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MR. PlrT's SPEECII,
IX TUX 3100SX OF CONMONS, ON MONDAY, KAYO,
ON 111 X -b2/IATZ &MECUM: TUX WAR Wait
FRANCE.

Mr. PITT began by observing upon some pas-
sages of Mr. Erskine's Speech, the tendency of
which he professed not entirely to understand, but
from which be was led to hope that the Learned
Gentleman, and those with whom he usually acted,
were not likely materially to objed to the sub-
stance of the priwsed Address. He flattered him-
self that this was likely t' be the case, because,
whatever difference of sentiment might arise, and
much was certainly to be expected, on many points
included in the great mass of information contained
in the Papers upon the Table, yet upon the great
and important question at issue between this Coun-
try and France, and upon the justice and necessity
of` tire grounds on whica we were compelled to en-
ter into the war, he thought it almost impossible
that the Douse should not be an:minions. He stat-
ed, that in those transaaions which had most imme-
diately prodaced our present siteation, the Learned
Gentleman himself appeared, notwithstanding some
doubts which he had thrown out on particular
points, to admit, upon the whole, that there was
such clear evidence of views of aggression and hos-
tility on the part of France, as justified this country
in retaining Malta for its own security. This he
maintained to be the first great point on which the
question turned ; and he contended that the whole
of Sebastiani's Report, and the circumstances of his
mission to Egypt, the ea press and deliberate avowal,
by Bonaparte himself; of his views and intentions,
in a formal conference with Lord Whitworth, and
the information of the same intentions through the
Official Channel of the Minister for Foreign Af-
fairs, afforded the clearest and most indisputable
evidence that the First Consul had formed the de•
termination, even while Malta was yet in our
hands, of resuming his hostile projects against
Egypt ; that the, pursuit of such a projeft was an
undeniable act of hostility against this country, and
aimed at some of its most important interests;
that it was, besides, a direct violation both of the
letter and spirit of the Treaty of Amiens itself,
under pretence of which treaty alone, our evacua-
tion of that island was demanded, though under
circumstances which, in other respeas, according
to the letter of that treaty, did not authorize such
a demand ; that the disclosure of this hostile project
clearly justified this Country in requiring fresh se-
curity against it, and if such security was refused,
in having recourse to arms for that purpose, at the
moment which appeared to be most for our advan-
tage. He then more particularly commented on
each of these several circumstances with resped to
the Report of Sebastiani. He stated that that was
evidently an Official Paper addressed to the Govern.
tr.ent, by a person regularly commissioned and em-
ployed by the Consul himself; that its contents
could never have been published in France but by
his consent, and that they were published in fad
in the Official Paper, under the dire& authority of
the Government; that the whole tenor of that Pa-
per, and the account thus given by Sebastiani him-
self of his condua in Egypt, made it impossible to
doubt that he was sent there to prepare for the
execution of a fresh attempt to put that country-
under the dominion of France; but that it was not
necessary to dwell onihe particular contents of the
Report; the mere circumstance of a military man
having been sent at that time with such a commis-
sam to Egypt, was a sufficient evidence of the ob-
jet of his mission. The time, he remarked, was
very material, because it at once destroyed the
chief pretext under which the French Government
had attempted, in the course of the Official Cor-
respondence, to justify or extenuate the publication,
or to deny the conclusion to be drawn from it.
This pretext was, that the honour of the Chief
Consul had been wounded by a Narrative of
the Expedition to Egypt, published by a re-
spectable Officer in the British Army (Sir Robert
Wilson), and that the publication of Sebastiani's
Report became necessary for his vindication. The
fasts stated in that Narrative, he observed, were
not even contradicted by the It eport, but even if
they had been, in what degree would that circum-
stance account for originally sending Sebastiani
to Egypt, with such a commission as had been
already stated ? It 'appeared that that officer
had actually embarked from Toulon on the 16th
of September, and after proceeding to Tripoli,
had arrived at Alexandria on the Itith of OCtober ;
whereas it is notorious that, at that time, Sir
Robert Wilson's Narrative had not actually been
published, and probably not sent to the press.
