The Sun. — London, England, 1802-03-27 00:00:00

1 PARIS, MARCH t 3. OF THE MARINE. THE GENERAL IN CHIEF TO THE MINISTER OF THE MARINE AND THE COLONIES. At the Cape, Plzt 7 -v!ase z 8 ( Feb. t 7), Year lo ARMY OF ST. DOMINGO. " I have to render you an account of the taking of Santo Domingo, Port Republican, Port de Paix, and the submission of several Distrids of the Isla n d . "General KERVELECAN has entered Santo Do- . ''''. 'To : I have not the particulars, but I know that he has been received by the-Spaniards with accla mations, and that nothing' equals the hatred that Is borne in that country to TOUSSAINT and his adherents. . " The General of Division BOUDET and the Rear -Admiral arrived on the 15th (Feb. 4th) before Port Republican (Po . rt.au.Prince). The Frigate La Guerr iere was detached to carry the Proclama tion of Government. General BOUDET sent his Aide -du- Camp with Letters for the Civil and Militaryteneai A :t Officers. This Officer was received by in a suitable manner-; , but the Black and Mulatto Chiefs soon began to • suspeft General 4°2 1 who is a White. They rose upon him, and demanded th at h e s h ou ld d eta i n G ene r a l BOtr,UDET, an v and all the sailors that were in it. Ge terat A,‘ -,t; .. Caused General BOUDET to be told that his authority was misunderstood, and requested him. not to attempt a debarkation by force, as this would be t he signal for the mas sa cre o f t h e Whit e s, an d th e h 4. riling of the Town, t : 9n the 1 6 t h (F e b. gt h), a b ou t te n i n t h e - - a citnit l, General Botiotr made a landing on the t Le o f Lama n ti n , w i t h out enco untering any ob stacle t h e immediately proceeded with his Ad_ Fantod Guard upon Fort Biroton. The Officer who commande d thi s F ort , a f t er having perceived that Whig , Ca %-olu mn Was French, and composed of Republi a .. n Troops, co n j ure d t h em to wa i t t h e or ders of Ge neral n — tssAL IN,, ; but in this interval the Offi cers and Garrison came to join the French, and wort p•. —l rotolz was occupied by our Troops. 4 1 ` Our T roops then began the i r march f or Port 7 1 " l icatz. They found drawn up before the gate ''''geine, near 4000 Blacks. The parleys that took ll ' ac e Produced no agreement, when these Brigands be gan to cry out t hat orders had arrived to receive the French Army, A Battalion advanced, and was te eeived by a shower of balls and bullets. The signal q atta e k Was then given. The 6th forced the gate h 4 eo• gan e , an d ga i ne d t h e m iddl e o f t h e Ci ty at ' • • I lialve time wi t h t h e fugitives. The Adjetant s ' ). n▪ tinander DARBOZS took Fort St. Joseph, which W : a3 guard e d b y 400 Blacks. The National Fort as evacuated : the small Fort of Boleori was in like hadgiven up. All t h e B atter i es on t h e C oast "ati bee n dismounted by the excellent dispositions made by Ad m i ra l L AToucHE . Th e Adjutant cjnPnand'tnt PAmpx ILL LACROIX, the Aides-du alp th, eIII SAC and Ducos, have been slightly l ' iv ellnded.. Ax , . , re have had rg men killed and 8o wounded, The Town has suffered no damage. All • t he Ma g • • fall aZines, and even the Military Chest, have en into our hands,' The Blacks have taken w ith d them a great number of .Whites, the Aide ,,thearnP 9f General Bouvvr, Citizen SAB Es, and. Lite Sailors of the Canoe. CC r i ' n efore tilt.: arrivkl 'of the Squadron, 'they ,had Itatsacred Abell. Commariclant of Ar tillery LACOMB E, Who- was a ,white. . ' • " I expo d that by the zotli (Feb. 9 ), Ge nera l 13 0 n D ET will have taken . Leogane and the CroiX de '''cupets. .. " I ha ve sent General HUMBERT with two Ships t 1 ,:: Port de P a i x. He was fired uP n with cannon. land, 4 the 2 Lst (Feb..• lot h) t h e G enera l e ir e d e d hi s _ , t a :ng : the Blacks evacuated the two Forts, after Lng do ne a ll the d amage to - them they could. 