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Si. lici.lll:.GO. Th^ I..".ern;er 1.• 1 al ,L.er ni I.t X night, tinder • 1; •.i i-, lan. 6 col.t.tins the twu t..:h ilom St. Port-au-Prince, Oaoher :3. Yeaerday the Commanding. Officer of thi F, aim met ie oll'Arcahaye, atter 'Livia; dift ribut• ed their pay to the 'ulack foldiers, ordered them out of the place to patrole in the plains, which ac ;re threatened by the infurgents ; but inflead of obeying, the blacks fired on the white men of the national guard, molt of whom they killed, and the others fell back upon the camp of Boucaffin upwards of 5o women and children were drowned in attempting to get to a boat that had Ott put oft from the thine. _ _ . ."I'he inhabitants, had, for near a week, folicit ed an armed cutter to protat them ; hilt their re• quell remained trianfwered. Theis: k only one trigite in our roads, and (lie is without her com plement of men : the Commander in Chief keeps all within his camp. The Brigands took Mi:a goane, but only kept it a few hours; they are now feattered among the Mount tins du Rochelcis fr att Port-au Prince to L'Anfe a Veal] all is 101 l ; all is burnt in the vicinity of Port-an Prince ; the a:44 is of Plaifance, Gonaives, Dennery, and the whole plain of L'Artibonite, are a prey to intim reelion ; the blacks maffacre the whites and the people of colour without mercy; they have abun dance of ammunition ; they are fupplied by DES- S ALIN s and the other black leaders who remained in commilfion.—The blacks fire every night at our polls, and kill our fcntries. There are so more white troop: ; they have all ?Vied through wretehedne: aid fatipe ; the failors haw experiesedthefainefate. " All thole who came from France for the ptir pore ofrefloring the Colony, have brought with them the principles of Pot. aaaaa and SA NT HON AX the General in Chief was the wort' man who could be fent ; he is too fond of money, &c. &c." • " Cape 'Town, Welber as. Take care not to come here as yon propofed; the Colony is ruined, loft! General Lzcztac is at his Taft lhift (aux dais). He has had Fort Dauphin, Port de Pais, and all the neighbourhood of the Cape evacuated. We are threatened by a numerous army of revolted Negroes. Not con ceiving himfelf fare here, he has ordered all the great guns to be (piked, in order to be ready to embark immediately, Mould it be ultimately found neeefary z all the private houfes and magazines are (hut up; all the women and children ; in fine, thole who are incapable of bearing arms are on the tea more with what they could fave from the wreck of their property. Cape Town, Port-au. Prince, and Les Cayes, are the only ports in pof felGon of the French." LONDON. WEDNESDAY, JANUARY lz. PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK t 3 per Cent. Red. 711+-3 per Cent. Coot 711/ ex. div. 4 per Cum 86{—New s per Cent. OW c per Cent. toe{ —Long Ann. zo -t 0111111‘1111 31 4 d 1.--Conf. for opg.72{*. PRICE OF STOCKS YESTERDAY -3 per C. Red. 74 i 1 Imp. 3 per Cent. 7011 3 per C. C 71 Imp. Ann. tit 9. t 6 New 4 per Cent. ton( PAH/ trills c per Cent- 99 s per C. Ann. too SqPi} OMMUITI 44 4 dif. 5 per C. 1797,102/ tot cos Englifh Tickets 14. 13§. Long Ana so 1-16 5-16th ConL for 0pg.7:10. COURSE OF EXCHANGE. Amßeedant, 3S to 2U. Cadiz 35t effed. Naples 41 Fin at Agin 35 5 Madrid paper Genoa 45 Rotturdun, 35 1I a U. Ditto 351effiet. LEbon 67 Hantburgb 34 2 2111 I Bilbao 35 effed. Oporto 67 Alton* 34 3 :411. I Leghorn 4501 Dublin 12 Paris, T day's date, 24 8 u..--Ditto, 24 12 aU. Bourdeaux, ditto, 24 :3 The Treaty of Amiens has not been hitherto fulfilled, in that part of it which refpeets the tights of BrILA fubjeas, proprietors of flock in the French Funds, created between the 'evolution and the commencement of the war. The Britifh creaitors on thofe funds ate many ; and the ge neral amount of the debt to them is very confide rabic. Other means having failed, they have, at WI, determined to take meafures, in common, in ordzr to recover their property, under the obli gations of the Treaty of Peace. Their hopes now ref in the proteEtion of the Britins Go. vernment, and its energetic interpofition with tha: of France.