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AMERICA.

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Capt. Johnson' of the brig Paidry, front ('ape
Francois, informs us, that a 74: gun ship, a corvette,
and four transports, having ‘2.,000 troops on board,
arrived there on the 2(1 inst. from Toulon ; making '
the French troops at the Cape 5,600 effeaive men,
and that a considerable reinforcement was expeseted
daily. Capt. Johnson confirms the account of the
attack on the Cape by the Negroes. General Ro-
ch.unbeau arrived at the Cape from Port Republi•
can upon the 2.1. Intelligence was received on the
Gth of March, frtini Aux Cayes, stating, that the
Mulaltoes there in the pay of the French had, re-
volted, and nearly exterminated the Whites. Th.:
Gener.d in Chief inimediately dispatched troops to
restore tranquillity. .‘t Tortuda, the Negroes had
succeeded in'destroying the hospital, massacreing all
the sick, and nearly the whole of the white inhabi-
tants. A 7.4 gun ship heal been ordered from the
Cape to reinforce the French troops already upon
the island. Business at Cape Francois is very dell,
Colonial produce scarce and high. The Paisil
sailed in company with a National brig, having on
board a French Governor (or Prefea) for N.:w
'-leans.
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TR ANSI. AT:ON or A LETTYR FROU THE MARQUE DE
I ASSA GaAJO TO THE SECRETARY OF SLATE.
Sit, . Washington, March 10, 1803.
When you represented, towards the end of November last,
that the Port of New Orleans had been shut against the Citizens
of the United States, without the assignment of any equasalent
place of deposit for their merchandize, on the banks of the
Nli.sissippi, according to the stipulation in the 22d Article at
the Treaty of Amity, Commerce, and Nivigation between the ,
King, my Master, and the trnit2a states, I 41:(1 nut hisitate to de-
dare to you, that I considered this measure as flowing solely
front the mistaken zeal of the Intendant of Louisiana, without
the knowledge of my Court. I well knew the sincere desire
of the King, my Ma-ter, to live in peace and good harmony
with the United States; as I also knew well the scrupulous
g.iod faith with which the Spanish Guveritinent fulfils the en-
gagements which a forms, particularly when they are t Jtlf:(taKt
upon the solemnity pia Treaty. I have now the satisfaction of
'dimming you, that my first *pillion has been verified, aml of
declaring, in the most positive terms, that the Proclamation ui
the Intendant is an act purely personal, without the sanetion,
and even without the know'edge of his Catholic Majasty. In
reality, if the said Pnelatnatitui had appeared in an entire
state, no doubt could have taken place as to the source of the pro;
ceeding. But the operate part thereof alone has circu'ated thro
the United Stets, the preamble introducing it having been, pro-
bably witheut design, omitted. I have, therefore, the honour
to communicate herewith, an entire and correct copy of the
itfuresaid Prochunation, and by the expressions which I have
underlined, it will be clearly seen, that the arrangement is
alamletely personal, and has originated in the faculties which
the Intendant supposed to be incident to his station. This as-

seniors is not founded merely on the obvious inference from
those expreasions. The Intendant himself declares it to me
a the meet direct terms, in a letter of January 15, which I
have just tived from him, and the Governor of the Pro.
viurr confi I the same thing with the same solemnity, in
another letter of the same date. Neither the one nor the
otlit r, disput s the right of the Citizens of the United States
to a place of deposit or. the Spanish banks of the Nlissi•sippi
bur the Intendant thinks that the term of threcycatiallowed
.or the purpose at New Orleans having expired, and much pre-
i milers to the royal interests being experienced from its conti-
nUatiCe its that cit.:, it was incumbent on him to suspend the de-
po,iethere, without venturing to take on It imi;elf the assii;nmett t
of another equivalent pl .ce ; not becattselie doubted the neat of
the inhabitant% of the United States thereto, but because it sp_
Neared to his to be nu act exceeding hit authority, and whic it
he ought to leave to the royal det..rmination of our Sovereign.
The Governor of Louisiana saw the subj eft under point of view
more coned, in my judgment, and more favourable to the in-
habitants of the United States. Front the whole it results, that

