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From the LONDON GAZETTE, Jan. 2. DOWNING-STRUT, JANUA 180'. A Difp'atch from the Relident of the Honour able EaR India Company at Amboyna, dAted 6th July, 1801, of which the following is an Extraet, been received &y the Court of Directors of the EaR India Company, and communicated to the Right Honourable Lord HOBART, one of his Ma jelly's Principal Secretaries of State : I do myfelf the Honour to congratulate your Lordfhip, in Council, on the important event of the furrencler of Tcrnate to the Britifh Arms, which was delivered over, by Capitulation, to Co lend Bute on the :tift ult. The Dutch Governor made a molt refelute refinance, having defended the place with uncom mon fit minds for fifty-two days, though, Pam forty to add, at the expence of the poor inhabitants, Who peddled, by famine, from ten to twenty a day, from our firong blockade by fc., and land. During this excellent difpofition of oir military and marine forces, the latter under the command of that gallant officer Captain HAQEs, the annual fortlies for the enemy were intercepted through his vigilance, whiLli certainly contributed, in a high degree, to the ultimate fueeefs of the enter prire. The value of the captured property taken by the *adroit amounts to a Lack and Fifty Thoufv.nd Dollars. The difficulties the Honotirable Company's forces by lea and land had to encounter on this arduous fervice; and the fpirit and intrepidity which they manifefted during a Siege of nearly two months, do them infinite credit, and have feldom or ever been exceeded in this part of the globe. The accounts we have received of the flrength of Fort Orange, and its numerous de. 'ached batteries, proved exceedingly erroneous, in fo much that Colonel BURR declares tit; place to be extremely ftrong by nature, and: inolt excel. hotly improved by art, with a powerfnl.garrifon, and fo well provided with arms and amtnunition, as to throw difficulties in the way of our force, which were as diftreffing as unexpeded ; they, however, perfevered and kept their ground with fo much bravery and refolution as to compel the enemy to iiirrender their different ilrong holds, one after the other, until the principal fort and town were to completely blockaded both by fea and land, and In reduced by famine, as to make them Inc fur conditions, which, I underiland, are very fatisfialory. I am happy to inform your Lordfhip, in Coun cil, arduous as this fervice was, and much as our ft.rces were expofzil to the repeated attacks of the (Alertly, the lots of killed and wounded of the.ttoors :Ines not amount to above nine or ten ; that of toe marine does nut exceed twelve ibarnen. mu.rtARY PROMOTIONS. Olt/MANCE-OFFICE, JAN. 1", 1802. Roval Regiment of Artillery. Brevet Colone. F...(4.eet :o be Colonel to Second, vice Luau:of:, dcrLar.;.l. Dditcd Occe:nha at, Oat. Ithvct LLticr.ant-Colonel Georgt Glafgaw to be Lkotestant- Colonel, vice Laveon. Dated as above. Brevet Major ;Om A. Seha/ch to be Major, vlee Glsfgow. Duce as above. Captain-lieutenant Charles Godfrey to be Captain, vice ichalch. Dated as above. Firft I.iet . tenant Thomas F:lifort to be Cal vice Slam, retired. Dat.-t! December 23, [got. Firit-Lieutcnant Franrie Smyth to br Captain-Lieutenant, vice Godfrey. Dated December 25,120 t. Steond-Licutctaint Pirtle' Lloyd to beSirft Lieutenant, vice Ellicott. Dated December 13, allot. • Second-Lieutenant Henry C. hiardu to be Fitt Lieutenant, vice Smyth. Dated December as, zgot. Sccond•Licuttnant Nicholas H. NI hoLa to be Firft-Lies tenant, vice Eng Elk deecallAL Dated Deetze.,cr ay, ant. BANKRUPTCY ENLARGED: reb. T 6. John Maribail, oft itde Rufell•ftreet, '..krtuontlfty, .Juriey, tanner, dear: and thaprnaii, at ten, at Guildhall. BANKRUPTS. John 1:i-no, of Birmingham, ~frocer, stealer and Chapman, _ to J.m. a 5, 26, and ifeb. 13, at twelve, at tat Public s, Mr. S. Lowe, Birmingham, 4 "7 NT-. 1.. iurr Orice, w ott , - kineeredge, Glnuectlerthire, turner, •::t1 Chapman, Jau. ts, f, and February t 3, at three, ; ;wan Inn, Watonwpsdertde. Attornies, Mr. 'rhos. Wottaa-Undrullge ; or Mars. Price and Williams, 'rim Old Buildup. London Jame. Abbott and Mark Palmer, of Monk-Wearmouth-Shore, Durham, fail-mallera, dealers, ehapmen, ant' partners, jan. as, a 6, mid Frh.l3, at eleven, at the houle of Matthew Wth. Flute, Sunderland near the Sea, Durham. Attetuka, Mr. %Thaw Mark4ase, Loudon ;Or Mr. Thompfoo, Mawr W.armooth. - john Wallace, of Upper Mary-la-Soneatteet, WWI; (W -rote", builder, chafer and eh 9 . 