Star. — London, England, 1802-03-29 00:00:00

- • ow Tudick. I. tiwort.t, r Ell. to.—ThyCaittrtati; flr • .ty of the Gmatto Vtzi se, diee here fudden. en the 7th inn; fie dropped cloy/it (lead as he on A viii! to tl.e CA PI :Ali MUSTATHA 87y is aprinted l.ic foccelir. The ilatavi.in has new a Tuticifit Honorary Guard placed before ltir Hotel, and Is formally acknowledged in Lis late Ca , -acity of Arnbalttior. The Enghlit AmbaffaJor; Lord Et‘its, Las. beettiod:lpofed for feveral weeks. We have a report here, that the t74elifit reel:tire Confiderable fumy of the Porte, before they will content entirely to evacit etc Egyrt ; hot this is not probable : it ts perhaps more (0, that these will keep pnfrefil; , n ^f feveral of the Ports of that Country, till certain .....putzs art adjulted. G ER ilf/iAil*. T. • LAVNK 4 , iSi r Altrfi 9.—We learn from the Tarliifh Frontiers, by a Letter of 01.: ztit ult. that all ilofina is in commotion. CI!;.; Par Hs having been appointed Governor, and inhabitants re• luring to receive him, he is on his march againa them with 30,c00 men. Strong detachments of the Belgrade Inrurgents fill all the roads teat :hat Fortrefs. In Jarodin, I T II cm Belgrade, ale 7.00 p men, amrin f•- veral places fmall divifions of troops. It is faid there are in Belgrade two Engineers orn the army of R.sswAm OGLou, who fupetinterd the repairs of the works. 1.'01.1,,1ND. ROTTILIMM, AIAt.CP :3.-Py a Proclamation Of our Municipality, the Sathbath•t!ay is to he Lpt here as it was he . ort: the Revoln;ion. No bilfin c il,,! of whatever kind, is to he travalteted. and the pub lie hinnies and gin-flops are to be !hut, on pain of ' a fine. The colonial produAlons, *Welt are now tower here than in Fogland, are expecged to rife, in con ft:voice of the late alarming advices received from St. Domingo. the official arc-mints publithed by the French Governnient, of the (late or affairs in that ifland, it !s now currently rtported, that the greateß pat t of the French men of war have been deffroyed by batteries on the More. The Dutch !hips which accompanied the French fleet to St. Domingo, have orders to proceed for Curacoa, as Piton at the troops are difearbarked, which they took out with them. Should St. Domingo be lo:k, it will prore of, great difadvantage to this country, particularly in! time of peace, no left than 18 million pounds of Coffee, the pro,luce of that iltind, being brought into this Republic annually, and which again is . fent to Germany for the greatta part. • The total annual importation of Coffee into this country, from our own anJ other illands, formerly • amounted to 40 million pounds weight. But this• titian; ity has been Much leis lince the opening of the Scheldt, which has not only atfeaed the trade' to Germany, butt almoll cut oft all our traffic in that article with grabant. It is, howcvtir, now more Confidently alfertcd than ever, that t!:e Scheldt will be re-fhut : frr by that means the French will not, , only ref - cue leveral of their oil ports from decay, but in all probalaty derive the advantage of a tonti.ler,:thle annual fum firm this Republic for that privilege, wh:ch would be paiJ without the fmailtff reltulance tor heiliatirn. • When our commerce was in its profrerity, we hal 3000 Merchantmen on the ncean, and 13,000 feamet. tn:Floy. Our filteries fitrniffied us with rich rerourccs, particularly thole of t:rcenland and the tnatl of Scotland. Since th..: war, however, 'our mercantile fleet's have dilappeared, and our fillieries gone to decay. Tte veirels emplOyed in the latter have been fuFeezd to rot, and tae Piattrs cheg their fupport horn door to door, when the contributions of the beherolent proved inadequate to the ptirpoie of re cuing them (torn want and famine. ...... Onr GoVeimitera, it feems, watt earlv inforrned, by a Courier, of the object of the }Iola: prepara tions making in England ; or at leall :tinned that they were neither direlled towards. France nor her allics. Tile defiination of the Englifit fleet is now fu pprifed to be for St. De.mingo,to 0111 the French, why, on the other band, ars to aid the Englith with land forces, if hecercery. It is confidintly 'reported that IiovsPARTE, after