The Sun.
London, England, 1802-04-19 00:00:00

MINISTRY OF THE MARINE.

ARMY OF ST. DOMINGO.
THE CbMINIANDER IN CHIEF TO THE MINISTER CI

where CHRUTOPWE WAS entrenched on his right.
the same day DASFOURNEAUX'S Division took a
Position before Euer.y, where General HARDY also
aSSClllbled his Division.
" Ott the 4th, Despotritierettx's Division ad_
Danced to the Coupe-a-Pintade, where it met the
neillY• I had supported that Division by Des-
PLANQIIR., Division, and that of General HARDY.
Gtnerai DESFOURNEAUXEnemy,
attacked the and
drove them to Gonni.ver, which had been burnt two
days before. pie Enemy, who were vigorously
pushed, could not sustain the shock : they returned
t° the river Esther, after having left 200 Men on .
field of battle. Seeet's Brigade, belonging to
4ltDY's
site Division, on the same day took a posi-
on at Poteau before La Coupe-a-Pintade.
The same iIayRoCHAMBEAU'S Division enter-
Ced the Ravine a,Couleuvre. It was there that
pneral To usse
NT, with his guard, forming a
dert's of 1500 Grenadiers, drawn from different
i'etit'-brigades, and about zoo chosen from among
hest Battalions of his Army, with the addition
of
four hundred Dragoons attempted to defend
the place , .
1::11 The Ravine a_Couleuvre is extremely
Proteoed ; it is flanked by lofty mountains,
tivered with woods, in which were placed more
Tla° zOOO Cultivators, who are to be added, to the
had fps I have already enumerated. The Enemy
tla;4°Nled considerable abbatis, which obstrueted
witnPlssage; they occupied the, entrenched positions
vi-2
e°mmanded the ravine. A position so strong
thc).:'int"!eessarily have retarded any other General
*`°CIIAMB EAU, but he executed his disposi-
tbe the rapidity of lightning, and attacked
cc 'ne'ne's entrenchments.
Battle ensued, in which man was opposed to
The Troops of Tousset err fought well, but
sverY thine. yielded to French intrepidity. Toys_
evat%ated his positions, and retired in dis-
.(ier towards the Little River, leaving Soo men
G 4 °le field of battle. On the sth I repaired to
ee'eives„ I was extremely uneasy with regard to
etais DEBELLE and BOUDET, from whom Lhad
°t heard any tidings.
nett On the 6th 1 learnt. by Emissaries, that Gee
Mrnal IpEeeeet had not been able to force General
te-1181)As. I ordered DESFOURNEAUX'S Division
130:114r eh to the principal fastness, by the way of
ltp-tnnde Pate ; and I also ordered General ROCHAM-
fOt t„?.PrOCeed to the Bridge of Ester, and push
Gew, 4,-`4164 his right and left to gain the news of
:".(..a1.:6 1.,) ET, ithd the retreat of the Enemy.
Maste'nebe 'eth 1 learnt that General BOUDET was
to oldster
11:ael. I then saw no other Enemy
liee°,verculne but IVlAuerxes. I ordered General
ceinn—Y to march to .the principal fastness, with five
iVnies of grenadiers, and 800 men belonging to
el 17, ; I added to this Corps a company
enys:;feua.rds, consisting of too men. I marched
the th with that body, and on the night of
took a position two miles from the
tvitht\P`O fastness. My intention was to proceed
