The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1805-05-25 00:00:00

THE BRITISH PRESS.

LONDON,
SATURDAY. MAT 2s.

We have received New York Papers to the I Ath
instant. The accounts from St. Domingo, respen-
ing the operations of DISS ALINES, and the fate of
the city of :it. Domingo, differ materially. On
the 21 of April, it was confidently communicated
by Captain flit-twins, arrived at Charleston, from
Cape Francois, that the Black Army had suc-
ceeded in carrying the city by storm. The whole
of their force consisted of 40,000 men, in four
divisions, the main body of which, composed 4f
,26,000. was commanded by General Ctsarstoras.
The Emperor DtSiA LINES had marched at their
head, until they reached St. Yago, an inland
town, of considerable strength ; a council of war
w.ts then held, uhen it was determined to storm
the city. The Estrum% however, was re.
quested not to risk his life iq the attempt,
and the &realm of the siege was given ta Ge.
Renal Brave, who, after a &spars" sad tiocoly

conAiS, succeeded in carrying the city ; not, how-
ever, without con.ideralrle loss. It was rumoured
that General BRAD,; was mortally wounded, ant
had lost 1000 of his bt.t troops. The French
and Spaniards found in the city, it was sup-
posed, were all pit; to the sword. On the other
hand it was stated, by Captain Toon, of the brig
Sally, arrived at Baltimore from the city of St.
Domingo, ria Porto that one division of
the Haytian army had made their appearance,
but it was expelled that no attack would be made on
the city, until the remainder arrived. No appre-
hensions were entertained fir the safety of the place,
as there was plenty of ammunition and men, and
every precaution had been taken to put the place in
the best stato of defence possible. All the vessels
were ordered out of the port, so as to leave no hopes
of retreat. The women and children, and property
to a large amount., were sent to Porto Rico ; but
some of the vessels were ioterceptftd by our cruisers,
and sent into Jamaica.

The Philadelphia Pipers mention that two yes.
eels had arrived at that port from Guadaloupe,
after losing several of their hands by the yellow
fever. The vessels have very properly bean or.
dered to the quarantine station, a.ld A Proclamation
was issus.d at New Yotk, suhjeaing all vessels from
that Island to quarantine.

We have received the Dominica Journal of the
16th of March, containing an interesting account of
the proceedings of the French, from their arrival
at, until their departure from, that Island. We re-
gret that we are obliged to defer its inter:inn until
t•londay.

On the 20th iosrint, a Danish vessel arrived in
Standgate Creek from Cadiz, from which place she
sailed on the '2lst ult. The Master's Mate and the
whale of the crew report, that, on the 10th of April,
at Gp. us. a French frigate appeared off Cadiz : sig.
nals were immediately passed between her and these
in the harbour. Very shortly after, there appeared
off the harbour 17 sail of French line of battle 511;1,4,
dec. together with six frigates ; there were nine Span-
ish line of battle ships, threefrigates, end one French
line of battle ship, then in the harbour ; every thing I
appeared instantly in a bustle, and the Captain be—
lieves every man that could come from his house t ,
go to the Mole, was there ; at the same time t'ae
French Fleet appeared, one of the English friw,tes
from the bloc:kading squadron recloaoitred the
French, and the hlockadi.ng squadron was than in
sight. When the French appeared, a great nnm'aer
of Spanish soldiers, with every expedition possib
were emharked on board the nine Spanish and one
French line of battle ships, an 4 sailed out of i
harbour that night (10th April) with three Span ish
frigates, and were out of sight the n:xt morni i{;
neither part of the Co:nhined Fleets had rcturne d to
Cadiz when he sailed, on the 21st April. 11 w•as
reported that they were gone to Coruana, to take
ten sail of the lige from thence, and that their cies-
tinaticm was the West Indies.

New York ram- of April 11, says:-..," A.
vassal arrived at Portland, in twenty-three day*
from St. Thomas, brings a report of the arrival of
another French Flett in the W.:st C...nSifiti 4g
of twenty vessels."

A Hamburgh Mail arrived yesterday with set-
ters and papers to the 18th lust int. Their eon-
wits, as will appear from our ettraCt., are not im-
portant.

