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ST. DOMINGO. Q We have been favouret: wi•h the following ex tract of a letter from a St. Domingo Planter now residing at Baltimore, to his brother, in this country, dated Baltimore, August 4. " By a vessel which left the Cape fifteen days ago, 1 have received information, that an agree• ment has been entered into between Des; 41. INKS and the Commander of the French coops in the Spanish part of St. Domingo, according to which, the latter, if he shall receive no reinforcements in the mean time, is to evacuate the Island on or before the first of next November. The army of the lllacks is, in the mean time, to continue in those positions which it occnpied when the agreement was signed. No battle had previously been fought between the contending parties ; but daily skirmishes, with va rious suc-ess, had taken place between the advanced posts. Dtssatin Es had established a constit Moral committee, which sits at theCape,consisting of eleven members, of whom, two are white, three Mulattoes, and six Blacks. It is said, that they have digested a constitutional code, which will be proclaimed as soon as the whole island is in the power of the Blacks. According to it, the future form of go. vernment of the republic of Hayti will be organis ed. Report says, that DLSSALLNIS will be declared the Sovereign Inca for lite, and, that his children will succeed hi:n in this dignity, which is made he reditary in his family. A senate, a tribunal, a le gislative body, and a council of state, will be esta blished at St. Domingo; as the constitution of which, with very few variations, is neatly the same as that adopted in France. Should the Pope con sent to the pmposals DESSALINLS intends to make, the Roman Catholic religion will be the religion of state in the Republic of Hayti. The American ship, Eiizaheth, Capt. 'Ft ss Ea, has been hired by DESSA LtxLs, and is to carry to the Pope a deputa tion, or rather an embassy, at the head of which is Fs aNCOIS BI J OU, a Black, educated at Names, and one of Dtssst.taces favourite privy counsellors.— Their business is, to propose a Concordat, and to demand-some Cardinals or Prelates to advise in rev gulating the affaits of religion, and to assist in the ceremony of the inaugmation of DESSALtsts as Su preme Inca, which, according to report, will take place on the first of nest January. Ctinisrortm, and five other Black Generals, are appointed Field Marshals, and have each received three valuable platations to keep np their new rank with lustre, A certain number of cultivators have been assigned over to them, as labourers, to work their lands, which caused a momentary mutiny among the ne igroes in garrison at Port au Prince in the beginning of July, where General PEI toe, the Commander of DassALIKLeS Guides, restored order, and sent away, under escort, to the different plantations, the negro cultivators. All persons lately arrived from St. Domingo agree hi their statements, that the greatest anarchy, notwithstanding D t s a I.INLS'3 re volutionary tyranny and institutions, conti.s to desolate that island, where most of the plantat i ons, that have escaped the fury of civil wars, remain uncultivated, or only cultivated to such a small de gree as to produce a temporary subsistence for their temporary occupiers. Dtssacists having declared all plantations, belonging to people of White co ' lour, national property, with which he reward.- his : Generals, favourites, and members of his Legion of Honour ; a new lease or purchase is necessary even for those Black proprietors, who, before, per fat or ;1,144 have got possession of them. Some erameles of severity have made the trade of the Americans of St. Domingo of late more safe, par ticularly at the Cape, to which DE5541.11(114 hasin vited Mr. Duren, the late American Consul, to return, promising not only protesting, but guards of honour and safety. No business is, however, done but for ready money, or by exchange, mostly the latter, as money has become t ery scarce I have heard that I)Essa LINES has sent agents both to Philadelphia and Jamaica, with proposals of commercial treaties, but with what SIIC•':!5, •veral British officers of the navy ately visited DESSA Lists in his been received with great distinc tposed that their presence was the Black Chieftain to engage to intercept any succours which Spaniards should send from Cuba to blockaded by him in the city of The Negroes say, that be intends :ovist to England as his Minis has demanded a passage for him British man of war, which caused . Mr. BARRY, of Boston, who SI of July, says, that the Ne rom their