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r -~ -.~ w . .tOrn: v .-. Extr.73 of a Letter from an (yen kfon;;lg so the Brush Army Egyp, da:td dlexaarin, Jan. 11. ---,- •n In my letter of the £ tth of November, I gave you an aetount of the decisive victory gained by the \lamelukes ; in Which they lost only 50 men, and which would have been followed up by the extirpa tion of every Turk in Egypt, were it .not for the presence of the English. Since that. time a corre spondence has been kept up -between them and our Head-quarters. General Stewart's Aid-de-Camp, was at the camp a few days ago. Immediately af ter their last engagement, they applied to Captain Keating, who commands a party of • the etith dra goons at Birket, for a surgeon. The Captain trans mitted their request to Head-quarters, where it was resolved, that it should not be complied with. They have since been furnished with an Italian praaitioner, who had been at this place. I mention this cir cumstance as a proof of the stria nsutrality, which e have observed between the contending parties. The Mamelnkes are now ene amped on the banks of the Nile, between Rh:amnia arid Menonf. They are every day levying contriblitions on the neigh bowing towns; and between them and the Turks, the untertunate inhabitants of the Delta are neurly fleeced and Hived of every thing they possess. We are still in as great a degree of uncertainty widirtelinl to our departure: from this country, as we ever were in. The are val about a month ago, of the Anson, the Pandere troop-,hip, and seven traneports gave us reason to suppose that the order (Cr cur departure had at length arrived; but no communication has vet been made upon the subjed. Reports hare just s retched tr; by way of I.eghorn, that we are going to have another war with France; and that we are to retain this country. The con dult of the French Government is said to have ex eked great jealousy and discontent in England. The day Mere resteria y General Stewart and his suite went to Bit ket, where a party of dragoons is station -I.This place is not far from the camp of the Ma in: hikes. Senor days ago (notwithstanding the s:riCt orders Lis the ceraratv) a l'inki,li vessel, after having lost severil men by titt :)la:, , te in Aboukir bay, came and ancher;tl in the new harbour here. Seven or eight ;arsons ill of the plague, were concealed under dezks, trim the rsedicat officers appointed to inspeit vessel: thae arr:ei• l:: re. The Master declared so lemnly there was not a sick person on hoard, and bosh he and hit , a lots had constant intercourse with the towns-people. • -As soon as this affair was disco vered, the villaircontrisecl to escape by the assist ance of the C.eltein Pacha. Had he been taken, he would have been hung from the yard-arm of his own ship. The vessel has since been set fire to and burnt, and all her crew are in quarantine. It is conjectured there arc sonic symptoms of the disease anions the 1 urkish chips in the harbours ; for the Captain 134 has applied, to the Commander of the Town fur an hospital, which is granted to them : slid if the men sent on shore shall tern out to have the plague. the General declares he will order every Turk to be sent awaylons Alexandria. You will hardly believe it when I tell you, that the Turks have no such thing as a physician or a surgeon in their whale Army. I send this letter by the London transport, the same in which Colonel Gordon, of the 2tith tint ;goons, sails for England. She takes with her 31 invalids bum the diderent regiments, and a Captaia of Artillery. The departure of Colonel Gordon is regretted by every man in his regiment. the offi cers of the 2tith, gave him a sumptuous entertain anent this day, as a mark of their high esteem and affection fur him. ' I am happy to inform you, that the plague, which in Novem be r broke out among some of the foreign corps, has been prevented from spreading any far ther, in consequence of the exertions of the Board of 14 , ...11th, of which Colonel Bestsferd is President. Suf ficient praise and thanks cannot be given to Mr. Webb, resistant InspeCtor of HospitaL, ter his vigi lance and exertions iu stopping the progress of the contagion. All his plans tor that purpose have been adopted by the Board of Health, of which he is a member. Sonic few cases of plague occasionally oc cur among the inhabitants, and they are immediately sent into the pcst-hospital; where they