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ILLUMINATION. TO II LIT POI TUT DAT. ALARGE convenieot ROOM, w ith T wo l arge Front Windevn. eoppmandint a clear. open, and wide View of the intended PARADE on tie PROCLAMATION of PEACE, on Thur Way nest..—Enquire at Mr.Saoderfoies, No. 40, Fetter-Lire. FRANCE. PARIS, APRIL 23. Letters from Cadiz late, that the Argonaut, a Spanifh !hip of the line, fent to the Havannah with the news of the Preliminaries of Peace being figned, has returned to port with • feven millions and a half of piaftres (above a million and a half fierling). The Merchants at Havre being informed of the ezifience of a projed for a National Effablifhment for the manufaaure and tale of Tobacco, have addreffed a Memoir on this fubjeCt to Government, the objea of which is to place it on its guard againft -what they call projeas arifing from avarice, and the hope of realizing a large fortune at the cx peace of fociety. I . 1 .1 I w 11 ' I ' • I • • • • • FROM THE PARIS PAPERS. RCM s, MARCH 2 7.—Thc two !aft evenings were remarkable for moll beautiful illuminations in con fegnence of the coronation of the Poss. Thofe of the Academy of France, the Palace Porporati, and of the Foreign Princes and Minifters, were particularly remarked. ZURICH, APRIL s.— PTOfeirOT DANIGORR, Of Stuttgard, a famous Sculptor, celebrated by the buft which he made of the Archduke CHARLES, has been here fome days, and is employed on a bronze butt of our immortal LAVA Tk R, which will be placed in the Garden of the Orphan-houfe. AFFAIRS OF SAINT DOMINGO. XXXXX CT FROM TIM REGISTER OF TOR DRLIIIIRATIONS OF MIL MINIMAL ADMINISTRATION OF TIC CAP", 111 TM& SITTING or TVS 5711 riatuitar, lOTIS TSAI. The Mayor opens the fitting. The news of the figning of the preliminaries of peace between France and the Maritime Powers reached the colonies through the medium of the American Papers. It was faid that a fqnadron would be lent to St. Domingo from the mother country ; the minds were alarmed and uncafy re lative to the manner of the fquadt on being received by the Chiefs. TOUSSAINT LOUVIRTUII, by a proclamation, dated 28th December fall, endea voured to pacify the people, and to foothe their apprehenfions. In aka, his proclamation was expreffive of his fubmiffion and implicit obedience to the firli authority, that of France, and it ap peared to recomrr.end that the Envoys of the French Government should be received with all refpea and filial affeaion. The kit phrafes of the Proclamation, however, teemed to be in contradiaion with what had been previoufly exprefied, and manifelled Tome expref fions (particularly in the appeal to the foldiery) calculated to excite Tome doubts relative to Toys. SAINT'S fincerity s but the inhabitants, naturally unfutheaing, could not fuppofc the exiftence of a perfidious aa, of which they vac themfelves in capable, and being moreover interefled in believ ing the declaration, were indulging in the hope of receiving their brethren and their friends. Cams- TOPME bad the command of the Cape ditlria, and partook of the general fatisfaaion. He even telii- Sed a with to receive the French in a friendly man ner, and to entertain them with fetes. On Monday, Feb. two merchantmen, one from Guadaloupe and tie other from Bourdeaux, anchored in the roads t they brought word they bad failed through the fquadron ; that they had left it in the Bay of Mancenille, and they added it would arrive the next day at the Cape. CH a isTor as was foon made acquainted with this intelligence, which teemed to pleafe him much, and he faicl it would be wrong not to receive the French on their coming to a Colony which belongs to them. The next morning, at break of day, the fquadron hove in fight, and Ileered for the Cape ; about twelve o'clock, the cutter, which had been fent into the roads, experienced a difficulty the did not expe& Fort Ecolet fired two pieces of can non at her, (one of which was loaded with ball) which caufed her to tack about and (hew her pri vate fignals to the Admiral. When the entered the road, the immediately placed herfelf among the merchant !hips, Rill (hewing her private fig