negociations with the at the same time, they do no t justice, or shew more regard to than to those of other countries. nothing is more ridiculous than the ' those Negroes, whom DESSALINtS , of his Legion of Honour. They THE BRITISH 'PRESS. LONDON, THURSDAY, Sr., rLuceit We stated yestetda v that a deputation of the principal merchant; engaged in the Spanish trade had a conference on the preceding (1,.y with the Secretary of State for Foreign Affaits, at his Lord ship's office. The meeting wars hitt at Li; Lord ship's request, in consequence of the present critical state of our relations with Spain. Ili. Lordship acquainted them, that there were certain nego ciations, on important points, now pending between Spain and Great Britain, the issue of which was uncertain. Some explanations had also been re quired, as to the intention with which the arma. menu, now preparing in the ports of Spain, were to be fitted out; to which no satisfanoi y answer had hitherto been received. Ile thought it necessary to make this communication to assist their judg ment in the future regulation of their mercantile concerns with that country." The Committee en tered into a long discussion with Lord I la 'tease sv upon the subjed of the conduit of Spain to this country, since the signature of the Peace of Amiens. They dwelt particularly upon the infraaion of the Ith Article of the Definitive Treaty of Peace, which provides that " all the sequestrations laid on either side, upon funds, revenues, and credits, of what nature soever they may be, belonging to any of the Gontrading Powers, or to their citizens or subjefts, shall be taken of immediately after the signature of the Definitive Treaty." After this conference, which lasted several house, or ders, as we stated yesterday, were sent to Fal mouth, to countermand, till further orders, the sail ing of the WalsiNgbadi packet, which was in course of service, with the Mail of the 18th. We imagine too, that the sailing of the vessels now loading at Hull, for Lisbon, Oporto, Cadiz, Balboa, &c. which were expale.l to sail from thence on the 4th of (Maher, to join the general convoy at Plymouth, on the 10th, will be deferred. Policies were ;lone, to a very large amount, on the immediate probabi lity of a Spanish war. Twenty-five guineas were given for the tenon of one hundred, if hostili ties were commenced between Spain and Great Britain in the course of three months. That negotiations were pending between the two min tties, the issue of which was uncertain, was a matter of which the deputation were long apprised. The accommodation granted to French privateers in Spanish ports for the annoyance of British trade, the insolent behaviour of the Patrice or Peace to our Ambassador at Madrid; these, and many other offensive proceedings, upon the part of Spain, hay for some time, been the subjea of remonstrance, upon the part of the British Cabinet. It was not, therefute, to these old grounds of complaint, the Secretary of State alluded. They have probably been explained away, or, if our Government have not received full satisfy Pion, they have not bean thought sufficient provocation to withhold that mercy which this country has shewn to Spain, considering her as iendly at heart, and aaing tinder the tyrannical compulsion and controul of BON I p car e. The armaments preparing in the ports of Spain were the real grievance. It is reported, that upon a question from our Minister at Madrid, requesting an explanation of o'ojeit and destination, the Spanish Government insolently answered by asking, in return, What WAS the destination of the Russian naval and military armaments in the Mediterranean ?" It is also said, that our Covernaient have received certain information of another treaty concluded between France and Spain, by which the former stipulates for the aitive assistance of the Spanish navy, in the prosecution of the war against Eng land; and undertakes, in consideration thereof, to acknowledge His CATHOLIC MAJESLY Emperor of Spain, and to extend his revolutionary empire by the annexation of Portugal. If these reports be founded in fait, we may pity the fate of Spain ; but we must strike. We can no longer gloss over her insolent and injurious conduit, with the mild and softened name of a hollow and delusive neutrality. She is completely melted down, and mixed in the revolutionary crucible with Frances Their prin ciples and views are one and indivisible ; alike hostile to l:ngland, and alike the objeds of chastisement at her hands.. It is idle, after such proceedings, to talk of the King or Go vernment of Spain. Eosa t►at z and his portable Cabinet, whether at St. Cloud, at Aix-la-Chapelle, or at Mentz, are the King ani Council of Madrid, equally the masters of the lives and property of the Spaniards, as of the Dutch and the French.