the filming of the Definitive Treaty, will pay viz fit to this country ; and matt' imagine that he will be accompanied by the Hereditary Prince of ORANW ; elm:initialled by no meant impro pihle, if we conhJer the dillinflion with Which he is treated in the metropolis of France. ti AC U E, MA A t.:H 20,;••••?The printing office foaled op here the r9th ()flail January, by the agent LA TIARA r, is being the place where the libel wrote 'by Citizen nest, had been printed, was unfealed the day lkfore yetterclay. With All ottr boalted lihe y el the prefs, which has fo long heed a point of contention; not only perfons, but property at the faftle tittle, are fitbjeet to the law ' 'and that too at the tirll onfet, and even without a hearing. The negotiations of our Government with Mr. VoN FA EMSDORFF, Privy Counfeller of the Prince of Wm.ntot,. are refpcaing the troops of that Prince at pretitr.t in our ferviee, Who, it 'said, are cfcdined to the Cape of Good Hope, after the fign tag .4 the llefiniove Treaty. We hear from good authority that the Govern ment of State of this repnblic came to a refolve on the t zth initant, on A propolition nilde by the Trt.ftfitrer General and the Members of Finaace, tr authorift the faLl Board to fell the tithes of the national land,, ansi other rightts and rents, as free and allodial, belonghig to the tonrtry ; not, how eve-, before the Government of State (hall have the conditions of fate. I.—This Meiling the GoVernment if to get the Rig in reastinef, as will as in Cow Camp, the tidirkgs of peace elevated from Amiens. that ektery thins is filially fettled be. ttreen trn(dat aid`ranee , *kb relation to the in I demnificltion of the latter. Amsviinast: MARCH t6.;-:-The Governinent has at length fariaioned a plan for laying a tax of two per cent. on the incomes of individuals within this city and 'its jitrifdietion, for which, however, a certain interest is to be paid. l'he proceeds of this loan arc to be appropriated to the exigencies of the c:ty. f.u.!lioned th. NlAktra 23. 4, rnzd orders tc the 'Latvut i '•ntll l .y - We "at•itr tt i 4 1 FRANCE. int bewstaz IN C FIIF.F TO THE MINISTER OF MA RINE AND COLONIES, DATED CAPE, 28 PI.U. VIOSF., FEBRUARY 16. I have to announce to you the occupation of Santo Bomingo, Port Repotsbeam, Port de Pair, and the . fuhmiffion of many dittriat of tte ifland. GeneialKearo F. tro AN hat. entered Santo. am not vet refreifed of the details, but I know that he has been rrecived by the Spaniards with ace ism of joy, and that nothing can equal the hatred which they bear towards ToussalNr au t his adherents. The General of Divifirra, Bou. tier, and Rear-Admiral LA-mucus, arrived on the t cth before Pot t Republicain ( Pent an Prince). La Gl:et-dere frigate wap detached to bear the Pro.; duration of Goverumeist. General Boor I r fent his Aide•ele-Camp with the letters to the Civil and Military Officers. Ibis Officer was moll agreca- Ids received by Geneial Ace, but the Black and ; ttoChiefs immediately fitfpeftcd the General, who is white ; they rot;, and required that the Aide-du-Camp fhould be detained, and that his butt and Tailors Avid be rei.•ed. General Ac E, ' conleoutnee, fent word t..) General Poems. that his atithelity was difregarded, and afhired him, that the moment a debarkation was attempted, that would he the fignal for the maff.cre of the Whites, aad the letting. fire to the city. About ten o'Cruck rva the morning of the r6t11,• General Bovorr debarked on the fide of larnantiii, with on: expel lent ing oppiltion ; heellablifited him fell in the field with his advanced guard before Fort Bizoton. The Commandant of the Fort, af ter having learnt that the column which advanced was French, and compote,' of Republican troops, 'coniured his people to attend to the orders of GOICFAI DF SSAI. Et ; but in this interval, the of ficers and the garrifon came out and joined the French army, and the lint was occupied by our troops. Our troops marched for Port Repttblicain, and found near 4000 blacks arranged in order of ' battle before the gate of Leogane. A battalion advanced, and was received with a flower of bul lets: The fignal for attack was given the 68th forced the gate of