The Sun.
London, England, 1804-07-16 00:00:00

ST. DOMINGO.

Wt inserted some time ago a Nartarive respelling
`the enormous extortions and cruelty 44 the French in
tit, Domingo ; the' tollowing Artiale, taken frorn
an AmeriCan Paper, affords a Irtientable ccnfirma-
'lion of a part of that Narrative, anti is well worthy
'the attention of those who may think too inditfe.
'rently of the danger of a
,French Invasion, or'the
-Consequences that would attend its success in this
Country.

From the New•rfirk E veni g POll, Maj 25.
Among the passenger's arrived here a few days
iince from the Havannah, in the Brigantine Joseph,
'Captain PAATT, is the 'Brother of the unfortunate
Frook; the elder, merchant, late of Cape Francois,
wlio fell a viduim to the ferocity of General
'Cit.D.lB At. Mr. FEDON, tearing that this rnetan.
'choly event may he mistepresented by the Malicious
or ,uninformed, and produce impressions unfavour.
able to the memory of his brother, and prejudicial
to his family, has requested us to publish the follow.
Declaration, which. he made' b&re the French
Agent it The Havanna!), and which Contains .a cot..
rat statement of the circumstances which preceded
and accompanied this fatal catastrophe.---I—Mer,
"fiver.

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Exley& from the Regitter, of recorded by the Sp.
cial 444,ent of the French Grruerkmeut at theila.
.vaionab.
I, the undersigned flikalltaLoNtaw, Fr DON,. ChM.
pelled to retire Iron the Colony of St. Domingo,
have considered it my duty to publish, at the first
place of my debarkation, and within the first
tweniy,foUr hours, the molives which have forced
me to abandon 'my property and .my commercial
concerns.
For a long time past the house of Fenotr, Ilro!
there, has been the objets of unceasing and came.
less persecution from the Commander in Chief ;
which JOHN
has. been principidly directed
against EtAfTISTR FEcios, my brother, pro.
bahly,because he was the principal partner in the
house, and had the thief direfflun in its affairs.
General CtAuset. had lent us a store in the
dwelling.house he occupied, and of which he is the
proprietor, for the purpose' of storing flour t this
ildur was confiscated by order of General ItocirAmi,
11 Au, althouk;li he had 4u&ient evidence of its be,
log t.ur property, Ist, from our declaration Made
before theCumnissary of the Police some time ante,
cedent ; and ad, from our books, in which were
duly posted the purchase and sales, a great part of
is being dispoied of.
in a short time subsequent, and in Vendemiaire
last (September), six horses were taken out of our
stables, by order of General RocuAlvta RAO, 'three
of them of great value, under the pretext of mount.
ins; the dragoons, although such horses cannot be
employed in that service.
These circumstances, highly aggravating in
themselves, %gip as nothing in comparison to what
followed.

On the 2d Brumaire (October 23t1), itt eight o'clock
* in the morning:, an 0 icer of the Gendarmerie, ac.
compatAed by two soldiers, presented themselves at
nor dwelling-house, and delivered an order from the
General in -Chief in the following imps,:

Head-quarters of the Cape; Ist Brumaire,
" • Year it (Ud. 2.2),.
"' The General in Chief, considering tlic pcetient rieCessi+
ties of the Army, decrees, Thrit ;be CitizensEaooN, Brothers,
shall deposit in the Public Treasury, within two hours, the
gum of Mx TlloUlSallti &Alin's, for which a receipt from the
Treasury shall be delivered, to them. The Commandant of
the Garrison is chugett with the execution of the present
Order,

(Signed)

•ROCIIAMBEAU."