Yesterday, Their Msrarr es, and the Princesses
ELlzastrH, MARY, SOPIIT A, and Asicti.s, &fled
with the Duke of Coil/WI LAND, at Kew.
On Thursday. the Countess of Ciits.Tearstso
was delivered of a son and heir. at her stoat, Brad-
by Hall, Derbyshire.
Mr. C ' ccent Travels in Denmark, Sweden,
Russia, Poland, and Prussia, will appear early in
the ensuing week.
'l'he Charlotte. BENNILTT, from 1.,..5nd0n, was on
shore, is the Eyder, on the 17th iu it. but was ez-
pcBed to be got off.
The Admiral, commanding the Rochfort squad-
ron, declared, at the time the french landed at
Dominica, that his instruEtions vivre to throw rein-
forcements into Guadeloupe and Martinique; and
after having levied contributions en the English
islands. and destroyed the shipping, to evacuate
them, and make the best of his way to some place
of safety,
Letters from Antigua, of the Vith of March,
state, that the French were prevented fruit attack-
ing that place, by information they had ',aired of
the determination of the inhabitants to defend their
property to the last ; and that they possessed a force
of 2,000 effellive men, which would have been fully
adequate to repel the enemy.
The Pennulvansa packet, arrived at Nuw-York on
the 9th of April, from Calcutta, states, that Sir Es-
w PEL LAW had arrived in India, and assumed
the command of the British naval force in that
quarter,!n the room of Admiral Ramis+ •
General F&ROAAD, Commander in Chief at St.
Domingo. with a view to cut off all faejsign
supplies from the Blacks, issued a Proclamation ou
the .sth of Feb. declaring that all persons found
on board anT ally or neutral, bound to any port or
St. I;ksmiugo, occupied by the rebels, or coming
ntst of any ateh_pnrt, er foiled within two leagues
thereof, shall gaffer death ; raid Frodemetion be
Mister frost the Inn Aril.

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POLICY OF THE WAR IN INDIA.

rxtran from the Staternert of the Marquis Wel.
le.ley to the Secret Committee and Court of Di-
settorst dated irt William, July 13, 1841,, as de-
railed i,l the Int, ncepted Correvandence, publ.shed
lathe Aftmerti.i:
potiti of the ekcitiliotances sod reed,obooemosti...ittd,ol.n;ll -o -it Row Sri idialaryl the 'Utah of
Ntorar r•s;oe lively pease-,, ani wli4:llthriatenthe otettrotr of
the Em pore in tfle ingot tlestitat,leobjectlivratt el, en-
llotf loot With I.l.eoft Chiefs were, nisi, with regard to lhow' lot
Roe ; ti,e entire reduction .if the regorter corps of M.
P wait, the incorporation with the British VIAIC4 of the whale
of thtterr;to y between die D..3'. Aril the Ganges. new in the
outstation of M. Fermi, which would the ft ;yet Amnia
the North Went ittOttiel ot our .I..tes noon that cds ; the.oe-
cmpatioit of [Sethi anAl of Ago., and ••- a eosin of ;Mrs upan
the W,,teril and S nothern 13... k. of the Jurnita, sufficieot to
~ore t, the Rritislo irre•r the free oarittion of the .I.unne,
and the paleakno of b of that river ; the p:rmanelot
exclusion of the Sitihrattas front the Nrithwest 6.13 of In.
Annan ; the establishment of • defmeire grit v. of 'di-
ttoes w.th the States of litilostao, when- t^tteeriel, by their
local position, iti,Ellt moan a hairier between the p2tiiroiross
of the Cetiroany, acid Ovalle of the Mahrattes ; and to serene
the excluourt of the a,attiority and intioenet of So ...nab
front the North-west 1... rt of Hindustan ; the penteetioJ of the
pei.o.o, and no:ulna auto.,, ty of Hi‘ M ojesty Ilh..ll4llirn ; the
occupation of the tea-port of Nareern. and of the tretriuwy
there.not- &Inexact, se also the ruditetoon of vie power ha ea
neial of Sel.,diah in the taunt; the ermine of the lifrito-
tic. of Vindish which are mixed with the.: of airalgae, the
Soub Mar of hsceao, sod t'se PeiMwah; tot in rertail. ,the
r..do :ma of the ''uolitare power' and of th• territorial resources
tit srutdiab, as far as it may be .Hawn fur nor snout!, aid
". it the ofety and tranquillity of our allaa. Oucalidly, will, rt•-
•;leet to the Raiah of Sept, L'lO•OC4lpali.oo of the provii,ce of
Ctift3o:, and the cestat•Uft of ell the pOoroooot4 rd Or ft
f S:rar, interinmed with thole re the Me 5,11.14 J of Dec‘aa.
te=teStllninams=4
4; IR UAL

