The Sun.
London, England, 1817-02-28 00:00:00

NEW YORK PAPEAS t' the 30th ult.

Captain Prentiss, of the schooner Susan, who
arrived at New York from Port-au-Prince, which
place held; on the 1 lit of January, states, that
hostilities between Christophe and dPetion were
about to be renewed ; tnat the former was on his
march to Port-au-Prince, and was width, 30 miles
of that place ; and that the latter had dispatched
a force of 4,000 .men to meet him. It was sup•
posed that a battle would be fought on the clay on
which the Susan sailed:
Front a Report of the acting Secretary at War
it appears, that the amount of the American army,
now in peace, is 10,024,
General M'Gregor, it is said, after Waiting a
while at Sr. Thomas's, wheitlit4;he raised about 150
recruits of different nations :kid .complexions, Set
sail with a view to joiu the Insurgents of Mexico,
in the hope of meeting from them more gratitude
than he had experienced at the hands of the Pa.
trints.whom he !Willst quitted on the Southern
Main. lie chartered the General Taylor, and ern-
bat ked as ith 'his recruits .tor Port-an-Prinee, cal!
culatitlgupon raising witat.fOrce_he would in the
dotniumns of-Tenon, to' give considerable Met
to the Opening of the campaign itt Mexico. Un-
fortunately for M Gregor, the crew of the Gene-
ral Taylor mutined when on the eve of sailing.—
They were, however, subdued, and a fresh crew
obtained. The vessel then proceeded un her

state or New York a report hes been
made by the joint Committee
„tin 'Manufactures,
showiog.the great means which the pountry pos-
sesses of supplying all its ou,ru witms,,,liiuler pro-
per encouragement froiti the ,Gmrcrutueut. The
reports cum:tittles by recouttneutling the atlopquir
of the lot?tving act :

" An Act for the Encouragement at Manufactures within
this Stitt: (New York.)
" Be it enacted and declared by the people of the State of
New York, I epresented in tieitate' and Assembly, that from
and :slier the papiiiig of thif act, all the buildings mat machi-
'sell of aver), eottoo to- woollen mannfactory erected within
the Slate, or lteleaftet to be erected, shall be exampled front
tluoislion-leitbio- this-, Stott,- mot that all nuttianctbrers em-
ployed in any cotton or woollen manufactory shall be, and
hereby are, exempted from oil utilitia duty, and from working
on the public- highways, flout from servidg as Jurors in all
stilts to the vamill! dollars or tinder, during the period of
their being employed, except ill cases ot loners:464m, ur when
the country shall be in dativer of intation."

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lIL tb! Mit OF 'NIG stN.

hn eviticnee of the autl,leity of tk
pretended Retormets, one of them declared, solo*
weeks ago, in A Company *here I WWI pres-en't,
that a hew Executive was absolutely necessary, atid
that the follovving Reformers certainly would be
the, choice of the People :—The Executive three-
Fl'AllCiti Burdett, Alderman Wood,
Lords Gri.y, Holland, and Lauderdalii ;
liinis-
ters--Cobhctt, of lite-Police ; Lori! Cochrane. Of
the - Marines L. Waithman, 4,1 the Interior;
nroughom, .of lustice ; Cartwright, of War
Sir Ricliatd of r,oreigit-ffairsi Lord
Grosvenor, of the Finances ; the new Mayor of
tlicLonilott Municipality, Mr. Thompson, De-
pray Mayor Coates, Recorder Flower, with seve-
ral other equally loyal and respeclatdo names. To
my question, what was to become of taunt ? I
was answered, that he was to be sent Ambassador
to our brother Reformers in America, Many of
these personages could not have been more Bur.
pi ised 111110 was in hearing them placed in such
company but it is the natural effect of their
factious discontent , and disloyal declamations
against a Government, which has not only save
England, but Europe, from the worst of tyran
nies.
Marshfield, Feb. 25, 1817.