—A committee of their number has already had communications with Lord Haws s stray, on this fubjed. A general meeting. which fltould have yefterday taken place at the London Tavern. was, at his Lordlhip's e3prefs requeft. deferred. His Lordfhip will, in the mean time, have an interview with the Committee. The na• cure of the claims may be,then, more particularly (laced to this Miniller, and he may, poflibly, ena ble the Committee at once to inform the General Meeting what fteps Government is willing imme diately to take in their behalf. and how far they may indulge hopes that the debts due to them by France (hall he, without crafion or undiffembled injullice, fpeedily difcharged._ Letters have been received from St. Domingo by the way of France, 6f the date of the asth of °Sober, which take no notice of the death of Ls• ct sac , the report to that dee, brought by the way of America, is, therefore, probably unfound ed. 71. e affairs of the French in S i t. Domingo are in the moil deplorable condition ; and it teems im- , fiablilb themfclvcs ing the Blacks.— BONAPARTI has n" ling that cnlnny. tile city, that the French Government has applied to this Conntry,' to take up a gt en: quantity of (hipping to convey troops to St. Dpniingo, the CHI:. F Cousin. being tefulv.:d to make another great effort to reduce that illand. We mentioned a rumour that had been eircu ciliated of a tleceent having been made upon the Wand of Jamaica. The account was Paid to have been brought by the Eliza fchooner, which had an ivc,l at Briftol. The &idol paper lays, "We arc happy to have it in our power to contradia inch an unwarrantable report, as no fueh veffel has reached our port." _ _ The leignation of DAVID SCOTT, Efq. of his command as Colonel of the to regiment of Royal Eaft India Volunteers, has been accepted by his MAJESTY, and communicated to the Brigade. Lord and Lady A %DOVER return from the Honey -7.17.??, in Kent, next week. The Counters of Su rii Is LAND has lately finifhed form very beautiful drawings. They are intended as a prefent to an abfent friend. _ _ Nearly two thou . Agd prim, attended each of the Bills of the two MASTERS Of the CEREMONIES at lath IA week, each of whom cleared more than Iwo thezifand guinea:! An elegant Ball was given at BeWaft on Friday fe'unight by Captain Hay, of the late 23d Light Dragoons, at which were prefent 140 of the firll perfons in the neighbourhood. The Ball was opened at ten o'clock by the Marchionefs of Doug n Lcand Captain Hay, and the company feparated at four o'clock in the morning. LADY NORTHWICR'S BALL.-A Ball and Sup per were given by Lady NorrNwice, on Thurf day the 6th January, at Northwick Park,at which the following company were prefect Earl and Coontefs of Galloway; the Ladies Caroline and Sophia Stewart, Hon. Edward Stewart, Hon. James Stewart, Mr. and Lady Elizabeth loge. Hon. Mr. Greville, Sir jobs and Lady Dalltwood, Mr. Townfend and family, Mr. Can ning. Mr. and Mrs. Dawkins, Mr. and Mrs. Mania. Mr. and Mrs. Moron Gale, Mr. Weft, any many others of the neighbouring Gentry. -- - - They fat down to fupper about fifty in number, when the good old cuaom of drawing sing and Queen was not omitted. The dance was then reTurned, which continued with great fpirit, till four o'clock, when the company fcparated. Tbe jealous Wife was delayed laft night atDrury lane until after (even o'clock, in eonfeqnence of the fadden indifpofition of Mr. PALMIER, who was to perform Major Galley. He was feized with a dizzinefs in his head, for which he was obliged to undergo the operation of capping, and was thus enabled to go through his part. An experiment of -tracking vefels, by means of a Ream boat, patronized by Lord DUNDAS, has been made upon the Fotth and Clyde Navigation, in a very fuccefsful manner, having on board his Lordfhip, the Hon. Capt. DUNDAS of the Royal Navy, and feveral other Gentlemen. Between the hours of one and two, on the 4th inn. the Ream boat left Hamilton Mill, to meet the A6tive, WM. Gow, Mailer, one of the largeft reliefs in the na vigation, burden toe tons and upwards, which