The Sun. — London, England, 1803-01-04 00:00:00

ARatvert, ous. HoWild French 0 o I PletiCE OF STOCKS, Tilig DAY AT TWKI.ils O'CLOCK 73 I Omnium Consols .. - T H E 'S U N. SOLIM QUIS DiCtitt Vs l-ISOM ALNAAT LONDON, yilivuAPY 4, 18°3. WE this morning received Neeto.Ycrk Papers to the 4th ult. inclusive, brought by the Prince Ernest Packet in z 6 days. The accounts by this channel from St. Domingo, tepresenr the aspect of affairs there as extremely gloomy. , This is imputed to - the improper treat. meet of the Negroes by the French, and above all, to 'their treachery to ToussAtNT. Extir pation-of the Blacks: is represented as the only mode of recovering .etther St. Domingo or Guada loupe, but the greater probability seems to be, that they must both be abandoned by the French Troops— the expenee'at least of subduing them, both of - Men af:d Money, must be incalculable, Advice% had been received in America, that the Part of New Orleans had been shut against all Neutrals, and that a general opinion prevailed that the noridar were to be ceded to France. Accounts received from Mart 'nips atNew-Yotk, state a great mortality to have prevailed amongst the French Troops which took possession of that Island. They had been obliged to abandon Fort Rqyal, where soo Men am& Officers had died ; and the contagion having followed them to Fort Bourbon, they were abuut to shut up that Garrison also, and remove to Grand Marne. All Commercial inter course with the British Colonies is prohibited at Ma rt in,;:i' lie. On Saturday last the Extra East India Ship Comet, arrived off Falmouth, when' the purser and some Passengers landed, and proceeded for Town. The Comet left Bengal' on the z Ist of August, and St. Helena • November 17. By her we have a confirmation of the death of the PEksIAN AMBASsAnoIt, three days after his arrival at Burn. hay. An affray 'took place between his guards aid ..ervants, in endeavouring to appease which, he was unfortunately shot, and his Nephew was danger. owly wounded, A Dutch Mail arrived• this morning.; On Thursday a splendid Dress Bali will be given ty Hatt MAI aSTY, at Frnsmore, to the. Nobility Grntry. ,The Dances willsommence at eight c,'...!oek, and about eleven the Company will ad. jcairn. to an elegant Supper. At twelve. the Ball wal recbrnmenee, and about two the, party is to break up,, From the preparations which ;ICC making for this Entertainment,, it is supposed that it will be one of the niost Aplendid parties ever given by MAT esti! at Frogmare.- About three hundred 6stinguisied personages, it is said, will be invited. N TT l n r )w i n town. He spent Sunday last at Bromley Hill ) , the Seat of the Right lion. C. Lowo. Mr. MERRY, our bite Minister to the French Republic, arrived on Sunday at Dover. Mr. AttlitilliNor, the English Envoy at Stock. holm, givn.a grand Dinner on the 16th ulr. at which 200 persons wete pewit, in honour of the safe de livery of the u>rbl of SWEDEN, at which Pun cr W1:1,14 AM Of GLOUCESTER/WO prCSCDt. Letters have been received in town from the Cape of Good Hope, of tilt! troth of Otloher. The hutch Governor had not then arrived to take pos. session of tl u but he was daily exiiefted ; and it 11/31 the general opinion that our squadron, with the - transports,' anti the civil and military de. partmeots,.. would return to England in or about next Mardi. , Captain flitAraoan, of . the Admiral' Gardner, and Captain Cinuell, of the Nit. Stephen Luskiuston, have 1'6:6 ved their instruftions to take leave of the Court of Dire4tors on the t zth instant ; the latter is to prmred direa to Mi1(1119 and Bengal, without toudling.l4 Cape of Good Hope far troops, and will sill' from the Downs about the zoth inst. The Ifindoshm, from China to Caicu left at Macao. The Tottenham, JON es; the Francis, ; and the Sir trillions llensky, from London, are Artiveti at the Cape of Good Hope, . It is not the Minister at War, but General CxsA 14 A:MIER, his brother, who is gone to I foit:10,l„ Atilobs; wile; tlial!;;es reported from ['aria, it is t:titt 'VALLE Zit ANI) 14 to retire, ill to be sue ceeded ify tile Count tie Svc utt, , f;Qa, of the Lemleta of the recent revolt at :%:lint notLingc.), who signed the i , retentled :11 the Park Papers style ir, I:4ihich w,l;, In.lbli,!lc'd by TO (P>SAI tyr Lorry t•Actu it, have b-Ln or‘ie[t-il to he removed Itoto the . 