The Sun.
London, England, 1804-02-08 00:00:00

LONDON, FEBRUARY 8, 0304.

THE Gazette or last night ,Epntained the Official
Details of the Surrenderof the ;li:rench Force in St.

Dom;frgo, the arrivarof which we announced two or
three days ago. These our Readers will find at length
under the Head of the London Gazette. The condua
of General ROCE3ANISEATJ is charafteriz,7tl by out
Officers as extraordinary, and indeed' it se:no
to have been so in a great degree. After hal: irg
proposed to Surrender to the. English on terms
were ioadmissible,.he forms a Capitulation vt DE,-
sAr..l tkrgs the Black Chief, by which his Army were
to embark on board his Ships and Transut ts,'in the
hope of making their esc ,pe to France. This scheme,
however, was rendered abortive by the vigilance and
perseverance with which our Squadron maintained
the Blockade in the midst of tempestuous weat her, and
it was owing to the critical interference of British
humanity, that the whole of the French were pre,.
served from being sunk at their anchors by the red-
hot shot of ;the _much injured and indignant Blacks.
The Evacuation of St. Domingo 16 an event which
places the British and French charadzrs in their
true point of view, and no Englishman can read the
details without a feeling of self-congratulation.
Sir THONZAS DuC.KWORTH'S Dispatches furnish
some details of Captures highly honourable to the
gallantry and professional abilities of the Officers
concerned.

The Extrait.,of a Dispatch from Governor
NORTH, of the Island of Ceylon, does not afford
us equal satisfailton. It confirms the account which
we had received of the murder of the Garrison of
Candi, who were attacked in the midst of a Truce,
o❑ the 24th of June. The Commandant, Major
DAVIE, unfortunately capitulated on the following
day, and marched out of the Fort with all his force,
soon after which the European Soldiers, forty in
number, were murdered in cold blood. The Ma.
lays and Native Troops were spared. Major -DA.
vrt, a Captain of Artillery, and four Malay Offs.
cers were carried off, and their fate was unknown.
Governor NORTH seems to blame the conduit of
Major DAvt c, who probably may never ap..
pear to vindicate or explain his conduit. It
is some satisfailion to perceive that no spirit
of defeition prevailed in the Malay Regiment,
though a few desertions had taken place from Candi.
We hope that this misfortune, melancholy as it is
in its circumstances, will not at all endanger the
safety of the British Establishment in the Island of
Ceylon. A large reinforcement of Artillery sailed
faom this Country in the Windham and Walpole
East Indiarnen, which must have reached its desti.
nation soon after the date of Governor Norm's
Dispatch.

One Hamburgh and one Gottenburz Mail arrived
this morning. The following are their principal
contents. .61.

tv
VIENNA, JAN. IS.---Count IVlAacovs, since
his arrival here has had frequent conferences with
the Minister of State, Count COBENTZEL, with
whom he had before cultivated an acquaintance at
St. Petersburgh ; appeared at all the
parties of
that Minister ; he has not, however, visited the
French Ambassador. It is said IC will be employed
in the Ministry on his return tr St. Petersburgh.

lAL MA j has i.lpoluitt'd his En.'
voy at Copenhagen, Couut KAUN FEZ, to be Envoy
at Dresden.

MENTZ, JAN. 2t.--The Minister of Justice has
ordered search to he made after an Englishman
of the name of BROU GI-ITO N ho has escaped from
Brussels by means of a Piss for Germany intended
for another person.
By orders from high authority, the death of the
late KING of FRANC E, of which. this -is the anni-
versary, is no longer to,be pubViy noticed, and
still less celebrated. • ,

BANKS OF THE MEIN, JAt. 18.-Tile Gazette
of Aschafenburg has just publiShed a remarkable
Paper relative to the Equestrian Order. This is a
Note remitted on the Is-di of December by Citizen
TALLEYRAND, Minister for Foreign AiThirs, to
Baron WACHTER at Paris. It is to the following
purport :
The First Consul, firmly resolved to preserve the politi.
cal existence of the immediate Equestrian Order, has charged
(agreeable to the declaration already transmitted to Count
CoBENT zEi.) his MiniSter at Munich, to do every thing
which may be necessary to put an end to all attempts and
ads of violence which the Eleelor has permitted himself
against the immediate Equestrian Order. Ile has also caused
an energetic declaration, to the same purport, to be made to
M. de CETT o. The Minister is fully convinced from these
dispositions, that the Ele6lor will hasten to -render to the
Equestrian Order full and entire justice."
The same Gazette contains likewise the follow.
ing Paragraph :

