Star.
London, England, 1802-03-27 00:00:00

ST. DOMINGO.

Ti.ere are in St. Domingo more than 25::,0oo
()es, of whom too,ooo are capable of bearing
arr,s, and more than 40,0u0 are aaually armed
at uretent. General LECLLUC has either been de-
ceived hinifelf, or wilhed to deceive his army and
France, when h,: fdd, That 'l' ovzSAINT had only
ten or twelve half.brigades. In cafe of necellity
he can arm altogether more than Bo,coo blacks.
The French will eafily potrefs tliemlclvcs of all
die maritime towns, and even the plains along the
coat, but thefe only conflitute a fmali part of St.
Domingo. The plain of the Cul de Sac, which is
the largeft, is only twenty miles in extent. In
feveral places, as at L'Arcahaye, the plain is not
more than three or four miles in lice. In polfeffing
On:trill:lves of the plains and the maritime towns,
the French have three objects in view :--ta, To
procure themfelves provilions of every kind. of
which they !land much in want :-2dly. To pro.
tal the fugar plantations and render them pro.
dustive (thofe of coffee are in the mountains) :
and 3dly, To intercept all maritime communica-
tion between ToussaisT and the United States;
from whence he procures his warlike (lores.
TouSSAINT has on his fide the moll powerful of
all allies, the climate—lt will do mole for hint
than go,ooo foldiers. The heat of the day and
the damps of the night, from which the French
cannot help themielves from being fuccellively e,,-
pofed, will, probably, bervcen this and the month
of June, cut off more than ttiehali of the 33,000
foldiers fent to St. Domingo, art! 'h: set. i.
they will moft ftrongly feel wilt he ti.at ot phy-
ficians, medicines, and proper hofpital stores. It
is impoffible that the fleet could have can ied all
thefe in a fufficient quantity, and they will find it
impoffible to fupply the deficiency on the Ifot.
The mortality which the heat, tl.r damps, the
rains, and intemperance generally produce amongft
European foldiers in St. Domingo is loch, that out
of twenty battalions which were fent thither in
t 7SB, not more than goo men ever returned to
Europe. It is in click points that the great fii-
perioi ity of the Negroes confilts. Aceuttonted to
the Climate, which is healthy for them, having no
need of clothes, and living on pulfe or fruits, they
will preferve their numbers, their force, their
health, and their activity, while all thefe will daily
diminith on the fide of the French.

The Negroes have another great advantage, that
of being able to avoid the kind of warfare molt
fuitable to the French, while thefe cannot avoid
that moft agreeable to the Blacks. Thefe laft, re-
tired into their defiles and mountains, will always
have the choice of the place and the time where and
when they with to fight—they will make a con-
tinual petty warfare of furprizes, ambufcades, and
ftratagems ; the kind of war, in fliert, which the
Spartans made againft the Helotes, which the Cor-
ficans made agaitul the French, and the Maroons
made in Jamalca—but none of thefe had, in the
fame degree, the advantage of ground which the
Blacks have in St. Domingo ; the mountains of that
ifland extending more than 500 miles from earl to
weft, and prctenting infurmountable obltacles to
any armed body that may attempt to penetrate
them. The Blacks then will carry on a war which
may be extended on the greateft poffible scale, and
with all the advantages which climate, phytical
conilitution, and ground can give them. 'Before
thefe advantages mull fink the only ones which die
French poffefs, thole of filperiority of taaics, of
difcipline, and military refources.

The bill to repeal the American Judicatory Code
has been carried, after a long conteft in the Senate
of the United States, by a majority of t 6 to 15,
and is now before the Houfe of Reprefentatives.
A letter has been received in town, by a Gentle-
man belonging to the Cuflum-houfe, from a Perfon
on his way home from Corfu, by which we are
informed, that he left his Majelty's (hip Aotx-
COVET, Captain RITES; SOLEBAY, Captain Dom-
DAS ; and CHAMPION, Captain the Right Hon.
Lord WILLIAM STUART, at that Ifland, on the
24th January all well.
On Wednefday laff, died at Hawkefbuty, in
Gloucetterfhire, in the 97th year of his age,tbe Re t
Potter Cole, M. A. of an ancient and refpedable
family of that name, formerly of Entione, in the
county of Oxford : he was Vicar of Hawkeibury
73 years, and patted his long life in the conttant
and uniform practice of every Chriftian duty. It
is remarkable of this excellent man, that he was
never abfent from his Parilh for the fpace of one
month, at any one time, and that he never ad-
vanced the Rent of the Tithes of any of his Pari-
fhioners during his long incumbency. He was a
friend to feveral Public Charitiest and his private
donations were a perpetual fourcc of comfort to
the Widow and the Fatherlefs. The Poor of hjs
own and the neighbouring Parifhes were almoft
daily partakers of his Bounty, particularly dui ing
the late years of fcarcity, and have great cattle
deeply to deplore the lofs of their Benefador.
By the death of HENRY, Earl Fs ocoNaFRG. the
Lord Lieutenancy and Cultos Rotulorum of the
North Riding of York(hire becomes vacant. His
Lordfhip was alfo one of the Lords of his Majefty's
Bed-chamber. He was twice married—by CHAR-
LOTTE, filler to Lord Vifcnunt MELBOURNE, his
lira wife, he had four daughters, Lady CHAR-
LOTTE WYNN, Lady ANNE WOMBWELL, ELIZA-
RE T ti, Countefs of LUCAN, now living, and Lady
IIARRIET, who died in her infancy. He married,
kcondly, JANE, Clad} daughter of the late JOHN
Clii SHYRE, Efq. of Benington, Herts, by whom
he has left no Kite. The Earldom, therefore, be-
comes extinct ; but the titles of Vifcount and Baron
FAUCONEFEG devolve on ROWL 1N1) BELASY.E,
Llq. His Lordihip was in the fifty-eighth year of
his are.
Ent; LUSH STATE LOTTERY.—Twenty-third Day
—No. 35,023, a Prize of toool.—No. 42,306, a
Prize of tool.—Nos. 23,565, 59,846, and 53,382,
Prizes of 501.
The Ticket Ni. 35,023, in :he preftnt State Lot-
tery, drawn this day a Prize of scoot. was 101.1 and
tegilt,,red at DRU mr4oND% cad Eliabliacd Otlice,
N.P. C 3, Fleet 'beet—Where Ticke:s and Shares,
ill great variety of Numbers, will continuo on fade
duitng the drawing.