— Amidst, however, these demonstrations of imme• diate hostility, it is still said that Mr. WaLLULaT, who has been appointed to succeed Mr. Fatal, is continuing his preparations for his mission, and that there is every likelihood of his setting out for that Court in the course of a very few days. It is also reported, Lord Li A RaowL v pledged him self at the conference, in consideration of the pre sent distressed state of Spain from internal scarcity and disease, that our cruisers should respea all neutral bottoms laden with grain for that kingdom, and that no embargo would be laid, for the present, upon vessels clearing for its ports. His MAJESTY, it is said, finds himself so well at Weymouth, that he means to p.tss a great part of 0:Ioher there, having neither apprehen►ions of In vasion, nor other reasons for his immediate return. The weather has been very tempestuous for some days past in the North Sea. The Earl of bit-ester packet, which sailed with Ntosst mu It, brother to the King of Fe ANC c, unit:r escort of the Monkey gun brig, parted company with the brig in a gale of wind on Saturday, and is supposed to have put into Yarmouth Roads. It was a Courier from the King of SWEDEN, not the Km; himself, who arrived at Stockholm on the Bth, as we inadvertently stated yesterday. A Court of Dirretors was yesterday held at the India House, which adjourned, at AIX o'clock, till Wcdnesd ty next. Yesterday, at two o'clock, the Sr ssiisii As,. •ASSADOR had an interview with Lord HARM/Wu Y, at his office in 13(issuing-street. The Right Hon. WILLIAM PITT held a meeting at Dover Castle, on Tuesday, of the Playors of Dover, Deal, Folkstone, Hythe, &c. to consult re speCting the draft for the Army of Reserve in the Cinque Ports. The English ship stated to have been captured by the French P.ipers, is generally supposed to be the Althea, country ship, which separated from the homeward bound fleet to the Southward of Ceylon. . . . The Nmgh lug/is has been reported as the ship captured, but no foundation appears fot. the rumour. On Thursday, the fleet from the Baltic, under convoy of the Melte and Charles armed ships, arrived off the 'lumber. The hrge fleet now at anchor in Dungeness Road, to the amount of near 40 sail, incruding armed defence ships, are intended for a secret enter prise the first favourable opportunity. Lord KI'ITII will, it is believed, take the command in ptn son. Several vessels are also off Dover to join them. The jetstairs, La Seine, and Champion frigates ; Dart, Orestes, Speedy, and !cermet, with many other sloops of war, and a fleet of armed defence ships, gnn-brigs, and cutters, sailed on Tuesday from Deal, to their several cruising stations off the French Coast. The Hubert*, of London, from the Havannah, for New York, is detained by the Lrandcr man of war, and sent for Halifax. An American vessel, arrived lately at Nantes from Cayanne, has broog!st the most satisfaetnry accounts from this colony, which, since the Blacks have been forced to return to their former masters, enjoys the greatest tranquillity. The negroes work, as formerly, with the greatest submission ; the Go vernor has been obliged to have recourse but to one single example of severity. It is true, that a wise and just regulation has been published. which fixes the duty of the slave, and informs him what his master has a right to command, and what, in return, he has to expect from his master. There is no ap p ehension that the internal tranqnillity will be dis. 'tubed by any external attacks from the enemy. "l'he English continue to keep at a respeElful dis tance from the coast. Natore has. besides, done a &eat deal for the defence of Cayanne; and a few troops are sufficient to prevent a landing against an enemy more powerful than the English, who lately have sent several emissaries, from Surinam particu larly, among those persons, who. for measur es of safety, have been transported from France ;but they were soon discovered, sad are now in prison, await ing the punishment due to their plots.