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that I am very ansiour, to have the honour of seeks;
you and thanking you iis person.
Health, eetetrn, and censideration,
(Signed) arreno.r.
(A true Copy) I3t. A NCROT,
Commandant of• Senegal.
To bit Excellent, General Blanchne, Commandant and
ildminietrator-Cznfral Qf Senegal, Corer, Eje.
SIR, NOV. 22, 1802..
The day before yesterday I had the honour of
receiving your letter of the /7th Brumaire (Nov. 9).
and I take the opportunity of a vessel sailing to Se-
ucgal, to acknowledge the roceipt of it.
You have informed me that you were ready
to teceive this place, and I regret infinitely that
any delay should take place in putting it into your
possession; but to my great astonishment no trans-
port bas arrived to carry away the garrison. In
the mean time, I know of no example of an English
garrison evacuating an island restored by a treaty
of peace, under any other flag than its own ; avid as
(usless the conveyance of the troops were imme-
diately necessary clsrwhere,) I might be severely
reprimanded tnr having quitted this place in the
manner you propose, a circumstance to which 1
am convinced you would not willingly expose me,
reirest of you to consider, in a favourable point
4,1 •sew, my delay in giving a final answer to your
propositian, of procuring }renal vessels to carry
away the present garrison from Goree, till the re-
turn of a vessel which I have dispatched to Sierra
Leone. Her return lam in daily expecclation of,
as the %rind has been very fair snwe she sailed.
I have only further say, that in case of the arri-
val of any transport, I will not fail immediately to
apprize von of it. This circumstance would be the
MGM desirable, as it appears that the vessels which
you propose to employ won!J not he sufficient for
conveying this gamsors and the provisions.
I have the honour to be,

With the greatest consideration and respea, Sir,
Your very obedient and very humble servant,
(Signed) JOHN FRAZER.
This letter is followed by two from the French
Ccminand.uu ; in the first of which he thanks Colo.
reh t'lssza for having informed him that he had
taken up four French sailors who had deserted, and
nhom he had sent im hoard two French ships.
In the second letter, be acquaints the Colonel,
that, hi order to avoid expence and defy, he had
sent on board an American ship, provisions for the
use of the French, after the surrender of Gone. lie
requests the Colonel to give the requisite assistance
to the officer sent to place them in magazines, and
to take care of them.
In a subsequent letter, dated Dec. 19, Colonel
Duxes. informs General Bt.•11010I, that he had
received his letter by M. lisiiivtitst and had al-
lowed that Gentleman to bring on land certain quan-
tities of provisions intended for the future use ot the
French; and that the gallica he had dispatched to
Sierra Leone had returned with letters from the
Governor; that a transport to carry away the British
from Gorse would sail on the ids or Sth of Dec.
In another letter of the 26th of December, Col.
FIRASIM writes, that since his last, Commodore Ho 1.-
LOweLL, in the Argo, had, in the course of a Amy-
age for the annual inspettion of the British estab-
lishment, on th, coast of Africa, touched at Goree,
and informed Colonel FRAIL', that a part of the
stores and provisions which Colonel FRAHIR meant
to have taken to Sierra Leone were intended to be
used in a different service ; in consequence, it be-
cane necessary to await the arrival of a vessel dis-
patched from England with particular orders res-
itl;ng those stores, before it be possible for the
British to evacuate Come.
An answer to those two letters, dated Jan. 4th,
signifies to Colonel FRAZER, that General 81. AM-
cuot, being willing to take charge of whatever
stores the British should find it convenient to leave,
for a time, at Goree, would expea, that the day pre-
viously fixed for the cession of the isle, should not be
altered on account of any change in the destination
of those stores, and would therefore come to take
possession of the isle on the day agreed upon, pnlcss
he should again hear from Colonel FR AZER, with a
more decisive refusal of the cession, upon weightier
reasons. To this letter Colonel Fasxxit sent the
following answer :
sip, wiser, Aw• 14, 1803.
In answer to your letter of the 4th !truant, which I had the
honour to trevisto on the 11th, I mud beg leave to refer you
to my letter of the 26th of December 181.12 ; AM to robservt,
oho% hi eons nano of the information which I announced to
you that I had re:trivial Goth C.•anntodore Hollowell, subse-
quent u, t .e data of my letter of December 9th, it appears
ma...say Cu. me to wait here et least some t,me, for the arrival
of a tome! from England, iinteod of proceeding, as 1 had pot-
road, to embark the troops and All other things whatso•fver
0.. board the transport front l•licrra Leone. This is so coach
Ow mese pereiwory, btx.-ause, as the Commodore sailed nearly
in the rod of sictoilev, it is highly probable Coat the
hich I estyeft may arrive ime 01 these days. I should. attn..
foe, have wished to delay writing to sou till I might base been
able to aunowere that yeses.% arrival, if I had not feared that
c•eh a delay -tight appear to imply s asset ot due regard for
yourselt pereenelly, to whom it a my rattiest desire to testify
all potable raped upon this occasion
Perutit me to add, that as )uu eapves.eel in your lett,. of
the 1146(4November, an apiweltensom lest any delay in the
reitnetion try Gorge should bring upon u. the Maw of our
re,;sective Governments, shalt be reads to d,, you ju.skle,
and to betsm praeually re-poositolc for any Manse dal may
erne en restart of a delay which has been oemnioned by im-
am &hi, maidoata 111 to Wet.
have the beam e io be, with high conialeration and re-
spect, S•r, yew Mae eirsehent, and mon hismMe Servant.
it)liM FRAZER.
A true copy, the rnrnwilt of Sessegal, iS A NcuoT.
To this letter, the following is the answer of
General 11l A PCIIO7 ;
SIR, UNTO 13.
I yesterday received your letter of the 14th January, 1803,
In which you rt., me the hon-mr to say, that you refer me to
your letter of the 26th December lam, by which I had been
mformod. that though the tranyort you expected from Sierra
Leone bad arrived, it appeared to you necessary, since the ar-
rival of thr Argo, to await the arnvtl of another vessel before
you soul,' effectuate the restitutimi re In CelbeqUellee
adios, 1 shall not repair teGoror till on do me the honour
of sideenting me, that nothing rername le retard the execution
of our gape. tile ardor.
I am atfitutely Vateful foe what you say in your law letter,
obliging to myself personally in regard to the delay. of the
restitution of Gem nut, I hope, that the precautions I have
taken, adf pretrove one from all Want.
1, huwevor, introit you, Sir, to geoml my thank with as
somas= of my mono and considmatiou.
(S trued) 111.ANCROT.
A true Copy.
Th. Commandant of &moral, SIANCHOT.
Snout THI 160141TLUlt or Aral', E.

lathe Sitting of the 2 ith ult. the Diet of the Em-
pire adopted the A 8 of the Deputation of the 244
n February, which in the definitivc distribe-
tioa ap,dreguiseiou of the indemnities. The Con-