Star.
London, England, 1802-06-08 00:00:00

LONDO.N.

TUESDAY, JUNE E.
WuirsuN-Tinsoli7,-1-lohday at the Public Dikes.

By letters which reached us this morning from
Git)raltar we learn, that on the Bth ult. Sir JAMES
..2.tt/MAREZ failed from Minorca to take the cm-
mAnd r.f the Mediterranean fqtradron. Lord
H Rill remitted at Gibraltar with four fail of
the line, aid a number of frigates.
A l'ortuguzfe lquadron, confining of one line of
battle and three ft igates, had been lying there fume
time ; and art American fquadron, confining of
three frigates, had arrived there from off Tripoli,
on the 6:h of May.—Four Swcdifh frigates were
left keeping up ;he blockade of that place.
By the fame l:ttcrs we learn, that the plague
Rill ,tinned its ravages in Barbary ; in conk.
qtteriee of which the gar:icon were obliged to keep
up a very fharp lookout, to prevent any boats
from the oppofite fhore from landing, without
perfl•rmin avery aria quarantine.

The garriion was very healthy, and, from the
firtel precautions taken, under no apprehenfion of
the malady gainicg a footing among them.

ST. DOMINGO.

We yeflerday received New York Papers of the
a4th April. They contain a variety cf accounts
f.-om St. Domingo, which defcribe the French as
having made very little progrefs in reducing the
ifland to ftibjetlion. The accounts are not later
than the French official difpatches, but they are
11"ciul as a fupplement to the latter. We copy the
New York Paper, though we muff caution our
Readers to diarnfl the horrid details of barbarities
committed on both fides in this firvile war.
The Americans, at leait the Journals alluded
to, evidently are rot friendly to the French caufe,
and to fpeak of the cruelties of the Blacks needs
little referve. The dtfeelion of RICAUD is a cir-
cumaance not previoufly known ; and if true,
ma have been the refult of a very fingular re-
f.nement of treachery. If IticaUD, a mulatto, the
old rival of Toussaisr, brouglt back to the ifland
to aid the French, began to intrigue againa them,
their interea with all colours is evidently in a
very declii.iag flare. The French troops will have
confiderable difficulty to maintain themfelves till
further reinforcements arrive. They will be in.
ceffantly harafred ; for the Blacks, accuflomed to
the climate, will venture to carry on what in rela-
tion to St. Domingo may be called a winter cam-
paign, while the French troops will be confined
to their cantonments by the rains and by ficknefs.
There are fume mistakes in the following details,.
in regard to LECI.i.P.O being wounded, &c. and
perhaps among recent occurrences is claffed the
afftir of t a Coot a Pio-rot, but neverthelefs the
general outline a•f the fituation of the French we
apprehend to be agreeable to the truth.

On the t 7th of April the brig Favourite, Capt.
Beacon, arrived at New York, in twelve days,
from Cape Francois, and brought intelligence of
the Blacks ha►iitg proved vinorious in fevet al late
e tgagements with the French; Genzral LECLEsc's
firli Aid-de•Camp had been killed, and the Gene-
ral and feenntl Aid de-Camp badly wounded. The
Negroes infeiled fr.e country within a mile of the
Cape,anz! were daily capturing fmall detachments
ofWhites, the grtatefl part of whom they inflantly
maffacred. The Dutch fleet had arrived, and
there were between So and go fail of Americans
lying in psrt, the gre ttefl part of which were wait-
ng payment for their c...rgoes.
An American Paper Rates, that the harfh treat-
ment experienced by the American Captains, &c.
in the Weft Indies, from the French, arofe from
the circirnifianres of it having been proved that
Capt. Lea (an American) with his crew had pro-
cured immenfe plunder at the Cape during the
conflagration, and that General Leci.sec had
compelled him to rellore it to the different filter-
ers. This circtimflance would not have bean dif-
covered had nut the plunderers quarrelled in di-
viding the fpoil.

PAUL Louvraruar (brother in law of Tous-
s)L::+r) had futrendered, togethcr with 2000 Ne-
pots undo-Ids cowman:l. He and his troops were
r,inflated in the service of the French.

The fever continues to carry off numbers of the
French army. The Government fill pradifed the
fyftem of forced purchafes of the property carried
thither, and had lowered the price of flour to eight
dollars, but no payments had been made. The
French General was at Port Republicain, and the
American Conful had left the Cape for that place
to remonftrate with him.

Several American Captains have been imprifon
ed at the Havannah, for having entered that port
contrary to orders. It is the determination of the
Governor that no American •e(fels (hall be per-
mitted to trade there.

The Nev York Gazette,lif isith and soth of
April, contains the following interefting intelli- I
gence on the fubjeet of St. Domingo :
" By the brig Liberty, Captain 13lowtt, from
Cape Francois, we hive accounts to the •3d
at which time nothing decifive had occurred. The
French army was entirely fruftrated in its opera-
tions by the nightly excurfions of the Blacks, who
rased on them with ravage impetuofity,and after
flaughtering and burning whatever fell within their
reach, retired to their faftnefres. A confiderable
number of French wounded troops were brought
to Cape Francois, on the if of April, and it was
laid General Officers among the number. A fqua-
dron from Breit, with a reinforcement of 'moo
men, had arrived. Madame DESSALINES, wife of
the General, has been made prifoner by the French.
The jewels and other ornaments found on her per-
fon, were of immenfe value.

