Star. — London, England, 1803-02-01 00:00:00

" who addle and co,n,:nd fo! . of the pal, are right when nien are in indeed no ‘..e thinks of oppo::.ng t-,viii : lolt the!? are v lien princip'.rs a:e the ir be I tn ; f ,, r it is ouster firnv g that fable principle: ought to be cou:r• t geod prit.cipie. eltabPhed for Four; condo t. The moral obfeevation which we here let I,lth, may be fa 11s of an evidence altogerlwr irrefragable. the rev-lotion wz warred ri:11 ail the gor;::tinie; of Elllt'pr ny oc.r and with e•oll;v he our Our . vi tunes have riireltaled us peace, a moot valuable conikeration. i.ave reinvigozated and confirmed the int ci;.'t I.9er ; aura the only inconvenience and ailment I I . .if now hang upon is, proceed entirely our fade principles. We a: e 11111 at war, but not with foreign powers ; we have now to wage war with thofe whom philofophy has turned lonic upon fociety. We are endeavouring to rcfeue 0111 colonies, Dot from the Englifh, but from all thole (Halters that have fprung from a talfe and ignorant philanthropy. Was it not for that war of principles which we have waged against our. fclves, wtiat would now be wanting to complete the commercial, the general prolperity of France ? Our colonial p•lreffi,,ns, wl, ,Jl bad fallen into the hand, of a h. reign creme, have reverted to us in v e ry excelkitt condition. Thole which cur phi lanthropical politicians have undertaken to admi. Miler, colt now the lives of officers whole Ids mull wring the heart of every Frenchman, and irnmenfe firms, the expenditure of which is indif penfible. For the first duty to be performed of a government after a revolution, is doubtlefs to ar. rell the progrefs of evil. A condition without atention to which all, even the belt combined at t.. nipts at improvement, mull neceffarily prcve abortive. Tilde retleetions are equally applicable to our internal liiaation. The war we have car ried on with foreign powers has afforded us an in demnification of the evils it produced ; it has secured us from all apprehenfion of a new war, or of its confequences, fhould ever any of the European powers allow themfelves to be imputed upon by the Cabinet of St. James's, than which nothing is more doubtful. But where is the in demnification for the evils which we have inflia ed upon ourfelves ? and where would be our pledge of fecurity, if we did not combat thofe &Ice principles by every mode of argument in our power ? while Government, for the happinefs of France, makes them dilappear at its frown, let the upollles of philofophy alfert what they will, there is no inch thing as a philofophical govern ment. The Kiug of Pruffi.i and Catharine great (ticklers no doubt fur philofophy, never thought however of governing philorophicali)..— So true is it, that politics can never begin to rhi lofophize, or philofophy let itself at riit:.-izing without throwing both ideas and things into con- Wien.- This is a truth that cannot too often be repeated, becaufe there are perfons who (Lill con trive to doubt it ; and even if today every one agreed upon that truth, yet were it neceflitry to repeat it to-morrow, lea come men of evil intent might not have already forgotten it. In the fame manner, with regard to what concerns our colo nies, we mull now continually bring back our thoughts to the pall; for if we fhould come to forget why %.e were fighting in the middle of our own laolrellions, and againft whom we were fight ing. we Ihould lcife the fruits of an indruetion that has been dearly purchafed indeed." ST. DOMINGO. FE CII C (T 10•4 THE ~~~ '~~ JODRMAL OP IPROCRLD NO/ AT CAPE ►RANCOIS, ICTIVEIN APRIL AND Novf Milt IS 2, OIFLN IT A SILLNC..IO/Fl• cr2 o► RANI IO AN °SPICER Of A ■IITIPN 14/04 Of W IR, THIN ICING AT CAM lIRANCOIS, NOV. I. Three or fmr days after the departure of the Cetberus, p gi.os, in April lall, CHRISTAPNE, the Black General, third in command, entered die town, with a Rag of true:. and ne7.riciated a peace between the Negroes and Whites. b• authority o f ToulLint. In ten days, Generals Toutraint