their conduct r-fpating the American !hips ; and though that conduct was fuch, that if it were not for their high charaaer, it would ren der them liable to the (ufpicion of actually know• ing the revocatimi of the Order of Council before the condemnation took place. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHIgyER exprcad in the flrongeft terms, his diiapprobation of the &range propofal of the Hon. Gentleman who fpoke laft. What, would the Hon. Gentleman defire that the fun) of 45,0001. the amount of the motion, fhould, under the peculiar circumftances of the cafe,- be dedu.led from the fair legitimate profits which thole Noble Lords might have made in any other quarter in the courfe of that expedition ? The idea was repugnant to every conception of libera lity or jullice—as was the infinuation of the Hon. Gentleman refpeeting the knowledge which thole Noble Lords might have had of the revocation of the Order of Council previous to the condemnation of the American (hips, inconfiftent with candour. Tbofe Noble Lords, he was certain, were as incapa ble of fuch unworthy condo& as they would be un willing to leek protection in Their high charaaers against fuch accufations—they wanted no fuch !hater. He was confident they would difdain to look to talents, however tranfcendent, for the pal liation of an ad fo highly culpable. On the part of thole Noble Lords, he requefted the Hon. Gen tleman to (tate the grounds of his infinuation, if J he had any, and he might rely on it they would be ready to meet it, and to convitice him that it was thrown out with a degree of rafhnefs rather more extreme than that he would attribute to thole Noble Lords. If the Hon. Gentleman and others would take the trouble of roan the Order of menu his u , act a defpei Th to. -, PRIG AI The c lumns Lal hillan the which delays ' lifh P war! Thl SAINT of fun TOPS! by ezp --Our . reaches annow cbMcial Were e: Now •`nger