nals, that the Admiral might know her &nation. A Port officer immediately went on board of her, and, on his return, BAILD.I fent a . guard, which the French Officer would not admit ; the guard was put into a merchantman, and ordered to in tercept all communication with the land. Smiler orders were ifued at the Poti of Cak do P Etat. At one o'clock ode of the Admiral's Aides de Camp was fent on (bore, for the purpofe of deliver ing to CHILISTOPHE the Proclamation of the French Government, and that of Gen. Lici.sac, both in French and in the Creole dialeit. Cua isvorii a received the Aide de Camp with a eonfiderable degree of haughtinefs, and ►mme diately anfwered, that he would neither receive the orders of France, nor ackuo• ~ •ledge her authority. This anfwer on the part of Ctta►rroPna fpread univerfal confternation through the Cape Town and its vicinity; at night, however, he declared publicly that he would not allow a French thip to anchor in the roads r his language on the occafion was haughty in the extreme, and expreffive of def potifm. He then went to the barrack, harangued the troops of the line, told them that the French came to deprive them of their liberty, and con cluded with laying, that it would not be aftonifh ing if he ordered the generale to be btaten--that order was, in f.e t, itfued at night. The Citizens flew to their arms, while the Pub. lie FunCtionaries and the Municipality met at the Town Hall ; where, after maturely weighing cir. cumfiances, they rcfolved to memorial Coals vont s, t ft, to recal to his recolledion the Cervices already performed by him, particularly when he Lived the Cape in Brumaire ; adly, to explain to I.:m the paternal intentions of France towards the colony; idly, to call his attention to To ussatres Proclamation ; and, 4thly, to prefent him a pit. ture of the horrors which tuna enfue, Mould he perfift in his intentions of oppoling refinance to the French. The Memorial, properly digefted, was prefent ed to CHassvorms at midnight, on the 3d, but without any effea. CHRISTOtH t, deaf to the voice of fupplication, Paid he was a foldier, and only ac knowledged one leader, TOUSSAINT Lot:mynas, to whom he owed exclufive and blind obedience ; he (did the Proclamation had been fabricated on board ; and that France would have reforted to different meafures for enfuring fubmiffion. He concluded with flying, that if the Captain-General infifted on coming in, the landfhould be mimed be fore the friadron entered the road. It was in vain that TELEmegyE, the Mayor, and Citizen DELAGARDE, the COMITIZOOCE of Govern ment at the Cape, endeavoured to work upon his feelings : he proved inexorable : his heart was itLeled agaitill every tender fentiment. After this unfuccefsful attempt to foften Cxats- Tot Ha's inhumanity, the Municipal Officers re folved to remain fitting, and tent a deputation on board General LECLERC'S fhip. On their return, they again waited on Cnllls-rorna, who appeared Rill more ferocious than before. When the Corn millioner of Government mentioned the word Re hellion, he looked at him with indignation, and Paid, You (peak like a planter: I can place no confi dence in you." The next day the Municipality, hoping to move him to pity, ambled a great number of aged men, of women, and children, who went in crowds to the Campus Martins, and thence to Cum's- Tor a's: they reprefented to him the extent of the mifchiefs which, if he perfifted, he would draw down upon them—the interefting fpeElacle had no effeet on him, and he ordered them away. All hope was now extind—the French were preparing to land, while CHRISTOPHI made his troops (wear that they would conquer or die. He was particularly difpleafed with the Mayor for having given fo much publicity to the Procla mation—the Mayor was Ready and refolved ; but CH' 'sami it a declared that be would order the town to be burnt : fuch a barbarous refolution compelled moll of the inhabitants to feek faftty in flight. CHRISTOPHI, and BARADA, who was Comman dant of the place, ordered the bottles to be (trip ped of their furniture, and the effeas to be taken away ; in fine, the town was confumed by the or der of CHRISTOPHR, who was Peen every where giving his infernal directions. At length, at four o'clock in the afternoon, the French troops began to land ; but had a fair wind permitted them .to arrive fooner, humanity would not have to weep over fo many accumulated calamities. C 0.51101 12 DIINOTOR OF Till INSTITUTION OF Till COLONIES, TO GENSR•L DECRSS, MINISTIR OF Till MARIME AND OF THE COLONIES. " The Cape, Fab. 19. " Citizen Miniller—Honoured with your confi dence, and the confidence of the Fiat Conful, con firmed by a Million from the Captain-General to Too's.