Citixens. Fenner were ar that time wholly desti.
tote of cash ; .yet they were prevented from going
abroad to procure re:outees by the two soldiers •who
Were left as:guards over them ; at one o'clock 'orders
of imprisonment were issued against Citizen Fsourt,
and the younger brother was concluded to. prison.
The elder brother, however, was.the destined vic.
tim ; and, in Conse4uince thereof; in a few minutes
afterwards, the former was released, and the litter
put into close confinement...
It should 1)6'1.0000cl, that similar demands were
mark on other merchants at the same time, and -they
were Imprisimed because they could not comply ;
but Citizen Finnic, the elder; • was the only 'one
closely confined, excepting Citizen ALLARD, whose
confinement Was in consequence of improper lin._
gage used towards the General. in Chief. On the
torehoon of thefollowing day (Oltober '24111), I re.
critted information that the'General in Chief had or.
tiered my brother to be thia, fur not, having furnish.
pute_.
ed the sum re d
Althinisli I was far from believing that this san-
guinary order would be -carried- into execution, 1
endeavoured to avert it ; and finding it impossible to
raise she sum exalted, I wrote to the Csimmune,
offering all Our pr'operty,
,moveables, and metchan.
dine, to be sold by' public onftion...
The General, in Chief had constantly refused to
'receive me into his Presence. The Council of Nora.
idea waited upon him, And, with difficulty, ob.
rained the respite of an hour ; but during ibis sus.
reosion,• a Serje,:nt of • the Guard of Honour, who
was the bearer of the order for my Brother's execu.
lion, was direeted to accompany the Notables, and
to remain with them until the time limited had ex.

pit ed.
A subscription was immediattly opened at the
Office of the Notables, and t%ent,,, 'he first mer.
chants of the City hastened to subsvribe, and to
themselves individtsally resptinsible, in their
persons and their, property, for the payment of the
sum demanded.

The Subscription Wring Allect, the Notables in a
body
_coconyanied by the Serjeant who carried.the
warrmit) returned to the house of the General
Chickbut were refused admittance, and informed
that FED-on was executed. They could not" give
credit to Out, shocking intelligence, and hastened to
411 e Commandant of 'the Catmint, by whom it was
confirmed.

The Notables were deceived; they imagined my
}troller was secure, became the Scrjeant who at.
tended them was the. hearer of the order 19, his
execution, but another order had been isstrcil ; he

bie7patrito
the foot of Fort Belair, where his grave
waS already dug, and my unfortunate Brother was
shot at ten o'clock in the morning.
Several hours had elapsed, hut I continued igno-
rant of his fate, wail the Judges and the Commistary-
of the Army cause to execute the farther orders of
the General in Chief; the former by putting seals
upon our house, and the latter to convey our met.-
chandize to the stores of the State. From this
measure resulted the proof that it was impossible
for us to have complied with the demand of the Ge-
neral, no money being found in the house.
Thus died, at the age of. 29, a man who 'had
committed no crime—who had broken no law—who
cluld not even he reproached with having refused
to comply with the arbittary demand which had
been made upon him ; and who, in fad, could he
charged with nothing but the impossibility of fur.
nislting six thousand
,dollars in the space of two
hours.

These faels would have been made known judici.
ally on the spot, but the.rircumstanccs of the country
prevented it. I therefore now enter this my pro.
testations against the unjust proceedings to which
my. unfortunate Brother has'fallen a vi dim, and
against all the antecedent and subsequent proceed.
ings relative thereto;
,reserving to myself (6 pursue
a just vengeance whenever the author of.them shall
be in my power.
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Done at the Haitannah, the 22t1 Frimaire, year 12.
(Dec. 12, 18034 (Signed) B.' F
ip i', DON.
Certified by LAU A .
c .s
H
Special Agent of the,F tench Government.

(CIRCULAR.)
My LORD. ' W 4114411. YulY 4, 0304.

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The Names of persons proposed as Paymasters to Volunteer
Corps having been frequently transmitted to this Office by the
Lieutenants ut Counties, fon.the pUrpose of being laid before
His Majesty, I think it necessary to apprise you, that such
Paym.,sters (who must be previously Subaltern Officers, or
be actually enrolled as Non.cornmissinned Officers or
vales in the Corps) do not receive 'their Commissions froM
His Majesty, 'or train his Lieutenants of Counties, but arc
appointed by Instruments prepared at the War.Oftice, and
signed by the Commandants of the Carps, after ti.e'comple-
tion of the requisite, Security.
I have therefore requisite,
request that you will signify to such
Commandants as may apply to you respecting the appoint-
ment of Paymasters to their Corps, that the recbmtnencla-
ma of such Paymasters should' be addressed by the Com-
mandants of Corps direCted to the Secretary at War, in con.
fortuity to Instructions, which they may obtain from the War.
Office, it they should not already have received the necessary
information, on that head.