%With respect to the avowal of his design by the
First Consul himself, he referred to Lord Whit.
worth's account in his dispatch of the 21st of Fe-
bruary. He observed, that so far from the conver-
sation appearing, as some persons had imagined,
only loose and desultory, it was one which took place
by the express appointment of the First Consul—
that it was therefore evidently prepared and delibe-
rate, and that it was actually opened by the First
Consul himself, as being the mode which he had
adopted, for the purpose "of conveying to his Ma-
jesty, in the most clear and authentic manner, his
sentiments on points which must be brought to an
issue." In the course of this conversation, the
First Consul did not attempt to disguise his ultimate
views upon Egypt, and, though he professed to dis-
claim any intention of seizing it at present, he
assigned, as the reason for his fTirbearance, " that,
sooner or later, it would beton to France, either
by the falling to pieces of the Turkish empire, or by
some arrangement with the Porte." That, in a
subsequent conversation with M. Talleyrand. it
was expressly admitted that the acquisition of Egypt
had been, and still was, a favourite object of the
First Consul ; but he, at the same time, endeavoured
to convince his Majesty's Ambassador, that it was
not so great an object as to allow him to go to war
for its attainment ; and yet, upon being pressed to
explain what security it was intended to give, to
remove apprehensions on this point, for which he
had before stated there was a projefain contempla-
tion, he referred only toe passage in the First Con-
sul's Message to the Legislative Body, stating, that
" there is a French Ambassador at Constantinople,
who is charged to give every assurance of the dis-
position of France to strengthen, instead of to
weaken, the Turkish Government."
To all the evidence, founded on these several do-
cuments, he had heard but one argument opposed.--.
the improbability of the French Government thus
disclosing its views, if it really entertained them.
On this point it might be sufficient to observe, that

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it night indeed be dittenh to Amore* ter such A
diechtenee, esren nn dse suppeeitian of stab a priell
bei or reall7 ;attended ; tent t'..at it vras nret only dif-
ficult, ion unpreasible to accouu foe h at sill, on' the
stiepoeitiein of its not being intended. lie asked
whether, on the latter sitpposition, date rnotive could
be assigned, either for the mission having Men
sent, or the report having been made and published,
or for the avowals cono.meel in the era:re/Nations of
the HraConsul, and of M.Talleyrand. He thought,
however, that the difficulty of sectioning- for the
disclosure was removed, by referring to the new and
peculiar policy which had marked the cambia of
Drawee on many extraordinary occasions, from the
very beginning of the Revolution, that where any
measure was in contemplation more fl 'grant and
atrocious than Another, and more likely to shock the
general feelioes of Eifrape, and perhaps to excite
vigorous and united resistance, instead of carefully
concealing it till the moment of execution, it hal, on
the contrary,been studiously announced befort i and;
that the objet of this policy had been greduatly to
familiariee men's minds to that which at first they
could scarcely even believe, and that their schemes,
sellich, in the first instance, were received with hor-
ror, and would have been opposed with indigna-
tion, came afterwards to be contemplated with neg-
lel and indifference.; and that which at first no man
thought it possible seriously to attempt, was, by de-
grees, considered as named and probable, and, in
the end, as that which it was hopeless and, impossible
to resist. He therefore pit it to the House, whether,
after having observed this praCtice, it was possible
for us to be so credulous and childish aseo ad on
the belief, that 'Bonaparte would abandon the pro.