and Deffalines, firli and fecond in command, came alto and fturendeled to General I.ecletc, by whom Toutraint was pardrned, and permit on given to retitle at any of Hs plantations in the Wand t in confequence of which he repaired to one near Gonaives. Chsillophe and Deffilli:es now began to aft in with General Leclerc—one was appointed Commandant of the Northern dißria over the Ne gum-, the other lafpator General of Cultivators in the !Rand. In this pleating di earn of fccui ity they conttnued for tome time, until Dell:dines de flounced Tounint a confpirator againft the French Republic, in confequence of which be was ar:eiled at his plantation. pit on board a French frigate at Ganaives, and tent to France. For tome t im e aster tranquillity fcemcd to reign, till Comman dant Maui epas touted the Negroes to their former depredations. Ti y began by deltinving and limning the plantations in the itland of Toitia t s, burnt Port au Pais, and all the adjacent cntintrv. DeiraolllCs was fent again!' them; but always con • trived to leave, on every retreat, his (totes and •mmunition in poffetE..n of the Negroes. Th e y now became more enterpi iting by hut nbg again the plains of the Cape. Chi iltopile was now or dered to aft againfl them. who alts cost: iced to let them into the poffeillon °lbis elm; (toles, and every thing wore a limns alpeci. General Delfalines Acculed a Ge•:ieral Bella;r and his wife as the principal infligau, rebel loin; they we; c arrcned. broilpht to th. Cape, and fliot. The cownivacy among the Negroes wits began to be re: yrp2 ; General Chirveux flu lot'o Commandant), t0.:.-,ether sill. the other vs.o, van , isedtn get ail the Negroes in the town to join them ; alto A regiment of lilacks, the V.., . WAS in hArracks. . ,. Der.lioes WAS in j ,, ir!Ciinaophe ai.4"tits,` rittegds ptiva:cly, din. tri..ich to UtatlVe Ulrtc Clitirv....:l wa,!cd tor tb-ii ; dArgOitis ! Orrliffiis,el7 to piocLed to the (... , p_. ; 414, 'l . . , 4,l4cTsforitiacle to t :.tr,..t! the \• t..ett .‘ t..-. ft; . loam ready to pin the. :It.! •t . idAitatith - -urai:-.1 :::, by a ~. ene: !. ..' ...n ...j • icr rye" l.e Contrillnder in Chief, direlling their taken from them, that they might' the MaeKs well inclined to the Repub lic. Stu!, was Leclerc's infatilation. Clairvaux (who is raid to he naturally a cro.vard) feared to, wait it fh .old dppear, for lie all at once t_.l I lant de Cap, t auk the loth, and another re gime:it in gain dun there, and went ove r the enemy. This Rep alarmed Leclerc, the Witites were immediately embodied as a national guard, a!! the realars muttered, a I every a,live eeerion made to prepare for their reception, which wars hardly accomplithed, before the whole hofl cf Negroes fell on Haut de Cap, the Oiftob.er, t midnil - tt, and carried the town and works by It am /It one A. M. t...) regiments of the Polo n:4'e troops then on dote, frightened by the horrid wild cries and yells of the tachs, gave way with gr:at lofs. The French retreated to a Ws a mile and a half from the town of Cape F 1 ancoi , , and there made a tia:it! until the morning : the tiring o.' mulquetty was iteary while it tailed, but neither fide 101 l many men. At eight A. M. the :egroes let fire to the canqa of the French, taking with• them cannon, S:e. We then continued about ten days quiet. Leclerc evacuated all the fmall polls to the coall, drew all his ltreng:h to the Cape, appearing much panic llruck, for he embarked every thirig from the Cape for Tor togas, and even (piked all gnus of the town that bore on the lhl:tping ; thole ciiennictances railed a general Alaim among the inhabitants, they immediately tilipi:ed al! it propel ty ; there is Icarcely now a d.llar to be fcen, and veifels arrived from France with merehandife arc preparing to return. At the expiration of another ten days they attacked Haut de Cap again abtan fix o'clock in the morn ing, carried it and the works before ton, and drove the French to their old Iland at De la Cour, fhe.v..