Star.
London, England, 1804-04-16 00:00:00

DUTCH JOURNALS.

We have, by a private channel, alfo received Dutch
Journals to the Bth infant. The latenef of the hour
at which they reached us, only allows time to infert
the following extracts: We (hall give others to-
morrow.

Scot Loam, AfZIL 6.—" In conferptcnce of a
conference which has taken place between his Ex-
cellency M. SLMOPiVILLE, the French Anibafrador,
and our Government, on the fttbjea of the late con-
(piracy, orders have been ifftted tor arretling feveral
perfons in this country ; and two have already been
taken to the Hague, charged with carrying on a fe-
cret corrcfpondence with the enemy; the one a ta•
vern-keeper of Rotterdam ; the other a manutaCturer
at Leyden. They have undergone fcreral examina-
tions. •

" It is thought that the national brig of war the
Atalante was captured on the 11l init. by feveral
armed Englifh clialoups in the Vlie.
"The haßile (quash on appears clofer and Rronger
off Elating. Two cutters approacheJ, on the 29th,
very mar the city and the road. Several pinks and
chaloups were with the lquadron. About fix o'clock
in the evening, one of the Laile cutters (truck on
the corner oithe Elbow, on which feveral chaloups
from their fouatlion came up to get her afloat.—
Bombs and balls were immediately fent in abundance
thitherwards from the inner and outer batteries of
Flufhing ; at the fame time feveral armed veffel.,
filled with French military, were difpatched off by
Admiral VERHEUIL j when a cannonade was fop.
1 potted on both tides. However, the enemy was not
to be deterred from his purpose ; the cnaloup was
got off with the flood, under cover of their guns, and
the Batavian veils returned to anchor in the Road."

The lira account, laid before the public of an ac-
tion between one of our frigates :t.rd four armed
Dutch veffels which had been at Bergen. were pub
tithed in the STAR. The following flatemcnt reiped.
ing it is extraNd from ore of the Dutch pipers
Estraet from thc Report a Ci*ten SAINT FANS r, cnnintanding
a ~.!3% Own of the four following Ilatavian privateer (hips, via.
the liataafa,be Trouw, SA I Pi*. FA CINNIN.UNICT, Captain
DocooT, carrying 13 1111r1T1,p01111JCIII aid a twenty-four
pounder.; the Cote, Cat taM 'feu uusses, rAtr)ing 16 eight•
pounders; the Petri, Captain 7watt r, earning 4 eight.
pounders ; and the Ler, Captain BRAAK, carrying 8 two-
pounders. Dated at Bergen, 4 and loth March, 1804.

" Having failed from Bergen in Norway the to
March 1%4, we came to an engagement en the 3J
in the morning, with the Englilh frigate the Tutu IS,
Captain KAMM/. catrving 20 thirty-two and 28
eighteen potindets. It being impot(ble for this divi.
fun to avoid the colleen, we homed the hue of bat-
tle: the Englilb ftigate approaching, at a quarter
beim: eleven o'clock hoified the Royal colours, on
which the Bataviatt vale's (hewed theirs, and the
ccritell crmmeneed: the enemy immediately attack-
ed the Unie, which was at the head of the line. It
loon became general, and continued, under an in-
ceffint and violent cannonade, till nine minutes pan
two, when the fire front the ft igate crated, and the
fared herfelf by Right. The commander SAINT
Facer gave the figual to chafe t but the vedels
t:nder his command hating (offered ton much in their
(landing rigging, were nnahle to get the ft iga:e any
more within the reach of their fire."

The above mentioned commander further reports,
" that the Cllo3(ling pilots had brought ii.fot motion,
that the Englith ttigate had from 25 to 3o killed,
And from 7o to it° wounded ; and that beirg, greatly
damaged in the hull, the had taken fhelter 11.1.i.,e1 the
mac, for the purpofe of repairing the (ion:age the had
received in het bottom : the was fern there in a help.
lets condition rn the sth„ by the 1.:(r, in putting to
tea from the r t Bergen. 11 lie fire the
I)ett!.l failed : Unte was to tail on the t 1111
And the Battaafiche Treuw hoeing fliff(red the moll,
remained to repa4. The Botavian had only
floe nun 16..h•J vnd he badly w(iu,d(6l, altht•uth
vs:tin a pittt.l ti coat other.

" The C trunandant bellows great commendation
on the valour and conduit of the under officers
and crews, all having fought as lions, and that too
in theil inner jackets. The Bataafsche Trouw alone,
during the eniz 'gement, faluted the enemy with 227
(hots, each of lour pounds, and ufing I i lbs. of
gt,,,P"vs,ler ; nor did the other three (Lips remain a
whit in his debt.

STATES OF THE BATTLE.

The Thetis fired from 28 1h c Beta, ...udivifiora fired from

ri3lnern pounders - 5(4 13 eight pounders - 160
And from 10 thirty-two poun- 11 twelve pounders - 144
dun - - 640 1 fort ytight d.tto - :4
8 two ditto - - 16
1144 —7--

" From hence it appears, that, befides the adva-n1
t2ge of heavier cannon, the enemy was three times
as thong as the privateer divilion ; having, moreo•er,
availed himiell of triankir, and other murdzr-ms in-
liniments, which are pi eferved on board the Latashin
velfels aa a memorial."