jecks he had formed, only because he had himself
told us he would::persist in them ? And whether we
thought, that if, for whatever reason, he had been
led prematurely to disclose this projr.l, even while
Malta, the great senility against its execution, was
still in our possession, he would renounce the at-
tempt,
when that security had been surrendered by
us, and put, in foci, into his possession ? If thca
the design against Egypt was apparent, he desired
the Houle to consider, whether, upon every princi-
ple of justice and self-dcfent.e, admitted by all the
systems of the Law of Nations, and adopted by
. the practice of all countries, we have not the clear
right to take, from this moment, such measures of
prevention and eceunty as are sufficient to guard
ag iinst the danger to hich we should be in conse-
tittence exposed—whether it was not admitted, on
almost all hands, that our possession of Malta was
essential, or at least in the highest degree material,
for the defencc of Egypt—whether the import-
ance of Egypt to this couetry was not in itself suffi-
ciently evident, from its connection with the safety
of our Indian possessions—and whether it might
not at this day he considered as a point of our na-
oonal policy, already decided and attested by the
glorious efforts which had been made, and the he-
roic blood which had been shed in the last war for
recovering it from France, and which had, in a
manner consecrated it in the hearts and affeetions of

Englishmen ?
lie therefore wished the House to consider what
was to be our future condua, it, after all the warn-
ings given us, we were now to surrender Malta
out of our hands, and the attack upon Egypt were
to follow in six or in twe:ye months afterwards.
Were we prepared for the iidicalous but disastrous
alternat.va to which we should be [educed, of ei-
ther sunmitting without a struggle to national ca-
lamity and disgrace; because, foreseeing our danger,
nad voluntarily and wantonly sacrificed the best
Int aiis a averting it ; or, when it was perhaps too
late to enter upon a difficult and almost hopeless
contest, having, by our own aff, given up theatrms
by which we could be enabled to conduct it to a
successful issue ?
If the question were closed here, Mr. Pitt ob-
served, that for the reasons he had given, he was
prepared to maintain, that on these grounds alone
the war was both just and necessary, and such as
ought to call forth the utmost exertions of Parlia--
ment and the Nation in its support. hut so far
was this from being the case, that there was not
any one of the leading trans.[ hops, subsequent to
the Treaty of Amiens, to which his Majesty's de-
claration referred, which was not, in his opinion,
as far as justice was concerned, a clear and evident
cause of war, and such as would have been acted
upon, if there were sufficient means of co-operation
oa the Continent, in almost every period of the
history of this Country. He here referred to the
aaaexation of Piedmont, as the first .nt fry which
the French Government had proceeded, subsequent
to the Treaty, to pursue the same system of aggran-
dizement which had appeared in all their previous
condua, and which it was vainly hoped they had
relinquished. He rcterred also to the traasadien
respelling the German Indemnities, where the
French Government, with an arrogance, he be-
lieved, unprecedented in the history of Eiirope, had
presumed to didate to all Germany the detailed
mode of arranging those indemnities, on which Lae
Diet of the Empire was expressly convened to de.
liberate, pursuant to the Treaty of I.sneville, and
had publicly announced their scaeme as settled and
bedded, tittore it was even communicated to those
to whom it ought, in the drat instance, to have iaani
proposed.
He next pas3ed to the violence offered to Switzer-
land, on which he thought it the less neccssary to
dw.ell, because he believed the condua of France
towards that Unfortunate and devoted Country had
excited one universal serainient of detestation. lie
wished here to declare (as this had been a subjed so
often adverted to on forniet occasions, when he hard
bey u :I•laitmidably absent; that he considered th. in-
t-a :en'e.te of his Majesty's Ministe:s orithis slibje.ll,
a; not only evidently warrantcd by :the circum-a,
stances, but such as was their duty to employ to
the. extent to which he understood it to have beeti,
carried, in order to give time for learning whether -
a confederacy could be formed in Yurcpe,
sufficieat for s..ving that Country from the yoke. o'f.
Frar:cel but that when upon trial all hopes of such'.
a conleZeracy- vanished, he thought them equally
right in not pushing the contest, on the part of this
Country, to extremities.