• ing a determined refolutiom of entering the Cape ; for this purpole they railed works on the hill, and opened two batteries on the French below them ; they fortunately, however, had only t2lb. balls for 19 peund•A 5, and this, together with their be ing bad eiigitieei 5, prevented them from cutting the French to pieces ; the latter returned bonth• !hells, well directed, which appeared to difeom• mode them much. The Negroes three feparate times at dead of night attempted to furpi ife them, making the moll defperate attacks,but were driven off with lots ; the French increafeel, and the Ne groes flackened their fire until the 6th of Novem ber, when they once mote let fire to Haut de Cap, deltroying every thing as ufual. They are now encamped on a river, four leagues from Cape Francois. In the mean time Leclerc had diftirm cc', flipped, and drowned the whole of the 6th Regiment, with a great number of the Town Ne groes, together with their wives and children ; no tt ial was wanting at this time, their colour cnn- Jemr,ed them, innocent and guilty, and their col pres floating in the harbour occasioned fuch a ;.eftikuce, that Get-el al Leclerc was compelled to re:ire out of the gari don, and died three or four d tys before the Negroes were driven off. Madame Leclerc failed the 9th from the Cape, inthe Swift flux, fiir France; three line of battle (hips were in the ham bour, with two frigates, one of which had only feventy men left out of a complement of two hundred and feventy. It is not an uncommon thing on lire to fee eight or ten carts full of bo• dies every day taken hum the hofpital for inter ment, a dozen in each; and, upon the neareft cal calation, it is ellimared that there ate not more than two or three thoullind effeCtive men remain ing out of the whole original'nurnber. Great praife is laid to be due to the inhabitants of the town (merchants, Creoles, Amelicans, &c.) for th:ir aElive firppott againfl the brigands; it is Laid their atlifiance entirely turned the kale oldie lift day's attack ; they ate regularly called upon duty, and furnilli honks, &c. for the ufe of the troops. This it feents that the French have made a Q•jiberon butinefs ()fit, and are, as far as I can lee,Tikely to lute the Ifland altogether ; if it turns out fu, property here will become very precarious in all parts. LONDON. • *fl Y` 1 1. .. 1 ~ '...! ..: 1 1, ~ t‘ I . 0 4 W r i ?I: .1 1 •1 1 1 4 I c I. I TUESDAY, FEBRUARY r, Ytfterday bcing a Holiday, no Bufincfs w.. dune It the Stock Lxchange. PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE OICLOCK: 3 per Cent. Reduced 7111! per Colt Conf. money, ;c Ditto, for Feb. ace. 7 t 0:d 3 per C. tc:l2—Ncw ,:ato tc3ll-omnium 41 Mr. Be N J Ail LO, whole arrival from Paris we announced on Saturday lalt, brought imprrtant difpatelles from Lord WHITWORTH refpeding the negotiations carrying on between the two coun. trier. A Cabinet Council fat in cold - epicure on Saturday,when ti ebnlinefs was difcuffed tOr fome time. All we have been able to learn 4, that fume explanatory articles are under croulder.ltion, and that the negotiation at 1'.1r4 has been very :Olive and even uarm. We were, indeed, prepared to hear fomething of this kind, and we are mulch miltaken if more of it will not tianiiire before 7 very cliaant period. Our Readers still rscolleft a letter from Stut gard, copied from the feria Journals into the S rat on etre :id tilt. on which rr c remarked that tiom its complexion (t.:long!i pretending merely to Litef the nature of force important negociations going on at Paris Isetvreco Lord WIIIIMORTH Ind the French Knitter Tart.r.r.stsa%n) it was probably manufactured in Paris, as a preliminary promulgation of certain doctrines on which the French Government meant to ari. Our reafoning. tierrigh (bort, appeared fn conclufive, that all our contemporaries Adopted fimilar fentirnents except -117, one, 7hr Timer, which has hardly allowed a day to pars fince without a Aker at the ihferenccs adopted lty the ether P :pert. What opinion can be formed ..f the reliance to be placed on the fpe culations of that Print, may be learnt from the fol• lowing Letter written by its own Correfpondent at Paris, which we copy literally from the Times of yefterday, not as a proof of our own fagacity, for it required none to penetrate the flimfy veil, but as a recordd recantation of its cwn error : (FROM THE TIMES.) PRIVATE CORReSPONDENCE. " P.