13, an'' . Feb.43, at eleven, at GuildhalL Attornay, Nethinfnie, in Elk:- gime, Strand. junco Dtdr, of Finfbury-fquare, Mfddl..l v, merchant, hearer, dealer and Chapman, Jan. : t u t % Jan . s 3, u nne, and Feb. 1 3, at ten, at Guildhall. A..orsey, Mr. Walton, Girdicrs- Hall, Bafingisall-1 r William Recce. ut Liverpool, merchamokider and ehapman, Jan. a 6, 27, and Feb. r 3, at two, at the Globe Tavern. U-. verrpooL Attornies. Mr. John•blarples, in Withy- Grove, Manche tal or Mr. Ralph Ellis, Oirbtor-itrect. London- Dviirl Tobin and Thady O'Meara. of Nic.holat-lane, Lombard- Meet, London, merchants and patina, Jan. 9. t 6, at ten, and Feb r 3, at one, at Guildhall. Amanda. Man. Ha man and Pringle, Ely Place, Holborn... Thomas Addifoo. of Chute Forma., and William Addiftigi. of /v!iiton, Wilts, corn-dealers. c °partneri, dealers and ehapmen, Jan. 9, 19, and Feb. T 3. at ten, at Guildhall. London. Actor aim Ma i% &awn and Keys, Jantei-conrt, enry-tircet, St. Mary-Aze. !Robert Wakeman, of Birmingham, plater, &miff and chapann, jan. x8;19, sad Feb 13, at twd►e. at the Public Office, in Binuingbam. At toniki, Kindevley, [Argot :id Ines, Synsond's-Inn, Citaaecry-lanc. London; or Man. Sotith and Arnold, Birmingham. illbarna • Delmar, of New-nrcet, Covent-Garden, hUddkren, goldfmith and jeweller, deakr and charism, January t 9,13, and Feb. r 3, at doe, at Guildhall. Attornies, hfeifes. Santa na and Otia, il!cturitufurcx tit, Hera ; or Mr. Aubrey, Took's-court, du:liter-11nm Widiaen Grabens, of ktufitirgton, Line°haler, miller, baker, deakr and ehapusan, Jan. Is, 16, and reb. 13, at eleven, at the Leorfe :no, ie Klegflow.opon-Hull. Attornies, Mr. Curitot-ltrsct, Lond.il or Mr. Gafaod. Kiglifkow upon NIA " • JAM. Junes, ?sty of the Colonade, Oreavilletreet, Brunfwiek (goitre, Middlefts, builder and earpenttr, dealer and chap nun, Jar. y, i 6, at te n , and Feb . 13, at twelve, at Guildhall, London. VA:torahs defies. Tilbury and lkdford, Ely-plaee. Lt-klry, ofNevreaale4tre;t, Strand, Mtddlefez, bofier, d. and Osman, Jan. 9, at eleven, and s 6, at twelve, b 1 3. at twelve, ai Loam. Moue', WO" b664:041rit-lledam COLOAVJES. CAPE FRANCOIS, OCTOBER s 5. Amin a fcene of murder and robbery, you Will not expea I can be very particular in my remarks. Without any preface I (ball inform you, that yeller day morning the prefentCommander (a black man) received official advice that an Army of revolted Negroes had encamped a few leagues without the gates, their intention being to march to the city and fire it in feveral places, and maifacre the Whites, and thofc Blacks in power. Immediately the houtes and ftorei were doted and the drums beat w arms ; the women and children running to and fro in wild confufion, prefented a fight not to he defctibed p—lono troops were under arms in a few minutes, and the General in perfon headed a party of horfe. The Dragoons finally marched or rather flew to meet the enemy, and our anxiety to be Cure was great to hear from them. We waited until ten at night, when they returned alma dead with fatigue, it raining in torrents the whole day, and the weather uncommonly hot. They came up with a part of the enemy five leagues from hence, and charging upon them, took a few prifoners, and brought them in ; they raw 600 encamped.— Thofe taken will foon be executed, but this is only the beginning of tronble; for to-day again the drums are beating and no bufineft doing. Gon only knows how it will terminate. I with it was poffible to get off. I can obtain but little informa tion from any Frenchman; a general panic has fcized them all, and no one ?peaks loud enough to be heard. The country prefents a fcene of un heard-of murder. The infurgents yefierday mar facred a number of Whites, among whom were feveral women and old men. An exprefs has juft gone to General MOTES, who it at Fort Liberty, to march with his troops to form a junaion with General CHRISTOPHEI. Sonetthing decifive will Coon take place. TEN o'CLocs—The Artillery and part of the Infantry have marched. Accounts from the ene my are fo various that we cannot afcertaia.the number nor difcipline of his army. A number of the inhabitants lodged on board of the American vefkls laft night ; they were obliged to go off pri vately and in a tremendous rain. Sleep is a firan ger to my eyes ; we were flint up in a (mall room laft night, every moment expecting f?mething dreadful. I'o-night will be the fame. Every night fince I have been here, murder has been executed,' and, (hocking to relate, I have feen human en trails carried about upon the bayonets of the inhtit man Negro foldiers. MONDAY MOANING.