1 have the Honour to be,
My Lord,
Your Lordship's most obedient humble Servant,

Bit 111ajefte: Licuten:vil of tht
' Caul*, of Glowcesur.

IiAWKESBURY.

441!hough the Bill brought into Parliament for regu.
lating the conduit of Prize Agenti was postponed till
the next Session, it his already proved very bane.
ficial both to the Army and Navy, `ll3 we seei'in the
Gazette of Saturday, notices Of payment of Prize.
Money for the subjoined captures. This species of
notice our readers will, we doubt not, conceive we
tkk
do right in extending , ' wledge of in a more
.i-,:.
general way than the Prize is think proper to do.
It would surely be a very prop ‘t:bjed for the Prize.
Bill, to contain a compulsory Clause for a general
advertisement of the distribut inn of prize.money, as,
though the Officers may, through their Agents, ob.
tain• their shares, it often hapyens, we believe, that
the poor soldier or sailor never hears of an advertise.
merit in the London Gazette,' the very high price of
Which, of late years, has deprived the lower orders of
the people of any chance bf seeing it. 11 would,
indeed, be still better, if all notices of the payment
of Prize-money were to he read at the head of every
Regiment in the service, and Ship in the Navy,
in the same manner as General Orders. This regu.
lation, we are confident, would prevent many .a
brave 'fellow from losing what is due to him. The
notices of payment of Prize.money, to which we have
above alluded, are : _

To His Majesty's Forces for the capture of ordnance
stores at the istatidol St, Eustatius (at what period is not
stated): • _ _ _

To the Company of His Majesty's Hired Cutter Ann,
Lieut. YOUNG, tor four vessels taken in 179 g.
To the Army and Navy, anti Ituslast Ships, for the
ordnance stores of the Dutch Squadron which surrendered to
Sir A Npst EW :tirrclty.t.t.., in August, 1799.
To the kussin Squadron, for the capture of four Dutch
Frigates in 1799 ; andA
float distninttion of the property captured at Malta, in
September, ilko.

A Gentleman in the County of Chester, who is
unfortunately deaf, having been in his early days
a great admirer of music, wished his children Co
be insiruaed in that delightful science ; but not
being able, to ascertain their progriss, he lately de.
vised the fulliming method'for that purpose. He
took a small straight lath, of a 'convenient length,
and placing one end against the instrument on which
-they played, put the other to his upper teeth'tthe
under teeth' having' no effeft), or against the nerve
cloSe behind the ear, when he .had.the•sittisfaition to
distingnish'eVery note as perkily as when he had
his oral faculties. This effeiti it *observable, is
Only produced by stringed instruments.
Yesterday. seihnight., a man in. the service of Mr.
Porter, of Felixstone, Norfolk, Was. struck °dead
from the top of a hay.stack,' during a storm of
thunder and lightning, and a tins kilied,Twhich lay
at the foot of the ladder. The stack was set on
fire, and another man near it had his
.head singed.
The storm extended over the whole of Norfolk and
.Suffulk, and did much injury in different quarters.
At Bury, a cow was struck dead in a field belonging
to Mr. Butcher.

At Shrewsbury Fair on Tuesday last, wool fetched
from 16s. to 275. per stone. Cheese from 6sa. to
721. per cwt.—At Hereford Fair, fine wool fetched
tram 2Sh.to 3 ts. 6d. per stone.

The current price of hops in Worcester Miuker,
on Saturday sennight, was from I. 63. to 41. hp.
per cwt. _

At Peterborough' Fair on Tuesday and Wednes.
day lust, there was the largest skew of cattle ever
iemembered ; beasts being 6000 in number, and
the sheep almost incalculable.
SHEEP.SHRARING.—On the 28th ult. W. Brew-
ster and W. joy, two farming men, of Kirton, Lin.
colushire, clipped 7S Lincolnihire sheep each, in to
hours and- a half. The sheep were of heavy wool.