it t, Kik in tow near Stockingfield, and carried, with the greateft cafe and fafety,at the rate of three miles an hour, to the eaR end of Port Dundas. Another Sham Nrfon has been lately detected in Eire:, where he had officiated fix months in the duties of .4 Curacy, and evinced no inconfiderable talents in the fcience of ways and means, amongft the more refpceable part of his Rock. A private hint given to his Ream-. to inlift on his producing his Orders, induced him todecamp without waiting for further explanation. Yellcrday the Frenchmen, who are in culiody on a charge of forging the French national cur rency, underwent a long examination before Sir Ric w•RD FORD. at the Secretary of State's Office. On Monday night, a man lately difcharged from the Hofpital, going along Whitecrofs-ftreet, in a quarrel with a malt. was Dabbed in the fide, and died as he was conveying to the Hufpital. He was taken to a public houfe until the Coroner's Jury take a view of the body. For the last three days the waters of the river Lea have come down with unufual rapidity : from Waltham Abbey to Old Ford, the ditches are full to overflowinx. and the marthes are deeply flood ed iu many parts. fir that there is but little com munication between Middlefex and Eike, except by the high roads. On Monday evening. about (even o'clock, when the wind blew creatively hard, Come premifes at the back of Mr. KEEN% houfe, facing Paddington Church, occupied by Mr. &on sus, an Attorney, as a country cottage, were nearly densoliflsed.-- The premifes confined of a (mall room and a kitchen, built of wood, having a chimney carried to a great height. to prevent fmoke: during the violence of the gull. the chimney was thrown on the roof of the upper room, in which Mrs. &a re a Lo, and five of her children, were fittilt i rd the weight of the brickwork brought the of the tiles, timber, and rubbik into the room, and enveloped them in the ruins. One of the children found means to extricate herfelf. and with great practice of mind, thrall her hand through the win dow, sailing loudly for affiftance to Come men who were working in a (hop acrofs the yard: they immediately at ended, but tt was not without dif ficulty they could get to the room whets the nsi(. chief had happened, for the fervant being out upon an errand, and the doors all fattened, they were obliged to force their way through the kitchen window : they ftacccedcd, however, in re lieving the unfortunate tuff from their peri lous lunation, and Mr. Macetwora, the Surgeon, being at hand, came immediately to their Ail: ranee. One of the children was under the rub bing nearly half an hour: but, when extricated. and a little recovered from her ft itzht, did not ap- pear to have received any matcri l iojtiry : we are hippy to find none of the family were ferioully hart. At the time of the AeciJen:, sr. lit.oFteso was in town, but :!ic news 11.:d reached him pre vious to hi, return. iptitilblit P•AB ey til ' , mold ever of e:o. • 7 tirpati 'e ' • . t Wy " \-1 * t tio w 4 ' ight/••%— • ' vb , : • 4fs-;• NAUTICAL, INTBLLIGINCE. DEAL, JANUARY It. Yefterday the Elizabeth, Danilh brig, from London for Lilbon, in ballaft, drove on chore on Deal beach ; one man drowned : if the weather moderates the Tail may be got off.—Remain in the Downs the Irssorraziza and JAMAICA fri gates, ARROW Coop of war, and SNIPE pig brig. Yefterday, laft night, and this day, it has gown a very hard gale of wind from the E. N. E. YARMOUTH. JANUARY It. Sunday evening arrived his Majelly's (loop of war Lintz, from a cruise. During the prefent gale of wind at Eaft, the Hope, of Lynn, having on board tao half ankers of Foreign fpirits, was blown into this port in diftrefs : on Sunday evening the mailer was 'mated overboard. The veffel was immediately taken poffellion of by the Cullom. Houle Officers, and the fpirits lodged in the ware. houfe. Monday night five !hips were blown on (bore between this port and Loweftoffe; one deeply laden went to pieces loon after the came on (lore —the crew and cargo are an loft : owing to the gale continuing at Taft, we have not been able to learn their