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London, England, 1804-10-10 00:00:00

FOREIGN INTEUMENCE.

FROM THE FRENCH AND DUTCH PAPZIM

TRANKFORT, SLPT. 25.

Letters from Vienna state, that their Imperial
Majesties will return to the capital from the camp
near Prague sooner than was expeaed, and that tl.is
camp, en account of the great deari.ess and scarcity
in Mantis, will break up immediately.
Nothing is spoken of but the Emperor Napoleon's
stty itf our vicinity, and the most trifling particulars
concerning him do not escape public notice ; among
others, that upon his arrival at Mentz, tie only per-
sons in his carriage were his CoVesser and General

Duroc.
Wears assured that three of the five head clerks
of the Foreign Department have accompanied l'al-
kyrand to Mentz, and consequently gre political
transaaions are supposed to be going on . Among
other changes said to be determined upon, is, that
the Eleaor of Hesse is to become the Sovereign,

not only of this city, but of the country of Aschaf-
fenburgh, for which he is to pay a tertian great
Power twelve millions of Bosins. The Arch Chan-
cellor and Elector is to be indemnified for Aschaf-
fanburgh, with the city of, and country round Ra-
tisbon, which will be cede Ito him by the Eleelor of
Bavaria, wha receives in return, the city of Augs-

burgh, cad the pr. ,rerty of the immediate Nobility
of Franconia. For some territory which the King
of Prussia gives up to the Arch Chancellor, he will
receive, as an indemnity, the old Imperial city of

Nuremberg. The whole Brisgau will be given to
the Ele&or of Baden, and its present Sovereign,
Arch Duke Ferdinand, will be indemnified some-
where else in the German Empire.
It is said that the Emperor and Empress will leave

Mentz to-morrow, the 27th. and that between that
town and Boulogne horses are already waiting to
tarry the Emperor to his army on the coast.—
/Hague Coirraiet.)

NAGUS, OCT. 3.

According to a letter from St. Peeersbnrgh, the

Grand Duke Constantine left that capital on the
9th ult. to inspect the Russian troops in that part of
Poland, belonging to the Russian Empire.
It is reported at Paris that the Swedish General
Baron Armfeldt, late Ambassador to the Court of
Vienna, is to be appointed Minister of the Foreign
Department to the King of Sweden.
The French Papers now say, that the fortifications
of Meats are to be demolished, and the town
changed into a free commercial city. The great ex-
posers enquired to augment its strength are
to be the cans* of this change. To strengthen,
bovrevtr, the French line, Frankenthal is to be a
fortress of the first rank.—( Hague Currant.)

P•llIts SEPT. 29.

DESSALINES.
The Senator Kellerman has received a letter frora
one of his relations, an unfortunate colonist of S.
Domingo, who with the greatest difficulty escaped
the assassins of the ferocious Dessalines, and who

resides at pres:nt in the island of St. Croix. This

letter contains some more particulars concerning the
present situation of the pretcrded Republic of Hayti.
M The greatest disunion prevails among the Chiefs
of the Negro army ; and, so far from combating
together against the French and Spaniards at St.
Domingo, they are fighting against and cutting
the throats of cads other; each General having
made himself Sovereign of a separate district,
which he rules and defends with his adherents,
against all opposers, and where he bids defiance
to Denalines and his orders. The Negroes refuse
absolutely to work ; and when the produtlions of the
last season, the remnants of the cultivation of
last year, arc consumed, famine will be added to the

other oases of that unfortunate islaucL The num-

ber of negroes stiU existing there is calculated to
amount to 300,000 at the highest; but of these
men, from 18 to 50, the only ones able to carry
arms, or cultivate the ground, are not proportionate
with the remainJer population, but only as one to
five.

Dessalines is not ignorant that most of the insti-
tutions, as a Legion of Honour, a Senate, Prefeac,
Raids of Hop our, 3cc. &c. which he has the amid. dy

to decree for his people of Hayti, exposes hint to be

laughed at by all strangers, and that it is extremely
ridiculous is him to pretend to conduct vagabonds,
such as those of whom he is the chief, according to
a system designed after the vwtt kamtifid eseckla of
Europe. But he answers, that he does it only to
enrage enemies, by imitating some of their
inimitable institutions, and that as long as h.: k alive,
no changes shall take place in France, without being
decreed by him at St. Domingo, being, as he has
dso modesty to say, TIM BONAP•ITZ Of TS&
saw WORLD.

• 14 As this chief of bardit,i excites the public atten-
tion and curiosity for the rresent, as much as his
predecessor Toussaint did some years ago, it cannot
be uninteresting to give the putdic mane ideas of his
mon and charaftcr. Dessalines is about 42 years
of age ; the enseashis of his physiognomy offen some-