0, IC On the z3d (Feb. iz) G e n era l HUMBERT' was r ee leagues. further than Port de Paix : in dif hereent atta c k s w hi c h h e ma d e upon t h e B lac k s, h ad some men killed and some wounded. , f ,`` Gene ra l CLra.vAtrx, who commanded in the "Pattmcnt of Cibao, and whose Head-quarters oc euPY the interesting position of,St. Jaga, has sub- Z itt ed• Ge nera l C LERVAUX i s a man of colour. he Mediator of this submission is Citizen NI&N vittLE, Bishop of the French part of St. Domingo. `` The Brother of ToussAINT, who was at St• 34 g0, and was CoMmandant of the Spanish part, hecn driven from it. I have reason to think that General LAPLUME, who commands in the Southern part, will submit, as General CLERVAUX has done, I have sent a Brigade to reinforce Ge neral CLERVAIiX; -in order to establish the cordon a long the Spanish part. " Seven hundred men of colour, all capable of bearing arms, of those who were driven away by inTotTssA wr, having requested permission to serve the army, I h ave tak e sent t wo F r i gates to C u b a, to them on board. cc Seteral patleys hive been had with To UssA r : ,- 71- ; Id but thi issimulating and hypocritical man never keepink any promise he made me, and only seeking to gain time to recover from Ili.s first alarm; I have only given him four days to surrender in; when that time is elapsed, I have declared him, by the Proclamation annexed, an Enemy to the French People. " To-morrow I shall advance with the divisions Of ROCHAMBEAU, HARDY, and DESFOIJRNA, upon St. Raphael, Dondon, and Plaisance ; a division will go by sea to Gonaives. " I hope that by the beginning of Ventose I shall have cleared the whole French part. We shall take no repose till all the Troops of Tous- SAINT are dispersed. The cultivators are return ing in crowds ; nothing Can equal the courage and order of the Army. I have only praises to bestow. The Fleet rivals the bravery and aaivity of the Land Army. (Signed) " LECLERC." GRENIER, Homme d'Affairs to CHRISTOPHE, and PASCAL and ALL' E, Secretaries to TOUSSAINT, have surrendered to the French Army. The Maniteur likewise contains the Proclamation published by LECLERC, and an Official Dispatch from the Admiral VSLLARET JOYEUSE, towards the conclusion of which he says, " Thus, the most important points of the French part are now subjea to the Forces of the Repub lic ; and the Rebels retain scarcely any thing in the Spanish part. Eight days have been sufficient for all these operations, and every day must now augment our resources, and diminish our dangers." Two millions three hundred thousand livres were found in the Treasury at Port-au-Prince ; and, what would appear the height of madness, were we not acquainted with the dissimulation of Tous sAINT, he sent to the General, requiring that this money should be returned to him." DUTCH MAIL. FROM HAMBURGH PAPERS OF 19TH AND 20TH. CONSTANTINOPLE, FEB. 10. THE Caimacan, or Deputy of the GRAND VI ZIER, died here . suddenly on the 7th inst.—He dropped down dead as he was on a visit to the CAP! TAN PACHA. MUSTAPHA BEY is appointed his successor. The Batavian Envoy, Citizen DEDEM, has now a Turkish Honorary Guard placed before his hotel, and is formally acknowledged in his late capacity of Ambassador. The English Ambassador, Lord ELc.lx, has been indisposed for several weeks. We have a report - here, that the English require considerable sums of the Porte, before they will consent entirely to evacuate Egypt; but this is not probable : it is perhaps more so, that they will keep possession of several of the Ports of that Country, till certain disputes are adjusted. BRUNN, WE learn from the Turkish Frontiers, by a Let. ter of the 26th ult. that all Bosnia is in commotion. CURT PAC HA having been appointed Governor, and the Inhabitants refusing to receive him, he is on his march against them with 30,000 men. Strong Detachments - 8f the Belgrade Insurgents fill all the roads near that Fortress. In Jagodin, Is miles from Belgrade, are zOOO men, and in several places small divisions of Troops. It is said there are in Belgrade two Engineers from the Army of PASWAN OGLOU, who superintend the repairs of the Works. AMSTERDAM, MARcu u. ACCORDING to accounts from Amiens, an Eng_ lish Courier had arrived there with Dispatches, which were of such importance, that Lord CORN.. WALLIS was waked in his bed at one in the morn ing to receive them.—The next day there was a long Conference between his Lordship and JOSEPH BONAPARTE ; after which Couriers were dispatched to Par is, the Hague, Madrid, V;enna, HAGUE, MARcii 16. ACCORDING to letters from Amiens, the Con ferences there have lately been 'almost continual, and the Negotiators' have empl6yed a part of the night in them; It is hence concluded, that the business will speedily be terminated. 