His Nfattsry, we Are now enabled to flare, has
been confiderably better for the laft four days than
at any peri,d lime his illnefs. There are now very
flight remains of any fort of indifpnfition. The LORD
CH A NCk LLOR had an audience of his Msyrsry on Sa-
turday and yellerday. On the former day feveral
official papers received the Royal Signature.
Saturday letters were received in town, from an
Englith Gentleman confined at Valenciennes, giving
mnf melancholy account of the treatment of the
Engin prifoners fince the difcovery of the fuppofed
plot for the affaffination of Boa Ara Ta : they ate not
permitted to go beyond their prifon, and as a pelt'.
lential fever is prevalent within the city, the greateft
anxiety is entertained for their fate.
Mr. J. Moaalsom, Captain or Mate of an Ame-
rican veffel, which was lately feized at Bourdeaux,
is confecpience of fome informality in her papers, on
Saturday arrived in Loudon by way of Rotterdam,
having (pent feveral wt.eks at Paris in ineffeCtual en.
deavours to obtain the liberation of his thip. He
Rates that the barriers of Paris are doled every even-
ing at half pall five o'clock, after which no perfon
whatever is fuireied to pals. The roads to Brefi,
Boulogne. and Lyons, are particularly guarded, and
no one fuffered to proceed without efpecial order.
In London, three different High Maffes will be
celebrated in the courfc of the prefect week : the kat
by order of the Royal Relatives of the late Duke
d' L' ; the lecond a: the ir.flance cf the French
Nobility and General Officers ; and the third by order
of the Bifliops.

Saturday we received hr the Ophelia, PICNENS,
arrived in the Downs, a Packet of New York Papers
from the azd February to the 'WI of March.
We learn with horror, that the Whites left in St.
Domingo, both at Aux Cayes and Port au•Prince,
atter the evacuation of that ifland by the French
troops, hare been maffacred by the Blacks. A letter
dated New Yin k, March the 3d, has the following
intelligence upon this lubjeft :—Captain FAIRC HILD,
who attired at this port yellersiay, in the brig Ann,
from Aux Cayes, informs us, that on the aI ft of
January, about 7o white inhabitants were maffacred
by the brigands, and thrown into the river, laid to
be in confetjuence of the Commander having received
intelligence that General DIISALINES might he daily
lexpeCted there from Port•au•Prince to replace him,
and that he (the Commander) had determined to
ufe his power, fo long as it fhould be continued to
him, in avenging the injuries of the Blacks. The
fame night a number of armed Negroes and Mulat-
toes entered the houfe of Mr. Gaara say x,
and after pillaging all his effeCt., carried him out of
the city, where they maffacred him with two others,
,named BECHE and HINIII.

On the following day the Black General, CERRO.
LOIS, who commanded at Aux Cayes, publilhed that
the murder. h.cd been committed by certain revenge-
ful pctfons without order; ; yet a few hours after the
above publication, a mailacre, infinitely more dread-
ful than the Mil, commenced ; among the unfortu-
nate vittims of this night wet e, M. M. MARS SF IN
L• GA UTItAGE. VIGNON, 1,11 BLILTINE, P.NEAU,
LAPORTE PE CAP A ILION, NIA REIMAN, MA LIPP S,
FILEES. Sc. Atter al'aftnating thefe unfortunate
men, they pillaged their homes, and threw their
corples into the tea. The following day th;city was
comparatively tranquil ; but there is reafon to lup-
pMe that the Negroes will ultimately butcher all the
i'lench Whites within their power. Two Americans
have been mafr..cred, Mr. HALE and another.

It was reported at Aux Cayes,that the Blacks had
marracred all the White inhabitants in the Cape but
and bat tlitec or tour in Port Itepublicain, at
which place the powder magazine had blown up, and
many had bean deflroyed by the explofion. The
Negroes have iubtlitnted for St. Domingo, Hatti,
the name which the island originally bore.
New lose, FF O. 67.•• We are becoming every
d.; y more and more alarmed for the fafety of our
vetfel. ; the French, for what realon they do not ex.
plain, take every thip they meet under American
colons.—The C ' mbinc, Captain Insists
Nos THAM, dzared out cf :hi.: not long ago for the
Welt Indic., WAC captured off the illand of Hifpaniola
by a French prit•ater : the was however recaptured
by the Englifh, after bcir.g in the puff...trio/a of the
French eight days.
Letter% from New Providence, dated January IS,
mention that they are in grett alarm for fear of an
attack by the French tout Ilarracou, and are m tk-
ing every pofille preparation to repel them. The
women ure All fent into the interior.

We are atft!rtd that the French troops and rena-
gado( v efeaped firm St. Domingo. are encamped in
great foice on the cod of Cuba, preparatory to their
atta:k on Ncw Providence. The molt •iprr us
meal Tres Are however adopted to froftratc their
attempt..

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Captain from St. Thomas's, fays, three
or four veffelsliad arrived there from the City of St.
Domingo, braided with a number of the white inha.
Wants, who tbcd from that city; who reported that
the approach of the Brigands had (truck filch a
panic, that all the inhabitants who could get away
were tilting in every direaion.
A letter from BAltimerae, dated the 3d of March,
by the Venus, Dasuisi., ariired off Brighton, in-
forms its that la Plartuivante, French frigate 4. of 4
guns, having refitted at that port, had failed nn a
entice. It was reported dist Jiaotte Bo
was on board ; but we have rcafon to believe the
ttatement t.i b: unft:unded.