Leogane, and found itfelf in the middle of the city with the fugitites. The Ad jutant Commandant Amnon; carried the Fort of St.. Jefenh, which was garrifoned by aoo Blacks. Fort National was evacuated ' • the little Fort of Blocove was likewife given up, all the batteries on the Chore having been occupied by the good difpo fitions made by Admiral tang:cat: The Adju tant PAMPHILE Lacroix; and the Aides - de-Camp Du H ESME and Ducos, Kaye been !rightly wound. ed. We have had 15 killed and 8o Wounded. The city has not tliffered any damage. All the Maga zines, as well as the military theft, have fallen in to our bands. The Blacks carried away With them a great number of Whites, amonglt whom are the Aide de Camp of General Bottner, Citizen SASEs, and the crew of the boat. Previous to the arrival of the fleet they cut the throat ofLACOMRE their Comm indant of Artillery, who was a white: I calculate that on the zoth General BOUDET ec copied Leogane and La Croix des Bouquets. I tent General HUM BERT with two Vellels to Port de Pair; he was rei.civeef with a difchaige of can. non. On the sill the General ellefted his debark ation. The Blacks evacuated the two fora after .hey had done them all the injury In their power. On the 23d General HUMBERT was three leagues in advance of Port de Pair. In different attacks which he made against the Blacks lie had fume men killed and lonic Wounded. General CLERVAUX, who commanded in the Department of Cibao, and who occupied the interefling pofition of St. Yago, has fuhmitted : he is a man of courage. Citizen Ma ova a eta, Bifhop of die French part of St. DO " ming°, was the medium of this fnbmiffion. The brother of Toussanwr ' who was at St. Iran and was. Commandant of the Spanifh part, has been ' driven from it. I have reafon to think that Gene ral La !run who commands in the Southern I part, will fuhmit, as General Cztavaux has done. I have fent a brigade to reinforce General Crea raux, in order to ellabliffi the cordon along the Spanifh part. • Seven hundred Men of Colour, all capable'of hearing arms, of thole who were driven away by TOUSSAINT, having requefled permillion to ferve in the arm', I have fent two frigates to Cuba to take them on hoard. Several parleys have been bad with TOUSSAINT • but this diffimulating and hypocriticalman,neve;keepingany promife he made me, and only feeking to gain time to recover his lira alarm, I have only given him four days to furrender in ; when that time is elapled, I have declared him, by the Proclamation annexed, ao enemy to the French people. To-morrow I (hall advance with the divitions of ROCHABIREAU, HAIL. by, and Desrotrama, upon St. Raphael, Dondon, and Plaifance ; a divifion will go' by lea to Go. naives. I hope that by the beginning of Ventofe I !hall have cleared the whole French part. We (hail take no repofe till all the troops of Toussettor are difperfed. The cultivators arc returning in trowds ; nothing can equal the courage and order of the army. Iliate only praifes to below. The fleet rivals the bravery and activity of the land array. (Sismed) LECLERC. 140111Tne d'Affaires to CHI ISTOPH E, :111.1 PAS CAL and ALL' I, Secretaries to TOUSSAINT, h.sv fin-rendered so the French army. PROCLAAATION BY GENERAL LECLERC, GENERAL IN.CHIIO OF Mr ARMY OF ST. DOMINGO. Dated Head-quarters at the Cape, 28 Plwdofe, Feb. s 6. am come bere in the name of the French Go. vetnment, bearing to you peace and good Wilkes. I fessed to be encountered by obflacles arifing frotn the ambitious views of the Chiefs of the Co lony; and l am not difitppnimed. They who an nounced their devotion to France in their Procla im:Womb du: 041 g of mods% k that saki u trencitineti. If diet &Met:roes rpoire of trailer, it was becAufe their plans *tie not fufficiently matured openly to difavow it. Yeilerdav their perfidir.us intentiodi were unmificed. deneral ToessAter fent rile his children, with a letter, in which he affures me that there was nothing he fo much defired as the profperity of the colonyi and i that he was ready to obey all the orders that I ihould give him. I ordered him to come before me, and gave him my word that I would employ him as my Lieutenant-General.. He did not reply co this