'lt is indeed known with certainty, that the Treaty will be very compre hensive, and embrace at once the Commercial In terests, and the Interests of the Navigation of the Contrading Powers. Yesterday a Court of Diredors was held at the India - House, which adjourned. at a late hour till Tuesday next. On Saturday last, 'Ole LORD MAYOR sent two Chaldrons and a Half of Coals to Newgate, which were distributed in - the different Wards, amongst 203 poor Debtors. T. DOM/ATGO, NY,' E nave great •satisfaCtion in being enabled to lay before our Read,!rs some further inrere3ting in telli#nre respeCting St. Domingo. It has 'been communicated to ns from undoubted authority, and in part, from an Officer, who quitted the Island only in Weber last. There are in St. .D0171;n0'0 more than zs'o,ooo Negroes, of whom roo,ooo are capable of bearing arms, and more than 4.0,000 are adually armed at present. General. LECLERC has either been de_ ceived himself, or wished to deceive his Army; and France when he said, 'r that TOUSSAINT nad,only ten or twelve half brigades." In case of necessity he can arm altogether more than 80,000 Blacks. He is firmly resolved to defend himself, and should he at'any . tirne be disposed to surrender, he has not influence enough to make the inferior Generals, or even the Soldiers follow his example. An obstinate resistance on the part of the Negroes may therefore be expeeted. The French will easily possess themselves of all the Maritime Towns, and even the Plains along the Coast, but these only constitute a small part of Ste Domingo. The plain 'of the Cul de Sac, which is the largest, is only twenty miles in. extent.—ln several places, as at L.' Arcahaye, the Plain is not more than three or four miles in size—ln possessing themselves of the Plains and the Maritime Towns, the French have three objels in view : Ist, To procure themselves provisions of every kind, of which they stand much in want : zdly, To protel the Sugar 'Plantations and render them produdive ; (those of Coffee are in the mountains :) and idly, to intercept all maritime communication between TO USSAI NT and the United States; from whence he procures his warlike stores. The French will only temporarily accomplish the first object ; for, besides, that the different Towns on the coast do not afford any abundant supplies of provisions, the Negroes will certainly, in a great measure, destroy them before retiring into the Mountains, and the rest will be very soon con sumed by 30,000 Soldiers and 15,000 Sailors—lt. may easily be supposed that so large a number of mouths must, during the passage, have expended almost all the pro Visions carried out by the Fleet ; and this cannot admit of doubt, when we see Ad miral VILLARET stating in his dispatch, when he speaks of the Expedition projeded against Port de Paix and St. Nicholas Mole, " if 'this expedition he successful, .as we have every reason - to hope, the Army will obtain many advantages and resources of which it stands in the greatest need."—The French having the sea open to them, may by that means no doubt get provisions, but it will be at an enormous expellee. . . The French will only be able to accomplish the second objet in a very imperfect manner ; for the Negroes, retired into the Mountains, will almost nightly descend into the 'plains, aarni all the posts, and from time to time burn the Plantations, which they regularly did, when they mach war against the English. The continual alerts which they will thus give to the French Troops will oblige them to fly to arms on one point or other every night, and we may 1 .