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London, England, 1802-12-20 00:00:00

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Nor. 23... According to accounts *lick fuceef
lively arrive, it appears that the earthquake of the
26th Odolier, extended Over a great part of Runk..
It was moll Mt in Tula, lungs, and Oul. -It
is remarkable, that while felt very flrongly on the
whole right Bank of the Oka, it was not at al)
perceived on the left Bank.
AMSTERDAM,. DSc. 8.--. Letters front Curacoa,
dated Sept. 28, Rate, that the Englifh garrifon
had left that Colony four days before.
DEC. io.—A letter written on board the Een._
dragt frigate, at anchor in Siznon's Bay, Cape of
Good Hope, dated Auguß 16, Rates as fbllows:
On the loth of May we left Porto Prayo, and
on the 3111 paired the line with a frefh .gale ; on
the 24th of June we feparated from our convoy
during bad weather; and on the 20th of July an;
chored in this Bay where we found the Juno and
Pheenix. Our convoy arrived here afterwards in
fucceflion, fo that on the 6th of this month we
were all collected. The company's (hips Arne Ron
and Vrede en Rua, with the brig of war de Avan-
turier, have arrived here alfo, while we were!
feparated from the convoy. The Juno (poke the
Jan en Cornelis, Capt.
*Tacos Dulf F."
Letters from Falfe Bay, dated Auguß so, hate'
that the Batavian fquadron, which failed from
Rochelle in the month of April, with troops, de-
(lined for Batavia, had arrived there. This intel-
ligence is confirmed by letters from the Cape of
Good Hope, dated Auguß ta, which. Rate) that
fourteen Batavian (hips were then lying there,
*Ong which, befides the fqtraciron which • figed
from Rochelle, were the corvette de Avanturier,
and the Eaft India (hips Arne Ron, Capt. Sro sumo,
and the Vre& en Rua, Capt MIAS &RENDS.
IiA,OI,DEC. I s.—Genes al MOETRICHARD, late
Commander of the French troops in Helvetia, has,
arrived in this city. He is to take the command
of the auxiliary French divifion, which Rill remains
in the fervice of the Batavian Republic., He ap-
pears likewife to be charged* with Ahe.fuperintosk
dance of the preparations the French are snaking
for the expedition to Louifiana. General VICTOR,
who, is to Command this expedition, has not yet re-
joined the troops:, and the rea of the eflablifhment
afembled for the voyage, but-he is Gaon expeded:l
Letters from the Cape of Good. Hope, of ihil
t 3th of Ana, •rifeniion the fafe arrival of feveial
of •our (hips of war and traufports Which failed for
that deßination or for Batavia.- The fame letters
Rate that in three days, the taiiir siiraytil•be Co-
lemnly given up by the Englifh diawanonr to the
Batavian Oommanders.
The following intelligence, dited Leghorn, No-
vember 12, refpeding the operations of Admiral
Da Wirrta's fquadron, in the Mediterranean, has
been received here.---., The Batavian Admiral
Ds Wirrrsa has been at Tripoli, where he has
concluded a Treaty of Peace with that State, on
condition of paying to the Pacha 80,000 Spanifh
piaftres, 20,000 of which are to be paid immedi-
ately, and the rea at the end of fix months, to-
gether with a yearly Cum of 7000 piaflres. Befides
this the Dutch have fupplied the Pacha with s3o
barrels of gun-powder, and a large quantity of
cordage."

Tuefday a duel wi.s fought near the North Wall,
Dublin, between GEORGE Nitwit, of Nixon-hall,
Efq. and D'ARCY MA HoS, of Cloon, Efq. in which
the former received a wound in the breaft, which
was at firft fuppofed to be mortal, but which is
not likely to prove fatal.
The Prefident and Senate of the United States
of America have been pleafed to appoint J. Ls-
ANDER CATHCART, Efq. Conful General for the
City and Kingdcm of Algiers.
The French Government has paid the bills drawn
on it 'aft fpring, by its Agents in America ; and
to obviate the inconvenience. which its Comman-
ders in the Weft Indies have experienced from the
want of credit to obtain provitions, &c. the Cocas.
Constrt. has eftablithed a fund in the United States,
adeqqate to anv immediate occafion.
'1 he Cowl Calendar for the enfuing year has enu-
merated BONAPARTE amongft the Sovereigns of
Europe ; and in the current fpecification of each
Monarch's Mirth, &c. Rates that he was born on
the 15th of Auguti 1769, and " began to reign"
the i sth of Decem!,er 1799.
On Saturday we received the Bolton Papers to
the 9th November.—The Palladium, of that date,
lays, " Governor WENTWORTH has authorifed the
continuance of the intercourfe between Nova Scotia
and the United States till the 3oth of April next."
On the Bth of OCtober, a large party of Blacks
attacked the town of Port de Paix, in St. Domingo.
carried it by afrault, and put moil of the white
inhabitants to the fwbrd. Two vefels laden with
wounded, &c. arrived at Cape Francois the day
following,and on the t oththeAdmiral fent a frigate
and a {loop with troops, for the purpofe of retaking
the town. After a very obtlinate defence, which
continued for nearly two days, the Blacks gave
way, carrying with them, however, a large fup-
ply of flares, ammunition, &c.
An Error having crept into the Account of the
Cattle and Sheep, exhibited for the refpedive Pre-
miums, given by the Smithfield Cattle and Sheep
Society, the Editor is requefted in his next Paper
to refhfy the fame: Mr. Rosie sou's (of Witham,
Efrex,) long wooled, WO i.ineeln, one year old
Wethers, are therein denomiqated new Lein:ger:.
They were the only flock that he exhibited, con-
fequenely having obtained the Premium for Sheep
of their defeription he could not Rand in the pre-
dicament of tilde who were unfuccefsfult bat was
suestioued in your Pam as furl.