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Trends Nfir,:;,rv, considered it far from
I. • raeric.sl. The situation of a state exposed to
bare cm-blest chance of such a Eakaa
, 'enterprise in the cou:-,e of w=irc, must necessarily
he somewhat more precarious, under circumstances
otherwise equal, than that di #.nation entirely.f,
from every such apprehettso+4,;.• .
4thly, An ttninterrupttd ituercnurse with •
--parts of Europeleimpuerunt And desirrble for every
• .icommercial +tate. ,My the produce of her industry,
sand the icy pc her .government. England cart;
often exclude other nations, .and esirecially France,
from many of the markets of Europe ; but could
never effed this .by opal force. Ir.ince has been,
and is still aWe to exclude all other commercial
powers, and consequently England, from some of
• the most valuable provinces on the continent, by the
superiority of her arms t. The political basis of
commerce was therefore less favourable to England
t:ian to France : and England found herself, in
every continental war, exposed to danger on a side
which affeaccl her very existence; a danger un-
known to her adversary.
t One of the chief motive, of Vngland in even continental
n tr, hay alwavg been the danger of .menig the Netherland. in
lIIP 111414. FUMY, and dill, het to tier rolllllTerCe. Flratiee
h 4 neve any apprell,somonsuf the 4..nne nature.

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.
• TAIT% *TIM 11.
• The abode of the First,Consuf is fixed at St. Cloud
—Mon jinn-.
13y the official dispatches. dated the 12th and 13th
of N'entose, (March 3 & 4,) transmitted from SL Y)°,
niiroPo to the Minister of the Marine and Colonies,
by tlie`Commander in Chief, it k announced that
--4000 men from the oth demi-brigade, the (10th
of the line, the 14th light brigade, and the foreign
batallion, had successively arrived at the Cape.
' • The remainder of the reinforcements that sailed
from France arc hourly expeaed, when the offen-
sive will be resumed on every point : the General of
" Brigade, Lacroix, has already carried Laxavon by'
storm, and scaled the fortress of Ouatelninthe.
In the taking of these fortresses the following of-
ficers distinguished themselves, viz. Froment, chief
of Bakallion of the 77th, Tabares, commander of
the Spanish artillery, Polanca, commander of the
dragoons, Captains Saint-Arnand, Vossiere, and
Bodrigue Moline, the Sub-lieutenant, Brutel. and
6erjeant Pichon, &c.
The brigands made air attempt to come down in-
to the Plain of the Cape, but the General of Division
Clauzel, and the General of Brigade Claparede, at-
tacked and surrounded them. hive hundred of the
Brigands fell in the anion. Our loss does not exceed
• 14 men in killed and wounded.
General Clauzel bestows the highest praise on the
national troops, and of the line, who took a part in
the anion. He more particularly recommends
General Fouvenot. who commands the artillery ;
Nether wand, chief of brigade ; Repatcl, chief of
squadron ; Jumel and Bertrand, chiefs of batallion ;
and a number of other officers of inferior rank.
Some unimportant movements took place at La
Tor:ue; they were immediately checked by the firm-
r.e.s and vigilant precautions of the Adjutant-corn-
muldant boscns. A reinforcement of 300 men,
dispatched from the Cape by the Commander in
Chief on board the ship Le Arran', Capt. I.' Her-
mite, and commanded by the Ad)utant-commandant
Ramel, succeeded in exterminating the rebels.
'llse Adjutant Comman.i.ot Ramel bestows the
hi;hest compliments on the zeal and acclivity of Cap-
tam L'Hermite, and he speaks also in distinguished
terms of Roar, Chief of Squadron ; Captains Bru-
nier and Lacombe, &c. &c.
The army occapies the entire circumference of the
cf cony. with the exception of some points of
little
• impairtance, which are watched by the ship, in
Nation.
In the northern quarters, the environs of Laxavon
sod Onanaminthe have been completely scoured by
Csetseral Ferrand, and the cavircus of Port-au-Paix
by the chief of squadron Rnpert.
General Sarrazin, at the head of 700 men of the
I Ws light brigade, has been sent to join the black
General Laplume and General D-srbois, in the