receive medical treatment from Dr. Buchan, who has now for the third season, volunteered his superintend ance of that place: and has declined accepting double pay, which all persons on that duty are enti tled to. AU communication between the different regiments and the town, and with each other, is cut oif, except among the Officers. Only one instance of an officer catching the plague has occurred this season; and he is now recovering front it : he be lungs to the loth regiment, and is suppGald to have caught the plague from an Arab girl, who frequent ed his lodgings. The: Board of Health has caused all persons of that description to be taken up; and either sent to perform quarantine, or confined to their houses, where there is no access to them. acaF, The Volunteer Corps, many tit which are now as sociatirfg, are in future, even in times of profound peace, to have a field-officer, and a serjeant, perma nently existing, so that they may be assembled at any time at a short notice. A correspondent desires to know how many wars have followed armaments The Last and the for mer wars were not preceded by armaments ; the Russian, Spanish, and Dutch armaments were not followed by wars. Wars have usually broken out in a hot and furious spirit before the parties were armed. A few days ago, Mr. Justice Bell, of Dublin, having received information that a well-knoivn forger of Bank -notes, in that city, called by his associates Long Kamm, the Tailor, had been in the habit of sending large parcels'of forgeries to one Roache, a woollen-draper on Leighlin-bridge, went to Carlow, and applied to the Rev. Mr. Whiny, a Magistrate, who accompanied him to Leighlin-bridge, where they aot only found the forgeries, but also the im plements for coining. Roache, after much prevari cation, confessed the whole, and that he had pur chased several parcels of forgeries from this Kear ney, who is a native of that town. Roache was committed to Carlow gaol, to abide his trial at the next assizes.—We are concerned to hear that a cer tain female, of great respeCtability, leas been men tioned by Kearney as oue of the most extensive dealers in forged Bank-notes, whom le has been in the habit of supplying. He observes no delicacy In mentioning her name, and boasting of her ad dress in disposing of Bank-paper, particularly at card tables. ________ ______________ N.11'.11. INTELLIGENCE. PT.VMOVTIf, APRIL 7. Came in from the Yore to join the fleet of obser vation in Cawsand Bay, the Albion, 74 guns, Capt. Ferrier. Warped down the hat bum- to the lower moorings preparatory to going into Cawsand Bay, the Malta, 8 4 guns, 'Capt. Boulton. Capt. Sir E. Pellew, Bart. with his usual zeal for the good of the naval service, has generously offered by public advertisement 591. per annum, to any qualified school Master who will take charge of the young gentlemen, midshipmen, in the men of war fitting fur sea at this port. 'llth day the Sp; e, 21 guns, Captain Kerr, be ing found so defe‘clive, was paid off, and her crew have a fortnight's liberty. But as the Ville de Paris, of 110 guns, was this day commissioned by Capt. M. Seymour, with whom, during the late war, the jolly Spitfire crew sailed three years, there is not the least doubt but they will enter with their old Captain, on board the Ville de Paris, he being so great a favourite with the whole ship's company. Carne in the Doi phi* cutter, and the Ranger cutter, Captain A. I.'raaer, from a cruise, with• men for the fleets. Came in the Jurchee, and the Sally, Fidget, from Guernsey, with wines and brandies. Sailed the Friendship, Patterson, with passengers, for Trinidad ; and the Recovery, Walker, tor Bilboa; also the Easy; Revenue cutter, to get seamen for the fleet. Remain in Hamoaze, the Princess Z;harione, of 40 guns, Admiral Lord Keith, K. B. Salvador del Manila, of 112 guns, Captain Lane ; Vi/Ic de Paris, of 110 guns, Capt. Seymour ; Plantagenet, of guns, Capt. Hammond ; Tenant, of 84 guns, Capt. Sir E. Pellew, Birt. Malta, of 8 4 guns, Capt. Buller; Spartinte, of 84 guns, Capt. Murray; Mars, of 74 guns, Capt. Sutton; and Conqueror, of 71 guns, Capt. T. Louis. In the Sound, the Dasher, of 18 guns, ('apt. Deh funs. In Cawsand Bay, the Culloden, 74 guns, Rear-Admiral Campbell; Courdraux, 74. guns, Capt. 0. Hardy ; Neptune, 98 guns, Capt. Drury; Venerable, Capt. C. Searle; lief/or, 74 guns, Capt. Skipsey ; and Albion, Capt. Ferrier. Every morn ing at dawn