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~~ ° - - AMARICA. NEW YORK, NI4RCH s 4. The rmly article of news, of any importance, is , the taking potfeflion of the Spanith port of Hijpa niola, in the name of the French Republic, by the Black Genera TOUSSAINT.—The article is as follows : )1174111 BULKS, Efq. Conful of the United States for Smut Domingo, arrived here on Thurfday in the brig Boilon, from Cape Francois. Mr. Bt acs has furnithed us with the Bulletin Official de St. DOmingne," of the 29th Pluviofe, (18th Feb.) from which we eradiate Toosseixr's account of his having polfeffed himfelf of the Spaniib part of the Wand. We are alfo informed by Mr. B. that a Convention from the different departments was Shortly to meet at Port-au-Prince, in order to form a code of laws for the government of the colony.— There laws are to be fubmitted, firil, ior the ap probation of the Black General hind - elf, and after wards fent home for the concurrence of the French Government. COLONIES OF FRANCE. TOTSSAINT LOUVERTURI, otweam. IN CHIEF OF THE ARMY OF ST. DOMINGO, TO HIS FELLOW CITIZENS OF THI, FRENCH TARTOFST.DOMINGO. St. Domingo, February 2. Citizens.-4 announce to you with great fatisfac tion that I have taken poffeffion of the Spanilli part of St. Domingo, in the name of the French Republic. A column commanded by the General of Brigade, MOYSE, marched to the North againft St. Yago ; a fecond column commanded by the Chief of Brigade PAUL l'Ou v sax. vas, to the fouth. weft,' sigainl Santa Domingo. Each of them were attacked by the Spaniards, who teemed de. termined to oppofe our taking poffeffion. The columns, notwithfianding, purfued their rout. The meafures of wifdom, of prudence, and of hums city, which I had taken, prevented the effufion of blood; and with very little lofs, I gained polfellion of the whole Bland. Perfuallons alone, after the firll attack, was the only means I made ufe of.— My enterprize was crowned by the molt brilliant fitceeti. The General of Brigade Morse, con. duded himfelf with that courage, that moderation, and that bravery, which always charaderifes a French General. He executed with precifion all my orders. He has rendered me a clear and pre. cife account of all his operations, and the condo& of the officers and foldiers under his command has given me infinite pleafure. Difcipline and fubor dination have been obferved with a fcrupulous at.• tention, and perfons and property rigidly refpeded. The Adutant-General HERECOULT, whom I fes* to the Spanith Governor JOACIM GARCIA, MillE my inftrudions to negotiate the taking poll - erste of the Bland, has fulfilled his million with honour, wifdom, and prudence.—[Here follows a particu. ler detail of the marches of the iroops.)—ln con. fell hence of this detail, which it gives me pleafure to make public, becaufe it is true, declare that the officers and foldiers compo fi ng the arm/. of &. Dcmingo, have deferved well of their Country. (Signed) TOUSSAINT Louvsaruas, General in Chief. From she HAMBURGH MAIL. BRRLIN;APRII. 28.—The regiments of cavalry, Vnfs and Leftocq, which have arrived here, were this day followed by the regiment Gravenitz, front Great Glagau; the biigade of Light Fulltiers, from Lower Silefia, is expeded here to-morrow. The number of troops expeEted here will amount to t 2,000 men, but their further deffination is not yet known. On the sSth inflant, Prince PIGNA- TiLLI BELMONTE was married, at Sagan, to the third daughter of the late Duke of Courland. FRANCEFORT ; APRI4. as.—Yefterday the firft di villon of the troops of General GRIN'S./ pallid tltmugh here, from Franconia, and before the loth of May the whole t s,OOO men from the army of the Rhine will have pa ll ed through this city, to that what had hitherto been laid in the public prints, of their remaining in Franconia, is un founded. Afchaffenburg has fill a garrifon from the Gallo-Batavian army. Letters from Stuttgard, where Moarates head-quarters are at prefent, flute,that a corps oft t i ooomen is to be embarked in Holland, on a ferret expedition, which will be replaced by troops from the army of the Rhine. Accounts from Franconia Rate, that the march of she Pruffian troops from Anfpach and Bareuth is put off till the 6th of May. The Prince Bilhop of Bamberg returned to his refidence, on the esti ipflant. Pareassoanm, APRIL tB.—His Imperial Fighneh, the Grand Duke of Com craw TIN a Paw• Loa/Inca'i his been appointed Infpettor•Generol of the Wpedions at Brea, in the Ukraine, and on the Dnielier, Infantry as well as Cavalry. Lies tenant-General BULGAILOW will aft as Military- Governor of Riga, during the abfence of the Ge.. neral of Infantry,Count Vox nit PAULL N.