He then adverted to the continuance of the
French Armies in illolland, which appeared, from
the rapers on the tables, to have been dirativ
inconsistent with ,the principles on which the
Treaty of Amiens had been negotiated, and with the
esigagemeras which weret:known to subsist between
}ranee and Holland. ,Alter dwelling on these
points, he stated, however, that he thought it less
material to discuss whether they were each in itielf
sufficient causes of war on the part of thistretnitly,

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hecittlte a allaitted that whatever .17*T•ht 1e At
justice the c:sse, our conduit upon them at the
tame STS necessarily regniaed, not by that eiVIV4.
&Wine only, but be the question of policy,which
was uravivd*hly dependent urn the state of the
Continent ; but that whatever a might be right to
ttecitix upon them at the time they occurred, it was
imposible to contend that they were not now ma-
terial, as symptoms of that deliberative system of
ambition and encroachment which had been thus
uniformly pursued towards others, and which was
now diteited to a quartet when it immediately
affe&ed nur separate interests, and was in direr vi-
olation of the Treaty with this Country itself:-
1-1 e here drew a stmr,,,, piClure of the cemtinued and
rapid succession of tas of violence and oppres-
sion which, duriog this petind, had desolated so
many of the Countries of Europe ; and utter com-
paring the irresistible trance and overwhelining pro-
gress of French ambition to those dreadfnl convul-
sions of Nature hy which Provinces and Kingdoms
were consumed and buried in rains, he asked whe-
ther we could contemplate those scenes of havock
and destruftion withont retleCting how soon that
torrert id liquid lire might direCt its ravages against
ourselves.

Having here closed his review of what had passed
or, the Continent, he next o:iserveil, that the period
of which he had been speaking u'is marked not
only by the hostile nets which he had steeliest, with
resped to other Powers in Europe, but by others
immediately affeetieg the separate riyies and inte-
rests of this Coentry. lie referred, he said, erin-
eipally to two penes which appeared in the Cor-
tesenndence. The first point was the demand which
had been made by the French Government respeCt-
ing, restraints on tite Liberty of the Press, and the
expulsion of the french Emigrants now remaining
in the Country. On this it •sets unnecessary to en-
large, became! the insolence of the propositien was
sufficientle felt, and because it had been at the time
resisted by his Majesty's Ministers, on grounds which
were stated with great force and ability in one of
the papers on the table, and which he was persuaded
every lklember of the Hence had read with the
highest approbation. The second point related to
the Commercial Agents—the indignity and outrage
which attended their mission, was one of which rt
was difficult to speak with composure. The French
Government had made a formal pronosition to
send persons of this desesiption, who had never
been leund necessary even when a Commercial
Treaty subsisted, at a time when ant Orly there
was no such Treaty, but when, as appears horn the
papers on the table, the commercial intercourse of
his Majesty's subjeels with France was suffering
every degree of violence and oprressinn. This
proposition had naturally and wisely been refused.
The French Government then proceeded clandes-
tinely to send these Agents in the train of their
Amhasador ; and not content with this breach of
the law of nations, they afterwards addressed to
them instruCtions, under the official charaCter in
which they had received admittance; and the objen
of these instructions was, to dire& them to take mea-
sures, in time of peace, for ascertaining the sound-
ings of re rts, and for obtaining military information
of distriCts, ails for which they would hare been
hanged as spies in time of war. Under such circum-
stances, he could not but lament to find that his
Majesty's Ministers had contended themselves with
merely applying to the French Government to with-
draw those persons, and had not once advised his
Majesty, by :,is own authority, to order them to de-
part the kingdomwithin twenty-four hours, reserving
it to himself afterwards to require from prance the
reparation due for so gross an insult.
lie did not thin!: it necessary to dwell separately
on another head of complaint, the violence commit-
ted against the vessels and property of his Majesty's
subjeCts in the French ports, and the w ithheiding,
to this hour, all satisfaction for those injuries.