-rliaps reckon, that from this single cause alone, the one half of the Army will, in a few weeks, be dead or in the hospital. The last object is the only one which the French will attain ; but it is believed that TOUSSAINT has considerable depots of arms and powder ; and as for provisions, the mountains will supply enough of what is necessary for the extreme temperance of the Negroes. TOUSSAINT has on his side the most powerful of all Allies, the Climate—lt will do more for him than sox= Soldiers. The heat of the day.and the damps of the night, from which the French cannot help themselves from being successively ex posed, will probably, between this and the month of June, cut ofF more than the half of the 30,000 Soldiers sent to St. Domingo, and the want which they will most strongly feel will be that of Phy sicians, medicines, and proper hospital stores. It is impossible that the Fleet could, have carried all these in a sufficient quantity, and they will find it impossible to supply the deficiency on the spot. The mortality which the heat, the damps, the rains, and intemperance generally produce amongst European Soldiers in St. D0771111g0 is such, that out of twenty Battalions which were sent thither in 1788, not more than soo men ever returned to Europe. It is in these points that the great su periority of the Negroes consists. Accustomed to the Climate, which is.healthy for them, having no need of cloaths, and living on pulse or fruits, they will preserve their numbers, their force, their health, and their aCtivity, while all these will daily diminish on the side of the French. The Negroes have another great advantage, that of being able to avoid the kind of warfare most suitabie to the French, while these cannot avoid that most agreeable to the Blacks. ThesClast, re tired into their defiles and mountains, will always have the choice of the place and the time where and when they wish to fight—they will make a con tinual petty warfare of surprizes, ambuscades, and stratagems; the kind of war, in short, which SPAR TACUS made against the Romans, which the Cor sicans made against the French; and the Maroons made in, Jamaica—but none of these had, in the same degree, the advantage of ground which the Blacks have in St. Dom:ngo; the mountains of that Island extending more than soo miles from East to , West, and presenting insurmountable obstacles to . any armed body that may attempt to penetrate them. The Blacks then will carry on a war which may be extended on the. greatest possible scale, and with all the advantages which climate, physical constitution, and ground can give them. Before these advantages must sink the only ones which the French possess, those of superiority of tactics, of discipline, and military resources. What then is the result of this state of things ? It is, that the French Conquests will be confined to the line of. Sea-Coast, and that they will reap from thence but a small proportion of produce, a great number of the Plantations having been destroyed by the Negroes, and those which remain, without cul tixatop, are day and night exposed to the incur* :lions and the fOi±t\C'S as (17;ni:. Lizet,ehc and Adilliral 13_,LAlt ET hAve they will not repose till they conquered the whole island, BONAF AR TE should ptOare to transport se,ooo men more bif.)re the *end of the year, and then perhaps he may find himself master of some of the lesser mountains of Si. Doz;;:i7igo. • The French haVe absolutely only two chances for, rendering themselves undisputed masters :if the Island—The one is, the submission of ad the Blacks ; but when we consider the horror which. these have for labour and slavery, and the contempt they feel for life, such an idea cannot be entertain ed for a moment—besides, the Negro is extremely distrustful, and has no conception or a pardon for crime ; and there are few amongst those that armed who have not massacred some white man, or committed some other atrocious deed. The other chance (and it is the only one which presents an appearance of success), is to endeavour to arm the Blacks against the Blacks, and to, strengthen the first by a thousand or twelve hundred dogs, such as were carried to Jamaica, and before which the Maroons immediately submitted. Lei CLERC says that he had already armed tOOO or 1.200 Negroes, but that is not credited by persons capable of forming conjectures on this subject, and these think that the French General wiil find it difficult to augment the number of those xwhom he may have found at his first landing in the habita tions, and whO were probably for the most part old or infirm.