The Sun.
London, England, 1802-04-17 00:00:00

L APRILONDON„ '7, 1802.

THE purport of the Telegraphic Dispatch which
we gave in our Paper of yesterday from Brest, is, that
good news had been brought.—This is, in English,
at least, 'a very indefinite term. It will hardly be
supposed, that it can comprehend the complete and
'final subjugation of the Blacks, and we have said
enough already upon this subjel to prove, that no-
thing short of this can be considered as very favour-
able to the cause of the French Republic in St. Do.,

A protraeted warfare in that Country is death to
those employed, and incalculable expence to the
Mother Country. It is certainly the interest of
Britain that the French should succeed in -the objea
of 'their Expedition,- and we have repeatedly as-
serted, .that.the ultimate, perhaps the more imme.
diate fate of our- own Colonies in that quarter of
the Globe, is deeply involved in this event. But
we cannot give way to the sanguine, and most
likely delusive -expeaations and representations of
Frenchmen, upon the-course of events in St. Domingo,
.and their probable issue. A system of warfare,
heretofore waged by even runaway Negroes, has
proved in some of our Islands,: very fatal to thousands
of our Countrymen, Arid their final subjeaion has
been accomplished only very lately by extraordinary
'means.—ln a Country, therefore, so comparatively
extensive as that of St. Domingo, in which the Ne-
groes have, for so many years, been accustomed to
bear sovereign away, with an army well trained
and well organized in every' respea; it is not rea-
sonably to be expeetecl, that an European. Force,
however large, shotrld so soon succeed in the objea
of its equipment. We believe that the first ac-
counts received from that quarter, had all the
charaaeristic embellishment of French Military
detail, but we know too much of the nature of
West India warfare to believe, that getting pos--
session of the sea ports, and the adjacent ',pains of
such. an island as St. Domingo, is getting more than
one foot on the first step of a ladder, the, steep and
high ascent of which, those who have to elitnb, do.
not take time to calculate and ascertain. A part of
the Black forces may be conquered or seduced, but
enough will remain in the heights and fastnesses of
the Island, to render the possession oldie Plains and
Valleys a very dangerous and fatal service to those'
whose lot it may be to occupy them. We shall pro.
bably be enabled on Monday to lay before our Rea_
ders .the nature of the Dispatches brought by the
brother of the Chief Ct)nsul from St. Domingo. We
forbear, under these circumstances, to repeat rumours
of events in that quarter, which do not seem toils to
be founded on proper authority.

The-RoyAL FADArrx will attend Divine Service
to-morrow, being Easter Day,' at St. George's
Chapel, Windsor.

Yesterday, being the Fast ,of the Crucifixion,
commonly called Good Friday, it was observed with
all due solemnity ; the Shopkeepers kept the day
with becoming observance. Smithfield, though
Market Day, had not a shew of Cattle ; and the
weekly Fair of Horses was also abridged, none of
the few bought being offered for sale till after Di-
vine Service.

. ,
All the French Prisoners of War at the DepOt of
Portsmouth, were embarked on board sundry Cartel
Vessel; on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and
Thursday, the t zth, 14. th, and i sth inst.—
the number between three and four thousand. The
Public are much indebte.l to the Agent for 'Prisoners
of War at that Depot, for his exertions in relieving
the Country of soleavy a burden in so short a space
of time. .

Mr. MANNERS SUTTON'S being upon the Circuit
as a Welsh Judge, is the reason why the Solicitor
Generalship is so long in being filled. •• His answer
has, however, probably been received by this time.
This morning no less than six cart loads of Em-
blematical Figures, indicative of the happy event of
Peace, were carried, to the Mansion;House, where
they w:l4 be displayed at the ensuing Dinner.
Balls, Masquerades, .&c. will be given by several
People of Fashion, in honour of the Peace. The
time between this and•the Birth-day will be chiefly
occupied in'this kind of rejoicing.
Lords BORINGDON RIA,FIIICASTLE have gone to
France. •

Mrs. DAMER iS on' her return from Paris, not
much satisfied, we believe, with her Tour.
i letter from the Island of Trinidada, dated
December 22, states, 'that on the news of the Rati-
' fication of the Prelithinaries, the principal-inhabi,
tants held a meeting, and agreed to an Address"of
Congratulation to the King, in which was expresstd
a wish that the British form of Government should
be extended to Trinidada, as far -as it exists in any
other of the West India Islands.

1„1 N L NE WS.

PORTSMOL/71r, APRIL 16.

. .
His Majesty's Ships Aurora, Camilla, Cambrian,
and. Endymion, are ordered to be paid off.
Arrived the following Ships from-London-:
Alexander, Bayley, for Leghorn; Vine, Newland, for Mar-
tinique ; Pendown, Fr.allard, for Falmouth.; Atalanta,
Bowman; for New. Brrinswick ; Nelson, Carr, and Dasher,
Davison. for Quebec ; Indispensable, Gardner, for South
Sea ; and Lorentius Carolina, Warldsdn, from Dram.

SHEERNESS, APRIL 16.

TfilS day arrived His Majesty's Ship Namur, of
go'guns, Hon,. Captain MICHAEL DE COU RC EY ;
and Hound Sloop' of War, from the Westward.
The Nanzue has gone to Chatham, to be paid off.
The Alliance was paid off this day, and the Crew
of His Majesty's late Ship Assistance.