These proceedings, he said, would have been suffi-
cient ground of complaint in ordinary times, but
they could scarcely give additional force to the out-
regeons transaCtions which he had just enernerated,
and which appeared to him as if they had designedly
calculated to incinde, under two distill& heads, the
grossest insults that could be offered to the indepen-
dence of any country. The first pretension of which
he had spoken, that of restraining the liberty of the
press, was nothing short of claiming the right to
didate to us in a point of municipal law; and to re-
, quire that we should sacrifice to the calm ice of the
- First Consul, a known and important privilege of
our Constitution, and model, at his pleasure, the
judicial proceedings and 'eternal regulations of the
country. The second ptetension, that respeeting his
commercial agents, manif sted, as leelbeen already
stated, an avowed deatraination to introduce, in de-
fiance of cur formal refusal, amine tied emissaries
into our arsenals and ports, in order to prepare, in
time of peace, the most effatual means for our an-
noyance and destrualon in time of war. This was
nothing less than to insist on our surrendering, be-
forehand, tle't right and the means of petioles'. de-
fence ; and if the lot met slain, had struck at the li-
belee, this stra;l: as direCtly at the actual safety of
the country. it was tine, he believed and hoped,
that the commercial agents had at length been with-
drawn, tile'', the i l presentation of his Majesty's Mi-
nisters ; but, as he had already stated and lamented,
it did not :appeal-That any disavowal hat been ob-
tained of the principle on which they had been sent.
The claim respeCrlng the restraint upon the press,
1 and the cepuision of the emigrants, had also been
1 suspeeded fer a time, in consequence of the unan-
swerable representations in the dispa.ch before re-
fernsf to—But the first part of this claim had since
been expressly tevived in the course of the hue ne-
gotiation: At all events, be contended that the
eireumstance of the .First Consul having even sus-
pended it as he did, only ;Prorded a striking lesson
of the benefit to he derived from a tinn and season-
able riisisteiiec—bratehat the taa of such pretensions
having at any time been urged (whether they were
persisted in us withchrawn) must be remembered as
the strongest prtx)f.of the tumor of the views which
he really entertained, and which he would unques-
tionably accomplish whenever he found it in his
power. He maintained, therefore, that all these in-
dignities and imults, as wca,as the encroachments
and violence% of whin h he had been before speaking
on the Continent, must enter deeply into our consider-
ation, in judging of the chara4len and ultim.re views
and policy of our enemy. They must etecieieely con-
fit m us in the resolution to employ, without hesita-
tion, the most vigorous and determined resistance,
when, in addition to these proofs of hissenerai des-'°
position, both towaads this country and towas,'s

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renter., f entl hint next engte3 In tliat plea
orf direct and separite hos.eifity against Gumless,
which had already been argued.
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Oa all these ground's, he felt consineed that there
never wets an occasion on which it more clearly be-
came the indisieetnable duty of Parliament to COOCUT
Viith his Mniesty in the declaration of the necessity
and justice of the war in which 'we are engaged, and
to assure him of their firm and feletcheal support.
But in giving these assurances, he trusted that other
Gentlemen felt impressed with the same sense which
he did, of the awful importance of the eateegement
into which they were pfepnring, to enter, and that
they considered those assurances, not as formal
words of ceremony or custom, but as a solemn and I,
df•liherate pledge on behalf of themselves and the
nation whom they reeresented—knowing and feeling
to their full extent the real difficulties and dangers
of their f.ift ation; and cf the arcinues struggle which
it compelled them to endure, and being prepared to
I meet those difficulties and dangers with every exer- •
tion and every sattifice which the uneeampled
cumstances of the times rendered indispensable for
the public safety. I'or his own part, although he
consideted the war as a war of necessity, and one
which we could not decline without serrendering,
both our security and our honour, he should enter
upon it with litte hope of ultimate success, if these
sentiments were not deeply impressed on the minds
of Parliament and the People. The scale of our
esertions could not be measured by .those of former
times, or confined within the limits even of the
great, and till then, unexampled efforts of the last
war. He was convinced that some system far more
vigorous and effectual than any even then adopted,
would be found necessary, both in our finance. and
in the preparation kr national defence. On the
provisions to be made for these two primary and
paramount obefls, it would principally depend whe-
ther we could eff:thally disconcert the favourite-
projeias, and disappoint the main hopes of the ene-
my. It was evident that if they indulged them-
selves in any expel ration of success in the present
contest, it was built chiefly on the supposition that
they could either break the spirit, and shake the de-
termination of the country, by harrassing us with
the pet petual apprehension of descent upon our
coasts, or that they could impair our resources, and
undermine our credit, by the effefts of an expensive
and protraited contest. To defeat the. first of these
purposes, it was not, in his judgment, sufficient to
make those naval and military preparations, which
wonid prevent any invasion that might be attempted
from being ultimately successful (an event which he
trusted he was justified, in common with others, in
considering as utterly. impossible), but to make such
vigorous and extensive arrangements for national
defence, as might diffuse a sense of the must com-
plete security against even the temporary impression.
