Star.
London, England, 1802-07-17 00:00:00

U ADA LOU IT.

Tivz Msnikur contaias a very long letter from
General Ric to the Minifter of the Marine,
head giiartcrs at Baffe-Terre,
May zB, in which the General gives i minute de-
tail or the operations of the at my under his com•
mind, from the time of his landing on the ithnd
till the 27th of May. As the fuhrlance of a great
part of this letter has been given in General R ICH 5-
PAN E'S preceding difpatch (fee STAR of Thurfday
), we (hall reftime the account at the 21ft of
May, the day on which the it:;sroes evacuated the
lot t :

On the evening of the zt a: all the enemy's
cannon were dfnuatuted i r loc.i d under the ruins
of the fort, our bombs bullets reached the
bl.,;k: in every corner, and without dating to w.tit
til! that tip, at eight in the evening they
evicaatell tl.e ffat by the poflern sae of Galion,
to the wity..e: of about 400 Icsnlar troops, coin-
rnaatle,l by Dri-onE and accompanied by a
maltitade of blacks completely armed : General
G.041,7,1* yet out in rurfuit t.f :':em
;:7100 n.c t,an.: came !•r, o itli them :it the
ment. :i•cy l:ad re, cin,i ti• entrenched poa
of was carried h) bayonet. A
part of the blaJcs thernftlye-. in the monies
of th': point of the old fort, in which 3co men of 1
the 15th kept tht:rn that up. The remaining 4oc
men under C.:eleral Goßtit•r, repaired to Grande
Tel-re, to which the chiefs of the rebels, lonaes
.Ind PA LFRAF, had ieturned with a new body of
arra•:.! blacks, to butcher, as th-y faid, the white
inhabitant:, an,! let fire to the plantationc, as they
had Ilrc.nly done at Capeilerre, the richeii part
of the

"The p.; 'lige of." the river Sal4::c was ohftinately
cl:Stade,l by tie troops of the 37th and Sad, left
at Crantle:re: re ; but they were not able to check
the enemy, who w.re too numerous : their force
increafed every hour, and they even feized on the
redonbt of Binthriche, which, fortunately, they
dirarned,and marched againft Point-a-Pitre.
General COB F KT, having joined the troops which
came from Balie-T.:rre, ail tunic left at Grande-
Terre, and the ntm of the Nati,:nal Guard, haf-
tened to meet the enemy, and forced them to con-

cannon made them give way ; our valorous fol. 1
d:ers, hurried cn by a deftre of conquering, pens-
trated into the redoubt, made a dreadful carnage,
and in a moment all the brigands were deilroyed
or difperfed. IchACE was found among the dead.
The Chef de Brigade, PELAGE, continue.' during
this a.lion to give marks of the moil hetoic cou-
rage.

" The 25th and 26th were employed in rally-
ing the troops and reconnoitering in :he Parc and
Matoubas, excellent retreats for the infurgcnr, and
where the difpcfitions which they had added to
the great advantages of nature, feemed to put it
in their power to refine a elifadvantageous combat,
and to fpread themfclves at pleafure by fudden
incitrftons over every part of Balk• Terre. It was,
therefore, necelfary to increafe our efforts of every
kind. The obilinate enemy whom we had hitherto
beat with fo much difficulty, was about to empley
the laft refonrces, which in his rage and defpair
he found very powerful ; the French foldiers ac-
quired equally Ilrong refources in their defire to
maintain their reputation, and to prove that they
arc irrclinahle, when commiffioned to punith and
lubdue rebels.