—As for the dogs, the French it may be supposed will not have recourse to this means until they shall have experienced the insufficiency. of every other, and then much time must be lost before they can get a sufficient number from the Spanish Colonies. The general result is, that the state of things in St. Domingo is such, as to present the almost ccrrain appearance of a long and destruaive • War, and of an inconsiderable and precarious cultivation HIGHLAND SOCIETY. TFI E Third Monthly, Meeting wat, held on Tuesday the z3d instant at the 6;:itKespeare Tavern, Covent-Garden, Lord MACDONALD, President for the year, in the Chair. The Meeting was very numerous; and was attended by several Officers of distinaion, among whom appeared Lieut. Col. DtcKsoN and thirteen Officers of the 421 Regiment in their Uniforms, wearing the Gold Medals presented to them by the GRAND SEIGNIOR. An elegant dinner was served at half past six o'clock, during which several National Airs on the pipe were performed by the Pipers to the Society, and a few Pebrachs, with wonderful taste and exe cution, by BUCHANAN, Piper-Major to the 42d Regiment. After dinner several loyal and appropriate toasts were given in the Gaelic language, and many plain_ tive and martial Gaelic Songs were sung, of which one in particular (the War Song of the ancient Highlanders), with great taste, animation, and ex. preSsion, by Sir JOHN MACPH EASON, excited a peculiar degree of applause and enthusiasm. This Gentleman, after many rounds of toasts had been given (too numerous to be here recited) proposed the PR INC ESS CHARLOTTE of W AI. ES'S Regi_ ment of Highlanders, which was received by 'the honours of three times three ; and for which Colonel MACLEOD, of Colbeck, the Commander of that Corps, in a short speech, thanked the Society. The greatest harmony and conviviality prevailed during the evening. Gow's Band of Instrumental Music, MURPHY the Irish Piper, together with the vocal strains of DIGNUM, and other public Singers, added much to the general festivity. On the complimentary Toast to the 42d Regi. ment, and the two other Highland Corps on the Egyptian Service, having been given, the following Stanza, the extempore composition of a Member present, was introduced by Thorium - , in the cha. ra6leristic Air of, " The Garb of Old Gaul." The Pillar of Pomr Ey and fam'd Pyramids, Have witness'd our valour and triumphant deeds; Th' Invincible Standard from Frenchmen we bore, In the Land of the BEN'S the Laurels we wore: For such the fire of Highlanders when brought into the That BONAi'ART'S Invincibles must perish or must yield. We'll bravely fight like Heroes bold for honour and applause, And defy the Consul and the World to alter our Laws THE ORATORIO.—The beautiful rena ta of Adis and Galatea drew a numerous audience last night to Covent Garden 'Theatre. The first At of this Piece is certainly- the best in point of corn. position. It went off with striking cifz.d. BR A_ HAM, in -tile second Ad, was encored in " Love sounds the Alarm." He sung it with admirable spirit, and gave some animated swells. The charming do of " The Hocks shall leave the Mountains," was -rendered conspicuously excellent by Mrs. BIL LI NCTON, BR AliA'M, and DENMAN. DENMAN in, "ph„ Ruddier than a Cherry," ex cited much applause. The whole concluded with :vliscellaneouti Ad, which was well supported by Miss STEP ENS, Miss TY r,ER, and particularly BR AEI AM, who is deservedly esteemed one of - the chief props of the Musical World. A letter has been received in,Town, by a Gentl man belon g ing to the Custom-house, from a Person. on his way home from Corfu, by which we have the satisfaction of knowing, that he left His' Majesty'3 ships Agincourt, Rv ves, S olebay, Capt. DuNDAs, and Champion, C:'pt. the Right Hon. Lord WILLIAM STU AIT, at that island, on the 24th January all well.- On Thursday last the Lady of a Captain S--LC threw herself into the River, opposite the Queent's Hospital, Kensington, in the presence of several Emigrant Priests, none of whom could give her as sistance. Mr. Gerrard, builder, at Oxford street, who was doing some business at the Hospital at the time, hearing of the circumstance, at the risk of Iris life dived alter her, and brought her out. Mr. Thompson, of Kensington, 'and the Matron of the Hospital, used their.best endeavours to recover her, but all their ciforts proved ineadual.