—l Frail!. Namilwr I 1 W volutionAry t; canny and desolate ;hat island, where that have escaped the fu uncultivated, or only cubit gree as to produce a temp( temporary occupiers. DE all plantations, belonging lour, national property, w Generals, favourites, and of Honour ; a new lease even for those Black prof ' , fee nr ..f., have got pot esameles of severity havt Americans of St. Doming titularly at the Cape, to v vited Mr. DUTCH, the b return, promising not onl of honour and safety. I , done but for ready money, I . by the latter, as money I have bead that Mica Lt to Philadelphia and Jam settling commercial tteatiet Ido not know. Several II have, however, lately vi, camp, and have been reci Lion ; but it is supposed merely desired by the 81, the English cruisers to inset the French or Spaniards si their countrymen, blockadt San Domingo. The Negr ao dispatch CHILISTOPHE tC ter, and that he has dema on board some British ma these conferences. Mr. I kit the Cape on the 8.1 of roes hope much from the n g lish, though, at the i ave with more justice, ritish traders, than to d Ec says, that nothing is T eriie vanity of those Nep s made Members of his 1 weir their stars upon a red and white ribbaal round their necks, even when naked, or with no , they covering but a coloured shirt. Upon the star is an enamel urn, surrounded with wreaths of aurel, with these words—." TOUSSAINT ASSASSI NATgO ST BONAPANTt." and under it, 4 , Ws mesa vzsozattcz." The star is of a larger size, and of gold for the Grand Officers and Command ers ; but of silver gilt for the Legionaires. They are the workmanship of four French jewellers, whose lives have bees spared on that account. What, finally, will become of this Negro empire is impossible t,i cnnjenure ; in the mean time, all European powers posess;ng colonies in the West Indies, have to dread alike its prosperity or its de sttuaittn." We suppow, that when this letter was written, BONAPAIL 1 L's Imperial Dignity was unknown to Desna LINLi, otherwise this Usurper, instead of the title of an Inca, would, no doubt, have proclaimed himself DESSALINCS I. Emperor of the Haytians ; but as his inauguration has not yet taken place, there is still time enough, and in fa& he has more right to this title among his countrymen, than the Corsi can BONAPAIITIE has to that of an Emperor of the French. Europe has already to pride itself upon two revolutionary Emperors tgirrice will proba bly soon have one, and it won Dot surprise us, were A I ica, in Sts torn, to bless the world with its Emperors of the Alserines, of the Tunisians, and of the Tripiiiitans; Sovereign; all worthy to frater nile %vitt, a N A 1. , ):.50N the Filst. TO CORRESPONDENTS. The Essay upon the P 4 Bella, in two Morning Papers, has been received. The new e Loruise is rather come for a refined and polished Lady r.;.dies, upon mod , rn dress. shall he attended to. city. COVENT CARDEN THEATRE•'! The lively Comedy of Rule a Tree end lfe.e Wife was performed at thi s Th eatre last night. 4 Mr. Kest eta's .Leon was given in his usual style of excellence. It would be dif f icult to decide betweep his late or early scenes ; whether he was more es. cellent as the simpleton, or the man (d• tens.: One would suppose that the expression of his cowl. tenance would find it diffi cu l t to assume the stupid vaunt stare of the id eo t ; and yet he l oo k ed this part of the charalter as completely as its op. posite. The various transitions and changes wit/no these extremes were given with truth and delicacy. Mrs. Os.° V BR% Ertffaxia was a very spirited repte. sentation of that arch and lively charader. It w 4 however, rather bold and strong than light and play. ful. The delineation was correa and vivid; but it IN, not finished with grace, nor did it displarall those. varying and delicate tints and touches essenti,,, to a complete portrait. Supplied, however, i ron , a rich fund of life and good humour, it had hi , only the merit of strength, but of case and viva city. The talents of Mr. LEWIS are peculiar!. asl.spted for the Cupp,r Capisiss, and he never ex erted them w ith happier die& Thunders of applon c attended him through every scene. All the oth,. r charaCters were respeaahly supported, and the Piece, upon the whole, may he con sidered as well got up. The house presented a kill and degaut audience. ORIGINAL POETRY. AN INSCRIPTION; IN imaaton kit gut, f tom rite Leit:n :r Thom:, liar:wt.. By OLD NICK. Would that the Tans, who cut thy early days, The c:uel Fate., wou:d set my Lee, That I might quit the earth, the sol.ir ray., To be, lov'd Helen! once again with they. 0! toucli not with thy lips dull LethT's tidet, But think that he will come, who loves the, well Through shades I come with faithful lore, me guide, Whose torch, resplendont, will the boildloir.) • Mant's Edit. V. p. rlltb. Supposed to be the comp anion of a husband whose wife had died at a premature age. The hith aud sixth lines are imitated from a Greek in. scrintion in the Anthol. 111. 1. 