—The Sidlowiag Officers, who have been difinilied, are takzn into ferries again, viz. the General of Ca 4alry, Count APR•IIII I Lieutenant-Generals ADT and Prince GALLIZYI4I II; and Major-Ge t 14 jigs Count DR LAMBERT ; TALWIIN ; 011113ISKOW ; ADADAROW; 8•1111 ; SCHIR•L, and Count Kariam stcp.;---The conrfe of Exchange op Paris is noted this'dq's Court Gazette, at p Cols, and that on Lopslonat gfld. • COWSTANTIIIIOI/14; MARCH 114.114 RegCll4.ll of Al*rs having complied with the orders tranf mitted to them ' -by the Porte, the Alg erine Am baffad-r has at Lift beet acknowledged. He had leis public audience on the isith of this month. On the aoth the Envo , of the Seven United Tiles (ea-Venetian), caufed t.p.: flag of the Republic to be huided on boaid all the (hips of his nation, ly ing in the harbour of Conllantinople ' and which before had the Ruf fi an ( Leg g flying. The Envoy Ilitorelf went on hoard the largeft of dick veffels, gni After psrforining tht cercrponial agreed upon, proceeded towards Scutari, and paffing before the rears of the Seraglio, to which the Grand Signior had 'remind, carted that prince to be faluted with taenti one guns: a fecr , r.d difehatge took place Wore To-41;mA, evbcre tic (aline was returned. 4 PARLI,IIIIENTARr PROCEEDINGS. HOUSE OF LORDS, 'THURSDAY, MK" .7. The Hm. HENRY ERSKINE was heardin con tinuation, this day, in the Scotch Appeal, the Hon. Mrs. Hamilton Fullarton, and Colonel Wil liam Fullarton, her hufband, v. Sir Hew Dal rymple, of North Berwick, Bart. After which their Lordihips appointed the further hearing to take place to-morrow. A number of Bills, monly private, were brought up from the Commons by different Gentlemen, and (cruelly read a c tit time. Mr. CORKY, • ncellor of the Irith Exchequer, brought up the irtfh Spirits Duty Bill, and the Hops Importation Bill, which were alfo read a firft time. ...... . Mr. Aaso r prefented a Menage from the Com mons, requefting a conference with their Lord• !hips, relative to the moil effedual means fur the promulgation of the Statutes of the United King dom of Britain and Ireland. The Meffage being immediately taken into con fideration, their Lordthips refolved to comply with the requeft of the Commons, and that the defired conference !hold.' take place at five o'clock to morrow, in the Painted Chamber. The feveral Bills before the Houfe were for warded in their refpeftive Rages. The Order of the Day for the fecond reading of Cope's Divorce Bill being read, Counfel and Evi dence were accordingly called in; the former were Mg. GARROW and Mr. ONSLOW, and a number of Witneffes of various ddcriptions attendedto prove the ufual circumftances of the cafe, as well as the Petitioner hirnielf, Mr. Cope, who was ready to come forward, if called upon. From the ftatement of Counfel, and the de.pofi tions of fuch of the Wirneffes as were examined, the principal of whom was Mr. De Barry, a Soli citor, and partner of Mr. Cope the Applicant for the Bill, it generally appeared that Mr. John Cope, a profellional Gentleman, was married in the month of February 1793, to his now wife, Eliza beth Melville, then a widow. That at the time of his marriage he lived in Northumberland-ftreet, Strand, and thortly after removed to the Broad Sanduary, Wellrninder. That he had uniformly concluded himfelf as a tender and affedionate huf band until the period of the detedion of his wife's infidelity, from which moment he declined all in tercourfe with her, and even refuted to fee her.— The learned Counfel teemed to admit that the cafe in queftion was rather a particular one, and princi pally with regard to the line of legal proceeding that was adopted upon it, and fuch as required a peculiar degree of confideration on the part of their Lordfitips ; but he appeared to reprobate the idea of any fpecies of collufion or finifter praftice on the part of his Client, who he Rated was, purfuant to the wife and falutary regulation of their Lord fhips, then in attendance, and ready to be exa mined in the ftridett way upon every point con nefted with the cafe, which, as far as related to him, he wifhed to have probed to the bottom. He was a young man of unblemilhed reputation, and remarkable for his intenfe and regular application to his proletllonal bufinefs, which, as he had the misfortune to have an artful and intriguing wife, afforded her an opportunity to put her machina tions in pradice. His refidence was in the Broad Sandvary. Mr. Cope was in the habit of attend ing feveral hours each day, at the Chambers of his Partner in the Temple, and it could be proved, that, on thole occafions, the frequently made