ofCt'stou RN E-AUX'S Division, and the too men
17„enerei EAR t' DY, )- occupy on the Bth a position
e,'" miles distance from it, in the rear of General
In ;uitEees, to attack him on the 9th at day-break,
for-n"eert with General Dr BELLE, whom I had in_
tie7o"kri of this movement. But General MAUREPAS,
q'ent44l 110 prOSpCii of a retreat, sent Deputies to
lete-rtal bEBELLE, who had not yet received my
ale 1-)si and desired to submit to the conditions in
to n ',"ciamation, in which I prothised to continue
'e" Ofii,ers as surrendered their rank.
akleiaoGeneeal Den e Lee consented, and however
'line :ageoes my position was, I thought it my
bet:n ZaPprove what he had done. I ordered Ge-
t, rAtjatrAs to join me.
kte, hgave this day, the Bth, sent the Corps from
!Air niViSiOD to GoNai,ves, whither I shall re_
of ',llls evening to proceed tomorrow in pursuit
Pay:e'eral Toussei!er.
.-"T'ett the 4111, the Inhabitants of the Country
‘'ater %rtied ToussAiser as ruined. The Culti-
sts return to their habitations, the Soldiers desert
&ire nl'indard, and it is the general opinion that we
,ntsters of the Colony.
ite"eral Desroueeeeeux particularly praised
lieentt, the Chief of Brigade, and General
rtantlan gives due encomium to the Adjutant Com-
DeseeAteoues. I have appointed him
app-a! of Brigade. They also praise General SALM.
CONGEAT Chief of Brigade of the I ith
to ije,nt, on the field of battle. That brave Offi.
hie is
dead of the wounds by which he merited
r.,.011106011
Ceric vjetterel noel-rem T 3 EAU particularly praises the
too e
tnand. ' Brigade, BRUNET; the Adjutant Com_
Zee i!tts LAVALLETTR and ANDRIEU, and
rChief of Brigade of the sth Regiment,
1.14, --de-Camp of that General, Citizen LACHA-
;I7,I was killed in the ate} of scaling Fort Dauphin.
°f SePertealy well satisfied with BRUVER Es, Chief
SEt i' toti4dron, and also with my Aide-de-Camp, and
ta AIa.`PITIIT, Chief of Squadron, added to the
jor.
theg
am
satisfied with every Corps belonging to
1Dt1;-11-, but particularly with the sth, tth, and
Ilnelie,
infantry, and the 31st and 68th of the
ttele„ Ciceeral Bon DET orticulArly praises the
stele„` L
iv and
• Aeton. muninuantsi AMPH ILE, A
lc •••i.
1/4b 500 nas the reports of the different Corps
aic;all ave reached the General in Chief of the Staff,
leollll`tof_the Artily, you
shall receive a detailed
ni • will inform you of the names of the brave
%treat t°'" I have thought it my dory to reward. I
whet
7,3°11 to request the First Consul to confirm
"are done.
,
°F a ed. us the Army of St. Domingo, in.the course
a-niNign of five days, has dispersed the prin-
e;i ssemblies of their rics—obtained elo,ses-
!„ °I. their bi„ 'teen .
}-• Len ban., anti a portion of their am.-
.-tetvn Ls)-etion f.rennent in the Rebels' camp.
LE'r.tIVF, Meueeees, and many
illittee7,,,,,Chiels end Men of Colour, have sub_
Pte
.rv,d of
oftile South are entirely
3141 d 111 and the whole of :he Spanish part of the
,s surredred.
eitalth and ReTetli