‘ a 9. lAN. 24.--Whenever you fee a letter from Stntgard in the offic!al Paper cf this Government, you may fet it down a s written .n the Cnnljlar l'alace, and in the Confular pretence : it is then difpatchei. to Citizen ACAS SE, with a folemn in junelion Cr l'imfirrr 1.21,1 foe plc: proclaim Nmirtro.- 4 Imprima tur'—You will be, no doubt, aftonifhed that the capital of Wirtembeeg fhould be ch”fai for the above purpofe, rather than any other city of Germany, even in preference to Paris ; the fact is, Box AP.I aT e knows that an article, infected under the bead Stutgard, will always be read with peculiar intercft by Englifhmen, who have not forgotten the virtues and the excel lence of the eldeft da ghter of their Sovereign, who reigns in that country. This Bo NA PA IT E confiders as a grand cup lr politifmr. Thus the Hero of remilermiairr Itoops to amen:F.., fur purpofe of giving a . p. , .frstineent of his intentions. " k is an undoubted fadt, of which we are all convinced in this place, that London, at the prefent inftant, (warms with Spies of the Police of Paris: indeed rEjpimege is become an Iroarmrailt employment among Frenchmen in general, fence fc vend of the colt names, that formerly grated the circles of Vcr failles, are &dually employed here in that infamous capacity, and live fplendidly on the wages rf difhonour !.—yes, there are tome Dukes, feveral Counts, but more Clerralters, who feree the Confular cattle, in the molt able& of all departments, with a greater degree of energy than they attempted to put forth for promoting the intact). of their legitimate Princes. Eritilh goods fill all our Imps, fusee Government has pro ed their importation, without, however, previoutly adopt .lny one falutary mcafurc for promoting (except by its in .3,t.,a,) the manufactures of France." We need only remind our Readers that the pre tended Sturgard, but really Parifian intelligence, Cited, that in the negotiations going on refpeeling the evacuation of Egypt and Malta, and the affairs of Parma and Etruria, England required a pro per engagement on the part of France, that in no cafe it (hould fend troops to Malta or Egypt, but that the French Government rsjefted this propofat, becaufc not mentioned in the Treaty of Amiens ! ! MAILS. One from Hamburgh and two from Holland, ar rived this day. Letters from Conflantinople of the loth Dec. (tate, that feveral veffels had arrived that day from Egypt, and had brought intelligence that the Engin have again taken poniffron of all the ilrong places in that country; and that Col. SiBASTI•NI. who is charged with a particular commiffion re fpeaing the French commerce, after a fhort flay at Alexandria, kad proceeded to Cairo. In the night between the 7th and Bth of Decem• ber fcveral houfes were dellroyed at Conftantinople by tire. The plague has again begun its ravages there, in confequence of the mild weather which had prevailed for tome time. By authentic letters from Gothenburg, we learn that the number of houfes burnt in the late fire there is 179, and the perfons who have loft their homes 276 1 . The damage is eftimated at leaft at ,000,oca The !fails bring hardly any thing e:ce worthy of notice. Yerlerday morning her Majtsry, attended by Eh: ri mcefres ELIZABETH, Macv, and AUGUSTA, took An airing in Hyde Park, and paid a rifle to the Counters of CARDIGAN. His hiailsrr did not leave the houfe. General Sir THOMAS TRIGG es embarkation for Gibraltar, is not in confequence of any new mili tary authority with which he is in•efed : this Of ficer only returns to his duty as Lieutenant• G overnor of that garrifon. Brigadier General CARMICHAEL has received or ders, as Colonel of the 6rft WeR India regiment, to