of day, at gun-firing, Lord Keith makes the signal to Maker Tower, for the number of ships in Cawsand Bay, which the signal man immediately answers, and gives their names. PORTSMOUTH, APRIL 8. Arrived his Majesty's ship Ameba, of 40 guns, Captain Lord Proby, from .lersey. Sailed his Majesty's ship Juno, of 32 guns, Cap tain Richardson, for Gibraltar, with General Sir Thomas Trigge on board. His Majesty's ship Diamond, of 36 guns, Captain Elphinstone, is under sailing orders, anti will proceed to the westward to-morrow. Past by the Lady Castlereagh, Warren Hastings, and Exeter, outward-bound East Indiamen. Put back the Cakiitia, outward-bound East-India m.tn. Arrived from the river, the Ocean, Captain Mer tho, with convicts for Port Philip, in New South Wales ; she will sail in company with his Majesty's ship Calcutta. Rennin at Spithead, his Majesty's ship Dreadnought of 98 guns, Admiral Lord Gardner, and Captain Brace ; Russell, of 74 guns, Captain Williams ; Dia mond, of 58 guns, Captain Elphinston ; Amelia of 40 guns, ('aptain Lord Proby ; Calcutta, of 56 guns, Captain Woodroff ; Aurora, of 2S guns, Captain Malbon ; Arrow, of 30 guns, Captain N'incent ; and Sylph, of 18 guns, Captain Goatc ; with several Re venue cutters, employed on the impress service ; the Lord Howe, Calcutta, and Hugh Inglis East Indiamen, and Ocean convid ship. At St. Helen's, his Majesty's ship Amtbion, of 52 guns, Captain T. M. Hardy, and Pigniy cutter, of guns, Lieutenant White.—Wind S. L. by S. and moderate. In the harbour, his Majesty's ship Gladiator, of 41 guns, bearing the flag of Adniiral Holloway ; Puissant, of 74guus, Captain Bowen ; Grampus, of 50 guns, Captain Caulfield ; La Topq,ze, of 38 guas, Captain Lake ; Enclymion, of 41 guns, the Hon. Cap tain Paget ; Castor, of 32 guns, Captain Peacocke ; Orpheus, of 3 guns, Captain Charles Elphinstone ; Chichester, of 41 guns, Captain Spear ; Eurydice, of '24 guns, Captain Malcolm ; and Starling, of 14 guns, Lieutenant Guyon. DOVER, APRIL 8. List night arrived La Parfaite Union passage vessel, Capt. Muscat, with Mrs. and Miss Texier, and a number of other passengers ; also, a Bon logne vessel with passengers. Sailed the QUM Cbarlotte, with passengers for Calais ; also, this morning, the Prince of Wales packet, with the mail and passengers, for Calais. Arrived I.e Poisson Volant, Capt. Segur, with Lord Grant h am and family, from Calais. FALMOUTH, APRIL 6. Arrived the West-India ship Dominica, Clark, fmm Jamaica, in nine weeks, with rum, sugar, &c. for London ; on her arrival she hoisted an Imperial flag at her main, as having sickness on board, on which she was ordered into quarantine ; three reve nue cutters immediately got under weigh, and came to an anchor near her, to prevent the men from escaping ; on examining they found that she had only one boy unwell; on which she was imme diately cleared from quarantine, and her crew all pressed : also arrived the high Miner, Nicholls, and Princess Royal, Owens, from London, for Liver pool ; the former has s i irung her foremast : also arrived the brig Lisbon Packet, Jenkins, with bale goods, groceries, &c. for this port, from London. Passed this port, the Fast-India ship Scale:l7 Cas tle, Capt. Learmouth, from London, for Bombay: the wind having blown very strong all this day from the southward, it is expelled she will be obliged to put into this port. Sailed the American brig jaws, Fulger, with rice; list from Charlestown, or Havre de Grace; the I)anish brig, Haak, Wisburg, with fruit, wine, &c. last from Lisbon. for Norway ; and the brig Severn, Hackwood, for Chichester. Remain, by contrary wind, the Price Adolphus packet, Capt. Jones, with mail of the .29th tilt. for Lisbon. The Deb of Toth packet, Capt. Deake, with mail from thence, is hourly expeeed; as is also the Queen Charlott: packet, Capt. Mudge, with mails from America. LIVERPOOL, Aram 7. Arrived the gam, Henderson, from New York : Penrjh, Buik, from Alicarit ; and the Don, Morri son, from Galippli. The, Laura!, Baldwin,. from Africa and Barbadoes, is arrived at Trinidad, and old there. The Washington, Nayes, from Liver pool, is arrived at New York, iu 34 days- .~--,.