to be produced by such an attempt, and might en-
able every individual to lay down his head to rest,
in the persuasion and confidence that nothing was
omitted which could enable us at once to meet and
repel the danger, at any moment, and in any quar-
ter, in which it might threaten us.
In order to disappoint the second objeft—that of
wearing out our resources, he trusted the House
would,- from the beginning, form its system of
inance, not with a view only to the expence which
might be necessary in the first year of the contest,
but that they would look at once to the possibility
of its being protra6ted to as long a period as that
which lately was terminated-.that they would con-
sider fully what, on the probable scale of war,
would be the whole extent of the burthen necessary
to be imposed on that supposition. He was per-
suaded, that it could only be by providing, in the
outset, means adequate to the whole extent of these
pt rposes, that we could in fait prevent the ultimate
amount of our expences from being unnecessa-
rily, and perhaps intolerably augmented, or that
we could ensure the best chance either of bring-
ing the contest to a speedy conclusion, by
convincing the enemy of our sufficiency to main-
tain k, or could meet its continued exigencies,
if necessary, without the annual recurrence of grow-
ing and accumulated embarrassments. He trusted,
therefore, that his Majesty's Ministers would, on
their part, feel the necessity of bringing both these
points under consideration with all praaicable
promptitude and dispatch, and that, if possible, not
even a fortnight might be suffered to elapse, without
enabling Parliament to adopt such measures as would
convince both France and the world, that we had
from that hour provided the means of supporting
the force, and defraying. the expenditure which
might be necessary for maintaining our internal se-
curity, and for the rigorous and effe6lual prosecu-
tion of the war, to any period to which it could rea-
sonably be supposed to extend. lie repeated, that
he was aware that these measures could not be
etidled without material and extensive personal
sacrifices, and without great additional hurtheis,
which mast to a degree -affeit the case, convenience,
and even comfort of many classes ef society —that
he lamented these consequences as much as any
man, and if be saw any prospen that, by present
concession, we could obtain a real.and desirable in-
terval of peace, security, and repose, he should be as
anxious as any man to avoid the necessity of such
arduous and painful exertions; but that under the
present circumstances, a weak and timid policy
could perhaps scarcely even postpone the moment
when they would become indispensable for our
e's istence, and would infallibly expose us to the
certainty, at no distaneperiod, of a similar struggle,
with those means given out of our hands which ere
now possessed, and with the, chance diminhhed, of
fatally conducting it to a successful issue—that we
had not an option at this moment between the bles-
sings of peace and the dangers of war—that from
the fatality of the times, and the general state of
the world, we must consider our lot as cast by the
decrees of Providence, in a time of peril and trou-
ble—that he trusted the temper and courage of the
nation, would conforrtritselt to the duties of that
situation—that we should be prepared coUectively
and individually to meet it with that resignation and
fortitude, and, at the same time, with that active
zeal and exertion, which, 'in proportion to the mag-
nitude of the crisis, might be expectedefrom a.brave
'and. free people; and that we should reflect, even
' in the hour of trial, what abundant reason we have
'to be grateful to Providence, for.the distiacticu we
enjoy over most of the countries of Europe, and
for ail the advantages and blessings which national
wido:n and virtue hive hitherto protected., and
w 1 It .1 it now depends on perseverance in the same
just cn.l honourable sentiments, still is guard and
to rmt,rve.