" His Highness the Arch-Chancellor Eledor, resolved to
fulfil his duties as Seigneur Suzerain, will protect to the
utmost of his power the Members of the Equestrian Order
against every ad of violence. He will demand the ;Aid of the
Tribunals, and denounce to the Emperor and the General
Diet all attaLks and infringements of whatever nature
they may be. The Electoral Military have entered the Bai-
liwick of Kronihach, which depends on the Elcdorate, and
which has been illegally occupied by Foreign Troops, solely
to maintain the Coi:nt de ScitoNßurt N in possession of the
rights he enj,lys in that Bailiwick, and to proted him, as
much as pos,i;il,f. rigainst any violence, and every ad con.,
trary to th,'

City or Nzer2.7,,ziers• 1:al protested
,Ig
_concluded between
i'toL,i.4 and 8.4p.f1a.", becaUfse some °fits Dependen-
,,rlprised within the ceded Territory.

E; JAN. 21.—The French Minister of Ma-
DLCR ES, last week inspeaed the Flotilla at
Flushing, which lies ready to sail with iz,ooo
French Troops. It is said that the Enemy has
projeded the burning of this Fleet, and yesterday,
in consequence, as was reported, of this discovery,
an English Spy was arrested, Who was sent to the
Military Tribunal at Antwerp.
Before the French Minister of Marine left Flush-
kng, a part of the Flotilla there went through its
manoeuvres under his insPet!lien.
LEYDEN, JAN. 22.—The Minister of the Ma-
rine of the French Republic, Rear,-Admiral DE c R Es,
whom the First Consul left on the Coast of Bou-
logne, afterwards visited that of Flanders, and ex.
tended his tour to Flushing. He arrived at that
port on the x 2th instant, in theAtk'cv.ening, having
been preceded two -days before by the General of
Brigade SAYARY, Aid.de.Camp to the First Consul.
The inspeaion of the Batavian Flotilla, Which had
been already begun by Gen. SAVARY before the ar-
rival of the Minister, was afterwards continued by the
two Officers,.who having fulfilled the object of their
mission, and Concerted divers new measures with the
Commandant"" of 'the Batavian Armament, Rear_
Admiral VERHEUL, set out together on the z4th
for the other bank of Scheldt.

GOTHENBURG, JAN. 26.—The Herring Fishery
which began here 'some time since with a prospeft
of success, has been retarded by a frost unusually
early for this Country ; but in consequence of the
late westerly gales, and fine open weather, it has
begun again, and it is thought will be produLaive.
Near too English Sailors, who have been ship-
wrecked on different parts of the Coast, have been
sent home within the last month by the Packets.
ELSINEUR, JAN. 23.—The Orestes Sloop of War
will proceed for England the. first fair wind : we
have fine mild weather at present : wind westerly.

Yesterday morning the DUK Es of CUMBERLAND,
KENT, and CAMBRIDGE, breakfasted with THEIR
MAJESTIES.
At ten o'clock Mr. ADDINGTON had an audience
of His MAJESTY, which continued till near one.
HER MAJESTY and the PRINCESSES, attended
by the Countesses HARRINGTON and _WA L DE-
GRAVE, in two Coaches and four, with the usual
escort of Light Horse, took an airing over West-
minster Bridge, on the Clapham road, and returned
about two o'clock.

The PRINCE of WALES, by Letters received in
town from Brighton yesterday, has, we are happy to
say, been pronounced out of danger.
Her Royal Highness the PRINCESS of WALES
came to Town yesterday from Blackheath to Carle.
ton House.ivoir. Inc

His MAlisfr, 'we-, are concerned t© learn, has
biliOus symptoms, andiGout is supposed to be flying
about hub; We hope• a little care and attention will
speedily restore our beloved .Sovereign to perfel
health.

Bread was yesterday lowered a whole Assize,
or Twopence in the Peck Loaf, which, will com-
mence to-morrow. The Quartern Loaf Wheaten
will then be Eight-pence Halfpenny and Household
Yen-pence.,
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