order, further than by phrafes which were only defigncd to gain tithe. My orders from the French Goternment are, that I promptly reflore profperity and abundance. If I fuller myfelf to be itourcel by crafty and perfidioqs artifices, the colony will be the theatre of a ldifg civil war. I advance into the country, and am about to Ma nireft to this Rebel the force • of the French Go vernwent. It can he no longer nCceffary to pmve to all good Frenchmen, inhabiting St. Domingo, what an infcnfible moneer he is: promife liberty to the people of this island--I fhall make them re joice, and I will refpeet their perfons and property. —I decree as follows Art. I. The General Totittaint and she Oenerul Chrlftdpfie are put out of the proteCtion of the law—all Citizens are or dered to puerile them, and to treat them as rebels to the French Re gu br. the day on Which the Fterieh army fhall °icily a ..pofition, aU Officers, whether Civil or Military, who null o'icy other orders thin thole of the Generals of the army which i s I command, Mall be treated as rebels. 1 ltd. The Cultivators who, reduced into error, Pnd deceived 1 by the perfidititis infinuations of the Rebel Generals, :trip Italie taken arms, (hall be regarded at children who have ftrayt.d, and 'hall be feet to their plantations, provided they have not attempted to excite infurreCtion. IV. The fiddlers of the demi-bligades who (hall abandon the army*? Touffaint, mall be received into the French army. V. The General Auguftin Clervatix, who commanded in the department Pit Ciliate, having acknowledged the French Go : st.rnment, and the authisrity of the Captain-General, ia.couti nued in hit rank in bit command. VT. The General, Chief of the Staff, mall print and publifh thic Proclamation. (Sianed) act, ac. General of Diviflon, and Chief Of the Staff, Ducts A. ADMIRAL VILLARET JOYEDSE, TO THE ADMIRAL COMMANDING THE PULES OT NIS BRITANNIC . MAJESTY AT JAMAICA. OD buard l'Oeean, in the Road of Cape Fratuaia, iL Pluvi ife, (Feb. 14.) M. Admiral—l hafen to announce to you that a fleet of the French Republic has entered in the Nils of St. Domingo. The revolted Negroes have received us with tire and fword, and the City of the Cape has been reamed to afhes, but the plain and the neighbouring country have been raved by the activity of the trotps and the preci pitate flight of the rebels. A powerful force will at lall re-ettablifla in this Colony the form of Go vernment prefcribed by the laws of the mother country, and protect thofe principles which alone can prefirve and upon Uthitli rooks the common intereft o f ? all the European Powers in their eflablilliments in the Antilles: The import ance and utility of thee vital, added to the happy eftablifhtnent of peat betty= France and Eng land, give me foil afforunce, Sir, that the rebels will no where find an afylum, and that the Colony being declared in a Rate of liege, no armed velfcl will (hew ttfelf before thofe ports which the rebels could occupy. The obltinate refiftance which they oppofe to as in different points, in thite of their conihiued defeats, is evidently the refult of a plan of general infurredtion, confirmed by the events which have occurred at Guadaloupe, and by the intelligence received from Martinique, Tobago, Grenada, and Dominica ; the confequences to all turopean Governments would be equally dif afterous if the focus of revolt was not fpeedily fmo lhered. But the French army is already in polfef Pion of the Cape, Fort of Liberty, the 'Fort de Pair, La 'forme, and Port Itepublicain, and is perfectly Pure of all the part formerly belonging to Spain, of which the mull important points have been conquered, and every thing promiks us com plete foccefs, if, as this army is entitled to expea, it can find in the event of neceffityokat affiftatice, from her neighbours, which unforefeen circum. fiances may three it to claim. The difpofition of the Cabinta of St. James's, and the known loyalty of your nation, Sir, permit me to,hope, that the ports of Jamaica will furnilh us (thould circum fiances demand it, and Ihould you be abundantly provided) with provifions and ammunition. One of the Minifters of his Britannic Majefty has laid, that the