% tar, I fhould have fent you fooner a de• tailed account, if, on my return, I had not been attacked by a ferious illnefs. " On the 7th, the children of TOUSSAINT and myfelf fet out from the Cape at eight o'clock at night, in extremely bad weather, to proceed to the habitation of Hericourt, where the Captain General thought their culpable father was. Toys- War was not at Hericourt when we arrived there ; we only found about twenty armed ne groes, whom we endeavoured to bring back to their duty by inviting them to refume their la bours, and by alluring them (after what they told us), that the French neither wifhed to carry off nor embark their General, as they had been per- [traded to believe, and Rill lets to reduce them to their former flavery ; that their freedom was maintained, publithed, and confirmed by the French Government, and the Captain General of St. Do mingo, the Firft Conful's brother-in-law, who was come full of confidence with his contort and child among the French of St. Domingo ; that they ought, like good citizens, to take up thofe who held fuch difcourfe to them, which only tended to deceive and miflead them ; that we were the bear ers of letters from the Firf Conful, confirming all we had Paid to them. The news appeared to give them pleafure, and the orator of the band, who was alrnoß naked, affured us that TOUSSAIN r was to be at Marmelade. We immediately let out. " In our whole route, we found different polls in the Mornes occupied by a few Negroes. When we arrived at Marmelade we were informed by the inhabitants of that canton,confifting of whites, ' mulattoes, and negroes, that Tou r had tlept there the night but one before, from whence, without doubt, he had continued to give his orders to Cazisrorms ; I have fince been certain of this. It was eafy to difcover among all thefe perfons that they had not the fame way of thinking. The Negroes alone appeared to doubt all that I Paid to them. We fet off immediately to proceed to En nery, the ufual place of TOUSSAINT'S refidenee, and where the inhabitants of Marmelade fuppofed him to be. About eleven at night we arrived at Ennery, and found his wife there. At the fight of her children, this good woman manifefted all the fentiments of the molt feeling mother : the fent off immediately, both to the Gonaives and the other cantons, an exprefs to her hulband, with the account of our arrival, and of our being the bearers ofdifpatches from the Frit Conful, which giving him the greateft pleafure, would do away 'entirely all the reports which might have (Erred him up to rebellion. The day after our arrival at Ennery, Citizen Gamivizza arrived with the third fon of Toussainr, whom he had had to board with him, and who came to fee and embrace his brothers. In the afternoon they both returned to Gonaives. 46 Toussztar came the following night—we were awakened as loon as he arrived. I (hall dc fcribe to you here shortly, Citizen Miniller, all that palled when we delivered up his children to him. " The father and the two fons threw themfelves into each others arms. I taw them fliqi tears, and wilhing to take advantage ()fa period which I con ceived to be favourable, I flopped him at the rn n. meat when he Aretched out his aims to me. , Is this Toussatwr, (cried I) the friend of France,l whom I am going to embrace?' He ri7pli,(l to me, throwing his arms around my neck, ' Can you doubt of it ?' Then coming to the point, 1 ' Paid to him, you will hear your children, they are the faithful interpreters of the defies of the Firtt Conful, and of the Captain General