- rcr: •••• • CESSION OP 1.01.115L1N.1. &e. The following article, respeEtitig the dispute now depending between A rtieric.a and Spain, from an American paper, will be found interesting : " It IP-WM , to he adalittP(l that Louisiana is now the property of France. What will be her policy rcletike to it, modern data foriiish us wall nu s id l e' taken its corinectioit with ionic anterior events, much light is thrown oil the sub ject. " Louisiana was first discovered by the French as ea, ly as 1.541. le 1682, they penetrates! the Mississippi, explored and surkeyel the country contiguous to it, ants. to its tributary street:is, need took posiessimi of it front Ltetroit Aloe, the Westerit waters to the same rivet, so as to include not only the preseet state of Ohio, and the lateen territory, but also !wally one-Imhof the Siete tli . Georgia elaty settlements were attempted; some of them suceeteled. the French possessions in this quarter were greeted to Spain; arid how a rteconveyance has taken place. The circumstances wide: which the Met cession was made, in 176 J, exhibit some pronsinetit and cliaeLeerietic te4. , tures, strongly calculated to develoee the present policy et the Chief Culls:lL " Subsequent to the discovery of the country above the mouth of the Ohio, and the pessessi in taken of it, in Heti, the cilium, of novelty in a great measure ceased to delight. Fur about seventy yk ars these vast ulterior regions selthrin attracted the attentioe of /react.. At last see became convex. d tnat, from song te.gle.ct, her claims were v mealy relintimillieel. Due- ire this period, the country was gr.duelly peopled by our own citizens. Ms very much mercies d toe value of it, arid open( an extensive and poen:sine trade wiem the natives. Fne ice was at letigth determined to re r air toe evil of her own neglect.-m. About the veer 17.541, site resu.vet to revive her cietins, and to re-posiew herself of e hat seer Mid a e .pareoth etiewlened. ensure Imes:tee, and with it t..e sovereignty of all Ninth Ame rica, elm dispatched secret emits- :::s of uuservation and talents into the tliiit rent regiorne—itistrueted them to discover the must vulnerable parer, the nature of tee cuuntry, its soil, productions and resour..es, and the positions and adeaittaget of its ST:LT . IOIIi water;. From their reports, it was conjettured that -a plan of operations might be formed, which would tend to a speedy re drietion of our power, arid to tee acquisition of the other objeets she had in view. Some of these rep..rts, on tneir way to Frenre, were happily intere ord. These recommended the gradual establislinieet of a chain of fortified posts on the western waters f Canada to the Mississippi, as a preliminary step. Englend was awakened from her weathers; she per ceived the whole e stem of the danger, and declared war : the consequences ut it were, a iota atinkitiettiou or the French power in this country. Cube& resigned her laurels to the gal lant Wolte : wet the celebrated Pitt compelled France, Much against her will, to make a inkier of Louisiai.e to Spain. He was well aware, that eie two great hereditary rivals of each other could nut breathe okt the skilliC witileut the tiatiger of perpetual war. " What will be tire consequences of the reconvevance Louisiana to Fra , ice? On a full view o: tee sub j ect, it does not require the gift of prophecy to foretell them. %V ill France con cede to the timita and bound.bres agreed on between the United States and Spada ? No ; she will s e wn' threw. ‘Vheti it suits like interest, she perpetually fecers to what she calls first prin ciples, and ancient claims. She will therefore contend fur the boundaries as smirked out in l6Be : Nor will she conceive herself bound by any stipulations made between us and Spain ; fur iii the recent purchase of Louisiana, she will arrogate to hess:lf the seine rights and priveeges as accompanied the its sion of it its 176 e. In Europe, she has revived and prutrecuted a variety of elating less plausible tool this. Sire has assumed the ancient boundaries of her emetic, of which she was the posseeted, either by the sword, or by treaty stipulations, many ages pee ; and shall we wonder, if the proud dictator of tile Terrible Republic now attempts to acquire the doiniuton of at least one-third of our territory ! The advantages are too con spicuous fur him to neglect ; widen the system of disastrous and cruel policy established and pursued by him, our destiny is already inscribed, and we cannot fail to read it. " Admit that Fume will nut attempt to enlarge the bounda ries lately esteblislied between us and' Spain, will she not con ceive herself at liberty to deprive is of the Missieippi