The Sun.
London, England, 1801-05-08 00:00:00

LISBON, Ara:;. 16.
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M. D'ARANJO is at: this moment embarking on
boatdsa-Portuveze vessel; in order toprbceed im-
mediately to treat dirett-l!y with France. It is said
the Frigate is bOandto:./,--Aot*t.

The -Court of Spain has ccrisiderably softened its
tone in coriseqUence. The Pri,nce Regent sent
orders to his Generals on theirontiers not to com.
mit any hostilities; as he was in hopes of terminat-
ing the business amieabiy.. •
All the Auxiliary-Troops,,,excepting the Hospi.
• tal, hafe-beesemliarkecl t;C• Sr)flit'of\Var
and Portuguese: Merchant.Zhips, in orthicidto to
Oporto, 4ut4.l,6;l.learnt that the •,1307# Convoy
was threatened by the• Spanish Frgatcs, th.Shiu
-•- i e. .
of War 'went *to'`lneet4theiii.
During-she-week the Troops were on
not the smallest complaint. was • heard. , The i'or.
tugueze and English skewed the gratest esteem to
one another: This is' a very pleasing circumstance,
as the plan- of. cgrr.ying 'rho AU-xiiinty Army to
Oporto, when the Convoy returns, still coktinues.
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PARIS, MAY 4.

AP!t It, •22.--On the 18th inst. in the
evening, General Jou.RDAN received an extracirdi.
nary Courier, and some moments afterwards the
ple.aiini intelligence that Piedmont was free, and
tutted to the Great .11rati:,,t, was published here.—
The (allowing day patriotic .feasts. took place, and
a general illumination in the City.and rheati7es.
All the good Republicans testified their joy and
—their gratitude to the First Coneul and to General
Jo traDAzi, Administrator General of Subalpine
France. New Trees of Liberty have bccn planted
under the. French Standard.
MONT DE- MARSANi••• AP It T 26.—The Adrian.
ced Gard of the Army destined to aft againit.Por-
tugal, is now on its march ,throngli
Three-Battalions of the Free Corps of the West
have just passed through This place. The sth Re-
giment of Dragoons kre moin-elit marching in.
They are commanded.by the Chef de Brigade, Citi.
Zen Lou IS PONAPAlLTEe'bfortirr Fifsf'Con.
sul. The tosth Demi-brigade of the-Lioe will *r,
rive to-morrow, and will
.be followed in succession
by,the 16th Light; the
,24.01,,k3d,.72d, and 93d of
the Line, whictPmust-read(.B6%*:ore by the +tit of
May.
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• - - irt":l
-• 3..etter from Spaiir,l)y'io.lhy's pcislfi• gate tliat
the Spanish Government ,had
matum to the (20. y Er; of Po R-ruc...k.tio:a.icis effeti,:
• That &she did not, within .24 Itour...orderre4hchhe
eipulsion'of th'eniglirsh m w
-fro all her Po,
- sent to-admit a- Garrison : orSpailish and French
Troops, Portugal should -,be..deelarg4. 411*ititirgi
Pro v ince of Spain, undert be, guara n tee of.-Frallircy.
This' intelligence has been receiyed, from tt cop.
•-mercial House, bin it r6iluires Confirmation.
.BAs•LEj. APRA Ann)!• of
.'she'Gris'cins
• . . • •- - •
has ,Commenced tts.mareh-,foc liverdeiluxt 11/0.0,
• and An the Officers at 4tich,,.pritiwte,
&c. have lecei-vecl 6rders to join their Corps. 'Where
remain no other Troops to-pass through this
except two or three,Brigades of the Right Wing,of
the Army 'of the Rhine, eirming.part of Ivlor.t.raie.si
oivilian,• whose 'i-lead-Quarters:have for these few•
days been nut! at Sckairausell.

American Papers
_to the egth.of Marcht have leen
received 'in. ToOrn.' The Newspapers New. York
say not a weird about the Embargo, which was a
few days ago mentioned in 'a Paper hosted up at
nor about any of.thpsepreparations.whith.,
according to that Paper, had been made by JEF.
'num, for joining in the demands, and co=o
rating in the measures of the Notthern Confecleracr.
The only article of news; of. any -importanct,
that we find. in the New.Yorlt Papers is, the raking
possession of the. Spanish Port of Hispaniola, in the
name of the French Rephtilic, by the Black General
TotrssAnstr.--The article is as follows
JAMES BLAKE, Esq. Consul of the Uisi!ed States
for Santa Domingo,- arrived here. on rhur4rd4i
the brig gostorb from. Cape Francois.' • •
Mr. BLAU has furnished us with the " Bulletin
Official te St. Domingue," of the 29th Phiviose
(I Bth Feb.), from which I we translate USSAINT'S
account of his having possessed himself of the Spa-
nish part of the Island. We arc alsb informed by
Mr. B. that a Convention from the digrecent .Deprt.
ments was shortly to meet at Port-au-Prince, in or-.
der to form a Code of Laws for the Government of
the Colony. These Laws areto be submitted, first,
for the approbation of the Black General hinisrlf,
and afterwards sent home for the concurrence of the
French Government.

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