ufe of the back-door, which ltd to a communication with the Park, to get to her paramour, a Mr. Brif towe, and on whofe account this application for Divorce was made. It would alto be offered in proof, that on fundry other occafions, particularly in the inftances of two excurfions of Mrs. Cope linto the Country, an adulterous intereourfe be tween her and the raid Mr. Briftowe took place. Mr. De Barry, the Solicitor above mentioned, was the firft Wimefs examined, who proved his perfonally fcrving the regular notice on Mrs. Cope, and in the courfe of his examination, Rated tome particulars with refped to the proceedings upon the Cafe, in which it appeared that damages were fued for in the Sheriff's Court, where Judgment was fuffered to go by default.—The damages ap plied for were stool. of which the Jury, whom the Counfel in the coulee of tome obfervations which afterwards patted between him and the Loan CHANCILLOR, defcribed to have been, as they were called in thefe inferior Courts, a good Jury, award. ed the Plaintiff !scot. It further appeared that no evidence was offered in the Court alluded to, but merely the faEt of the general conduit and be haviour of' Mr. Cope to his wife. It further appeared, but generally by the evi dence, that in the courfe of the years 1798, and 1799, Mrs. Cope went on excurfions into the coun try, which took up Come time; that on one of thefe in particular, Mr. Briftowe accompanied her, and the Lady was unattended by her hatband, or any of his family. In the courfe of this tour, it was (Wed that evidence was ready to prove that an adulterous intercourfe had taken place between the parties ; and alto on a fubfequent oecation at Berk hampflead, and at another place in Hertfordthire, where the Lady was on a vitit at a houfe which Mr. Briftowe had taken. In anfwer to queltions put by one or two of their Lordthips, it was Rated that no evidence as to any of thefe fads, either on the part of the Plaintiff or the Defendant, was offered in the Sheriff's Court, i on which The Loan CamscaLsoa ohterved, it would be a Queftion, whether their Lcwdfhips fhould re ceive fuch a verdift as had been obtained in that Cdhrt ? _ The Eceleriallical Proceedings upon the cafe which were had in the Confillory Court of the Dean and Chapter of Webnintler, were then of. fered in evidence. Upon the Lord Chancellor *Axing the Officer who proved the proceedings ' if he knew how far the Jurifdilli on o f t h e Eccleliafb cal Court in quellion extended ?—the latter replied in the Negative. Several obfervations were then interchanged be tween the Noble and Leanted Lord on the Wool. Pack , ana the leading Counfel, with refpell to the kid rslifintt of the cafe. as the circa, that the eir- cumaanccs, which tranfpired at their Lordfhips' Bar, wouls, if regularly offered in evidence, have had upon the judgment of the Sheriff's Court, the non-application to the Court of • King's• Bench, ..s to what poffibly might have been the conchia of the refpedive Solicitors, with regard to th.. appli cation to the Sheriff's Court, and even of the principles themfelves ; and, laftly, wits refpeEt to the difcretionary power of their Lordinips, in call ing the Petitioner to their Bar for examination. From the whole of what tranfpircd, the cafe fcented to appedt to their Lordfhips to be of that queltion able nature, as to induce them to defer the further hearing thereof till Wednefday next.—The Hcufe immediately adjpurned till to-morrow. HOUSE OF COMMONS. The following is a correct ftatemeet of the fulaltanee of Colonel MARTIN'S Speech In the Hoek of Commons on Wedne day laft, on the Motion of the CH ANC tat.° a of Llie. Elena kora, for leave to bring in a BUJ to prevent doubts refped ing the eligibility of Perfons in Holy Orders tea feat in that • Houfc : Mr. MARTIN obtefved, that he did not feel him. (elf warranted in the prefent liege to (peak at large to the principle of the meafure ; he would, there fore, reftrid himfelf to a few obfervations on what was urged by way of objedion, by the Honour able Gentleman oppofite to him (Mr. Sheridan). — That Honourable Gentleman has paged the heavy ftmtence of inconfiftency on thofe who fupport the prefent quefiion, but who, on a former debate, de clared it as their opinion, that a Gentleman in HoltelOrders was legally incapable of fitting with the Commons in Parliament? Does it follow then that it is expedient to do all that it is lawful to do ? Is it very reprehenfible in a Knitter putrefied of great influence from a fituation, but of much more, derived from tried and improved integrity, to fay this :—.." I have myfelf but little doubt that per il= in Holy Orders are incapable to fit and vote in the Houfe of Commons ; but I find and I re • 4 the fcruples of others, that there are many who, 'thinking that Priefts ought to be rendered lamp &. of being returned in future, have however Tome doubts, whether under all circumftances of , the cafe, it would be prudent iby a vote to incapa- I &ate the Rev. Gentleman who has given rife to the prefent difeuffion ?"