The following is an estraft from The OW/kW
Carte.a/e, of the "ad March: t. The unfOrturesta-
ocea-ion of suspending the publication of Thr
etc, for some months past, is too well known to
need repeating now ; we are at lad, however, ens.
bled to resume it ; and the first use made of its co-
lumns will be, to contradiet the exaggerated re-
ports which have crept into :miler& the English and
Foreign Journals, of the number of deaths in the
garrison, during the preralence of the late fever.
Dreadful, iAdeed, its ravages have been ; but it will
appear, from the following accurate stetter sit, that
the fatal list of 12,000, Rives in those papers, saay
easily be reduced by more than one-half.
" Dead of the fever, in the garrison of Clibralt
from its first appearance, in the heginning of Sep.
ternber, to its total extirtdion, on the last day. Ce
December, le04:
I emcees . . . • .
5)41,9 . . . . 164
5...,1—t0 wives and children i 64
.111.1.),I • *et.*
T,ta Yi46
Frt :m the c:inta.tv of A private lettaTswe have rte..
ra Is .licve, h • "..!I ret and to regret, that de num-
ber f deaths sni.cd above is not corre.ll, and than
the nomaer far exareds that even comnnudeated
the Government. The slapping, at
much a snnyed by the Sp tnish gun•boars front Alges
sin as, they even defy our frigates. unless these be af
good braze. An attack from the Spaniards is ex-
p.i.aed daily by Land, red a worry eispleeient circus*.
stance took place a few days age. Lieut. liancecks
of the 13th Foot, hat the command cf an rent-pest
on the neutral ground ; about eleven et n;ght, his
sentry, hearing the noise of vessels nn the water,
challenged, but not being answered, fared ; and, at
the same tuna, the alarm being given, the guard,
consisting of a serjeant and sis men, were turned
out ; but, before they had time to form into order,
the sentry and serjeant were stuck to the wall with
pikes, and the officer, after a (swim's slafeaei . to-
gether with the remainder of the men, .veto :lade
prisoners. The Governor, on being inf.. me.i or
this, immediately sent a captain with a flat of mice
to tell the Spanish Governor, that ~mess the officer
and men were immediately restored, the batteries
should be opened 'rpm him, rad his works levelled
to the ground. 'they were immediately sent back :
—the officer's epaulet, lace, and mu:ley, taken from
him and the men were bruised

TO RE IG.Y 1N711.1 IGENCS.

FROM THE HANMURGIi MAIL.

cortermanan, WAY 1).
The Prussian Envoy to the Court of Sweden, \T.
Vern. Tarrach, and the Counsellor of Legatt.,n.
Teischke. bate been recalled, and will s set
o,lt for Berlin.

♦IENNA, MAN' 8.
A Courier arrived here yesterday from St. Pe.
tetsburgh, whose dispatches contras: the report,
that a treaty of alliance has been concluded between
England and Russia.
the Austrian tartops in the late Venetian Staten
will form several eem-ss of instrinftion.
The army whicn forms in Italy the cordon far
protcai ,n against the yellow fever ; the troops us
cantonments, and those on the frontiers, are esti.
rria;a4l to amount to 80,000 men,
LIIPSIC, MAY
We hear from Weimar, that the celebrated Ger-
man poet, Sc Biller, died on the 9th inst. of a nervous
fever.

TT•I.Y. •PIIIIL 27.
Besides the camp at Marengn, in which are as-
sembled the troops lately employed in Ca d eren_
Piedmont and its vicinity, another French-Italian
camp will be formed at Castiglione, to be composed
of troops from Milan and the neighbouring county.
The Emperor N4poleon will arrtyo at Milan 41
the 9th of May.
LEGHORN, APT

The military cordon drawn el-
territory, on the side of 0.,: \ . . ... state, was
removed on the 17th in t. 4nts it is caid, that on the
Ist of May the cordon formed Alon traria, on the
tide of the kingdom of Italy, will Tikeesse be re-
moved.

A Hamhurgh ship, which is arrived here, saw the
Toulon fleet off the most westerly coast of Spain,
steerir.g westward with a favourable gale.
TURIN, MI; t:6.
The castle of Stupinizo, without this city, uots
not please the Emperor ; it is indeed magnificent,
but a dust and damp builttng t sba Itoyil
in Turin is furnishing kw the Tutu g residanre of thir

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