naviga tion ? What obligation will she be. under to permit our water craft to navigate that river? She will maintain that our stipu lated rights and privileges in Louisiana no longer existecithan while that province was in the hands of Spain ; for, she will ask, hew can I be bound by national compacts, to which I am not a party ? Louisiana is obtained by France partly for the purpose of revenue; and the probability is, that she will either shut us entirely out of the Mississippi, or so encumber our commerce with fiscal restrictions, as almost to prohibit the pursuit of it. She will even treat our complaints with con tempt, and refer us to Spain fur a redress of grievances. Such will certainly be the language of France end we ought to prepare ourselves to meet it. " If more be necessary to illustrate the views of the Terrible Republic, it may be derived from a variety of sources. In one of the Numbers of the Gazette de France, an official Paper, published in Paris some time last summer, many labottred ar.cl insidious observations appeared relative to Louisiana ; and they terry on the face of them the most indubitable marks of an official pear. The pub ication announces to the French people the cession alluded to, and details the almost incal culable advantages to be derived from it. If this were to be the criterion of our judgment, ail Europe is materially in terested or this event. It lavishes, with a prodigal profu sion, the most bitter and unremitted censures on the Ame rican people : it paints them as ambitious, fertile in popu lation and resources, and as hostile to the rest of the world. It alledges that, front motives of cupidity, and a went of a sense ut justice, we have in view au extension of our territory, already adequate to the reception of more than one hundred millions of inhabitants; that South America and the West lnd,a islands will soon fell a prey to our avidity, wiles sonic Lures preen power, furnished with the necessary menus, opposes it self to our projects of conquest, and has the courage to six itself on our shores to diminish our greatness ; that Lou isiana is the point Or pivot, on which rests the tranquilty and security of Europe, as it affords an insurmountable barrier to our wealth arid policy ; that, therefore, Eitraud, Spain, and llolland, must applaud threw magnanimous views of France, and tender their efforts in the execution of them. It is, Isiwever, ineutioualy admitted, that tilers: is no danger to be a 1.- preliended from the politics oh' the present adminiettation of our teoverumedt—but, says the Gaette de France, what security is there for successive administrations? Hence it iie.ifecrea, that the friete: y sentiments of Mr. Jefferson are of iw emesequenze, wheat put in competttion watt the profeupd policy arid exten sive views of the First Cousin. " When we call to mind the conduce of Franca towards the close of the liiiericart revoution, her seutiments at any subsie quent period will not asturesit us. She has arrogated to herself me exclusive goarrantee oreiur independence—lout at what pe riod did she vellum to arweitit ? When we had secured it to ourselves by tee caviare of a wiiohe British army, site was per suaded to eiiieark in the contest! Even tile aesistance afforded es resulted nut from friemity motives —to humble the pride of Eneland, and to gain an accession of territory, on which she had long exed her eyes, were all sire had in view. Let facts decide. The better to give efficacy to her plans, under the ap peareece of candour and justice, she stated to Congress than, as she bee caiberked in our cause at a critical Crisis , it would ba ungenerous in the States to make a separate peace, and thereby leave tier to contend atone with England. These seutinsents had weight; and, without the least suspicion of a dangerous paat, our Minister, then at Paris, ass instrueted not to conclude • peace v. ittiout tic koomiellge of the French King, and not until he had agreed to the cuielitiems of it. What adveiitege did France attempt to derive from the liberal confidence of the United States? Sae ceulti not with propriety openly claim the cession of a eased territory in this ceuittry as a reward for her singular service., es,reciaity alter she was frustrated in her at tempts to ohtain the exclusiee jurisdiction of Ittexle and therefore viewed Great Britain as the most certain milieu of acquisition. To effect her purpose, she dispatched a secret agent to tee Court of London; who Wormed the English Mi :ester of tue restrictions imposed on our COlllll/i1 . 