—The Right Honourable Gentleman might well think, that in dealing with a fraudulent litigious debtor, it would not be =- wife to abate a part of his legal demand, to infers the refidue.—The Right Honourable Gentleman (the Chancellor of the Exchequer), may not enter tain confideralik doubts, yet in compliment to fuch as do on the abftrad queftion, he may think it his duty to propofe the prefent meafure—but the Ho pou rable Member Mr. Sheridan), has doekt whe ther it may be j to deprive the Clergy of this harifisiable right, e exiftence of which remains to be proved.—The poor Revenue Officers have been deprived of the right to vote, even as Freeholders or Freemen, for Members of Parliament ; Contrac tors, though feated at the very time, were tuned out of Parliament—even the King, Sir, to dan , A influence, has been deprived of many conffitutional rights which he before enjoyed.—lt was propofed to deprive the Eaft-India Company of the charter, for which that Company repeatedly paid for the renewal in sane).—Now, Mr. Speaker, if the Ho nourable Member voted for thofe meafures, I can not but fay that his oppofition to the prefent mo des to me not more ill-timed than it is . What I have raid will, I hope, have the *fed of making a truce between the Honourable 'Member and a trarliledconfeience.—l with to perfuade him, that Should he even vote for the prefent pro tion, he may yet lay claim to that felt-apprc.- , bation, thofe foothing recolleOions , which it feems 1 be has enjoyed from confcientious meditations, even when he differed upon important quellions, not only from the general fentiment and opinions of ibis Hoeft, but from the almofi univerfal fenfe of the country, and I will add, from the general fetal meat of the civilized world. THURSDAY, MAY 7. Sir Wm. Youwo gave notice, that he Should on Tuefday next move for leave to bring in a Bill for the purpofe of afcertaining the amount of the Af ferments for the fupport of the Poor, for a cer tain number of years pail Mr. Coeur gave notice, for the convenience of the frith Members, that he Should on Monday next move, in the Committee of Ways and Means, for. the continuance and regulation of certain /frith Duties. The Houfe refolved itfelf into a Committee, to take into confideration the Report of the Commit tee appointed to con fi der of the molt effectual mode of promulgating the Statutes. The Report being read, Mr. Alums Paid that the object of the Commit. tee was diretled to two points, lira to increafe the number of Ads allowed to Juftices in England, and the other was to extend the fame regulations with refped tq the promulgation of the Statutes to Ireland, that had been previoutly adopted in Eng land. Sir J. Siactaia Paid, he had no objection to this plan, but withed to know what expense it would be attended with ? Mr, Aims- replied, that the expence of Print ing the Statutes, before the late Regulations took place, amounted to about 70001. a year. The ob- Jed of the Regulations which he had propofed was, at the fame time that it tended to the promulga tion of the Statutes, to prevent any additional ex pence, which was done by not printing fo many private Ads (which were not of fuch generalim portance), and.printing a greater number of pub lic Ads, and the (eying made in the expence in the one cafe by diminution, made up the addition. al expence in the other. In time of war, how ever, there were always a greater number f Pub lic Ads than in time of Peace, and therefore, the etpente for the laft three years amounted to bout 'pool. a year. The Refolutions were then agreed to, and w in ordered to be communicated to the Houfe of Lori.' The Cannes Horfe Duty Exemption Bill, west through a Committee. The Houfe went into a Committee on the BM for the better colledion of Fines impored by Jul tices, Ltc. . - Several Amendments were made, and, on the fuggeftion of Mr. TAYLOR, it was ordered to be printed. Ti% , . Report of the Adjutants' Allowance Bill was brought up, and the till ,was ordered to be read a third time to-motrow. . - - The Bill for preventing perfons in Holy Order; from being eligible to ferve in Parliament, vac brought up and read a firft time; on the Mo.ioly for its being read a fecond time, Mr. JOLLIFFIfaid, that as this was a