Star. — London, England, 1802-05-25 00:00:00

Ms not inflifted for the fake of tertnte ;" but it was infh(ted for the fake of (port, which was to rife Irom torture, and this was e_saßly the fame thing. There were various caufes of cruelty— wrath, refentment, revenge, fear, cowardice, and gluttony —certainly the torture of animals to gra tify the deities of gluttony, was deferving the mot aggravated term of reproach but there was no kind of cruelty worfe than that which was prac tiled to convey (port. He agreed with an Hon. Grntleman,that there was much tp be learnt from animals, but it was trom animals in their natural nue, and exhibiting their natural qualities. Man de: ced much of his s-knowledge from the animal creation, " Learnt from the little Nautilus to fail, " And fpread the canvas to.jhe (welling gale." not by ufing craft to make an animal the c : yof another, not fo by nature, that intkrue o- ::o be obtained. I.ight as tome might •••• ii,e matter, he shou l d certainly give his ....Intel:thee to a Bill which went to proteet ani mals from the barbarities inflieted upon them for tie purpofe of gratifying a depraved appetite: yet in his opinion, thefe culinary barbarities had not eo had an effect upon thefe who were acceffary to them, nor argued fitch hardnefs of heart, as the practice of tying a bull to a ftake and tearing him with bull-dogs, fur the favage pteafure of be holding his tortures. We were to learn a moral 4,,An from fuch IpeClacles. The farmer and his eltildreie were to become generous, mild. and be nevolent by feeing the animal which had been horn among them, and which had lived with them for years, almoll in the fame hovel, delivered up dcfetteclefs to the fury of bull-dogs, and ltill obliged to fight for the remains of a miferable ex iaence, after having his bleeding tongue torn out by the roots. A butcker had lately brought a bitch with her puppies to a bull-baiting, and exclaimed, 4• will not fay any thing about the goodnefs of this breed, Trot !ball fee." Immediately he let the bitch at the hall, who pinned him, although be had now fcareely a tooth in her head. H* thin cut her to piecei with a hedge bill, and the quitted her hold only • with her breath. There was inn antly a great demand for the puppies, and he fold them for flee guineas a piece. This was' the fehool of morality to which the Hon. Gen tleman Would lead the riling generation I Another had cut off his dogs legs, and betted that he would fill pin the bull. The dog did fo, and the inhuman mallet. then called him off, and as limn AS he limped bleeding into his arms, cut MT his head. Certainly the• more merciful action of the two. IlGentlemen revivzil the menders of the rtign of Elizabeth, they catelin to take them back, not piecemeal, but en titre. The maids of honour fhnuld learn to pitch the bar, and breakfalt every morning on beef (leaks. Since the practice of bull-baiting be fo much de clined, we mull have degenerated alarmingly, and every thing like courage mull be unknown among us. During the late war it was quite impoffible that our failors or foldiers (hould have (hewn any thing like fpirit or heroism. The Right Hon. Gentleman knew the fait to be fo. Mr. S. maintained that cruelty would never lead men to be cou: aleous._ To' Right Honourable Gentleman bad- painted in glowing colours, the anti-jacobin dials of hull. baiting. If by the good Government to which it ivied the people, he meant a Government car ried on by means of barracks and bayonets, [pitta anrinfa: liners; he was perfectly tight. Thofe wbo *bored power themfelves were always ready to fubntit to the ablife of power in others. If Bull baiting railed recruits and enereafed population, "as not this an open avowal that it produced dot amine r, 411101 the men, and profligacy among K the omen ? The appineli of the common people would be found to be great, as their morals were puce and their minds were enlightened. After va lions other obfervations. Mr. Sheridan concluded by Paying, that it clearly appeared from the peti tions that the old law was now toothlefs and worn out, and that it was neceffary to.pin down this Rho minasl: praCtice by a law ftronger and more vigo rous. Mr. Dt% T fail he could relate fuch fcenes of cruelty and wickednefs praelifed by bull baiters, as were never known or heard of before. On one necafion the ruffians poured aria forth on the wounds of the animal, and cut him with knives and forks fo as to irritate him to madnefs.