of the colony. Confide in their innocence, and the purity of their fentiments, they still announce to you nothing but truth. ISAAC fir II fpoke and gave to his father A h tith• fill account of what had been Paid to him at Paris by the FIRST CONSUL, and at Brett and the Cape by the Captain General. Toussstsr, during his ton's narrative, obferved the nion profound filence. I then prefcnted to him the box containing the letter of the FIRST CONSUL; he took it, read the letter, and appeared to be fatisfied. I requelled him to repair to the Captain General to be his Firfl Lieutenant, affuring him that he was defir ous to believe that he had no hand in the burning of the Cape. To infpire him with more confi.' dence, I even offered to remain as an hyllage to guarantee the offers which I made to him in the name of the French Government. He replied, that having received letters from feveral of his mi litary Chiefs, who threatened to burn and plunder wherever they went, he could not go. He begged me to write to the Captain General to fulpend any attack, affuring me, that on his part, he would do the fame. I wrote in his prefence to the Captain General, he undertook himfelf to convey the letter to him, and at four in the morn ing he left us; our interview therefore failed only two hours ! n the moment of his departure, not having been able to prevail on him by the moll prefting folicitations to go to the Cape, I perfuadca bim, however, to write to the Captain General, and to fend his letter by tome confidential perfon ; arid being induced to think favourably of the fentiments of Citizen GaaNvll.22,, and of his attachment to France, I made ToussaiNT determine to entrnft him with this important meffage. He pundually obferved his word, and that manger joined me at Ennery, in the night between the t ith and 12th of February, charged with difpatches from Toys. sattir for the Captain General. We then let out with the Cons of Tou33AINT for the Cape, where we arrived the fame day at eight at night. " On the way, Citizen GRANVILLE confirmed me in the opinion which I had formed of the con dud and charaeter of TouSSAINT. I Rill tremble at the confidence which he placed in me, and which, at our firft interview, he could not have dared to Phew in the pretence of Tou scurfy., with out expofing himfelf to the lots of his life. He has even at this moment the heart-rending furrow to know that his family are in the power of that bar barian, and that he cannot fay what may be their fate. On his return to the Cape, that old man, accompanied by the funs of TOUSSAINT, delivered his difpatches to the Captain General, who, after having read them, and had an audience of the meffenger, prepared an anfwer to Toussairr, gave it in charge to his Eons, and defired them to afture their father that he was Rill difpofed to for get the pall, and wifhed that he &mild come to him, that they might concert together the means of flopping all diforder, giving him his word of honour that he fhould be his Firil Lieutenant, and be treated with the high& diflinetion. He granted him an armiftice for four days to enable him to come to him. " At ten o'clock at night the young Too ssez irrs let out to execute the confidential miffion with which the Conful General honoured them. You will, however, pleafe to obferre, Citizen Minifler, that notwith (landing the arm i ic c granted toTous- SAINT, he has nct the leis continued to burn and malfacrc. As to his children, their conduit until the x3th, when their father detained them with him, perfealy anfwers the kindnefs which they ex perienced from France. May the Supassts Bsisic firengthen their hearts in virtue, and preferve them from the perfidious influence of their too guilty father ! The Captain General, after having em ployed all pacific and conciliatory rneans,is march ing at the head of the heroes whom he commands; the brigands fly on every fide; they will be fbortly overtaken, and their barbarous Chiefs punifhed. I am lorry, Citizen Minifter, that I have not more fatisfietory news to fend you. Be allured that I have ufed every exertion to fucceed in the miflion with which you have charged me, and afrure the Firfi Conful fo, with my refpeds and devotion.