the, suspension of the deposit trot being an act of my Court,
and no person ever disputing the right of fhe American Chi-
torts in the case, I shall now take upon myself to adopt mea-
sures which must ensure to the United Stales the enjoyment
of all the rights stipulated in the Article of the Treaty, on
the arrival at New Urleans of the dispatches which will b. fur-
warded under that date.
On Saturday an express was sent off with dis-
patches to the Naches. The Administration express
great reliance on their effed in opening the naviga-
tion of the Mississippi. They have, however,
caught with such eagerness at every shadow of jus-
aitication for their condu:t, that much reliance can-
dam be placed upon their expedations, however sail-
„loll4.=.—New Toni Gazette.
EXTRAcc QE % LETTER, DATED CAPE FRANcOIS,
TED.
" On the 19th instant this place was attacked by
the Negroes, who got possession of the fort that
comunuuls the whole town, but could not get the,
guns to work, as they had been spiked before they
were abandoned. A great number were killed on
both sides. On the f.19t11, 900 troops arrived ; about
2000 mote are (-tally expede.J. They are much
wanted.
4‘ The brig Irill'am arrived on the 17th of March
at New York, after a short passage from the Bay
of Honduras, states, that the new Governor,
Barrow, arrived from England about a week before
she sailed. Capt. Howland, the commander of the
brig, contradias the information recently -received
from London, of the Spaniards at that place having
prohibited the English from cutting mahogany, &c.
in the Bay of Honduras."
The Governor of Louisiana protested against the
•,:t of the Sranish Intendant in shutting the port of