—As yet we are fafe ; thank Goo. Lail evening a body of troops marched nut with provitions fllfScient for feveral days, and their bread upon their bayonets. The fight was novel and not implealing. An embargo has been laid upon all sails in port. TUESDAY MO4NING.-At two o'clock this Morn ing the Chief of the infurgents was brought in a prifoner and lodged in gaol. He .is fettered in a cruel manner, and his cries are heard along diaance. Ingenuity is at work, contriving tor ments for this poor wretch. It is fail four horfes will be employed to draw him in quarters. His name is FLARILL, and his (Nat was to overthrow the government of TOUSSAINT. Our ears are momentarily pained with ac counts of thockinz murders committed in the country. Only a few miles from this place, a few days ago, whole families were cut off in the moll barbarous manner. I exped the embargo will be off tomorrow. OCTOCCR 39, TWILTS O'CLOCK A? NIGHT.— In the centre of this day the beets bare been ilrewed with dead bodies, which are fuffered to purify without removal. Another Chief of the infurgents is taken; but the danger is not re much from without as within. The Generals hare been fired at, and one of their Aids was Aaa. night killed by the fide Obis Chief. Laft night again the alarm was fpread that the Cape was on fire. To day General Caairroress, with his own hand, cut off the heads of two men, and left them among heaps of dead in the public fquares. °cross& 3o.—Dulincfs has commenced here, though not without much difficulty ; confidence is not reitored, and the inhabitants think them (elves not Ale. Executions of the criminals are hourly taking place ; and we as often hear of their cruel murders; feared) , a White is left in the part of the country inhere they marched. The plans of the infurgents were well arranged ; they had appointed all their officers, and Aligned to them their different Rations. This city was the firs objea of their intended plan, and I affure you it had nearly fucceeded. We thould have immediately fallen victims to their brutal rage. Toussatnv and DRUALIVES are now in the vici nity-the latter with a powerful army. The fears of the rye are by no mennsftibfided ! • LONDON. 1. MONDAY, JANUAPY 4, !!hill 01 STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOOK: Catfish for opg.69.•Reduced 671. 4 Per Cent.B4i—Nctv 3 per Cam 98i. PR/CII OF STOCKS ON SATURDAY : Bank Stock Imp. 3 per Cent. 661 3 per Ct. Red. 67 Imp. Ane. xl 1-x6l per Cvot• 841 per C. 96t 5 pet Cent. 1797, 94 Lot.Tic.l6!. toe. Long Ann. t9ll-16: Calf, for opt. 681 69 When Government refolved to reduce all the Second Lieutenant-Colonels in fettling the Peace Ellabliihment, as we announced about three weeks ago, the Circular Letter of the 13th of July 1795, addredcd to Officers commanding Regiments," and of which we laid a copy before the Public in our Paper of the sal ult. was not in the recollec tion of Minifiers. The moment they found the Government pledged to continue en Second thtad. ditional Field Officers, and to allow•them to re main on the Peace Eilabliihment. they made an alteration in the propofed arrangements. We are informed, that it is not now the inten tion of Government to reduce the Second Lieute nant Colonels and Second Majors to half-pay, as was at firft propofed, buttopermit them to die off, without the vacancies being filled up. For this aft of juftice, we underftand, thefe of. fleas are chiefly indebted to the exertions and re prefentations of his Royal Highnefs the Duke of You, who has fo truly on every occafion (hewn himfelf the real friend and patron of the army. The events that have taken place in the French Weft India Colonies, of which we have before had occafion tofpeak, and concerning which feveral in. terefting particulars are given in the preceding co lumn, can excite little furprize in the minds of thofe habituated to examine political occurrences in all their