— He differed in every refpett from the Right lion. Gentleman who bad oppofed this Bill.- -If the lower orders of the people were let alone they would be very well content with their con dition. The language of the Right Hon. Gen tleman was not at all calculated to make them fa tided or happy ; on the contrary, there never was made, in the hottell times of jacobinifm. a fpeech more likely to produce the molt tremendous con fequences, than that of the Right Hon. Gentleman. The.qutllion being loudly called fur, firangen were excluded from the Gallery, when Come fur ther converfatlon took place, the Houk then di rtied—For the ad reading 54—Againft it 6z. CieneralGescoriew I moved that the fecondread- I: ghe poftponed for three months. This motion was carried without a divifion.—At eleven o'clock the Houle adjourned. LONDON. TUESDAY. MAY 23. pmcr. OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK: - - 3 per C. Conf. money, 73.11+11 —tor account. 73U. ♦ per Cent 87-01 d per C. Lori —New f per Cam t02:14-- Osmium f prcm. Paris Journals to the z3d inft. have arrived. Their contents are important—the (late of the War in St. Domingo. The length of the Parliamentary Proceedings leaves us but little room fur remarks on the offi stal accounts. We have, however, fubjoined as ample an extraa from them as our limits would allow : indeed we have ftatcd every eircum:sance at all necdfary to enable our readers to form a corrca opinion of the prosier: of the war, whidh, is far from being terminated, as Toosistwr kerns Dill to be poffeffed of all the northern part of the illand, and fo fertile in refources, as to be able, err repeated defeat:, to fpread fire and defo lation round the very neighbourhood of Cape Town. Admiral VlttAltar, who (peaks with lets referve than the other Commanders, gives an ani mated defeription of the rapidity of Too ssatar's movements, and the facility.with which he miles &ells bodies of negroes. Even the boafted fuccefs of taking numbers of Toossaiwr's magazines, furnifhes a Rrong proof how well he has provided . himfelf with ammunition, many dephts of which mull be in the mountainous parts. where it will be difficult ever to get at them. In one word, as General LICLERC exprelfes himfelf, 4 , till once they can occupy cantonments in rutty point of /bat ve://i colony, they can have no hope of rOoring order and tranquillity ;" and to enable them to do that, frefh forces mull arrive from Europe ! The Legiflative Body have paired the Slave Trade Bill as quick as thought, by 21: to 63. — The Treaty of Amiens was paired into a law una nimoufly. On the soth, the extraordinary &Rion of the Legiflature clofed. On this occafion FOURCROY, Counfellor of State, on the part of GovernMent, congratulated the Legiflative Body on the labours they had gone through. He dwelt upon the be. ' neficial laws they had paired, the re-eftablifitment of religion, of public inftration, the ratification of peace, dec. He Rated, that on the next meet ing, the Government would have to prefeht to them a number of new laws, particularly a fyliem of jurifprudence, divided into four parts, called the Civil Code, the Commercial Code, the Judi cial Code, and the Criminal Code, &c. The Pre• fident made a fpeech, likewifesongratulating the Affembly, after which they adjourned. We are very much inclined to think. however, that Boa Atari.' was beginning to be tired of both ad: femblies. He finds there is no packing 3or 400 Men, without letting in Come popular fpirit among them, particularly if they are allowed to (peak. French Fur ds 56 1. 5o c. ARMY OF ST. DOMINGO. TI I GINERAL IN CHM' TO Tug HINISTIS OP THS SIMIANS AND COLONIES. Hcadinarters at Port Republlcain, aS Ventore, Year zo, (March 9, ski.: CITIZIN 111INISTEL..4 have arrived at Port Re , publicain, and have found the town fafe and un touched. The cafe is not the fame with the town of Leogane, which was burnt by Des:aims. But there the ravage has (topped, and the whole fouth part, from Leogane has been "preferred from harm. lam under particular obligations to the black General LAPLUME, who has behaved with great propriety, and maintained good order iu all that fine part of the colony. The whole Spanifts part has been prefaced. Its inhaliitants are armed, and on their march to eftabliflt a cordon. The cruelty and barbarity of Toys.