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London, England, 1802-12-17 00:00:00

MINISTRY OF THE MARINE AND COLONIES.

R. LACROSSI, REAR-ADMIRAL, CAPTAIN•GINERAL
OF GUADALOUTS AND ITS =TENDENCIES, TO.
LIAR-ADMIRAL DECRI.SI MINISTER OF THE' MIL
RINE AND COLONIES.

44 Grand Terre, Gnadaloupe, 042. 24, ika.
" omen MINISTER,

" On the 7th MIL I announced to you that tranquillity pre
veiled in the Colony, and that I only knew of two affemblits
in the woods. Oo that day, one of thole affemblies deceiving
thofe who were in purfuit of them, dared to appear in the en-
virons of St. Arnie, in Grand Terre. As foon as I was in-
formed of this, I battened to the place, and found that a band
of Be-fiends, led on by two White Chiefs, Barfe, formerly
Commilfary of Government, and Millet de la Girardiere, for-
merly 'an Officer decorated with the Order of St. Louis, had
attacked (even' habitations, and affeffinated their proprietors.
The greateit exertions have been made to faze there Robbers, a
great number of whom have been arrefted, and base met with
that punifkment which their crimes merited; amongft others,
one of the Chiefs, Millet de la Girardiere. Grand Terre now
enjwys its former tranquillity, and meafures have been taken to
infuse its continuance. As to the Brigands in the woods, they
are cut off from any communication with the other parts of the
Wand, and deprived of the means of procuring proviQons and
ammunition. I have the fatisfadtion to announce to you that
the Miners is ahnoft entirely at an end in this Bland. The 480
men which you expedited by la Foudroyante and l'Etonnante,
have arrived 'in the belt Rate. This reinforcement will infure,
In a great degree, the fee unty of the Colony.
" A: cording to the intelligence received fr,in St. Thomas
Eli St. Bartholomew, an affembly of Mrn of Colour, with the
addition even o; fume Whites, exiled from Guadaloupe, has
been formed in thofe ifics, to the number of two hundred and
fifty or three hundred. Their projedt is to difembark upon this
111 ,to join the w reek sof the Brigands whom we have purfued,
and to bring them arms. They are faid to be provided with !mall
veffels for that purpufe. There is little probability that the
Governors of Saint 'Thomas and Saint Bartholomew would
fandlion affemblies of this nature. I have, therefore, thought
It fuelcient to tranfmlt to them the detail, which I have re-
ceived upon the fulaket, with a requeft that they will arreft the
Chiefs and Accomplices in thefe plots sgainft the tranquillity
of this colony. I expect their anjwcr by the frigate la Didon,
which 1 have expedited with
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GENERAL SAHVGVET, CAPTAIN GENERAL 07 TO-
BAGO, TO THE MINISTER OF THE MARINE AND
COLONIES. •
" CITIZEN MrlrjsTLß, Scarborough, 064.
" I 'arrived on the 29th ult. in the Bay of Courland, in the
Ifland of Tobago, with a part of the troops defined to com-
port the Garrifon. They difembarked at Courland on the
2d in IL and this day they occupied the Fort King George, which
has been delivered up to me by Brigadier General Carmichael,l
Lieutenant Governor of the Ifland. I fend you Welded the act
of taking polfefffon, with the Rate of the hooks, which were
occcupied by about Soo men of the Englilh Garrifon, and alfo
an Inventory of the Artillery and Ammunition which has
, been delivered to me. AU the intercourfe which I have bad
with General Carmichael has been that of reciprocal fatisfse-
don. The Planters are highly grateful for the favour they have
received from the Confuls, in the maintenance of their interior
Laws. All that part of the Illand which I have traverfed is
cultivated with fugar canes, which have almoft every where
replaced the cotton, which was formerly the principal produce
of the Mend. The produce promifes to be very abundant. It
will be neceffary that the Merchants of France fhould eftablifh
with Tobago, relations of Commerce and Credit, in order the
more effectually to enfure the tranfport of the produce of the
Ifland, and to fupport the Trade between it and the Mother
Country. I than have the honour of tranfmitting to yo.o more
minute details the firft opportunity. I falutc you with refpeet,
" SAIIIIGULT:i