LECLEILC."

Pktl
the o,t_i!e,r letter from the Commander in Chief to
tat i:(y.itster
, of Marine, dated Headquarters, the
°en, is as Follows:
41), ct"_Pa tcc'onlttlhorlicated to you, Citizen Minister, in
of the day before Yesterday, the success.

which we had obtained. We are now in pursuit of
TOUSSAINT, who has retired into the Mirebe/ais.—
General ROCHAME EAU, who has passed the Esteil
General BotiDET, who has set out from Pol a
Prince, and the columns of the Spanish Army,
which are marching in that diredion, induce me
to hope that he cannot long escape us. Of the soo
horse.guards which he had, 3ocyhave already desert-
ed him.

DESSALINES, the most feroCious of them all,
has massacred some Whites. Fortunately we have
some time yet before us, ere the great rains, and
heats commence. All the Coasts and the Ports of
the Island are in our possession. Nothing can equal
the fatigues of our Troops-.-nothing can eqUal their
indignation against this ferocious Banditti. -
(Signed) 2c LecLEttb."

ADMIRAL VILLARET JOi•EIJsE, TO THE h~2NIS"TEI2
OF THE MARINE AND OF THE COLONIEt, Al'

FAR Is.

" On hoard the Ainiiral's Ship the Yentappe, in
the Road of Cape Francis March 4,

" Since my last Dispatch, events have happened
which appear to me to ensure the conquest of Si.
Domingo. every thing presages that very soon the
Troops of the Republic, instead of having to Corn-
bat a general and organized Revolt, will have only
to destroy a partial brigandage, exercised by
wandering hordes, under Chiefs without authority,
without asylum, and without design. I cannot
separate in my account, the operations of the Army
and Navy, which have both been directed to the
same objet. I begin with the Details which ap.
pertain to Santo Domingo.
" Captain BERNARD, commanding the Frigates la
Fraternite and la Preeieuse, having on board a body
of troops under the order of General KERV ES E AUX,
presented himself on the zd of February before the
Capital of the Spanish part of St. Domingo. PAUL
LOUYERTURE, the brother of TOUSSAINT, COM-
manded in this place, as well as in the whole De_
partment oft'Ozama. When he was summoned to
surrender the Town to the troops of the Republic,
he answered, conformably to the system of dissimu.
lation prescribed to him, that he waited the orders
of the Governor-General. You will learn without
being astonished, that he still waited them on the
14. th of February (the date of the last dispatch from
Captain BERNARD.) The force of General Kett-
v est Avx would not permit him to attack the place,
he waited therefore the effe& of the known dispo-
sition of the inhabitants.

" In the night of the 9th of February, those to
whom the yoke of TOVSSAI NT had become intole-
rable, carried one of the Forts swora in hand, and
opened to us the gates of the Town. This effort of
courage was, however, useless, from the difficulty
of combining the movements which were necessary
to support them. The greatest efforts were made
to disembark the Troops on a rocky coast, which
presented no facility for landing, but the Chaloupes
were upset and filled with water, without a single
man being enabled to gain the shore. Happily no
person perished, and the brave Insurgents seeing
the whole garrison likely :0 fail upon them, eva-
cuated the Fort withoto loss, and quitting the town,
retired into the adjoining fields. They returned
to the charge on the itth and carried one of the
Outer posts ; on the r 3th all hope of submission
having vanished, the Frigates quitted the anchorage
commanded by the Forts, since which they have
blocked up the harbour of Ozama, where they have
seized two American Vessels laden with Provisions
Nevertheless the part of the Island which formerly
belonged to the Spaniards has submitted to the
Republic. The People of the Country have armed
in our favour, and the Commander in Chief has
ordered a body of Troops to join General KE R-
VES EAU X, for the purpose of reducing -the only post
that remains in the kinds of the Rebels. I have
every reason to think that it has at present submit-
ted, and that the Partisans of TOUSSAINT do not
at present possess one perch of ground in tl►e East-
ern part of the Island. •
. _

" I have this moment received information that
General KERVESEAVX entered Santo- Domingo on
the ztst of February. He had besieged the place
for several days, both by laud and sea. The De-
partment of the South, in which the black General
_LAP LUME, commanded, surrendered without re-
sistance.