— I falute you relpeafuliy. (Signed) COISNON." PARLIAMENT.dRr PROCEEDINGS. HOUSE OF LORDS, MONDAY, APRIL 26. This day the Houk met purfuant to adjournment, atter the Batter Reeds; and the Lord Chancellor, recovered from his late indifpation, retuned his feat upon the Woolf4ck. Counlet were heard in continuation, and finally, relative to the long-pending Scotch Appeal, LothiaUand others o. Render fon and Co. viz. Mr.Aleiander on the part of the Refpondents, and Mr. Attorney-General, for the Appellants, in reply. Their Lordihips deferred giving judgment thereon till to-morrow fe'nnight. Lord Elfroborough, Chief juitiee of the Court of King's Bends (late Sir Edward Law, Attorney-General,) was intro duced with the accuftomed formalities, (worn, and took his Lordthip's fupporten were Lords Auckland and Alvanley. The Bank Reath:Hon Bill was brought up from the Com mons by Mr. Alexander, and read a fiat time. filx private Bills were alto brought up--Lord 0. L. Gower. Sir John Frederick, General Maitland, and Mr. Farquhar, one each, and two by Mr. jeffays, of Coventry. The Bills upon the Table were forwarded in their refpedlive Raga; in the courfe of which the (mod reading of Lane's Divorce Bill was fined for Thurfday. In confequence of a Petition for leave, prefented by the Duke of Norfolk, notwitheanding the euftomary time of receiving Petitions for private Bilis. &c. being caplet/. a Mil was brought in, and read a firs time, the °ilea of which was to enable his Ruyal Highnefs the Duke of York to difpofe of his houfe is Piccadilly. HOUSE OF COMMONS. Mr. Jr viler s pretested a Petition from the Inhabitants of Coventry, praying an Ad to prohibit the pradiee of Bull-bait- Ing.—Ordered to lie OD the Table. A fimilar Petition was pretested from Lord Dudley and Ward, and certain inhabitants of the town of Dudby..—Order ed to lie on the table. • The Sugar Drawback 11111, and the French Wine importa tion Bill, were reedit fecund time, and ordered to be commit ted to-morrow. The Refo lotions of the Committee for granting Allowances to Militia Officers were agreed to and Bills ordered. Ttic Report of the 13111 for improving the Port of I.rr '- • w ..I.rought up, and the Mil ord,red to Ix mad a th:14.1 to-1114170W. A Lill for making 'further Rcgulati.m. in the Wcft-lndia Ducks WAS br,.ught op by Mr. Ilit.ic or, and mad a brit thr.. A new Writ wasordered fur N..wton, in the room of Sir Law, appointed Chief Jufticc I.f the Cvort of King's Bench. The Cum! tee on the kill Linen Alanufaeture Bill was deferred till to-morrow. Committcesaf Supply and Ways and Means were dc ferr,td t. 1.1 We4lncfday. LAND TAX. The CHANCILLOR of the Excu so,y Ka role pur. fount to notice, to move for leave to bring in a Bill for consolidating the fever al AEts relative to the fale and redemption of the Land-Tax, and for making further provifions for the fale of the fame. The Right Hon. Gentleman explained the objxds of the Bill to be—fidt, to prolong the time allowed to Occupiers and Proprietors to buy the llTa , , which time would expire in July next. Seci.ncli to get rid of the right which Occupiers exiting laws had to re-purchafe as foon as the fum in the hands of the Commitrioners for the reduc tion of the National Debt lbould amount to 4,0c0,0001. •' and thirdly, to make an arrangement that fhould do away the etre& which the prefent /Ws were complained of to have had in interfer ill; with the purpofes of Mr. Powys's Aet. The Right Hon. Gentleman concluded with a motion accordingly ; which was agreed to. CONTIROVIRTEDELECTIONS. Mr. M. A. TAYLOR rote to bring forward a mo tion relative to Mr. Grenville's aft upon contro verted elation?: The meafure of Committees be ing appointed by the Houfe to try controverted clef - Hens was fo popular, that he believed no Gen tleman would with to alter it. Excellent as wet,: the provifions of Mr. Grenville's ad, there were borne inflances in which its operation might he ac celerated. He had two points in view ; Gentle men are well aware of the delay which occurs in thefe Committees in taking down the evidence by