314 in Prest ILI:II:Jur, where they 114 ye been kept close iiri!,ont.r6 to i'at 4 tt ; when they ate to he brou g h t trim before the Cri tn i n4 l the On Monday I,rinnight thi ,r(glnd draisDed for n{ ,x•wv n;k at l iuil, was st a k e d out ; tilk iiiimuliately be c(;mowneed. The Dock hto tr.'. : - “!ven actcs txtcm, [gm the Lct t.O Mytengatt, NEW-YORK, DEC. 4. THE aspet of affairs in St. Domingo appears by every intelligence, to grow still more gloomy. The sovereign contempt in which the French' held the Negroes, has led to the most fatal eon. sequences. Their subjugation uas to have been the work of a few weeks, which was to have re stored the unfortunate Planters to the tranquil possession of their estates. Many respectable fa milies, who, 'during the late War, had sought and found an asylum in the United States, allured by Ely,: flattering accounts of the French operations, have returned to St:-Damingo and GuadalOupe. Their fate is truly to be commiserated. The lit tle they had been able to save from the former wreck of their fortunes, is likely to be totally-dis sipated, and themselves and families are exposed to be massacred by the enraged and unrelenting Blacks. After the fate of ToilssArwr, these out rageous Negroes will never repose confidence in any overtures or stipulations on the part of the French Nation.—Nothing short of total extirpation can re-establish the Colonies of St: Domingo and Gua daloupe, a dreadful expedient, which, most likely, will defy every effort of the French. The proba bility is, that these Islands must, at last, be 4an. doned to the Negroes. Last Monday arrived at Philadelphia the Brig 7oselb and lame', Capt. WATscr, from Port Re. publican, which he left the zd ult. Capt. WAT. sox mentions that it was ilia so sickly as it has been, but notwithstanding which, the fever 4611 makes ravages among the European Soldiers, Capt. W. says, that he understood the French were preparing to evacute St. Marks, Gonaives, and Leogane.—That the Blacks were in possession of L' drchaye, from whence they fired on the brig . 7osetb and James as she passed that place ) but without effat. The Force at Port Republican (foes not amount to more than 3000 Troops Ad 2000 white inha. bitants, a force too inadequate: . to make any great impression on the large body of Negroes in arms in that neighbourhood, between whom fritiuent skirmishes take place, which bus little other effea, than the redudion of both parties. At St. Marks, the French growing jealous of the Black Troops in their pay, drew up boo of them and surrounded them, with an intention of disarming them, but the Negroes refused to deliver up their arms, and fired on th 6 surrounding troops, which they returned, and every Negro was massacred an the spot. Cruelty seems to be the order of the day at His paniola. A few days before Captain W. sailed, a Brig and Boat were taken and brought in ; all the Brigands except two, were killed,--One of those brought in said, that they had some little time be fore, taken a Schooner full of White Women, all of whom they put to death, and that his comrade, who then lay wounded near him, had, 'with the worm fixed on the ramrod, twisted out the eyes' of several of the White Women while alive. On coming through the Bite of Levan!, he saw a great number of dead Negroes and some few Whites floating in the sea, and he was told that a Schooner weekly, and perhaps oftener, at Port.ge. publican, took too or t Negraeiiiin board, carried them out of the Port, and on - the first or second night stifled them, by burning brimstone in the hold, and then threw the bodies overboard._ We have been told something of the same kind was. supposed to be prattised at the Cape.