" The ships the Union, the Argonaut and the
the Dugay-Tyouin, detached by Rear. Admiral LA_
Too CHE, have rendered the most essential service.
Thus, from Petit Gua•ves to -,Tionet, almcss the
.whole circumference of the Island, every thing is
preserved ; but it is not owing to TOUSSAINT
and to DESSAY INES that every thing was not
destroyed ; their intercepted Correspondence and
their Aids-de-Camp, ct ho and prisoners, prove,
that the orders of these sanguinary Chiefs, were
to murder all the Whites, and to • burn every
thing on the appearance of our Squadron.
"During the retreat of DEssAL! NES, the Argonaut
had succeeded in reducing the Fort of Leogan e ; and
the Adjutant, DARBots, having disembarked at
this Point, had defeated 2000 Blacks who were en-
trenched-near it. The Eagle and some light vessels
carried 900 men to Arcahiv-ve. General BOUDET,
having secured the tranquillity of the Department
of the South and Port Republicaine, diSembarked
himself 'at -Mont Roui with the rest of his Troops,
to march against St. Mark; and the Hero, together
with several other ships of war, have been cruizing
off Go/Jai:yes, to furnish supplies to our Army, and
to intercept all communication between the different
bodies of the Blacks.

" in the North, the march of the General in Chief,
combined with the movements of General BOUDET,
will, no doubt, put a speedy period to the hThbdy
devastations which have ruined the Departmettiedie
West. The Army left the Cape on the 29th Pliiiibsp
(18th Feb.), and on the same day forced the pousWOf
Do and St. Raphael. To oSSAINT and Cn,
TOP un were not able to maintain these formidable ,

positions against the Division of General Rocn AM-
EAU, which likewise drove them from St. iJlichel
de l'Attalaye. At the same time General HARDY
got possession of Marmelade and Ennety, the head_
quarters of the Rebels; and General DF.SFOUR-
NrAux penetrated to these places by the way : of
-Plaisance. These three Divisions were, op the 3d
Ventose, at the distance of 9 leagues from Gonai'ves,
which was to be attacked on the sth or 6th. The

ktillels will Alen be confined on the .1-Lights, or to
the /it kilt of Artibonite, between the Army of the
6enerai in Chief, anti the - Corps led by Qener:l.

