The Sun.
London, England, 1801-08-28 00:00:00

MINISTRY OF MARINE.

•The Minister of the Marine has published the
Dispatche's-which.he.has just received from Rear-
Admiral tai.CaossE,. Captain-General of Guada-
loupe and its Dependencies.. They are dated . the
4th of July, and,contain the following details ;
It •was on the 29th of May,- that • Rear-Admiral
La C.aossi artived at Guadaioupe with the Di'.i.
sion under his command. At nine o'clock on the
preceding evening•the Frigate La Cocarde had been
attacked by the English Frigate the Andromeda,
Captain &Aw ay, when, after an Adion which
lasted an hour, the Richly was repulsed with the
loss of .twenty men, and. some of their masts. The
English Captain died of his wounds. La Cocarde
only lost two gunner;, and a serjeant of the 79th,
and—had but two men slightly wounded. That
was the only engagement which occurred during the
voyage.

On his arrival the Rear-Admiral took immediate'.
Measures to check' the spirit of disaffeaion and com-.
Motion, whicbi had too long prevailed in the Colo..
ny. Several individuals of that description, of all
classes, were arrested and sent on board La Cocarde,
on their return to Fiance. Among them are NlO-
- and MEGIS, gx-Commissioners of the --Go-
Vernment ; BIGARD, Ex-Consul at St. Bartholo
mew ; MICHEL SENIOR' EX.C.OIISUI at St. Thomas,
&c. These measures have given to the Colony the
certainty of profound peace. Several Citizens,
prisoned for political opinions, of on suspicion of
emigration, have been released. s
The Rear-Admiral direaed his .attention to the
mannerin which the Treaty between France and
the United .States was executed in the Colony.—
He ascertained, indeed, that all the vessels which
had- been seized since the Convention, or condemn-
ed , before the publication of it -in the Colony,
had been -restored to their respeaive.proprietors ;
but he. was astonished at the number of those con-
demned between these two periods, and- the prodLiCs
of which.had been divided between the fitters.out
and the crews of the privateers. lie proposes to
draw tip a report, which will make known to the
Government the importance of
.the claims the Sub-
, jab of the Unhe4 States have still to make. The
evil is the greater, because the Decree of the Con-
suls, constituting a Council of Prizes at Paris, was
unknown, in the Colony, until the Ru.r.Admiral's
arrival ; so that. the Neutrals were- liable to the
condemnation usually-exercised by the Triburnas of
Commerce.
. . .

He fiiund, in the distribution of justice, stich
fluetuation in the minds of the Judges, such inco.

tiereride iri tic letwi of thiceefistdril
siqn in the civil'ifil,criinittili.hrt
by the &atne rtjeCi
reirtonstrances made to Watt" froi4i ail qu.irters' rt 4
adopt provisional measures for the organitatiori t.
the 'ltibunals.

The revival of the laws transmitted to rithiCei
on the measures respe&ing successions; the diffet.:
cut arrete's' issued by the Agents since the retalc,:
ing of the Colony ; the letters of iirivilegei Which
each of them assumed the rower of giving; IviVe_
thrown the administiation of justice in-to a state of
the most lamentable cdnfusion►

An important question, one which in the opinioti
of the Rear.AdMiral ought to be instantly decided;
is that of restoring creditors to the exercise Of the
rights which they held relati-,e to debts anierior to
the re-taking of the Colony.. Ihe Ex-Agthits had'
ordered a general suspension, with a few exceptions.
in cases of a particular nature. At present, order
being restored to the Colony, and the Planters en
abled to attend to their agricultural anis", and the'
revenues amounting to two.thint, of their total be:'
fore the Revolution, lie conceives that every consi-
deration. of justice requires that the debtors should
at least partially discharge what they owe since thg
restoration of the estates of the Plantersi whose
sence had menacel them with total ruin.

The arrival cf the kearAdmiral in the Colony
has been the epodi Of the re-establishment of
inertial pro,.perity. Before that period the Varses
of individUals were drawn Z 3 dose as their -hearts.
Articles of the first necessity bore the most extr3-
vagant prices: The ambition which distinguishes
commercial speculation was extinct. Each person
refused to enter into the most ordinary- transac-
tions ; and that distrust which is the neVer-failing
attendant on requisitions, had done all the mis-
chief it was cap'able of producing. * The Rcar-Ade
miral promulgated the instructions of the G wern-
ment, and the scene was completely changed. Thd.
affluence of the' Neutrals who rely upon the integrity
of Frenchmen, restores abnridanee to the inhabit.
.ants of the Town and the Plan Lions, the produc.
tions- of which are daily rising in Value. He prin,•
cipallylfoundS' the prosperity. of the Colony 'neon
this commercial system, and the'restofation of the
Finances; which are farthcr in by suppres.,
sing the expences of the 'Ex-Agents' table„ amount.:'
ing to 30,-:oo livres per—month, those'
of the Departmental and Minaielpa!
tions, which had become useless to the Colony. -
The Re.-tr-knital has' .published different Prod
damations inviting the Inc abitana to enjoy
peace the benelits_of the Constitto ion of theyear,B„ -
and to engage with aEtivity in the pursuits Of agri'.
culture and commerce. has issued several Ai
retes to fix the police Upon a steady bass, to en...
sure the tranquillity of the Colony, and to et-ed it
it several public establishments, One of thorn`
establishes a permanent Mithary CoMmissiOn, to
judge,. Withotit delay or appeal, all crimes of ad.'
.'ministering pois'ons. kvhich have, within the last six
months, multiplied. in ;rn alarming matther,
• which arc pradised both upon men and cattle., An.:.
other orders, that every person who semis a Oak
. lenge shall be brought before a Court-Martial,
The Rear-Admiral
.has established at Port de la•
Liberte, a School fot Drawing and Painting, and
likewise a Theatre. He has. given: the Widow Du',
COMMI ER and her daughter, Madame Dvmoos.Ti
possession.of the buildings assigned them. To con.
clude„ 'he has recalled the inhabi.wints of the Colony,
whom the terror of the Revolutionary regimen had'
driven from it, by an. Arrete, of sshich the fa.ow..•
ing is a Copy :