401115, and that we were umiak to agree on the terms of peace without the concurrence of France; that if Great Britain would insist on retaining to hetsell the vast territory hounded on the Ohio and Mississippi, or compel a relinquishment of it to Spain, she would favour the project. France well knew that were either Entitled or Spain once in possession of this territory, she would LC able to übtaiu it in exchange for ante of her West India Islands, or by some other adequate stipulations. This plot was happily discovered by our Ministers, who were enabled, by mama of a counteragent, to frustrate it. The consequence was, that Great Britain and the United States made a separate peace; acid France was kit to deplore the effects of her own incautious duplicity. " Other circumstances occur to illustrate the general policy of France in the acquisition el Louiciaus. Can it lie suaiustmi, that self means to ennAnciler army and ce.intists to tit; buk, unrf marshes of that country, and never dream of an encroachment on the fertile and salubrious regions in the rear? As a strung pro suinprion to the contrary, we may notice the arrival in Paris of a number of American Indian Chiefs, and the splendid enter . tainutents made for them by the First Consul. Did the First etasol invite these chiefs to France merely to gratify the cu riosity of the French people; or, rather were it not to obtain their exclusive friendship, and to make the Indian tribes Sub servient to his views in this quarter ? Our endeavours to civi lise the Indians, and to intruduce agricuiture and the house hold arts among Clem, is imputed to us as a crime in the Gra ' wife defiance; because, it is alledged, our übject is to attach them to us, and to render them inUnical to other nations. If theca be the real sentiments of the French, they know how ta counteract our policy by the operation of their own : They wick at no means, however base, to accomplish the contem plated end. A report is abroad, that our government has a!- ready received official intelligence of the existenve of French intrigue among the Indians. This is the more to be belizvel, front the information given by the chief's who lately arrived at this place on their way to the seat of government. They stated that, while on their route, they met some chiefs and old inert of the Wyandots, to whom they disclosed the object of their mission. The Wyendets advised them to return, as they would obtain no satisfaction from the Preeident--but particularly as their u'd friends the French were about to resume their ancient pomestions in this country, from whom they expected justice. " When we take into view threes and various other circum stances, what are the suggestions of enlightened prurience and souild policy ? Self-preservation is a maxim paramount to the form., of decorum among nations : Their usual policy is more the result of public security and interest, than of individual justice and sound mcraiity : yet all these concur to urge sums prompt And decisive measures on our part. Were we to take immediate posseetion of Louisiana, we should not be destitute of judifyieg reasons fur our conduct. The prese , 4 glyer n men' of that colliery, witliciut pretext or provocation, has already ie. f inged its stipulated engegemenu with an. The public law has pronounced judgment in our falfaur : Nations are authu nista to do themselves justice. Why should we wait fir des slow process of doubtful negotiation ? Spain is only the osten sible eroprietor, while France, the real owner of Loilislaries keeps behind the seem., and prompts her neighbour to acts of aggression —Fioni the past, we may pretty arecuiately estimate the future. What has been tile policy of France for the last nine years, bet a tissue of plunder, depredatioii, and death !. When she lands her hoary myrmidons ink our Stuart's, veil she be more meek, or less prolific of injuries ! Now is our ume to act with dign.ty ; success is certain. At another day, an at, most invincible power may oppose itself to our wishes; once in possession of the land of promise, it will acquire tenfold vi" pour, and be the more stimuleted in pursuit of conquest. I.et us, therefore, assume the sovereignty of an unfriendly precinct, contiguous to our settlements, which nature inteuikel for our inheritance, but which mere blind casualty ravished frettn u . A small body of troops may at this time make a triumphal ciN try into it; and wine it once overshadows-el by the pinioes od the American Eagle, in vain might the despoilet of the fake,* portion of Europe attempt its reduction." IWO . Curiosity is greatly excited at Berlin, by the an nounced ascent of GARNERIN and Madame GAR.. N N, in a balloon, which is to take place between the 10th and 15th inst. Professor D'HEitrdsrAnT has obtained permission from the KING of Pays. SIA, to ascend with them, for the purpoie of mak ing some experiments in the higher regions. TRlNlDAD.