join that corps in Jamaica, for the purpofe of accomanying it to Gibraltar, where the two firfi regiments nt black troops are to do duty. General Fox will fet out lhordy to take the chief command in Ireland, in the room of General Sir WILLIAM MEADOWS. The chief command is held under the Duke of YORK, by the General in Chief on the Staff. The full emoluments of the office are, however, enjoyed to their full extent. They amount to.between 52 and ts,oool. a year, and render this the moil profitable military appoint. ment under the Crown, next to the chief command in India. Licuttnant•Colonels Fxrrotaa, Awotasoa, W:xrsa, and Lam, of the Royal Marines, and Captains DAME, RICHARDEOH, Lynn, and Wm c ROVF, are appointed to tF.. Portfmouth in the room of the Officers who are gone out on the retirement. Four Firft and fix Second Lieu tenants are alfo appointed there, which complete ly fill the vacancies. It appears that the Barrack Department in Ire land cannot, by the Aft of Union, be abt.lifhed for fume time : an office will therefore continue, but clic Cll:cf retires. GIMERAL DISTRIEVTION OF THE BRITISH ARMY, FILSRU•ItY I, 1803. Rt.:dam fen‘iilat. Tot. Pro. - . - Ca.. - ././: by: His. Gm/. England and Wala 20 27 47 . North Britain - s 7 9 6 Ireland - - 7 as 3 3 1 jerky, Guersky. &c. 5 Gibraltar ._ 6 6 E7Yrt, ant Malta I 7 S Can.4a, Nuys Scotia, Ike. 6 a 7 t ft Indica. 21 Cape nrGoodHope,Gortvicc..— j F.At &on paw to, 5 20 91, paragc (two Abteid 21 - s -- 21 - Total It Ili 4 t!'t 6 11 ,1 Ave of .‘rtillcry and I neaten, Vo:nnuers, &t. F.,!SIIIONS FOR FtBRU.7Rr. Ft , L. I. DR ESSE/I-1.511ml robe cf plain patent net or embroidered with Myer plate.i:: a runner which produce. is, fame effect nit tvris fides. 11, eve, thort and Olin, ar: made of white Lice and iinithed with a bra - elet. ten! is of white Patin, embeoish red r end the bottom with filvei • White (hoes. l'iara can-rue:it in the Lair , and brleclets 04 the arms. 2. Drefs of pink crape or pa:ctit net, eml:roidrred with rll,l plate in the Lune mann, ras in the precrdink be dr Te—y t nifhed in a point on Ow I tt fide. and ftfb-ned to th.• dr,f. wl.l. gold cord and talk's. V. ry full &eves of pb.k crape, tl.e fame as the drefs. The front made plain and very low, 1v it s a lace tucker drawn ft 11 mind the holm. A white Cada pu rl oat, embroidered round the bottom with gold. FICA o-oit ass—A (mall round turban of whiT crape, trim• med round the front %Tali gold. A white oltrich feather placed fo as to fall over the left fide. PaoMr NA DC Dat isr 3-.4. Round drefa of cambric tnuflin, fpenccr cloak of black velvet. trimmed all round with broad lace. Black velvet 601111 Ct, ornamented with black feathers.— lkar muff. 2. Round deers of white muffin, trimmed round the bottom with a col urcd border. Long ilecves made send's, and con, fined with two bracelet Long veil of lace or patent net twilled round the head, the cntl. falling on each fide. A golf comb up the top of the bead. Bear muff. 0 ATION s—The prevailing colours are puce, coque/la cot, green, and amber. Pellets of velvet or ki.rfeymere are uoiverfaL Drcfri.a are made very low in the back, and the lace which trims the buforn, inflead of forming a frill, is drawn up chafe as a tucker. The fleevcs are made quite plain or very fuU ; the plain ones eonfilt of alt. mate ltripcs of l ee and toot hy. Feathers are generally worn, chitfly ()Briefs. Beaver hats and bona is have f, r the prefent fuperfcded thole of velvet. Monday fe'nnight the Right Hon. Lord Sror. FORD wai unanimonfly chofen Member of Parlial ment tor the Dumfries Diftriet of 13oroughs, at Annan. Lag night Mr. HoLcaorr"s Comedy was again performed at Drury Lane Theatre, and agair: ex. perienced a very patient hearing. It drew a ra ther numerous, but not Rs crowded an audience as on Saturday evening : during the UR ad), rums marks of difapprobation were lhewn. La II night Mr. C art Lass again fit Rained the cha. rafter of oa/x//o, at Covent-Garden Theatre, and confirmed the opinion we have already given of his performance. The confidence acquired by ex. perience gives him the opportunity of exhibiting his powers, and he grows upon us in the fcene. A confiderable drawback upon the reprefenta l lion, however, was occafioned by the indifpolition of Mr. Coots, whole unrivalled delineation of 4.14. has been juftly eftesmed the no Au :okra of the mi. ink art.