PARIS, 20 FRIMAIRE, DECEMBER
We.are affured that the duchies of Parma and
Placentia will be united to the kingdom of Etruria,
if Spain will confent to cede Florida to France.—
Should this not take place, they will be given to
the Italian Republic.
'Letters from Nancy Rate, that the Cure of Saint
Remi 41e Luneville performed a folemn fervice for
the repofe of the foul of Mademoifelle BEXFORT,
an aftrefs, aged eighteen. All the dramatic per-
formers were prefent, and were convinced that the
fpirit of the Concordat has banifhed the remains of
a prejudice which difgraced talents and religion.
The following pa&ge from the fpeech of Lord
GRENVILLE, in the debate which took place on
the 2d of December, appears very remarkable.
" I cannot refrain from faying a word or two
upon the conduit of Miniffers, with regard to
Switzerland. Their ftrange and contradictory
language, their affectation of dignity, the decla-
ration which they make, that they have not compro-
mifed the honour of the country, every thing excites
mylaftonifhment. I was informed two days ago that
a perfon who holds a high fituation in the Secre-
tary of State's Office, refided a long time at Con-
Rance before the troubles broke out in Switzer-
land, and that he there held frequent conferences
with the principal direftors of the infurreetion of
the Swifs. If this affertion be true, it by no means
agrees with what Minifters fay, when they boaß
that theyhave not compromifed the honour of their
country."
Lord GRENVILLE muff be well acquainted with
the band of agents which the former Miniffry were
accuftomed to fpread over the Continent, for the
purpofe of hatching and fomenting plots ; who in-
ftigated the maffacre at Ratiadt, and were the
caufe of the French Ambaffadors being infulted at
Rome and Vienna. According to him, one of
there Agents likewife inftigated the infurreftion in
Switzerland.
For our own parts, we have too good an opinion
of the prefent Miniftry to believe that they have
continued to follow this abominable fyffem, prac-
tired with fo much aftivity by Lord GasmviLLa
and his colleagues.—Moniteur.

FROM THE PARIS PAPERS.
Rwrissom, Dsc. I.—The Imperial Plenipoten-
tiary yefterday tranfmitted the refult of the pro
ceedings of the Deputation to the Minifters of the
Mediating Powers. He accompinied it with the
following Note :
Ratilbon, z9th November.
The Underfigned Imperial Plenipotentiary had the honour
to declare, the a6th of laft month, to the Minifters of the Me-
diatingillowers, that his Imperial Majefty, always guided by
the mo* lively folicitude for the maintenance of the public
tranquillity, bad removed the obftaeles Which obftrudted at
Paris the progrefs of the negociations; that he had agreed that
the propofidons made by the French Government for the aug-
mentation of the indemnities of his Royal Highnefs the Arch-
duke of Tufcany mould ferve as the bails of an arrangement,
and that in confequence his Majefty expelled to witnds im-
immediately the eftabliffiment of a friendly underitanding.
The Underfigned has likewife Peen with pleafure in the fub-
fequent Note of the Minifters of the Mediating Powers, dated
the 16th of this month, that in praying the Deputation to re-
fer themfelves with confidence to the cares of thcfe powers,
they have publicly confirmed the hope that the juft and equi-
table demand of his Imperial Majeftv will fpeedily be fatisfied.
Tranquillized by this affurance, the Deputation of the Empire
confidered it their duty to employ the time which muff &pie
before the conclufion of an arrangement with his Imperial Ma-
jefty, by uniting in a general Conclufum the plans of indem-
nity tranfmitted by the Minifters of the Mediating Powers,
the more precife modifications and determinations which have
been facceffieely put upon them, together with the different
particular refolutions to which they have given rife on the part
of the Deputation. The Deputation then fubmitted this ge-
neral Conclufum to the Underfigned, requeftlat him to accede
to it, and to communicate it to the Minikes* of the Mediating
Powers.
In tranfmitting the whole body of the refolutioni up to this
time adopted by the Deputation, the Underfigned confiders it
ufelefs to obferve, that the Imperial Commiffion is yet by no
means in a fituadOn to give its fandion to all their contents.—
Although the Underfigned Rill referent° himfelf the right of
explaining the rufous which oppofe fuch a ftcp, he ent,rtains
the tweet hope that by means of the negotiation now opened
at Paris, the principal °haute which now milts to the adoption i
of the propoied plans of indemnity will be removed, and that
a partition will be obtained, correfpondent to the wines of his
Imperial Majefty, who in fatisfying the intereits of al? par-
ties, will fupply any defect in the neceffary full powers of the
Empire, and will place it in a fituation to manifeft, by its ad-
hefion to the .Preti of Indemnidee its confideratlon for the
Mediating Powers, and the inter& ;vhich it takes in the tran-
quillization of its co-eftates. Until the refult of this approach-
ing arrangement than be made known to sbe Extraor,dinary
Deputation of the Empire, the Undedgned referees to himfelf
the right to make all poffible obfervations upon the Prelimi-
nary Pnyet fubjoined of the general Conclufum, which, even
after the Refolutions of the Deputation and tome Votes emitted
in the fitting before laft, to he complete and conformable to
the Treaties of Peace, still Rao& in want of various additions
and determinations.
'llc Underfigned repeats on this °carton, always with the
fame pleafure, th. affurance of his high tonfideration.
At.Gis is, Nov. B.—lt will be recollefted that,
on the Bth •of May, the Algerines took a Portu-
gtiefe frigate. The Officer', who were received
into the houfes of the different Confuls, have been
taken from thence within a month, and compelled
to labour in the anoft fevere manner. The Gran-
dees of the Regency, and the Corps of Rais, had
made reprefentations to the Dey without fuccefs.
The French Commiffary at length complained in
favour of the Portuguefe Officers. He reprefent-
[l4,that all the ufual laws were violated with re-

