Star.
London, England, 1807-12-30 00:00:00

ST. DOMINGO.

Some important advices were yefierday received
from this place, by the fhip Maly, Captain FREEMAN,
arrived at Dover in 38 days, from Cape Fraucois.
The war between the rival Chiefs CHBISTOTHB and
Purrow may be confidered as terminated; and we
are happy to °bier ve, that the event is de,med highly 1
aufpicions to the Britifh interelis, which the vi for
CH itISTOP E is known particularly and afiliduoufly to
favour.
We expett to he able to lay behre our Readers to.
morrow, the authentic particulars of the circunaftan-
ces which lc d to this intereUing refult.
In the mean time, we are informed that the Poen-
dent CNRItTOTH E had twice beaten the party of his
rival ; that the fecond anion, which took place on
the zsth of OCtober, proved decifive in favour of the
farmer, the troops of Parton having been totally de-
feated and difperfed ia the, woods of Montrouis ;
and that CH RISTO? N a returned to the Cape on the
9th of November, where he was received with uni-
venial (bouts of joy." We are further informed, that
many (hips had arrived from England with valuable
cargoes, and that fuch was the abundance of coffee
in the !Rand, that our (hips would all have full
freights, without any lots of time. Several veffels
were about to fail from the Cape and Gonaives, and
are of cootie now daily expeded to arrive in our
ports.

JAMAICA.
We this day prefent our readers the curious and
important Report made by a Committee of the Houfe
of A ffembly of the Hand of Jamaica, to whom the
Ad paired in the left Seflion of the Imperial Parlia-
ment of the United Kingdom of Great Britain, for'
the Abolition of the Slave Trade, was referred.—
Our Readers will obferve that there are various
aflerifks in the text of this Report. Our Correfpon.
dent at Spanifh Town informs us, that it was judged
expedient to fupprefs feveral thong patfages, defcrip.
live of the prefent temper, &cowl's, and defigns of
the negroes, that they might not inflame them.—
This paper will, no doubt, give rife to much diced-
fion, and may reduce tome intemperate perfons to
chetifh the hope of bringing the fubjell of the Slave
Trade again before Parliament. This quellion is
however now pretty well underflood, and we have no
doubt whatever that the eyes of many of the Plan-
ters themfelves are now open to the ruinous conic.
quences of that Trade. It is a happy thing for
mankind that great evils will often remedy them-
felves. This would have been the cafe with the Slave
Trade, even. if the Legiflature had not interfered—
with only this difference, that a much greater number
of WA India Proprietors would have been involved
in difficulties, and thefe difficulties been more beyond
the reach of a.remedy than at prefent.—Why is Well
India produce as fo low a price.as at. prefent ? Be.
cattle more is railed than gorope can confume.—
How comes this ? Becaufe a proper reffraint was
not room put upon the impartation of labourers from

Africa. Thosroduce:of the Weft Indiesims, if* be
liEre, bedtime than doubled within the Taft rj yawl,
and yet we find men fo blind as to attribute the
increafe of the flock on band to limpos.som's decree
againit importation ! His decree is but a '
thing of.
yefierday, but the evil of which we now fpeak..bas
been coming on for years, and will, we doubt not,
have its due weight with our legifiatures. They
know, if our planters are ignorant of the faa, that
the evils of which the latter complain can only .be
remedied by the overgrown capital now employed
in that trade being direded into new channels ; or
(which will in the end produce the fame effell) by
the inevitable refult of competition for tale in a glut-
ted market, the lupins capital &all have been ab•
forbed. ' • ' '