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, New Orleans, and lad sent off dispatches for Spain,
complorntittg cif It. it traf erpearti in the United - -
States, that before ;.a answer could be received from.
turGrz. the difficulty wobld he removed, either by
the restoration of the old place of deposit, or the
' suhstituticti of a new one.
Letters from New Orleans, of the 17th Feb. state,
the arrival at that place of the baggage of the
French Prefeet, and of sederal of his officers.
A Savannah paper of the Ist of March says, an
express has arrived ht this city, in 17 days over=
land, from Pensacola, announcing the arrival of tl e
French troops, to the number cf 4,000, under the
conimand of General ViClot, at Louisiana.
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A STATEAIENI.-
or THE (3111HARY K.EvEsol.,Es AHD ExTRAdilDINAkir
itrsonac vs,
Conilitutilig the Public Jncoine of Great Britain; fur the
Year ended the sth January, &c. Jtc.
.rice Ito the Hawk of Collet-torsi ;fib !"rit 1.:7411
the stll Jannory, 180" ':.a.-. 283,264 I 71 'lt
I:Alamein the Ilan& of Receivers-Who.
ral, 011 the Oth January. 1801. v.... 812,8 It 3 91' .• •
B 1 arising kilA of the Reveline• tr 101;,.•
remitted to the Iteceivers.Cei;efai ••••I', -'+
London, but which trot beeoinidg due Ili .
until after the sth 'annoy, 180 t, Were
ca nett to•account of the talc.' year. ~. 122,215 11 lov
Gross Receipt within the year 6,937,093 12 10
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Total. Receipt lo be accounted fur a 48,165001 18 i•
Rtripetitg Oft account of Militia and De- o • 9
wrier.' Warrants; Provisional Cavalry;
Def-nce of the Realm, and other Sr-r-
-tricet
Bontftirls ftlr r ornotih jr--F uheriei, Litton
Manufaftures;Stc r. 1;4,9,276 4 016
Pensions out of the Hereditary Revenue,-
and perpetual, Pensions and St.pendi
charged ou the Land Revenue • 37,313 11 101
Towards Fxpencas incurred iu scenting
and improving his Majesty's WatAs
and Forests
By Virtue of Warrants of the Barons of
the Es.crtequer in Scotland, under the
Authority of different Arts of Parlia. 'c7. l'i.•••:• rt• • •
'tient, toward; the Stinpurt of the Civil
Government of that Country
im, rest in the Hands of different
arm fit
Vsnur.s, and advanced on Account of
the Redemption of the Land Tax 74,315 2 101
Total Payments out of.the net Protitice
Parn•nt: Into the INefirripier • 00,567,033 9 41
Balance in the Hai (4. of Culls/coots on the
5t.: January, 1603
Balance,iti the hands of the Receiveta-Ga- •
nerd, on the sth .laiaa-y. 673,080 6 8
art-tog out of the Revcone 1802,
remitted to the Receiver-Gvnelai in
London, but which not beceming.dne
until after the sth January, 18077, are
therefore earned to account, of the latter
year
Total discharge of the net produce • 03,g45,554. 4 8
• LAW INTELLIGENCE.
COURT OF KINGS BENCH, 011,9.091.44 LI" Apart. SW
Before Lord Etteta noitoudiftraii a SPECIAL JURILYii*
HUNIRLE V. HAMILTON.
Mr. ERSKINE said this was an. aaion.brought by
the Plaintiff, Mr. Humble, who was the proprietor
of a ship called the his, one of the extra ships ;at the
service of the East-India Company, and which he
had chartered to a Mr. Charnock, Who'had entered
a number for the purpose of putting them as extra
ships in the service of the Fast Inclia Company:
There was a priwkion in the charters of extra ships,
Which differed, in come respeas, from the prov?sions
in the charters of the general ships ; if this t.. als
received sea damage, the party was not entitlei to
the full freight—but only up to 30001. aad ,ta far-
ther. The general law with regard to freig'it was,
that where a persait hired a ship, by which he un-
dertook to deliver goods, if he delivered them,
though deteriorated,the party was entitled to freight;
fOr he might insure and receive an average loss
from the Underwriters. But in ships taken up for
the East India service, the party was not entitled to
his freight if he delivered his goods deteriorated by
the perils of the sea; at least not to a greater extent
titan :30i /nl. Tile East-India charters differed from
the charters of private men, and the circumstances
in which they did difFer were well known to all
traders. A private Underwriter, wha underwrote
an India ship to Bengal and back again, was upon
the ship during the whole course of the intermediate
voyages. It had been long since decided in Guild-
hall, that a person who put his name to a policy,
such as he had described, at and from Bengal, was
liable to the risk, although the ship insured should
go to Madras, Bombay, or perhaps with military
stores through an extensive and perilous navigation;
the Underwriter was not allowed to say there had
liceti a deviation, and he was not on the polity He
should proceed to apply these observations and rea-
sonings to this case : this was an insurance on a ves-
sel called the his,. which had been struck by light-
ning she underwent great perils of the sea ; her
sides opened. in various parts; and after she was in
this situation she had a severe conflia with apriva--
leer ; she fatight with great gallantry, and what
with thiS, and the pressure of the weather, she suf-
fered so severely in her hull, that the sea damaged
the rice oil. board.
Lord Etta:it:lo itotadit interrupted the Learned
counsel,' observing, that -it appeared to him that the
policy did not refer to any special contrast; he
would not look out of the policy ; he would look
only to the common law upon the subjeft, and that
said, if the goods arrived deteriorated, freight
should be allowed. It,was a mere dry 'question
of law ; there was no lift in it. ft was a simple
question, whether freight was referable to a special
contra& between the parties of which the Under-
writers had no notice.
There were several other Special Jury Causes
tried, but they were of no importance to the public.
Mr. Ca ANT. Who war apprebendikt on Friday af-
ternoon lot shooting at S. G. TowatssNDa Esq. nearly
opposite to hit bouse in t levelarat-court, James's-
place, will undergo his bad exiTaina4oni Tues-
day nett. • a •
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The number of French trobm' either quartered
in, or on the point, of entering ante Itatavian Repub-
lic, amounts to nearly twenty tilusand men. Thev
are, withoutexception, to be,pild by the people of
that ill-fated

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