names. PLYMOUTH, JANUARY zo. Came in the Nancy. Capt. HIALIt, from Lon. don, for this port. On Wednefday lait, about five leagues (oath of Portland, the picked up float ing on 'the water, three puncheons of brandy, fup. pored to be part of the cargo of force French veirel: the Prince of Wales tranfport, from Woolwich, with two companies of artillery, for Gibraltar ; the ran up Catwater immediately ; and to-morrow Captain Youwc, two Lieutenants, fix Serjeants, and 63 rank and file, with their field-pieces, will march from the Park of Artillery, Dock Barracks to Catwater Ferry, and embark on board the Prince of Wales : three companies of Royal Ar tillery are to relieve an equal number, which have been on the rock of Gibraltar ten years, and who will return to England in the Prince of Wales.— Came in alto the Gratitude, Capt. REYNOLDS, from Newcallle, for this port : the got alhore in Fire lone Bay, but floated off again without damage ; the Eliza, of London, Capt. Dow, tosow, from Rotterdam, bound to Briftol, laden with brandy and other goods : this veffel experienced much dir ties yefterday, off the Edyftone, by the fea break ing in upon her, which love the boat and water calks, and did other damage. On Saturday laft, near Portland, the picked up eight hogtheads of French wine, floating on the water, and pallid through upwards of one hundred more cf the fame fort, from which it is conjeaured that fome French Chip mull have been loft near that ifland: they alto took up the head of a fhip with netting fixed to it. Alfo the Fortune, Capt. FANG, from Jer fey, for this port; Selina, of Hull, Capt. Dv, sax, from Zante, laden with currants, fur Hull. LIVERPOOL, JANUARY to. The Prudence, LLIVILLLIN, from hence for Africa, and Nancy, NICHOLSON, from hence for Jamaica, put into Milford, the 19th ult. and failed from thence the 4th inf. The Betty, THOM►SON, from Cephalonia, is ar. rived at Gibraltar t3th December, all well, and (ince (poke off Ireland, by Captain Boac, of the Northern Liberties, who arrived here on Friday from South Carolina. The Surprise, Carl -sit, from hence for Rotter dam, put into Carlingford the intl. and would fail again next day. The Hobfon, &corm, from Lifbon for this port, was fpoke on Friday, off the Ormfheads, by Cap• rain Easvattay, of the Compact, who arrived here that day from Lithon. Captain MiDonain of the Alexander, arrived here, (poke on the t 9th November the brig Thames, GALICIIT, of and from London, bound to New Providence, lat. 25. 58. N. long. 76. 09. W. out !49 days from the Lizard, all well. The Caldicot Caine, --, from Qebec, is arrived at Crookhaven, in difirefs, having expe rienced a dreadful gale of wind, in which the loft her rudder, mizen matt, &c. The Solid, WILLIAM., from hence for St. Vin cent, put into Belfaft, in difirefs, on the tlt intl. The Peggy, M'CALLAN, from hence, was lug on Dundalk Bar, ssth Dec. Crew Paved. CORK, DECEMBER 31. The flown of lid night was Dot inferior in violence to thesie of the two preceding nights, It was attended with very loud Writs of thunder, and the molt vivid °wets of lightning we have ever witnelfed. The Earl St. Vincent, a line brig for the Weft Indies. Went Co bore in gale on Wedn Glay evening at Pairage, sad it is apprehended has Caned conbderable in her hull. WATERFORD, JANUARY 1. On Wedocillay morning kit, in a gale of wind, the Mona, Pounces. laden with fugars, cuQ.e, cocoa, &c. and bound from Memnon to Liverpool, was bR cdf nomnaboo-ftrand, toge ther with pearly her entire cargo—crew Caved. In the fame gale, theames, of and from Liverpool, Leavy wafter, tut Cork and Jamaica, w,tb panted's', Roma, was totally loft a. Broonthill, county of We:ford—the crew was ago fortunately Laval. DISTRIBUTION OF PRIZE-MONEY. Ms Kent hired armed cutter, will be paid for the neutral Alp Sedalia, an Saturday the tsth of January. at Portfmoutb he briy, Plink for the capture of tbe V row Lije, Dc Han, and Augaftioa lie Bruck. will he paid on the fame day. •nk Oa" co( war fakeer, for the kiaure of a T..:i•boat and quantity et frints, will be at Yarmouth on Manday the 7:11 inftutt. CORN MARKET: MARK-LIMN, Jet). 