relations and bearings. In the progrefs of the French Revolution, the Negroes were de. dared Free, without any means being provided to fit them for the enjoyment of fo great a bleffing. Negroes were admitted into places of mull and power. This was a necelfary confecluence of the former meifire, and, taken with it, was not only unavoidable but proper. Perhaps to this fecund ftep every white inhabitant in thefe colonies owes his life; for the belt informed Negroes kept the others in Come kind of order, and were anxious to (hew themfelves deferving of Liberty! If France had even been deGrous of recalling ' its firft meafure, it became afterwards impolTible. The luperiority of our fleet was the means, though our . Minifters certainly had no fuch with of con. folidating, fo far as it has been confolidated, the Negro independence, by preventing the polEbi lity of the French fending out any troops during the war. The Whites in the Colonies, being fo circum (lanced, had but a choice of difficulties. Having been neceffitated to acquiefce in the new order of things, they next endeavoured to make this ac quiefcence appear hearty and voluntary, that they might profit by the confidence they might thni infpire among the leaders of their black brethren,and twit it afterwards to their own advantage. This was prudent, but they feem to have wanted fuffi cknt fagacity to follow up their oWn plan with becoming caution, and hence the meafure, which has led to all the prefent confufion and blood. flied. They found no great difficulty in convincing Toossattur that nothing but mifery, ruin, and famine could refult to the colony, if all the negroes ihould be fuffered to go about abfolutely idle.— Here came the trial of their !kill and alto of their forbearance; hut they had neither wifdom nor felf.denial fufficient for the occafion. The Negroes were all enjoined, withoue any. eliflinaion whatever, to return to theft former plantations; even thofe who were earning an hone(} livelihood at free men, by handicraft labour, or by hiring themfelves out as fervants, were included in the decree that or dered them to return to their original place of I* e fidence as euldvateurs of the foil. Had thofe negroes, who lived by honeft labour, been excepted from the effeB•of the decree, It is highly probable that they themfelves would even have lent their aft fiance to bring the idle vagrants into tome kind of fubjeaion : they would have feen their own intereft in doing fo; but the greed of the whites to recover all their negroes infatuated them, and the decree was fo framed! Can it be,wondered at that the Negroes ihould murmur ? Would they have been men, and yet not revolt againft loch a Decree ?—Murder, maffacre, and rebellion,were the immediate unavoidable con fequences (of this haßy meafdre !—What the ulti mate refult may be no human fagacity can calcu late. For ourfelves we would not be furprifed to fee, in a few years, the whole of the Weft-India Wands under Negrn dominion I This day we received Paris Journals to the 28th ult. inclufive. Tier: Confitsde 53 f. 9 c. The fol lowing are the principal articles they cont ain:— LYONS, Dec. 19.—We expea here in a few clay s the Minifter of Foreign Relations, for whOm hotels have been prepared in the placa Bellecaur. We do not yet knot the preeife period of the arr!r7l of the FIRST CONSUL he will be lodged in the el. divant Hotel-de-Ville, which has been futaillted with peculiar elegance and taße. The Confulta will hold their affemblies in the ci• devant church of the Grand College. Several Prefects, it is faid, will repair to our Commune, when the FIRST CONSUL arrives. Dec. 22.—Tlie Counfellor of State, Prefect the Depot tment of the Rhone, to the inhabitant:: of the city of Lyons : Citizens—A month has fcarcely elapfed filme you celebrated the feilival of Peace ; you will now celebrate the Hero the Pacifier of Europe. Your wifhes called for the moment when you might be able to exprefs your gratitude to him in Perron; every things kerns to announce that this moment is not far dillant, and that the FIRST COM i. is about to arrive here, preceded by the Miniller of the In terior, and the Miniller of Foreign Relations. Au extraordinary Confulta of the Cifalpines is about to be opened ; your city is detlined to receive them. 