—A brig there fre quently took a number of Blacks on hoard, went to sea, and in afew-days returned empty—what be came of them, our informant aid not pretend to to say. Capt. W. sayn, it was reported that CUR IsTorn it and DESSAL inms, with a large proportion of the Blacks who were in the service of the French, had revolted ; but this, with any account he could get from Cape Nicola, were so vague that they were scarce worth repeating; every account, however, seems to predict the total evacuation of that Island by the French, without a considerable re.inforce. ment, which, from any thing we have seen, seems rather at a distance. Capt. W. saw seven sail of the line, apparently steering for Jamaica. We art informed that the Executive has re ceived advises, that the Port of New . . Orleans has been dosed against foreign vessels froM the Ocean, including American, and that the right of deposit. ing American property there has been prohibited, without. any other establishment being assign. ed in lieu of it. 'The tight to export property he. fore deposited, was excepted from the Prohibition. These regulations, so con trary with our Treaty w►th Spain, were published at New-Orleans by th e intendant on he 17th Odober last. being given to the Commandant at Hispaniola, that a Schooner was supplying the Blacks with military stores, &c. a French Frigate was dispatched to seize her, when a chase of 15 days took place, and the Schooner got into St. Thomas before the Friga te, when the Captain ran her under the proteeiion of the Fort and two Danish Frigates laying there. The French. man followed, and immediately sent his barge, with a body of Marines, and took possession of the Schooner, notwithstanding being in a Foreign Port, under the proteelion of its guns. The Captain of the Schooner having pushed on shore as soon as he came to anchcw, the French Captain demanded him of therGovernor, who replied, he could not give up a Burgher, which the Captain of the Schooner was : what farther took place, our informant did not learn. The Newburyport Herald, of Tuesday last, says, " Captain BUNTING, arrived yesterday, has told us the situation of Guadaloupe in some measure, which is horrid indeed : confusion, pillage, blood shed and murder, is the order of the day ; the Insurgents do aftually gain ground, and Captain B, speaks of it as his opinion, that if fresh Troops do not shortly arrive, the Blacks will have posses. sion nithe . lsland. To minute the shocking trans. alions that daily occur would be too tedious.-- They have extended their ravages to Point Petre, but at St. Ann's, a small town about 15 miles from there, a massacre of the inhabitants, without regard to age or sex, tools place about the middle of 06101)er—hanging and shooting of the Blacks has become so common, that the speftator there is hardly aCtuated by emotions of astonishment at the scene--t 8o of those poor wretches were executed at one time, at Basseterre, about a week before Capt..Btrwrtiso sailed, The Fever is still making its ravages, not only among the French Troops, but on the Americans there. Markets are mkt, ably good.! By an annual ' report made to the Governor of Pennsylvania by the Board of Health of Philadelphia, it appears, that during the prevalence of the late malignant fever, one hundred and ten diseased per.. sans were admitted into the City Hospital. 01 these fifty.eight died, and the remainder were dis. charged, cured. During the four months of its pre. valence, viz, July, August, September, and Ofto. her there died in the City a n d Liberties six hund re d and twenty-seven adults, and four hundred and sixty.nine children, forming a total of one thqu. sand and ninety-six. EXTRACT Of LlTTikli PROM Dill NOVIMOIR 3. ig Since my last the Governor has refused to clear out any Vessels for the Coast of Africa, in conuence of an exclusive privilege granted to the M n arquis COLON I L Lo, of Spain, to import 6000 Negroes into this Island, in Foreign Vessels. This privilege will commence to operate from and after the last day of December next—and will disarrange the plans of a great number of American as well as English Merchants, who had laid ;heir accounts to make fortunes here in that trade. The number of Negroes required for this Island is beyond any calculation yet made, as the number already im. ported since Peace, exceeds, as I am informed, up. wards of twelve thousand. The Consulate have drawn up a strong and spirited remonstrance against this privilege, and sent it forward to the King...and are supported by planter s and all parties. Since the promulga. lion of the licence or older, Negroes 'have risen