12. We have not had any arrivals fine lsionday— . and Oats look upwards s' other article. remain without alteration. BRlAM—Yefterday the Meter and Wardens of the Bakers' Company attended the Court of Alder men at Guildhall, to fet the Affize of Bread, when after having examined the Mealweighers' reports, the Court ordered the price of Bread to continuo the fame as laft week, viz. sad. the Qartern Loaf. Lord HoirrtitartanD appeared yellerday at the Bank, and received nearly half a million Ilerling in dividends, for his various Correfpondents in Ireland. The Bilbop of Sr. Davis,',, as Rector of the rural Deanery of Socking, in Effez, is profecueng an appeal at the Garter Sefflons of that county, againft moll ofhis principal Parifhioners,refpeeting his Lordfhip's affellinent to the Poor's Rates. A reprefentation having been laid before the Lord Dean of Guild of Edinburgh, refpeeting the infuillciency of Lady Yefter's church, a Jury were fummoned to infpeet it, by whom it has been or dered to be Slut up and taken down. CITY OF EDIVOIVIGH ELICTIOII.—The Right Honourable Lord Vifcount Mit.tuLs having intimated to the Lord Provoß of Edinburgh, in a polite ktter, to be communicated to the Town Council, that His MAJISTY having been pleated to call him to the Houle of Lords, the reprefentation of the City is become vacant ; the fame was read at a Meeting of the Town Council, when an anfwer was agreed to be made, and tranfmitted to his Lordfhip. At an alter meeting of the Town Council, Lord Mstivit.t.s addreffed them nearly in the following words : My LORD PROVOITT have been honoured by the receipt of the congratulatory letter which your Lordfhip has addreded to me in your own name, sod that of the Magifirates and l'own Council of the City of Edinburgh. I would have inw mediately acknowledged the receipt of it, If Ihad not thought it more refpedtful to wait the codicil opportunity I could Aare of your being affernbled together in Council, when I might be permitted to make my perfonal acknowledgments for the very flattering terms in which you have been pleated to addrefs on occabon of his Majefty's late marks of favour to me, and to my family. I can allure you with great truth, that the am ' nutrition of a Peerage was Demean Oiled in my contemplation ' with a view of gratifying any perfonal vanity of my own, net could I have any %via to change the name I have hitherto borne. dein:sided as I am from a family, which for ages paft has been ellftioguifited in the eftimation of its country, and in the courts of that time bas enjoyed many Grad proofs of the good will and attachment o' its fellow•lubjeds.—ln my own piston, I was at a very early period of my life Illeded by the partiality of my native country to be their Reprefentative iu Parliament. and their original choice was ratified by many fucteeffiveunani. mous /leaks& At a more advanced period (Amy public pre. grefs I was, as you to obligingly obferve in your Letter, 16 years ago, called upon by the Metropolis of my native Land to an. dertake the important end of reprefenting them in Perliament, and in many faceetSse and unanimous elediens yea haveglves public teftimon that no part of my condud bad drawn apes me your difpleafure or difapprobation. Under dick drcum. Rance, and with a peered conicioutasts to my own lateaft, that, however unavailing my exertions may at any time have been in the public fervlce, there had bees no want of seal or anxiety en my part to difcharge my daty ; I was fully prepared without further reward, to fpend the remainder of my days is enjoying the fockty of my family and my Mends and by what I have laid you will be hushed that the diftinguithed honours I have obtained are not the tektite( any impoittmate anxiety A my part; you will not, however, conceive that I value these the kh on that account—l receive them with the deepdt fends of gratitude to • gr.clowt Sovereign, who has condefecoded, is this manner. to mark his approbation of the public coedud his [meant. I truft that my pofterity to the fated period will never lok right of the grounds on which there honours have been conferred on