peace jut" concluded, was not an ordinary peace, hut a fincere reconciliation of the two kregteft nations in the world ; if it depends on me, Sir, this happy prostittaiic will certainly be veri fied ; at leaft I am pleafed to imagine, that our pacific communications will be worthy of two na tions, to whom war has only multiplied the reci procal reafons which they had to efteem each other I and to give you authentic proof of our confidence, I lay before you a faithful fatement of our forces in the ports of St. Domingo. Since the 16th Pluvoife, (4th Feb.) 25 fail of the line have entered theft ports ; fiv.e of them, which were Spaniih, have already failed for the Havannah. '1 hefe velfelhamongft which three were entirely ,traniports, and confequently withoutuns, have brought, with feveral frigates a rm e e enjute, about t6,b00 men. lam every moment in expectation of fix more fail of the line, three of them Batavians, intended to be fent to their own ettablifhments. Thefe di vitions are alth to bring five or fix thoufand troops more ; othei corps are defined to follow them. I (Lill fend almoft immediately moft of the Flutes, with fix or (even ?ails back to France. Your Excellency, I hope, will fee, in this frank and I: yal communication, that all the armaments of the French Government have now no other aim, but to re-eflablifli public fecurity, and to con. folidate the great stork of a general pacification. Receive, Sir, the alfurances of my high confident. tints (Signed) VILLARET. iinblOtAL TILLACIT JOTEOSE TO THE . MOITSTER OF THE HARIHE AND THE COLONIES AT PARIS.' Harbour of Cave Francois, on board the ocean, Pb.t 16,1802. Citizen Minifler--1 return to the account of the operations of the fleet, of which I began to fpoisk in my ditpatehes of the. 2 t ft Pluvlofe. Amidit the accumulated event* which have followed, it were itnpoifible no write a detailed and minute re lation a all that- has pallid (Lace that period bat tinctude in MT tceltals, With°lit the OMlillOn of one effential cirettmffance, the whole of our ope rations l and T trult the FIR FT Constio ;sod! eif cover the fame attivity and zeal to ferond the de tips of the army, and the fame derire to fhare their labours, their glory, and their dangers.... You already know, Citizen Minitter, what have been the fervices of the two divitionssof the fl ee t employed at the Cape and at .Fort Liberty; v. third under the command of Rear-Admiral La. TOUCHE, was deflined to :Alt in the attack of Port Republicain. This Admiral prelke-.A. 4 -finifelf the 15t12 of February: he was pieced 1 7y the frigate la Guerricrc, to found the digtofitions a th.- Commandant, to whom the Aid-de-Camr , (4 .leneral Bother (Cltizen liAri - s) relented (-or. ciliatory letters, and the Proclamation of the C m . fuls. Inffead of an anfwcr, the Blacks ar• - ellcd this cillicer, as alto the l'irfl„Lientenant of La Guerrie!e, and all the equipage of sire bo a t._. ':'hey irnprifoned the White General Acr and another of the officers; put all the Whites under ;urea, and lent on board the frigate an . rillic,ir: of their own, the bearer of a letter for Genera BounEr, in which Act advifed to fufpend the at tack, and the'delarrknterit of the troops, until the arrival of the Black,:General Desssois ES. Nth • they expe,cted late- at &girt, and the bearer of the• letter nneeptivocally alterted, that the entrancs of the fleet into the harbour was to be the fignai We letting the town on fire, and the mafftere of all the Wit:res. You obferve, Citizen Miniffer, thaf through the whole of. the affair their Condua ban been iitfolent and their language audaciOns,. Thii news came to General Bou DP T and Rear-Admiral Ls-rducits, in the afternoon of the i;th of• Fe bruary. • The wind was contrary, and alio too violent for us to approach !he harbour. The two Chiefs were alarmed left the night thotild produce fume diforder or misfortuite. The fleet then began to anchor • at Lamentin, hefore Fort Lizoton, where they difeovered a number of people, anti the black arm:es. During thi, unavoidable delay,' a fecond letter was difpatclied to the Commander of Port Repnblicain, :Airin him of the good inten tions of the Government, th clearly