19. j I think," says Mant, that Mr. John Warton told me of his having seen a medillion which represented 0 , 1.11i.u , turning from Hell with Eurydice, and Cupid twilling lichee them with his torch ; tatcbras ivrpade discsitienr." FASHIONABLE. RLTURNS TO TOWN. Ilk Royal flightless the Princ.: uf Wales, front BriLlitoo, to Carleton The Duke of York from IVertnot.th to Pentium...pea. The Dukt: of Kent to the St - t•Ae Yard. The Dt ,ke , to Cal t.. 0 I loot*. Mr Whitbread and Lady, trom S rush auffordshire, to Dorm-street. The Earl and Countess of Cardrzm from D/1•111Paik, North• anspean. In upper GrOreetlor sVeet. Lady W. Russel tram her seat at Streatham on a visa to her sister, Lady Anne Wyndham, Hanover square. Marchioness of Wellmley from Brighton, to her ho9e sn Park-street Lady Vilhers from the Earl of Vi. - -stmorelancre at Ap thuroe, near Wairnedord, Northamptomhire, to Berkeley- equate. _ _ Mr. ancl Mrs. Egerton, from ()vans, the slat of Catena O'Laughlin, at which they have been elllCe their nuptial', to Dover-stiect. FASHIONABLE DEPARTURES FROM LONDON YESTERDAY. The Marotta of Down.litre and hi Brother, to Ilarrow School. Ad. Browne, horn Jerroyn-street, to Bath. The Duke and Ductless of St Allan's, Crum Stratfid Mee, to their Seat, Grange, in Cambridgeshire. I.a :y Loons Ma.mer.. from Pall Mall, to Mnol,v, ;fens. Tn. Lid urd Counters of Cardigan, to Richm•.nd Park. I...idy William Ratill, to her ho.ne in Sttuatliin. His Royal Highness the Duke of GLOECESTER is expeeted to honour Manchester with a visit, this day ; and to-morrow to partake of a Public Breakfast at the Bridgewater Arms Inn, in that town. Lady Kati LI 4 Wet.t.asury yesterday gave a son and heir to the family, at her house in New Bur lington-street. The Duchess of MANCHESTIM'S house in Pelle ley-square is ondergoir,g a thorough repair, fur her Grace's reception the ensuing winter. The front of Earl FITZWILLIANI% house in Grosvenor-square is also undergoing a co tiple;c repair. The Earl and Countess 'resume and Family, Lord Glt ANT LY, Colonel of the Ist Royal Surrey Militia, Mr. and Mrs. i'asem•syrt a, and Lord ANCRAM, arrived at Dover on Tuesday nigh t. Lord K vir landed there on the same evening m the ALmar, h. The infant daughter of Mrs. Du Pan was bap tized yesterday evening, at her house in Grafton street. The Right Rev. the Lord Bkhop of Rociturrt will hold an ordination in the. Cathedral Church of Canterbury, next Sund.iy. The Falmouth new Tht.ttre opens on Monday rest, under the jiadici.m. m M r • Fiume. It is a beamtiful littlo Theatre, 4001. proceedini. reger.lay at the East-In. : House shew that the beg sailors have not been :4:1. to steer clear of a Rod. Miss Gaimssi, late of the Haymarket Theatm performed Gra, at the Liverpool Theatre. on Mon day last. The last G•u/fe contains an evilent c•ntra.iic tion—the appointment of Captain Sd.rr to a Majo rity pierehase. A Morning Paper of yesterday states, that "t• &jewelry of corn in Spain has been occasioned by the ntaiNe." The Grand Ballet of Reonond awl Agnes is to Lie revived at Covent Garden . l'hettre this urasoa. The l'llerntadseers is gettirg up at Drury-lane, w , '. a new Overture : Itith JOH 14 cr 014 Z will take accustomed high ground A , . KiimaThei g Miss DL Catty, of course, the Flereuthe, to ELL I.TOtell O. - la; len. . ._..-,.. The St. James's Volunteers will mil :v.:r this d. at one o'clock. ia the Duke of PORT t. AMU% Gran Court-yard, Piccadilly, and thence mach to Flyri Park, where they will be brigaded. .1 ile7 will -: terwardi hare a grand field-Jay. Yawls paratk rats o sub ln h iudt a i s t itelcD4l:ce; room was visitors del The I'h n ot comp I , rnlce, noi FArcc : th Stranstr ; vet e stria toll c.l in the licctieso displayeJ Flat*, bleu style, and Harry Po! of Bond-s played ye command Del e avers, About I and suite 1 'I he Du the same i land he v morning. This bathed in be was or Dorcheste be returne and then breakfast. After I Pa IMC sst There wa and 'ogre water at t tonished 1 board. I the tossir PitlNCEssi barge had ya:ht ; al br.ird, am siZht Th M in t:.c,r CJ Al rival H +ri Si U. Ando., The 11 for the cecd to G Governor rant-Gen, turn to ht Mai( .1-I diet-Gene Lam:, an WOAD, w• Gene: a by Genet take the Erigadi appoi. ttd room of pool ; ani speaing I Colonel I tithed to A repo who WAS released ; learned. Mr. M LORD 1.11 from Dul De:acl; pertencetl nnw empl forts And The I take plot:: on of n z citations late princ Letters numerous driven by y at e Ring of I by the 11. the last as on I horn OSt4 by our Leggier/ their arras retton of before, so —Daring .N.SV ; !Luba giefeoded -IProachi • easels. ....Ira ifl t! Est i; it t h e w heard lqa%t nea •ad buin ~trdnDt %.ith eiFeC ther ••::4>elsfrt