* INT are without example. -The letters we found in his baggage, or which were delivered to us by blacks who abandoned his party, charac terize a foul as atrocious as hypocritical. I fend you one of them, which was put into my hands by General LATLUMt, who fortunately has aged en tirely contrary to the orders he received from him. All the divifions are on their march to repair to la Petite-Riviere, in order to occupy the important poft of la Crete-a-Pierrot, where the enemy has his principal powder magazine, his principal depot of cartridges, and where he fans: refolved to defend himfelf to the laft extremity. The large number of powder magazines, which we have already taken from him, and which we found in the different Moms, begin to render this central depot of very effencial importance. I have left GeneralDesroziaslAUZ at Plaifance, to protect the northern department; and 1 hope that the fquadrons from Floating and Havre will foon arrive at the Cape. The divitions of Hazav, RocHastasatt, 800- Dar, and Denise, are in motion. The provifions embarked at Bourdeaux begin to arrive, and the maintenance of the army is al ready enfured fur fix months. This frees us from one great uneafinefs; oxen are in fufficient abun. dance, fiace the expedition of TOUSSAINT into the Spanith part. The baggage of the enemy falls frequently into the hands of our foldiert, which agords them great relief, and enables them to fullain the unheard-of fatigue of this difficult war fare. The Black Officers have baggage and great luxury. The Chiefs wear fdver spurs, without (hoes or flocking.. The moment I have enfured the adminiftration, and organized a park of artillery, in cafe we expe rience refiftance in any fort, I (hall myfelf repair to the advanced pails. Health and refpea, (Signed) zzcziac. In another letter to the Minifter of the Marine and Colonies, dated Head quarters at Crete-a-Piet rot, Germinal sth, (March z6th), GSNISAL Lecssac gives an account of the capture of the Monies and forts of Crete-k-fierrot near Artibo nite, at the diftancc of eight leagues from Saint Mare, and fifteen from Port-Repuhlicain. After a fhort journal of the blockade of Crete-a-Plerrot,, Lvciiic fays. From the 111 to the 3d of Germi- nal (zed to the 24th of May) . we boMbarded the fort with great aßivity, and fet it feveral timesl on fire. On the 3d at eight in the evening, the left of the enemy made a fortie on our right, and endeavoured to pierce our lines, throwing them- felves on Artibonite, between the corps of Ge neral ROCKAUSZAV, and a referee which I had placed under the command of Aide-de-Camp &nage on the left of Artibonite. The miferable wretches were put to the (word. We found in the fort a powder magazine, the baggage of Des. ssumas, his mufic, a great many fuiees and fifteen pieces of cannon. The enemy loft in thefe combats more than 3000 men, but they fought with confidence behind their walls, whereas they thew very little in the open field. Our lofs has been confiderablc, in all thefe affairs we had coo men killed or wounded. TOVSSASNT, however, after his troops had been beat and difperfed at Gonaires, in the beginning - . - of Germinal (Much a:), retired to the wood; with only soo men. While the army was engaged against bissm.tuas, he recovered from his firit terror, collated Soo men more, effeeted a juneition with Cuaisro,Ha, who had preferved 300 men, and conceived the projat of railing the whole department of the North, and perhaps carrying the Cape. He prefented himfelf before Plai lance to attack General DZIFOONNIZAUI t who re pulled him with vigour. Toy ISA INT was not difcouraged—he dit pear ed from before DESFOUNN ea u z—a4vanced to wards Dondon and Marmelade—raifed a part of the Planters of the North, and prefented himfelf before the Cape. If the fuccours from Flufhing and Havre had arrived, the inhabitants of the North would have been kept in awe ; but know ing that there was only a weak garrifon at the