in price from 20 to 3o dollars per head ; and will look up towards the close of th e y ear ; notw i th. standing the 'Heads of Departments say that they shall after the last day of. December, continue to admit vessels with Negroes, until they hear from the King, in answer to their Memorial or Remon strance—but they cannot he depended upon. " There are but few Americans here now, hut as flour and lumber are now admitted in Spanish vessels from the United States, and horses in American vessels, I do suppose that there will be a great number . in here, in the course of the win ter ; as the Government dues not, as was supposed, and as • the Spanish Merchants wished, hunt the strangers down, and turn them out of the CdUntry. " The Marquis is yet here, and as the winter is coming on fast, will, I believe, ake passage in the ship Narcesio, commanded by Mr. Fisclo, of Phi ladelphia, bound for that place, and which will sail in eight or ten days." The Court of Direelors of the East.lndia Com. parry have received a print of the Hindu Temple ereOed in Melchet Park, as a tribute to the merits or WARREN HASTINGS, Esq. late Governor. Ge. neral of Bengal, and have ordered that it shall have a conspicuous place in the Company's newly.ereeled Library. By Letters lately received from Canton, we are happy to learn, that it is in'contemplation to esta. blish, in the . vicinity of that populous City, an Hos. pital for the reception and cure of Patients labouring under the Venereal Disease ; which, from the ignorance and unskilfulness of the Chinese in the treatment of that tiestrudivel malady, has, for a long period, been prdtiu6iveof much suffering and great mom. lity among all ranks . of people in China. We hear with peculiar satisfaßion, that this laudable Insti tution owes its Origin to the indefatigable exertions of CHARLES MACRINNON, Esq. Surgeon to the Hon, East India Company's Fa Cory at Canton a Gentleman equally distinguished for his talents and for his humanity, and under whose care it can. not fail of being as honourable to the British charac. ter, as it will he highly beneficial to the natives of t hat extensive Empire. MANY erroneous opinions having got abroad respeding the extension of the Bonding and War-. housing System of which the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER g4vc notice, we have taken some pains t o acquire the most accurate information upon that objett, and we b l / 4 :lieve that the following ()Alin , : o f the Plan will he found to be correct. By different Ads of Parliament, the Merchants have been permitted to bond and warehouse certaiD articles under various regulations and restridions. But it was generally understood, that these tempo rary indulgencies would only continue till Govern ment could determine upon a permanent System. The principal Articles now allowed to be bonded and warehoused are the following,. viz. Sugar, Rum, Cocoa, Coffee, Corn, Rice, TobacCo, and the Goods imported by the East India C:itripany, It is now intended to be proposed to Parliament, that in addition to these Articles, several others, of which the following are the principal, shall' be ad.. mitted to the same privilege, . viz. Wine, Spirits,.' Skins and Furs, Timber and Deals, Hemp, Iron, Silk, Raisins and Currants, and Oil. An account of the quantity of each of those Ar. ticks imparted into each of the Ports of the King. dim] for the last three years, will be laid before Parliament as soon as it can be made up, and it will be proposed to give to Government a power of licensing any Port to bond and warehouse .any one or more of them in which it shall have carried on a considerable Trade within the time specified, provided it shall appear by the Reports of the Boards of Custors and Excise, that sufficient accommodation can be provided fur the 111ferchants, with perfeel security to the Revenue ; and that the establishment of Ofkers is sufficient for the lII*. nagement and regtdation of the Tiade. It is understood that it will be required that ;he Warehouses in which the Articles are to be depo sited, should be entirely detached from other Buildings, and Secured with high walls and other fences in the manner of those erected at the London and West India Docks ; and that such Regulations will be established by Aft of Parliament as way be necessary Inc the protation of the Revenue. It is now fixed that the Special Commission fot the trial of Colonel Dertard lila the other persons committed on charges of High Treason, shall be opened at the New Sessions-House in the Baiough of Southwark, o n t h e 27t h inst. when Lard 41w al (motion, who is at the head of the Commission, will deliver his Charge to the Grand Jury, The other Judges named in the Commission ace Baran THOMPSON, Mr. Justi c e 1.; BLANC, arid Mr. jus. eke CH4t43l/12, . . Gen. Moats lately i ns p e Ct e d P ortc h ester Castle!. ' by dire lion of the Board o f O r d nance; to learn i t it was proper for an Ordnance Store. The pens- ral has reported that it is well calculated for rho purpose, and; large quantity of Ordnance Stores are actually depositing there. Several comp anies of lim ~ Artillery Will be c on s t a nt l y i n Abe ey teed, for any sudden service. Th e General 4 iterwarde visited Portsmouth, t o examine the POttifiCAtiOr9i s to report on a repres e n tat i on ma d e to t h e Board of Ordnance, by the Commissioners for Paving, relativt to certain nuisances. The complaint was reparte% by the General tq be well founded ; and consideraWei improvements will consequently be made bere..o A sluice will be opened for the back water, anct'fhe broad part of the moat narrowed, to give a wont current to the water, by which the filth will 4a carried off, the offensive smell subdued, and the tiara. ger of infeCtion removed, 'which was great to the . inhabitants near the Spur Bridge. Another eqar trance for carriages will be ad4ed to the . Town, ate objets it has long sought in vain. The Poblic, and the inhabitants of this place, have great 0bi..7 gations to General Whitelocke, who racist itren4 l ously 'recommended the adoption of the above ico.! portant improvements. ,On Monday se'iinight the new Baum in 44 Pock 7 yard at Por tsmout h was opened. I t i s an eXtrelaelT beautiful and grand work, being capabl ss pf floaci4g several line of b att l e s hi ps , an d to recei ve them .a't' any time of the tide. A t hi g h t id e the depth of water in the Baton is 22 feet. The Ruirel went out, completely repaired, and the Ajax went in tq repair. The Office of Surveyor Of the Woods and Forests is a Patent place, of which Lord GLENBEXVIS has • long had the reversion, The salary and perquisites amounted to about 4,0001. per annum ; but the ea lary is made a nett 3,0001. to Lord GLENBEAVIS, an4..a1l .perquisites arc abolished. The place being a latent one, his Lordship is in no danger of Los:-ng it during his life. It is an office of some business, but not of great labour. ROYAL CH Ac 1.--The plan of the Kt sa's Fief Diversions has of late been considerably contracted. His MAJESTY formerly rode rep or twelve miles to the spot where the deer was turned out, and the hounds were laid on, and seldom had less than from ten to fifteen or twenty miles to ride home. This having been found r a th er too muc h ( f or a pleasure that might be so often pursued), it is now usual to turn out only three or four miles from the Castle ; in Cranbourn Wood, Winkfield Plain, or, at far thest, the Course at Ascot Heath ; and' short run ning Deer being principally seleeted,' to avoid the chance of long chases, they have hitherto been ton insignificant to report ; not a single run, of any length or singularity, having occurred since 0' commencement of the season. His MAJESTY 6 ' rl " tinues in good health and equal spirits, hunting witP• the stag.hounds constantly, One day excepted, ir ; • consequence of temporary inconvenience. On Friday last 117 stones of beef were among the Poor of the Parishes of Escikke, avd.!' Wheldrake, being the produce of two fit . holkcly. killed for that purpose, by order of RicitmtP THomPsoit, Esq. according to annual custom. A person exactly answering the description of William Sidaway, advertised by the Bow.sttet! ( - Vice, as having run off from his employers in Lou aon with a considerable sum of money, sailed from Greenuck about a fortnight ago, a passenger 01 board the Union, for Charlestown. lie-porchwir'i several articles them, Which hr paid with De n cr MAILS.