explained in the nest Coss tre's Proclamation, and in order to fl. claim the officers who were detained—To this no reply was returned. The I•sth in the morning, all hope of their fuh mifilon was•overthrown ; the debar knient was ex ecuted in a manner the molt fkillui and orderly. Rear Admiral I-armlet' F. had conffruCled during the night armed rafts for the artillery. Two wi lds. Were Rationed under Fort Bi WWl's, and two frigates were placed lo as to protect the debark meat. The Fort was evacuated without refiflance, and 150 black grenadiers joined themlelves to our troops. General Boont•r immediately marched up the town, and the fleet quitting, with equal celerity, the anchorage off Lamentin, entered the hash our, and came within half a mulket fhot of the barrier. The General !till offered pardon and the favour of the Government to the rebels. They anfwered him by a continual fire of cannon, howit zers and mufketry. The Chief of his Staff and two of his Aide de Camps were wounded by his tide, as Alb a confiderable number of our brave fiddlers. The Argonaut then began to fire upon the enemy ; but the grenadiers of the 68th rah• ing upon their intrenchments, put them to the bayonet, and penetrated into the town, where the engagement continued lime time, with in. veterate obffinacy. The Fort St. joleph was car ried in the rime manner as the entrenchments.— At feven o'clock General BoonEr was entire matter of the town and all the forts except Fort National, which the blacks evacuated on the moffll- Mg of the 17th, without linking a !Ingle blow. 1 Our lola is to killed and So wounded. Whilll there events occurred at Port Republicain, the Captain-General fent General HUMBERT with Zoo men to Port•au-Paix; the veilel la Watiguy, Capt: GovitooN ; the frigates la Clorinde and la Furieure carried the troops, and feconded their operations. Here, as every where, peace was offered to the rebels before the employment of force. The Meifenger, who took, the 29th Feb. the Proclamation of the Government to the Black General MAvatrns, with the requelt that they would receive the French amicably, was repulfed by the firing of cannon; it was abfolutely necetary to have recourfe to war. It was five in the after noon ; a heavy gale of wind made it necellitry td , debark as fpeedify as poffible ; the Commanlon, Gou&toa, was compelled to tack all the night in the narrow canal of la Tortue, embarralfed in his manoeuvres by the number of troops he hadlwith him, deceiled by the ignorance of pilots, and under the neceffity of facrificing a cable and an anchor, by which his veffel was left at the mercy of the tempeft, and his million failed of its•fea. The 2tlt, at break of day, the debarkment was effeEted, notwithflanding the fire from the forts and the black troops. The fi ;gate la Clorinde, which was aknigfide the fhore, for the puipofe of affiffing the army, received !bow fhot on boarti, Ond la - Watigny, was rent to the fides of the hat. bout, to filence the grand fort, which the Blacks abandoned in diforder, without having time to de (troy the fine barracks, a large quantity of powder, and fome other ammunition; but no Ihnncr had the fecond corps of troops touched the thore, than the Blacks leapt over the two other forts, and let fire to the town. A detachment of an hundred armed failors, and the Officers of the fleet, diltin guilhed themfelves in a manner worthy of the higheft praife. Lieut. MEsot, of the Artillery, Enfign BORDENBACH, and the brave GLEAN, were killed; the fhip Lieut. LIVSNARD I and Lieut. Ko- WILL) of the Artillery, were fevcrcly wounded. Twonoble fellows, Pie-or LAPEILOVSE and Lsco- LIAS,, Chewed fingular bravery in fighting at tin head of the detachment ; the latter received a ball which went through his writi. I have recommend ed to the General Officers, and all the Comman ders, to employ on all occafions the young men, who are the hope of our fleet ; every where they fignatzed themfelves by a glorious bravery, and a .devotednefs without example. The ditilion of Rear Admiral GANTREAUME having arrived at the Cape the sad F e b. I f ent t h e next day the veffel le Jean Bart, with 400 men, fi,r - the Port an Pei:. Two days before I had dif