the out-door clerks, and he intended to propole, that thort-hand writers should be employed in there Committees. Their accuracy and expedi tion were truly aftoniihing, and by means of their clerks they could lima copies of the evidence in a very Ilion time. His fecond objet was to ex pedite the ballots ; in place of only one or two being gone through in a day by this mode, three or four might be eafily accomplillted, provided there were not lefs than I Go Members in the Houk.. He then went into a minute explanation of the fubordinate points, and concluded by moving for leave to bring in a Bill for the further regulation of controverted eleftions, and for further expedit ing Mr. Grenville's a& After a few words from Mr. Bials and Mr. Salmi, the motion was put and carried. YEOMANRY CORPS. The SECRETARY at Wet gave notice, that he would, on Thurfday next, move for leave to'bring in a Bill to enable his Majefty to continue the Cer vices of Certain Yeomanry Corps upon their (ma application. EXCINILLUIR BILLS BILL. The Houfe having refolved into a Committee on this Bill, Mr. RoasoN recommended to Miniilers to take • Onc million more of Exchequer Bills in addition to the fum in the Bill before the Committee, in order to apply it to the payment of the Civil Lill-. Debts, which, for the credit of his Majclly, and of that Houfe, ought to dir‘harged, particu larly thofc of the Tradefmen, who were 110 W nearly eight quarters in arrcay. ; and of comic, accord in,,r; to Mr. Burke's Bill, likely loon t. fotkit thdr uen:ands. It was flt4r.gc, he that the vote of the Houle had not yet been complied with. It put him in•mind of a circumilance which had happened tome years back, of the Houle having 'voted half a million for the payment of the Civil Lift Debts, and yet they remained unpaid for near:y•two years—and "whathas happened once," added the - Hon. Member, " may happen again." (A laugh.) Mr. \ram srrrarr requefted the Hon. Gentleman not to be alarmed for the Debts of the Tradefmen, as, if he would take the trouble of looking into Mr. Burke's Bill, he would find himfelf mitlaken; for the reftriaion he *alluded to referred only to Officers of State, the Lords of the Treafury, and others. He affured the Houfe, and the Hon. Gentleman, it was the with of Government to take the earlieft opportunity of dikharging this debt; and particularly the claims of the Trader men—but the Hon. Gentleman ought to be aware. that a Bill mull be brought in and enacted, found ed on the vote of the Commitee of Supply before Minifters would be authorifed to aft upon that vote. Mr. Roasote faid, he was not aware that he thould again have an opportunity of difcuffing this fub_jsd. Mr. &BOGS obferved, that, from the anxious with expreffed by the Hon. Gentleman, that the Civil LiR Debts thould be loon difcharged,he muft ffippofe that the Hon. Gentleman voted originally for the payment of thofe debts. Mr. ROBSON loudly exclaimed " No."—(A ge neral laugh.) Mr. Bitac c e refumed.—Then the Hon. Gentle man was folicitous that that fhould be now done immediately, which in the &ft inflame he wifhed not to be done at all. As to the payment of thofe debts, he (Mr. B.) had no doubt that payments would be made as loon as puffible, probably before even the Appropriation :let thould pats. Mr. Roasox wifhed to feparatc the debts of his Majefty from thole of the Minifters, as he was willing to pay the one, hat certainly not the other. The Cmancetama of the ExcuE(UJER remarked, that the Hon. Gentleman who was fo delirous that a generous thing (hould be done, in a gener ous way, was but lately unwilling that this gener ous thing thould be done by any means. The Right Hon. Gentleman explained the fentiments of his Hon. Friend, (Mr. Vanfittart)—he did not mean it to be undo-flood, that no part of the debts of the Civil Lift would be paid until the Appro priation A& (hould pars; on the contrary, if means could be fooner found, the Houfe might rely on thofe debts being attended to; but the want of thofe means at prefent arofe from caufes which were known to the Houfe and the Public, and probably were not unknown to the Hon.Gentletnai,—:: it