'I The Government of a friendly Republic is going to be organifed under the aufpices of your Go vernment. Citizens, recollet that you are French men; Frenchmen arc liolpitable and gerserti. You have long exhibited to the Cifalpines a pic ture of your warlike virtues, exhibit to them at prefcnt a picture of your pacific ones, that by ad miring the fplendour of your manufactures, and the as:Thity of your induftry, they may find in your gentle manners thole amiable qualities by which the French nation is diltinguilhosi. Citizens, could the FIRST CONSUL give to the city of larnms a nobler tellimony of his affe&ion towards it ? he invites among you the Reprefentati ves of an allied Republic. He collets among you the principal Chiefs of your Government. He will enter your walls. He will become acquainted with your wants; will learn your willies; will confult your intereils ; and 1, myfelf, will take the cal-licit op, portunity of reprefenting to him the benefits which you ought to expet from his paternal authority. i D ace a s.—The Counfellor of State, Prefel of the • Department of the Rhone s Confidering that every thing feems to announce the fpei.dy arrival of the FIRST CONSUL of the Re public at. Lyons, and that on lb memorable an occafion it will be gratifying the -.Allies of this city to give to theFILLT CONSUL a reception wor, thy fifth.: Head of the Government, and ;n con fcrmity with the fentiments of love and gratitude, which arc due to him from all the French, decrees, Art. L The Genfdarmes and every other firmed force belong• ing tq the Cavalry &all be potted at certain diftances ban - ten Lyons and Tame, on the road to Paris : the fame difpofition • &all be made between. Lyons and Villefrhaelte. IL On the apprtrwit of the Firit Conti' the Gesirdannos, the moft Citant, fhall fall back with celerity from peft to port up on Lyons: his arrival (hail be announced by the firing of throe cannon. 111. On this final all the Authorities and Public Fondle:4h des, in their grand epitome, Mall meet without delay at the Palace of Government, and fhall thence proceed in procelhoza along the road towards Paris to meet the Firft Couto!. IV. A triumphal arch mall be ended on the Pont-de- Plerres, through which the prom:Mon muff pets in returning t-. the Palace of Government. V. On the day of the entry of the Firft Conte' into Lyons, the triumphal arch,e well as all the hocfcs of the inhabitants, than be illuminered. VI. The Commdewy Qeneral of the Pollee dual take ever! proper meafure, that the patfage of the Firft Conful in the Streets and ce the quays thall not beebftrndted, and In partly lenlar that the aoacqurfe of the citizens may produce no dif agreealde event. Done at Lyons, at the Prdedurate. Frimalre apth, (Dec so) soth Year of the French Republic. The coanfellor of State, Prefat Name. We have in this City at prefent 425 Cifa!pine Deputies, and 20 Prefects. The Chief of the French Government is expeacd here with that earrnefs infpired by his wifdom, his victories, the Peace he has conquered, and his fplendid fame. The Hotel-de-Ville, one of the molt beautiful edifices in Zurope, by the majefty of its facade the beauty of its veftibule, its ftaircafe, the elegance of its. court, and the meat of its halls, has been xliftinguillied by the name of the Palace of Govern, ment. The ufeful arm fpeedy repairs lately given to it render it worthy of that name. AU the windows of the facade have been newly painted ; the principal gate, which is well fculp tured, has been repaired with great art : a bronze colour thrown over its fusiace conceals the frag ments added to the old fo4ture. In this fiat; it may vie in magnificence with the celebrated gates of the Morgue of St. Sophia at Canflanti nople. The veftibnle has been whitened, its fplendnur thews to advantage the beautiful groups in bran 4c of the Rhone and the Saone, made by Cur: 51-0/. 1 and which are fecn at the two ends. This eelti, bule contains alto the celebrated bronze taliv.4 found at St. Scbaftian, on which were fculptured, by the order of CLAUDIVU the beautiful fpe:cl; delivered by that Emperor in the Senate of Rome, in order to obtain for the Lyonele the name and pririlczes of Rotnan Citizens. • • In the court of the hotel feveral new fiag-Hones have been fuhflituted for thole which were brokii, and which threatened the fafety of the citizens.— ; Tk: four flatues of the fountain, which wezc te.-