—Mt/am was the fubßitute, and to an almoftereseis audience depicted this Mallet-1y portrait of the immortal Bard in as glowing colours as the congeniality of the fituation would admit. Mr. Coots's aloud's, we underfland, is caufcd by vio.. lent fpafms in the flomach. bliss WOODFALL is engaged at Drnry-Lane Theatre, and will, no doubt, in the forcer parts of Tragedy, and fentimental Comedy, be a valu able addition to the Company. The Gentleman who is to appear in the part of Hamlet, to-morrow, at Covent Garden Theatre is Captain CautrtlLD, ' who performed Hoilho with fo much applaufe Rocheßer, and the r ic Nic Theatre. The Party that fell in with the ice on the Eier pentine River, on Sunday lag, were Mr. and Mrs. Sim riot, of New Bridge-greet, Blackfriars, a Mr. and Mrs. GRAH•I49 Mirs Datsawarsa, ant another Lady and Gentleman whole name we know not. There was a coach provided as loon as poffible, into which they all crowded, wet as they were, till they came to Meas. Norris and Co's. Fleet-Rivet. I The fkaiting on the Serpentine River on Sunday recalled to memory a beautiful moral image is DAYDEII : He that Mit fins, like hirn that ;?cads on Ice, Vcides amitosis d own the flippery paths of vice; He (fides on esationa, but, thole fears got o'er, He Aka on foriftlf, and looks back no more. An Edinburgh paper lays, we are happy to • mention, that Mr. JoHN CLASS, the young gentle: Man who was laid to have peri(hed in the wreck of the Hindofian, is among the furvivors, his friends having received a letter from hirnfelf. On the 2 sth ult. the corpfe of Mr. Gioans GORDON, brewer, was found in the tide at Alm deen. The extreme darknefs and boilleroufnefs of the night caufed him to mill his way on the Shore brae, and to fall over the tilnay. A petition has been drawn up by the MagiffrAte, of Greenock to the Lords of the Treafury, pray t ing that that town and port may be admitted to the benefit of the projeEled bonding and ware boding bill. Fox•Cmace.—Yefterday, at one o'clock, a fine fox was unkennelled among the ruins in the Strand, 'on the weßern fide of Temple Ear. The Epping Hunt has been often admired f or it s cur i ous fi e ld of fportfmen, but never was there fuel; a thane and anomalous medley collected as upon the pre fent occafion ; mafons, hodmen, labourers, hack: ney.coachmen, applewomen, fifhwomen, boys, girls, and terriers, all in full cry, joined in the purfuit. The croud and variety were farther en= creafed by a large portion of the cafiral paten= gers in that great thoroughfare, attraEled to th e !Celle by curinfity, fuppofing that fome wonderful difcovery had been made among the ruins. Poor Reynard, being an animal of throng fira made for Clement's Inn, in hopes, no doubt, that a fellow.feeling would there infure him a fafe afy: lum. He had the good fortune to gain the gate; but that was nearly the total of his fueccfs : be tried every building: he tan up (lairs and dowr rj Hairs, but no friendly lawyer would afford him filcher : no bankable door would open to receive him : he met with nothing but demurrer:, rebritm, and far-rAutterr, while ad:ons vi & anal,. ever? where purfued him. Finding no law in the Inn, he made a double to gain his old ground, but he had fearcely reached It, when a blow of a pickaxe put an end at once to his life and the purfuit, hodman immediately mounted his brutb, and A patty of mafons and labourers carried the deed! ffi body in proccon to the Son public-horifi. the n e! to regale themfilves after the fatigues of the day. and celebrate the fuccefs of the chace. Trout hence poor Reynard came, or how it happened that he Mould bait taken up fucb [trine quart ten, we canno: conjature. 1 to . Lz 1 • '; *, I° ~~