On the 6th of April, the day on which Capt.
BROWN left Cape Francois, the fituation of that
place was truly deplorable. Capt. Bsoww Rates,
that there was not the leaf profped of LICLERC'S
fubduing the Blacks, who were daily committing
depredations on the lives and property of the inha-
bitants, in fight of the Cape. That the Blacks
had in the different engagements killed about 6000
of the French troops ; that many of them were
daily falling facrifices to a diforder which prevail.
ed among them, and that the cruelty of the one
party was not exceeded by that of the other. The
French when they have taken a number of Blacks,
condua them to the edge of a large pit, dug for
the purpofe, when they are either fhot, or put to
the fword, or tumbled in ; the Tench arifing from
this uncovered grave, is extremely offenfive for
three miles round. The Blacks maffacre the
Whites wherever they meet them, and leave them
unburied, and the ground in many places is flrewed
with dead bodies. Capt. &tows adds, that the
Batavian fleet, confifling of five 74's, two frigates,
and feveral tranfports,with sOOO troops on board,
had arrived a few days before he failed; that La:
CLERC had been wounded at Port au Prince ; that
the French troops had been kept almoft continu-
ally within their fortifications ; and that feveral
fcouting parties had been entirely cut off by the
Blacks."

It is (fated, on the fame authority, that Ric AUD,
who came out with the French army, had turned
traitor, and had nearly given up a part of the
French army ; but, on the eve of putting his
fcheme into execution, his letters to a General in
the Spaniffi part of the Ifland were intercepted.—
Itt c au% with feveral of his Officers, was imme-
diately taken prifoner, and put on board a 74.,
and failed for France on theyth int. to take his trial.
_ . _

The latter part of this information is confirmed
in the Commercial efelverlifer, of the 22d of April,
which contains copies of -the letters of Lac sac,
Dunue, the officer who apprehended RIGAUD,
and of Ricaunhinifelf to General LAPLUIda, com-
manding in the Southern Department. The let-
ters of LECLERC and Dunua relate to the order
for RIG ROD'S apprehenfion, and RIGAUD, in his
letter, regrets the furrender of LAPLUME, and be-
trays a fpirit of revenge. This letter he had writ-
ten in exprefs defiance of LECLERC'S orders, who.
in his lettcr lays, that his name could do but little
good, and much barn; that he had fent emillaries
into the South to , flop cultivation, and infpire,
peaceable citizens with terror. With fuck
he confidered that General RIGAUD could
not contribute to the re-eaablithment of the Co-
lony of St. Domingo.
The following are the letters alluded to :
COPY OF A LETTER. OF THE GENERAL IN CHIEF LII.•
CLERCTO GENERAL DUGUA, CHIEF OF THE STAFF.

" You will find hereunto annexed, Citizen General, a copy
of *letter DtinCll by General Rioavn to General LAPLUYC•
Whin I brought General RJGAUD to St. Domingo, my inten-
tion was not again to talk up his party, by emitting that of
TOUSSAINT. 'The parties which bad miffed fo long in St. Do-
mingo have been the caufe of all the misfortunes of this Colony.
I had laid to General RIGAUD, that if he fuffered much injury
in this country, he ought not to forget that hirnfelf had done a
grcat deal to others. 1 had forbidden him to carry on any cor-
refpondence in the South, where I knew his name could do bat
little good, and much harm. He has defpifed my orders; he
has written to General I.Aet.vssa the annexed letter, in which
he kerns to regret that this brave General furrendered, and be-
trays a dcflre of revenge ; he has fent migrants in the South to
Rohl cultivation, and infpire peaceable citizens with terrors.—
With fuck principles General RIGAUo cannot contribute to the

re-eltablifhinent of the Colony of St. Domingo. I order you
to have him embarked with his family on board the Ertl veffel
going to France. You will authorife him to appobit here fame
body, wire ktter4 of attorney, to take care of his concerns:—

You will give the Petinifter of Um Navy an account of the mo-

elves that determine ine to fend back to France General lizOnnii
Yon will eade this letter to Lwri.uss a to be printed next to the
;went order. and give it the utmost publicity.
(Signcd) " sncizac."
COPY OF GENERAL RIOAUD'S LETTER TO GENERAL
LAPLUME. COMMANDING THE SOUTHERN DE-
PARTMENT.

" Port Republican, ao Ventofe, (March a a), year to.

• Perfecuted thafe ten years, driven away from my property
for the loft two years, taken by the Englifit and the Americans•
at that time AIIWS of my enemies, I have perfevered in the fame
principles I had before. The French Dovernment doing juftice
to my condua and fidelity, gave me an employment In the
French army, and my brit fteps are bent towards the incendiary
and murdering rebels of the Northern part, whore example you
were wife enough not to imitate. You are not ignorant of the
deep wounds made on humanity. and deftrudion of my an.
happy countrymen; I can only moan on their lot; the evil is
irremediable ; but for the fake of thee who are yet living, for
me who could not fink under the weight of misfortune, would
you not think it conformable tojullice, and even your duty, to
give orders without having reeourfe to fuperior authority, that
every article that has been taken away, or cards yet in the De-
partment, Ihould be given back to us. I confine myfeif In this
moment to invite you to caufe my niter, or Mr. De aoxszaar ,
my Attorney, to be put again into the polkftion of my cattle, and
that of my brothers, our lands and houfea, and their produce,
from the time we have been deprived of it. If we have been
enemies to an unjust party, we were true Mends to France that
can now caufe its authority to be refpeded, and do jultice to
whomfoever it is due. I requeft you to fend me an anfwer, and
write what I have to hope for from your return to good prin-
ciples. I mall not take any other ftep till I have received your
anfwer. Whcn the bandittis are once deftroyed in the North-
ern part, I will bend my conrfe towards the South, where I
was born, where I have lived, and canna:Wed with glory. I
hope to find there none but brothers and Mends, at leaft good
Frenchmen. To the mean while, my wife and children are go-
, ing among their relations, and I will not tarry long in following
them. • (Signed) • A. RIOAL: D."