4. The enemy then had his advanced polls at the
plantation Grichard, at the fummit of the angle
formed by the Riviere Noire and the Riviere des
Pere!, the banks of which are perpendicular, and
more titan fifty feet in height : the great body of
them being polled at the large plantation of Au-
glement, always defended by the rivers, and forti-
fied by parapets furnifhed with pallifades and can-
non, an attack in front was loon confidered as im-
pollible even to be attempted : it was neceflary to
divide our forces, and to endeavour to at in con-
cert, to prevent us from having to combat fepa-
ratcly.
"On the morning of the z7th, the zd battalion
of the 66th, commanded by the Chef CA M RBI EL,
to whom I had united my aide-de-camp, Cap-
tain LAPOINTR, fet out from Legret, and by a
road which he traced out through horrible pre-
cipices, paired the Mornes Hoiiel, Colin, and the
plantation Lafalle, from which he drove the ene-
my, and purfued them as far as Prefbytere. The
3d battalion of the 66th attended by the Morne
Louis, foon fell in with the ene:of, drove them
before them, and climbed up, wi,;l an ardour be-
yond all exptellion, the Morne iii Macieux, de-
fended by artillery, which they defeated.
" The Chef de Battalion, DELACROIX, was
then wounded. I immediately fent the Chief
d'Efcadron, MA Pi COM a LE, my Aide-de-camp,
to affume his place; but the brave DELACROIX,
in that glorious moment, would remain with his
battalion, who, proud of having him with them,
croffed tile river des Peres, and, after furmount-
ing many obftacles, reached the pofition of Pre fby-
tete, always repulfing the enemy towards their
centre at Auglemont. The referve of the grenadiers,
commanded by my Aidc-de-CampCe BE, rcfolvcd
to make a very ufcful diverfion in attempting to
reach Grichard, by the morne Conflantine ; but
thole who made their appearance there were
obliged to yield without firing a tingle fhot, and
Capt. CRAZE had his hark killed under him. The
grenadiers were then forced to renounce an enter-
prize, the fuccefs of which would not have been
worth the deftrudion of the whole Corps. I was
then certain that tile enemy would aot effeft their
retreat by the latter pafTage, which our grenadiers
would have defended with as much advantage as
the enemy had done on the oppolhe fide. We
were alio well allured that the pofts of Grichard,
and the troops of Auglemont, could not avoid com-
ing to an engagement, with the two battalions of
the 66th, united as already Paid on the heights
of Pi cfbytere. After halting for a moment, thefe
two battalions marched in a column to Augle-
mont. During a quarter of an hour they braved
a fhower of balls and bullets, without being
able to return the fire. Nothing flopped them,
and feveral of them were already within the en-
trenchrniits, %viten the enemy, at their laft pufh,
eftaped into the habitation, let fire to their gun-
powder, and blew thcmfclves up, to the number
of 3co, among whom was DEL GREASE. This
fpedacle was horrible : a momentary fluperadion
took place on both fides ; but we loon conceived
the idea of taking advantage of the diforder oe-
cafioned by inch events, and the day was ter-
minated with the entire deftrudion of all the ene-
my who had efcaped the explofion. We loft in
the courfc of this day the advanced polls of two
columns, and Lieutenant Fatty lam, who entered
the habitation of Auglcmont. The moment be-
fore it blew up Capt. PETIT was feverely wounded.
" This laft affair has deftroyed the revolt in
its fource : the Chief, are dead ; all the refl are
dila:met!, and having fubmitted, have returned to
that lahour which they ought neverto have quitted.
4, The white men belonging to the army who
could not leave the ifland, were on our arrival col-
l.:del in fort Saint-Charles. The execution of a
well concerted proje6l for blowiog them up when
the fort fhould be forced to furrcnder, very luckily
mifcarried by our promptitude in purfuing the ene-

" I am now eollcning all the particular fans •
which ..lzferve rewards from Government. In my
nest letter I (hall make known the natnes of the
()racers and Mt a whom I have found worthy of
marks of dittin:tn;n. 1 Witte you with confider-
ation. (Si:;ned) atcuLpmis.
From the contents of the above difpatch, it ap-
pcats plain that the French have had a very
hard ftrtTgle with the negrocc, in which they fill-
fered fevereiy. We are tn.,t told the amount of
the lots, which mull have been confiderable :
even the dreadful explofion by which two of the
advanced polls were deb oycd, may have been the
fpringing.of a mine infleael of what is flated.—
u..it with impatience for later details, as it
is poilible this vidlory may have been bought fo
deatly as to render the conquerors unable to fol.
j low it up with inch cite& as to prevent any
fr.lh infurreclion. Indeed the Negroes are not
the only foe the French have to contend with
The principal Comm iflioner of the Marine at
Bourdcaus has announced, that a de flruaive fever
prevails at Point a Pitre, Guadaloupe, which at-
tacks in particular Europeans who abandon them-
felves to intemperance. All (hips therefore which
arrive from that ifland are to be fubje/ted to a
kind of quarantine.