0 1.7 ET. I evid to hear decisive neWs.of their
fate befo:e the dosing of these Dispatches.
" Gen. Lac Latte, eager to gain the grand objen
Of his Expedition, vii. the complete destruction of the
two Brigands; whom by his Proclamation of the 28th
Pluviose he had put Out of the proteCtion of the law,
in his rapid march, had overlooked some small bo-
dies of Rebel Negroes, who might, harass his rear,
and Who daily set fire to the houses in the. neigh-
bourhood of the Capes General Bovaa, who com-
mands in this City, ordered them.to be attacked by
4.00 men in the post of St. Suzanne, ant! the Fort
of Lesec. They Were • driven our at the point
of the bayonet, the works being first blown up, ttie
cannon tolled to the bottom of the hill, and theam-
mtinitiOn; gun-carriages, &c. burned. They left
behiod them 28 killed, and 50 wounded, On his
part; Rear-Admiral Kati GON advanced from Fort
Liberte to Caracole; at the head of a small de-
tachment: Being attacked by the Rebels, he killed
68, and made 45 prisoners, among whom was the
Head of this Division of the Rebels : he was. in-
stantly shot: These two Expeditions secure the
tranquillity of the neighbouring distrias, facilitate
convoys and •conimumeations, and preserve build-
ings, which are the hope of commerce, and the
pledge of future prosperity. "
" It remains to me, Citizen Minister, to say a
few words of Port-di.-Paix, where the Navy, shar-
ing jn all the dangers 9f the Land Forces, rivalled
them in courage, and signalized its devotion with
equal splendour and Usefulness. On the 26th Pluviose
I dispatched from Port-de-Paix the Jean Bar: with
,a reinforcement of 400 men, which, allowed the
Furituse Frigate to come to the Mole, and to secure
this important Post. A hundred Marine Artillery-
men were sufficient to occupy Jean Rebel, where
tro Blacks, who had for three years • wandered in
e-woods under the command of a person of the
name of Goeatto, that they might escape from rh
yoke of TottsSAINT, came to join us. At the
Mole the Captain of the Fariettse was received as a
Deliverer, with salutes of Artillery from the city
and all the fortifications, and abo men who have
been sent thither since, now secure the place from
insult. Letters were found from To uss INT to the
Commander, in which he: earnestly requests the
printing press, all the fusees and pistols in the
magazine, four 24-pounders,- and two mortars.
(' On the 27th Pluviose, General Lica ERC, de- .
siring to go up the countr'Y, judged it proper to dis-
patch coo men to Port de Paix, with an ulterior
destination confided to General DEBELLE. Rear_
Admiral Lt Sots had the charge of this Expeditions
with the Ship L'intrepide, and the Frigates which
were in the Roads. In all the different occasions
where they have had an opportunity to act, the Ma-
rines and Naval Cadets have merited the warmest
praise from the Land Officers.
" You will set with me; Citizen Minister, how
just it is to encourage the zeal and emulation of
these young men who constitute the fairest hopes of
the Navy, by the promotion they have so well de-
served. I have no doubt that you will confirm all
the promOtions I have made.
MAuttep As, the Black General, who had made
head against General DE BELLE, apprized of the
vidorious'march of the Commander, in Chief, and of -
his arrival in his rear, as well as of the precipitate
flight of TOUSSA I NT, did not judge it prudent to run
the risque of farther resistance, and entered into a ca-
pirulation. On the Bth, after discharging 8000 Ne-
gro cultivators serving under his command, he entered
Port de Paix with 2000 regular troops and 17 pieces
of cannon, which he placed at the disposal of the
Generals of the Republic. A few hours after he
set out with -General DEB EL L F., to join the Com-
mander in Chief; and the Division of Rear_Admiral
LlNols arrived on the 9th in the Road of the Cape,
leaving at Port de Paix only the Fr igate La Muiron.
Apprised of these decisive events, I have dispatched
the Corvette La Mignoar trait* La Cigogne in the •
Bay of Acul, where this last .vessel lay, aith 70,000
rations of biscuit ready to be. placed at the disposal
of the Commander in Chief. They are to be convey-
ed to Gonaives. I have sent- off the Ambuscade to
Rear_Admiral LAToUCHE, and I have stationed the
Cutter L'Acquille, to cruize on the neighbouring
Coasts, for the purpose of intercepting the coirunu-
nicAtions of the Rebel Negroes who are dispersed
over various points, and who form bodies of an in-
considerable number. Such is, Citizen Minister, a
faithful piaure of our operations, .and of the events
which have occurred up to this day.
(Signed) " VILLARET."

1' P. S. This Dispatch was intended to have been
sent off in two days with the Division of Admiral
GANTHEAUME ; but the General in Chief having
this day addressed to me some Dispatches, with a
request to forward them without delay by the
swiftest sailing vessel of. the Squadron, I have se-
leded La Cisal,eine for this service.
" The General in Chief, LECLERC, expressing
at the same time his desire that his Dispatches should
be entrusted to an alive, intelligent Officer, capa-
ble of, accompanying the Dispatches of which he is
the hearer, with such details as may have escaped
us, I have chosen Citizen JEROME BONAPARTE,
whom I have. thought proper to raise to the rank of
Ensign, in consequence of the chew of talent which'
he has displayed since he has been under my inspec-
tion.

Ferrand, a private in the 3d West York,
was on Thursday committed to York Castle, charged
with having forced Ann Ainley, a girl, 14 years of
age, into the River Cherwold,, where she was suf.
focated and, drowned., T l.e hpdy of the unfortunate
girl was found on Wednesday morning, and Fel..,
rand having been seen in company with her late the
preceding evening, he was interrogated; he atiirst
'denied all knowledge of her, bur afterwards said,"
that he had been with her in the churchyard ; that
she had thrown herself info, the river, at which he,
'was so much alarmed as to be deprived of the power
to render her any assistance. The Coroner's Jury,
however, believed .him to be guilty of the m'a'de;,
and found their verdid accordingly.
A young woman named Hall, was 1-a3t week burnt
to death at Cambridge, in consequence of falling
asleep while sitting before a fire,
_which by some
accident caught her clothes,