mirJL mrszucEvcr.

sv sourly, is (AV 30,
. Thls day ot- materna', Cironti-siocer Farnha ‘rt
goes afloat into.Cawsand Bsy, to pay two months
advaace to the Spartiatt, of 7a guns, (.lantaim Van-
ley ; Plantasenet, of 74 gams, pails liaremond
Cour/serer, of :4 eons, Captain Lewis; Malta, of
11 guns, Captain /taller ; when, if the wind is fair,
they will sail to join the Channel fleet off Brest.
It -is with sincere pleasure we aanotmce the safe
arrival of his Majesty's sloop Haznedf, of 18 pins,
Captain Neve, front a cruise off Brest, 2S she was
reported for several days past to have been cap:
tined: she was concerned in cutting out the brig
with the Aratad'i boats of the Penrnarks ; her'.s and
the Naiad', boats were fired 2r by the French bat-
teries., but without drat Previous to the Hazards'
leaving the fleet, the Minotaur, of 74 guns, ,;rd the
.Se:pirr, of 64 guns, were dispatched in cha..e after
some strange sail in the oiling, which they scam
came up with, and one of which was captured, and
nroved to be La Sybelle French frigate, of ati guns,
but only four mounted, six wecks from St. Domingo,
with a valuable cargo. The French Captain said,
the Island was, he imagined, by this time, or pro-
ba!dy batiire, evacnated. "Fhere were 10 sail of
men of war at St. Domingo, with a large convoy,
on their passage to Europe, with very v:i.eable and
rich cargoes, I r France. The Blacks and
Mulattoes were extremely numerous and well ap.
pointed, but enfuriated and blood-thirsty in the ex.
treme against the Whites.
Vice-Admiral Lord Nelson, in the Viacry, of 110
guns, and the Amp/ion, of guns, joined the fleet,
on Sunday, the 22d inst. hoisted-his flag on board
the AmpLivi, and proceeded to the Straits. '1 he
Vidory sailed also fur the same destination on Wed-
nesday last.
Came in a very large Batavlan ship, deeply
laden.
Went into the Sound, and sailed directly on a
cruise, the Sec; di, of IS guns ; also the /..)&i is, of
3(i guns, Captain Pearson.
PORTSMOUTH, MAY 31.
Came into harbour a sloop laden with stone, prize
to the Planrhe, Captain Mudge.
DOWER, MAv 31.
The French packet the Charlone, Captain Segni-,
arrived here as a flag of truce about three p. m. with
three mails, and fourteen passengers, chi,...fly Ame-
ricans and Swiss, with Mrs. Austin, and two or
three other English ladies : we learn by this vessel
that the English are still detained prisoners; those
at Paris are to be marched to Fontainbleau, and
those at Calais, &c. tip St. Omer's.
Mr. Talbot, the English Secretary, is gone back
to Paris, and the packets arc still detained ; several
of the tnglish have met with considerable vexation
ne,ides-being detained. 1 do rot learn that any con-
siderable captures have been made by the enemy.
DEAL, MAY 31.

Remain in the Downs, his Majesty's ships, and
Ranger, Langley, for Gibraltar, with fleet. of coast-
ers bound to the westward.

The French ship Mary-Ann, of Dunkirk, from
Martinique, with sugar, rum, and coffee, bound to
Antwerp, Captain Peter Morel, •500 tons, arrived in
the Downs yesterday evening, having been cap-
tured, after an engagement of four hours, by the
privateer lugger Polecat, Captain Thompson, and
Star, Captain Mowle, of Dover.

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