—Letters from.glis island, inserted in a Greenock paper, state, that a violent dispute . h 4 between General Pielon and Colonel i.'UlLtr.. ton. They proceed to saz:--e , Landed people seem at a loss what to ask for their property. A piece of mountain land was valued the other day (by meh upon oath) at 251. sterling per acre. Negroes are also higher than during the war: last sales averaged 801. sterling, payable in fourteen months, per bond, with interest, after six months. People are running all risks to make this a valuable colony, and the planter has at present a most &tufting appearance of a good crop and excellent sugar. The only thing at present against the island, is the great mor tality among the negroes. Some estates have lost, in the course of a few 'Leeks, from twenty to thirty. We are all anxiously expecting the time wherrAve shall be under British laws. Produce has been ad vancing for some time: cotton is now (14th Febru.. ry) 261 a 27 dollars; coffee, 15; sugar, a6l per 1001hs; indigo, 1} ti 2 per lb.; hides, 14 bits each ; exchange 1921." BIRTHS. Yesterhy morning, at her house in Tenterden.street„ Hanoyer.squre, of a son and heir. On Thursday, at Clayton, Mrs. J. Williams, of a son. On the sth inst. the Lady of the Mon. Major.Gencral Forbes, of a son. On Saturday, the ad inst. at his house in Charlotte.. street, Bloomsbury, the Lady of Sit F. Vincent, But. of a son. MARRIED. Monday, by the Rev. T. Beckwith, in the parish of St: Martin at Palace, in Norwich, Capt. H. Edgar, late of the 49th Regiment of Foot, to Miss S. Betts, second daughter of Mr. T. Betts, of Hicklinz. DIED. On Monday the zSth ult. Dr. Gregory Grant, Physician in Edinburgh. Monday, at St. Leonard's-hill, near Windsor, G. Birch, Esq. Tuesday, at his seat at White-place, in the caunty of Berks, the Reverend Ralph Leycester. Monday, of a lingerins illness, at his house at Hackney . , I. Rebell°, Esq. At Arklow, Capt. 3. Sinclair, of the ytzt Regiment. On Monday last, at Pinner Hill House, Mrs. Lloyd, wi dow of the late R. Lloyd, Esq. and daughter of Sir T. Wheate, Bart. of Glympton Park, Oxfordshire. On Sunday se'nnight, at the Hague, H. Van Alphen, Esq. a Gentleman of high estimation in the literary world, and a warm friend and admirer of the celebratAl Klopstock. I'M CE OF STOCKS. SATURNAV. Bank Stnc , ;Opiiiiiim 3per Cent Ned til:','A ,',' India Stock 3 per Cent. Con: 6 .1; I4:', Ditto Bond: 4 per Cent. Cons. ... 7St 71 !Iri•it 5 per Cent 5 per Cent. Ann. .... 97UEtcciicy Bills . 5 per Cent. 1997..... 9Cit s;iEne°7l.ot. Tick. Bank 1.. Ann...... 181 5-16iirish ditto Bank Short Ann. Imp. 9 per Cent. .... ..611;litilia for Open. Ditto Ann .. HIGH WATER AT LONDON-BRIDGL. 131111 DAY. Morning; 20m. after 4 Afternoon, 40m. after 4. LARGE OFFICE PENS PECUI.IARLY WELL CUT. THE evident Advantage of having Writing PENS well cut and w.:11 shaped tothe figares, and sttlim. true elastic mould, as kiln and SEAVINED Quills only are ca pable of answering and bearing that nice ex ictitcxs of points, which a clean and (yen Slit will reudar smooth and fine, as to write any kind of han I with perfect fr►edom and pleasantness. This circumstance must not only be very convenient, but truly interisaing to every person in the habit of writing ; great pains have been taken to s :led a proper Stock of prime qualified anal sea-mod Quills fur this purpose, iu order to remove the evil of bad Pens, so just:y and universally complained of in this c Made and sold by E. Williams, (Successor to Mrialamire) St :firmer to the Duke and Duchess of York, No. 11, Strand, London. N. R. Old Pens mended, and made as new. London: Printed by J. GILLET, No. lA, Crown-court, Fleet -street; and published there by W. L CLastant, at . No. 201, Strand. 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