The Sun.
London, England, 1802-01-19 00:00:00

LONDON, JANUARY 1), I Li 2.

a-:e happy to state the safe arrival in the
Downs of several of the, West India Convoy—
which proceeded, on for the River.—Should the
wind continue in its present quarter, Southerly,
we hope to be able in a day or two to announce the
arrival of the

THIS manning arrived a French, and likewise a
Dutch Mail. The contents of both were antici-
pated by the Paris journals which we received
yesterday. An article from Copenhagen, of the
29th ult. states, chat the Navigation of the Sound
was not then stopped, though they had had frost
for several clays.

Four Han!bargh Milt continue due.

THE Pari; Papers to the 4.th inclusive, which
we received yesterday at the moment that our Paper
was about to be put to Press, contain no intelligence
of any importance. It appears by an article from
constaio;mpk, that the Turkish Government e3t..
fetiences considerable difficulty in the settlement of
its Egyptian Provinces. The Beys have manifested a
ilegree of repugnance against the new Constitution,
which the Porte designed for. the govevnment of
Egypt ; and, they have proceeded to such lengths,
as to take up arms, and even. to give battle to the
Capitan-Bashai.v. The latter succeeded, however,
in seizing on several of the Beys, against which
Lord HUTCH t MON is said to have remonstrated, and.
ty have demanded their liberation ; in consequence
of .which, a difference has arisen between the
Turkish and British Chiefs.. The objet of Lord
g.t.^ expedition to Egypt, is stated to be, the
accommodation of this serious affair.

The other articles in the Paris journals are of a
miscellaneous nature, and will be fou4 in our sub-
seque-ot Columns, :'.heir chief contents, however.
are continued details or the mischiefs occasioned by
the Imundations in c,-,cry part of France, 'The last
Letters from Lyrnis are dated the 7th inst. ; they
ire full of the different preparations which are

taking place for the reception of the First Consul,
/who was expeeted there on the r t th inst.
The Squadron which left Havre a short time ago
to join the Brest Fleet, has entered the Port-of
Cherbourg, to complete its quota of men and pro-
visions; after which it is to pursue its destination,

-Non-LING can more fully demonstrate the imme-
diate advantages which this Country has derived
from the Peace, than the Expedition which the
French Qovernment has sent to the West Inc4es.
The Mercantile Interest, and the Holders of Estates
in our Colonies, must be aware, that as long as the
system of mis-rule prevailed in the French Settle-
ments? there could be no security for our own.
The contagion of example would have spread itself,
and. the whole of our Colonial System must have
been endangered, when every neighbosring French
Island afforded an asylum for our mutinous Slayes.
Thus, the Genius of Conspiracy would haye been
emboldened by impunity, and those distant Colo,
nies ifhich have hitherto furnished so much towards
the increase of our wealth and navigation, would
have been reduced to the condition of burthensome
and expensive establishments.

The sailing of the Fleet, while it dispels these
apprehensions, gives us a strong assurance of the
pacific sentiments of the French 6overnment. The
removal and employment of so large a force on a
distant quarter, for the express purpose of quelling
the spirit of insurrection, proves that France is
both averse from farther Continental Hostility, de-
sirous of cultivating the arts of peaee and eommerce,
and inimical to those visionary projets, by which
the Legislative and Conventional Assemblies con-
vulsed and desolated its most beautiful and fertile
Colonies. From the nature of this Expedition, we
may rest perfectly satisfied, that France also feels
it to be her interest to remain tranquil.—lf any
other sentimeuts were entertained/ she would never
have permitted the departure of so many thousand
of her best Troops, after the bitter experience she
has acquired by'the want of Troope, which, in a
fatal hour, she rashly landed in Egypt. The more
commercial the:Republic become;:, the less is to be
apprehended from her ambition; and, consequently,
there cannot be a better guaranty of general peace
to surrounding Nations, than, the speculative and
commercial enterprizes of the French People,

THEIR MAJESTIES, and the PRINCESSES, honour
Drury-Lane Theatre with their presence to-morrow
evening, to see Peal' and Dumb, and the Panto..

mime.

His MAJESTY has been pleased by Letters Patent,
to appoint JOHN WILSON, Esq. a Commissioner for
investigating' the Accounts of the Army in the
West Indies, in the room of General MAITLAND
resigned.
His Majesty's Letters Patent have been passed
under the Great Seal of Ireland, constituting and
appointing JAMES M'CLEt.t.AND, Esq. His Ma-
jesty's Solicitor General in Ireland, in the room of
WILLIAM SMITH, Esq. appoinred one of the Ba.
ions of His Majesty's Court of Exchequer.
The Hon. CHAR L ES ELPH INSTONE. was on Wed..
nesday last unanimously. eleled Representative in
Parliament for the County of Stirling, in room of
the Right. Hon. Lord KEITH, lately called to the
House of Peers. .

It is understood, that such of the convi&ed Mu-
tineers as the lenity of the Oovernment may exempt
from the puniOrnent of death will by transported
to New South Wales for life.

A series-of New-York Papers, from the ist to
the 17th of December inclusive, are received.
Congress met on the Bth at Washington, and im-
mediate:ly proceeded to business. ABRAHAM BALD-
W IN was chosen President of the Senate pro tempore.
Mr. MACON was chosen Speaker of the House of
Representatives.
A Charleston Paper of the ad of December, states
the arrival of a vessel in 31 days from Gibraltar,
which brought
.an account that the. DEY of AL-
GI E its had offered Terms of Peace to the American
Commodore DALE, in the Mediterranean.
A letter from Cape Francois (St. Domingo),
dated the 3oth of Olober, gives further particulars
of the insurredion of the Blacks on the 24. th.—It
was principally owing to the article of the Constitu-
tion, authorizing the importation of Slaves into the
Colony, frOm which some faaious men insinuated
among the Negroes, that it was intended to revive
the old- regime. Between four and, five hundred
WhiteS and Mulattoes were massacred, but tran-
quillity was restored before the 3Oth. The prin-
cipal fomenter of it was one FLAN' I LLE, the oldest
,General in the Island, and the chief cause of the
former revolution in the Colony. ToussAlNT's
old Master was in the number of the massacred.
The Negroes* were refused quarter. •
• Letters from Boston of the 21st of November,
state, that the Peace between the European Powers
had Caused in the United 'States the Colonial Pro-
du lions to fall. in price, as well as, a stagnation of
Commercial Enterprise.

Early in the ensuing summer, a Commission, -it
is said, will be appointed, consisti,pg of the first
Min6alogists in Englan:l,--to- proceed on an expe-
rimental exattlition of the several wipe§ in Ire_
land„.-tspeCially those of iron or stone ore ; so that
they may, if found produuive, be fully wrought ;
a national objeft on the largest scale,

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Near nine hundred loaves have been distributed
to the poor of Exeter, by order of the Mayor, pur-
chased by the laudallle hop imposed by the PpAce
of that city,