Cape, and deceived by the falfe reports which Tout- SAINT caufed to be fpread, thefe unhappy planters were once more miffed. General Sorsa kept the enemy at a certain diftance from the town—made frequent forties, and the Cape fuftained no hurt. General HARDT let out this day from Crete-a- Pierrot to take up cantonments in the North. General ROCHAMSFAU has marched towards ,Connives, Toossasav being in that Canton. I eye& that the Divifions of Flufhing and Havre, and thofe from Breit and Toulon, which you announce, will loon arrrive They will tow is order that we may wash ewitexesents in every poem of ail soft Colony, which At the wily isettiu if mislay re to shim to the rreahlylvetxt .f order and Though we have been marching 40 days, we are refolvdd [till to march, and not to leave the enemy time to take breath. Language does not furnifh an epithet for the fe rocity of Too:way. He has -butchered more than 10,000 of the inhabitants, Blacks, Whites, and Mulattoes. In our different expeditions we collated nearly 8000 individuals, men and wo men, whom he had devoted to !laughter. None of the wounded Generals are mortally woundbd; I cannot bellow too high praifes on their zeal, or on that of the whole army.—Health and refpea. (Signed) LICLZIC. NOMINAL FULANI? JOTIVIII TO THE MINISTIN OF THE MARINI AND Till COLONIZE. Road of Cape Francois, on board the flag flip le Ge mappe, 18 Germinal, Year to, (April 8, 01024 Citizen Minitler—The conqueit and restoration of St. Domingo are the grand objet of public in- 1 terett, according to which I have been ordered to dired all the movements of the naval army. The navy has hitherto omitted nothing to fulfil this im portant deftination. All the ports of the colony have been reduced, all the coats are guarded, our maritime communications are free in every point, and thole of the rebels are impoffible. It is in the interior of the ifland, even amidit the mountains, that the focus of the war is eftablifhed. The Com mander in Chief, after the fubmiffion of Ma ua a as, penetrated as far as Port Republicain, by the molt dangerous roads, forcing all the polls, and driving before him all the troops of the rebels. But while bylhis jundion with General BOUDIT, he occupied all the towns and all the plains from Leogane to Gonaives, and purfued Deitalines, in the moun tains of Artibonite and Mirebalais, TM/MIMI , LOVVIRTUILS and Caltazotns, colleding in his rear lonic regular troops, and thoufands of bri gands (who are here called planters), fell upon the bottles of the Cape, let fire to all the planta tions in the plain of the North, the quarter o f Morin, Limonade, Terrein-Rouge, Trou, Grande - Riviere, and even came to brave General BOYER, under the walls of l'Hopital and la Petite-An(.— General Bora% procured from the fquadron all the artillery (oldie's of the Beet, and a corps oft 200 tailors, who valiantly contributed to the defence of the Cape, till the arrival of General Haanv's divifion. Armed boats were itation9d at la Petite- Anfe, the river Gantlet, and in even' point cf tht harbour which could be threatened;: they remain • ed there as long as there was any appearance of danger. The Commander in Chid, hotrever, being mat, ter of the northern part of the Colony, by the fide lity of General I/ATLI/MI, of the ci-dcvant Spanilh part, by the fubmitficin of CLIRVAUX, and Pam. l'Ouvraruar ; and of all the caftern department by the pretence of his army, was defirous to de firoy the pin,ipal force of the rebels, collected un der the command of Dassamitar s, in a poll named Crete-a-Pierrot, and in the neighbouring moon , tains. This poll was defended by two confidetable forts, conftruded in a pretty regular manner.... Generals Drsar.i.s, DUOUA, Devaux, and Boo• 61r, were wounded. In the attack General Le t cceitc received a (pent ball in his fafli, and tout of has Aids•de-Camp were wounded by his fide. Our lots was coo men killed or wounded ; but the re bels frightened at the intrepidity of our troops, and the obftinacy with which they purfued them in thete Mornes, hitherto conlidered as inacceffible, and teeing betides that their fortifications were de. ftroyed by our bombs; having exhaufted their provifions, and forefeeing the fuccets,of a combir.. ed attack, refulved