very im portant Bill, he hoped thatit would not be hur ried through the Houfe, and that a fortnight or three weeks would be given before the Bill paf!ed. The CHAINCILLOR of the EICHEVER raid, 4 was for the Houfe to determine when the Bill fhould be read a fecond time. bpt if he underftood the Hon. Gentleman rightly on a former occafion, his objeCtion was, not to the principle of the Bill, but to fome of its regulations, which would come more properly under confederation when the Bill was in a Committee. With refpe& to the delay propofed, no ground whatever had been hated flu it, and therefore, he, for one, should not content to it. It was his intention to propofe that the Bill fhould be read a fecond time to-morrow and that it fhould be printed. If the Houfe thoug ht it right that three or four days fhould elapfe between the fecond reading and the Committee, or between the Committee and 'Report, he fhould certainly not objat to it, but he could not content to the Hqn. Gentleman's propolition for which he had not•affigned a tingle reafon. The Bill was then ordered to he react 4.kcond time to-morrow, and to be printed. The Order of the Day for the further confide. ration of the Report of the Committee on the Bank Note Forgery Bill being read, feveral Amend. ments were propofed anti agreed to, and the Bill was ordered to be read a third time to-morrow. Mr. Dm!. gave notice, that he fhonld early next geflions move for the Repeal of certain Du ties on AuCtions, and propofe certain other Duties in lieu thereof. The Houk went into a Committee, to con fi der of the Bill refpeding the average price of Sugar. Mr. VANSITTART moved a Refolution for the continuing and amending the raid Bill, which was agreed to. Mr. Val:sixrear moved for feveral Public Ac. counts ; agreed to. Adjourned at half-paft Five o'o°4. LONDON. FRIDAY, MAY E. PRICE OF STOGIOTTHIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK: Codelo 644.—ConfoIs for May 61....0mn100t 9 4. Rod. 5941—New s per OM. 9444—0 as per Coos 964. PRICE OF STOCKS YISTESDAT. Bank Stock 164 IEI 3 per Cent. Red. 5 9et 3 per C. Conf. 6 9 3 f 4 Per Cent- 79 7 3 f S per C. Navy .5 5 Per C 94* Long Ann. i 8 5 -t6 Imp. 3 per Can. 01 Imp. Amain. asi 3-16 pa s 81 so* Can. psi m India Stock zoo The letters from Lifbon, by the Mail of Teller. day, hold out hopes that Portugal will ofcape the invallon with which the was du eatened. A letter from that city dated April :6, 4 P. M. Pays—" M. d'Araajo is at this moment embark ing on board a Portuguese verel, in order to pro ceed immediately to treat diredly with France. It is raid the frigate is bound to L'Orient. The Court of Spain has confiderably foftened its tone in confoquence. The Prince Regent has fent or ders to his Generals on the frontiers not to commit any hoffilities, as he was in hopes of terminating the bufine.fs amicably. All the auxiliary t roops, ex cepting the Hofpital, have been embarked on board the Mips of war, and Portugueze merchant Mips, in order to go to Oporto, but having learnt that the Brazil convoy was threatened by the Spandb frigates, the (kips of war went to meet them.— During the week the troops were on board (hip, not the fmallell complaint was heard. The Por tugueze and Euglifh thawed the greateft efleem for one another. This is a very pleating circumftance, as the plan of carrying the auxiliary army to Opor to, when the convoy returns, Rill continues." Some letters Rate, that on the tech, a courier had arrived with difpatcaes from Spain, which it was underftood, contained overtures of atcommo. dation. The departure of M. d'Attawyo for France took place in confequence, and to give time for farther dircullical,' it is Idded that a truce for four months bad been propofed. Some of the accounts afcribe this overture ts) the of Spain fupplying the ma gamines, provifions, &c. which an invading ar my would require In its paffage to Portugal.— Others Rate that fymptoms of the yellow fever had again appeared at Cadiz. A circumflance that would make it neceffary for the Spanifh Govern ment to draw a cordon round the place it:feats!, and render it dangerous to aftemble an army, let the malady thould be fpread through the country. Whatever may be the motive, it feems obvious, if we may credit the letters by the Mail of yeller day, that the Court of Spain is reluctant in enter ing into the views of France : we fear, however, that any treaty which may now take place be tween France and Portugal will be much left fa vourable for ibis country, than tl.e one which was concluded between them three or four years ago, but which the latter, by the interference of another Power, refufed to ratify.