southern quarter.
In that of the west our troops extend as far as
Mirebalnis inclusively, embracing the plains of the
and of the Croix-des-Bouquets. The
briw.inds are hemmed in, in the interior, on the
mornrs which separ.tte the department of the north
from that of the west, and Port-Republicain from
Jacnwl.
The Chiefs of the Blacks are at variar.ce, and
even some (.1 them are sht•oting one another.
The cis avant Spanish part remains untouched.
The tlect under the command Rear-Admiral
Litouche seconds the operations of the ;truly with
all pos.ible actieny.—.l/seitorr.

arawr, APRIL 3,
We are returning by degrees to that state of per-
fest tranquillity which we had so long enjoyed pre-
vious to the late crisis. The new institutions are
peers, where established without any obstacle, and
it here and there some sparks may still be perceived,
4.on,quent on the great conflagration which threat-
teed us with compleat ruin, it is easy to see that no
• danger is to be apprehended from them fcr the Re-
public.
Switzerland, far from losing by the convulsions
by which she has been agitated, will feel on the con.
miry, in the course of a few years, that she has de-
rived a real and constant benefit from the truly
dreadful but transient shock which she Las under-
gt.ne.
The re-establishment of her ancient toes will
bring back her ancient manners, whic% strangers
tame to observ.• and admire in her mountains ;
though somewhat changed by the disorders irrepara-
ble trom war, it is now perceived that her manners
daily return by degrees to their primitive simplicity.
HAGUE, APRIL
.h it the same uncPrt.tirity prevails ot. the subic6t
of p-ace or war. Hence re"aits the same
tion is commerce as if we altually at war. All
our ports are full of shirks without aktivity ; the nier-
chains receive no cornmisuri, nor will they run the
risk ut giving any. All the geat Titerpri,tes fot
the • aerial"
,!seettted.
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LONDON,
MONDAY, APRIL 19.

.17m.'1,-.

Yesterday we received the Paris Journals up to
the I ttb instant, inclusive.—The Mersiitur of that
day is filled with the discussions in thi Tribunate,
upon the pr#t of a law for the establishment of a
National Bank, which was adopted by a majority
of 4.2 to .21.—Dispatches hive been received from
St. Domingo, dated the 4th March, which state the
arrival at the Cape of 4000 men, with whom the
French trnops were enabled to resume the offensive,
so far as to attack and take the posts of Lexavon
and Onanaminthe, and to defeat the Brigands in
the Vain of the Cape. A farther reinforcement
was expeccted, which would enable the French to
resneve the offensive on all points: The army is re_
presented in possession of the whole circumference
of the island, with a few exceptions ; and the Blacks
are said to be divided among themselves, and con-
fined to the mountains, which separate the northern
and western departments, and Port Republican, from
Jacquemel.—The inability of the French to resume
the offensive, generally, even with a reintin.cement of
4000, does not clearly corres'dond with this reduced.'
state of the Blacks ; and as the oflicial Journal would
not publish any thiag disadvantageous to the cause,
its accounts of St. Dinningo cannot be received with
too much caution. Of the ultimate success of the
French arms we however admit there can be no
reasonable doubt. The Blacks are every day di-
minishing in force, and have no possible means of
recruiting their strength. The French, on the con •
Crary, have an opportunity of pouring in fresh
troops, and repairing their losses. Between two
parties thus circumstanced, whatever may have
been their relative proportions originally, the result
becomes a matter of mathematical certainty. The
encreacing quantity must ultimately prevail over
the decreasing number.
The French rapers have at length obtained per•
mission tp notice and to insert the Manifesto which
appeared in the Hamiurgh Comspondenten. The "'ver-
nal des Dtbatt has inserted it, with some observa-
tions of a very curious nature. It affats to deny
that it is an Official Article, or, to speak more cor-
redly, it insinuates that it whs not written by the
belt. But the Editor very . ,cau-
allusion to the alive interference
llamburgh, in procuring
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