plained, that at Naples his Rais were obliged to
work. The Dey replied, that he would always be
happy to do any thing that lhould be agreeable to
the Purr Comsues Agent; but that in the pre,
fent cafe he had ftrong reafons, known only to
himfelf, for treating the Portuguefe as be had done.

BRUSSELS, Dsc:6.—The letters from Paris con-
tinue to affure us that the journey of the FIRST
CONSUL to the ci-devant Belgium, will take place
in the courfe of the month of January next ; and
that after paying a vifit to this city, Antwerp, and
'Ghent, and having examined and given the ne-
ceffary orders for the works to be executed previous
to opening the canal between Charleroy and Bruf-
fels, to join the Sambre and the Scheldt, he will
then proceed directly to Mentz. It is added that
the Minifler at War will join BONAPARTE on the
Banks of the Rhine, to examine the plan for railing
a military line on the Left Bank of that river be-
tween Frankenthal and the frontiers of the Bata-.
vian Republic.
VIENNA, Nov. a6.—We learn from Moldavia,
that the Firman of the Porte, in regard to the
nomination of the new Hofpodar, was publifhed
qn the 23d, in the prefence of the boyards and the
clergy. This nomination is not for life, as an-
nounced, but only for (even years. This Firman
fixes alfo in a more precife manner the contributions
of the country, and unites to Moldavia the diftria
of Rotin. To fhelter the people from oppreffion,
this Act authorifes the Ruffian Cohful to remon-
ftrate againft every infringement that may be
made on his rights. According to the fame let-
ters, the earthquake of the 26th of 06tober Teems
to have extended from Gallicia as far as the Jo-
' nian fea. The Wand of Ithaca mull have greatly
fuffered.

NOVEMBER 17.—The obje& of the journey of
the ARCHDUKE PALATINE, to Peterfburgh, pro-
bably is to aik in marriage a Ruffian Princefs, and
thus to draw clofer the bonds which unite the two
Courts.

Letters from Italy (late, that C. Metz!, Vice-
Prefident of the Italian Republic,is about to under-
take a journey to his etlates, which are in Spain,
and that General Mu RAT will be charged, per in-
terim, with the fundlions of Vice-Prefident.