The Sun.
London, England, 1803-03-11 00:00:00

141 Tl.l ;4:
IVfAßcti 7.

GINERAL ROC HARIDEAU, the Commander in
thief of St.. Domingo, has written to the Minister
of Marine, to acquaint him that ;he Duquesne had
arrived at that Island with a Convoy, and that
the Troops who had bet. diSembarked were in,
;good health.

.There. has fallen at Rome,, as in other parts of.
Italy, a prodigious quantity of snow... The roads are

encumbered, and the communications interrupted.
The wind, which blows at- 'the saMe iirne: with great
impetuosity, 'still more augments the inconvenience.
In one of these hurricanes six Barks loaded with
- •
grain, wine, and oil, perished at' FiuMidino.

At the Sitting Of the' Tribunate of the sill inst.
GARRY teponed from'the Seaion of Legislation, on
the projeft"of a Law relative to the enjoyment and
privation' cf civil. Rights. This speech was or.
&red robe printed.

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An enormous quantity of oak and other wood, fit
for building, will be brought from the Fo'rests of
particulirly. the magnificent Forest of
"Per. This timber will first be sent toAntwerp,
from thence it, will fae embarked for Dunkirk,
Ilitvrer:liorient, Rochefort, and. Brest,' where it
Fill be used for the Navy of the epublic.
land used formerly to get timber for shipbuilding
from the Netherlands, but that will no- longer be
lititnirted, as France will have. occasion for, the
whole of.it for the restoration of her Marine.,
At, .Edif has been published at Naples, which
under the severest penalties, the wearing
in future of unifo;rns'and marks of military aistinc-
tion, Which have' been tolerated since the retreat of
the French, and ill the recolleCtion of times of

, reca,
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We read in the Yournal
.utulet the' title of :ilugibourg,' "We learn 'that the
2"r each Agent,Citizen Ro Et!, has' annoute to the
(3.overnmentof the Republic of the Seven 'isles, that
the First Consul takes'under his special proteftion
all the, Catholic Inhabitants. These litters add,
,that
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1n consequence of this declaration,
,_prayers have
been. mad in all the C7,tholic Churches of that Re.
publielur the First
Blittra, Fax, report of the apprbaching
arrival of Citizen VartriStr4c, in the Auality of
Ambassador from .the French Republic to . the
Nineteen Cantons, has been spread for some days.
It is added that General Nt Y will keep'the Com.
stand in Chief of the French 'Troops stationed in
Helvetia, of which the stay will be prolonged until
.the powers constituted by the Ad of Mediation are
put into a state of allivity, and until the first assem.
bling of the Diet. •
The approaching arrival of Ministers from Au-
stria,. Prussia, and Russia; is also announced, whose
retiLlence will be in the City where, for the
time being, the Diet will assemble and the
First Landamman reside. We are assured also,
that the. ELRCTOR of BAVARIA, tile MARGRAVE
of Lim) and some other Princes of the Empire,
will in-future have Chard d'Affaires in Switzer.
land.

Frs. z7..—The Pdrisjotnnah havt adnounced to

us the new Constitution of Switzerland before the

Governirtenkhas ofHciillly "informed us of it.—
. Amongst all tho4e which we have 1,:,a ,since the
Revolution, none has cleated siY great a sensation as
this, it having .been forMally recognized 'and gira.,
rantetd by France. It appiars to' have nVany*Par.
tisans,.even,amongst those who hitherto hive been.
the most'cliscontented: -‘
17he,•Comsorarstiant# de Place, French. and Helvetic,
bavcaude preparations for the honourable reception
of M. d'AiritY, in his quality .of Landamtnan,
of §witieriand,' who 'is expo 'red to-day. A de.
tachment of the 4111,itekiment of. Horse Chasseurs
Proceed to Meet him ; A detachment of the infantry
Will lie* underarms; two pieces of Cinnon hive been

travortust upon the rarnpar,t3),- and there %Oil be a
' discharge of fifteen pieces on
.his entrance into the

titjr!

Muritcii,:rfill. 23. The_ formal Order has
attivedifrom Vienna, to.* the .Austrian, Genetal,
STltiirciii to deliver up the City of Avssau.to. the
14cli!4iiiir, Troop, which, to the numbtr 'of 4.0c0
.rnen) looks possession of that placi,,iresterday 4t ten in
the aiornil., x.
'r'l Cori of f'‘ifstrian Troops *stifled to take
Pc4ltisittn oh.
taihect a free passage.through Diitchy,t4,.4o aria,
is to full.niateh 'for its destinatiOn.- .It,..takes the
,eft: hank (.4 the nanOlic, the great read
iticipleads to the Upper Pahttit,.ite in Franetinia..
; S C'iß is at ii;elHrett, atiministerinv,,- the
Oatli of Fidelity', in the nante of the- hi ECrox
Of SAL2Bovito. . the 19th the_,ltafian de 'RUM
L'll
}` !:1) Cononishry -of the GRAND Duttr, took
Civil poiseision of the City and • ot-
tikl4citn-g, The Magisttatea at the Capital, all
the civil and, Nlilitary:(Hirers, the Cler4y, the
UniVersity, and the Deputies ot; the Coalitions Of
the Atehbithoptic,' have taken the Oath of liotnite