to evacuate Crete-a• Pierrot - were attacked by our troops, who gave them no quarter. Immediately after General Hater fet out with his Divifion to advance towards the plain of the North and the environs of the Cape, and by the molt laborious marches formed a juzglion with General Bo v R. During thefe different operations General Drs. RNIADI, having under his command the Ne gro General MAVREPAS; preferred from pillage and fire the quarters of Limbe, Borgne, Plaifance, Port•au-fail, Jean Rabel, and the Mole St. Ni cholas. Frigates and corvettes Rationed on the whole coat tecotuled the movements of the Divi tion. Rear Admiral MACON, on his part, with the weakeft means,happily repulfed all the attacks of the enemy, and preferred to the cultivation of the Colony, as well as to the commerce of the mother country, the rich quarters of Maribarour; Ouanaminthe, Valliere, Laxabon, and Fort Li berte. Two !hips of the I:ne and a frigate have been conftantly under his sommand,and the crews (bared with the fmall number of foldiers at his difpofitl, the dangers of his potition, and" the: ho- nour of his titccefs. Such, Citizen Minitler, is a general view of the events of the campaign during the whole month of Ventofe. More circumftantial details will be communicaeed to Government by the Commander in Chief, a judge of the merit and advantages of all thefe particular engagements. The Admiral•then goes on to Rate Come partis elders of no great moment refpeiting the opera dons of partiCular veffeh belonging to Ibis (qua. dron. The divifion of Admiral Laroucus had continued its Ration at Port Republicain, and all the important points of the eaftern and fouth em Coaßs ; the General having proceeded to the Cape on the 18th of Ventofe, (March 9,) to con cert meafures with Admiral VILLAS ST, the Foudroyant, through the ignorance of the Pilot, - ilruck on a rock and had been nearly wrecked : the however efcaped with the lofs of her rudder. The Zele, Tourville, and Swiftture, arrived at the Cape on the ad, 9th, and toth of Germinal ; and the frigates from Havre on the 6th,'7th, and Bth,. (27th, 28th, and isith of March). There vac's landed about 3Coo troops. The Batavian divition arrived on the tBth Ger minal (April 8), and landed asoo men. The Englith frigate, the Mama, commaneed by Captain M/NDS, appeared off the Cape on the loth of Germinal (March 31). He had left his Ration off Cape Tiburon, to enquire after an Eng lilh reported to have been captured or de tained by one of Tot/mires cruizers. Captain MENDS anchored in the Road. We received' him," fays Admiral VILLARET, 41 with the fame marks of refpea and ft iendthip, as thofe which Admiral Docitwoarn Chewed to the Captain of the Cornelie. I am inclined to believe that his officers will bear teftimony to the politenefs of the French, and to our wifhes to maintain peace be tween the two nations." Yeßerdaymorning his Royal Highnefs the Duke of Casisitiool embarked on hoard the Astra lOt4 frigate, Captain FRASER, at Yarmouth, under Royal Salute from the A KPH 19N frigate, and the AMUR gun veffel, but the wind blowing frefh at north-eaR, his Royal Highnefs was expelled to re turn to Neill:in% Hotel that afternoon. His MayErry having been pleated to appoint half after one o'clock on Thurfday, the a7th for receiving the Addrefs of the Univerlity of Cambridge, fuch Members of the Univerfity as are difpofed to attend on that occation, are re quelled to meet at the Thatched Hc,tife Tavern, St. James's•dreet, at half after twelve o'clock on that day. A very extraordinary circumßance is *reported to have taken place during a canvas for the City of a Northern County. While the Caodilite was making his bow to a worthy Eleetor for his for . - frages, a Gentleman in the employ of the She: if, tapped him on the !boulder, and begged the fa vour of his company to an adjoining tavern. We forbore to mention a report which appeared in the other Papers, of a mutiny having broken out on board Admiral CA MNIELL'S [hip, on the Ja maica Ration, as we were certain our own ac counts would have mentioned the cireumflauce had it happened. We have finer made every en quiry, and we are happy in being able to affore the pub!ic. that the report is altogether unfotinticd. .46 a .44; • 1.