me, nor of the kniments of loyalty and gratitude with which they were originally received. Prom the explanation I have given you of my feelings on this (Wake!, you will anticipate the tatistadtion I have to erprell, on the grounds and terms of your congratulation. Your letter jot- Iv detcribes the fentlinenta I entertain on the °teem= ; and it is no incondderahk addition to the fatisfarlion I have derived, to be enabled to enter mytelf, that his Majefty's favour Is feeend• ed by the approbation of thole, whole duty it has been to watch, and whole province it lass been to wkneta, the Reps of my poll tical progreta The times in which I have adted have been ed. deal beyond any former example. They have been marked by cirrtunftances for which no pat experience had produced a guide, and I trot it is jolt matter of confolatton to thole who have been engaged in the ondudt of public concerns for theta many years paft, that, by the good Rote and firmnets of their countrymen, they have been enabled to preferve entire that Coaftltution which has been espial to (uch variety of unex ampled dangers. Having mentioned the Conftitution under which we have the happinefs to live, 1 truft I clean not be thought to deviate very fat from the ()Med of my preterit addrefs, if I perfume to trouble you with one obfervation refulting from the fituadon In which lam now placed. J will not trouble you with any of the particulars of the cutlet of my life, they are too well known to require any detail from me. I content myfelf with barely alluding to them. It has pleated Peeving arca to Was my 6• mlly with fueects beyond say moll linguine ezpedtations.-- While we th,refore continue to refiß the pernicious exacta of thote frantic principles a>< ideal equaUty, incompatible with the government of the world, and the jut order of human today, let as rejoice in date fuhltantial blefartp, the Ml* of real freedom, and of equal taws, which open to the fair ambition ' of every Brit& tubjed the means of purfuing with faeces that objedis of honour and tbofe fituations of power, the attainment of which In other countries refts kitty upon a partial participa tion of perfonal favour, and the enjoyment of which refts upon the precarious tenure of arbitrary power. It is impotEble to look round to any quarter without teeing fplendid examples of t►e trut► of this remark. Before I conclude, allow me to offer you my bell thanks for the very kind reference in your letter to the interefts and prof. perity of family, and far thefriendly del re you are pleated to ezprers of continuing your connection with me, although the political tie Is &frayed by which we have for many years been united. I accept your invitation with gratitude and cordiality. and If. upon any Gamboa, you cone lye that I potrefe either abi lities or azperlence that can be of ufe to yam. you .re juilly titkd to dentinal the aid of their bell cautions in your fervice. At the fame time,avhatot-r eireumftance‘ of regret I may on other grounds feel In the reparation which has taken place be. maw us. I cannot permit myrelf to entertain ftntintents °Nut kind, from any doubt, of my place as your it epee( aitative be. kg amply rupplied. You have nude au leer. • aitiongft your fallow citizens of the mien whom you mean to a.tort as my fucceffor, and there I, every rearm to believe your choke will meet with the molt peered approbetkin. It vmpid be affortation upon my part,confid.ring the ties by which I am conoettedwi that Gtotleman,if I were to &fp& front you the teal &dame tion I derive (rum every infianee of good fertllllC that may at t nd his progreft ; bat if I know m)relf, I can with truth d rum you, that no ties of friaWilltlp connalion could blind ate fo tar as to make me wilt for Warw.:eh, 4 I w. re not con (dal:handy fatbeed that in every material requifite n' head and heart, he wag eminently qualified todireharee the duet., of that I nportant mutt web which it is generally onderfistod yes in tend to Invat them. I will detain you no lamer, but merely to nezr my Amen player, chat happinefs and prof - parity ma i attend you your 'Walk and priva.e cmcans. - N