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DirpatChei were yelerdav received from Sir
_lnlay!
S•UMARrz, dated &telt:fey Road, the 7th itillant.
\tie underaand they bring intelligence that on the
night of the 2.Bth ult. feventeen flat-bottomed boats
had failed from G:anville, and got into a fmall port
to the Eaftward, from uhence they proceeded the
following night to Dieppe. They kept In ;lore in
!here that it was impodible to get near them, and
were efcorted along the coax by a demi brigade of
dragoons.
Inteliigence has been received by a refpcnable Weft
India Houle, ia the City, that on the pit of Aug.
LIR an expedition filled from Barbadoes, under the
command of General GRINFJFLDp to take poffefTion
of Demerara, which was expelled to fall an eafy
conquefl. 'File hvellirence came by a veifel, arrived
at Liverpool, uhich fai:ed the fame day the expedi•
tion dcpa:tcd from Batbadoes.
A letter from Dover, in one of the Morning Pa•
pers, after mentioning the arrival of the Jamaica
fleet, as Dated in this Paper yefterday, proceeds to
give as information, received by come of the paffen-
gels, " our having captured the whole of the French
fleet at St. Domingo, confifling of two feventylours
and five fligates, together with a confiderable num•
ber of rranfport vefTeli, that remained for fame time
blockaded by our Iquadron."—And farther, " that
the French army on lhore, in order to f.ve themfelves
from ihe ungovernable fury and refentment of the
Blacks, furrendered prifonery of war; and that in a
Council of the Blacks, held immediately after the
furrender of the French army and fleet to the Britiflt,
it was refolved, una tare, to eftahlilh a regular Govern
ment in the ifland of St. Domingo, and that no white
man fhould be employed either in the civil or military
department."
We can only obferve on the above, that though

we have no doubt of St. Domingo being, by thin

time, is the poireffion of his Majelly's forces, we can-
' not find that Any advices to that elFal have yet been
Teceived, either by Government,or by Jamaicahoufes.
Lord Ktrrit is at prefent much occupied in ar-
ranging a fy Rem of fignals on the Eatlern and South-
ern coalls, to anfuer any emergencies that may oc-
cur during the winter months. It is laid to be in
fubordination to a gland plan of naval defence given
Lim by the Board of Admiralty.
Government has iifued orders for furrounding the
Coaß of Ireland with Signal Polls, to be command.
ed by Lieutenants, fimilar to the ellablifhment of fig-
nal rifts in England; they have alfo given dire lions
for the equipment of a great number of fmall craft,
to be employed under the command of Lord Gate-
wiz, for the defence of that part of the United King-
dom.
aline of the Mooning Papers have denied that vef-
felt, clearing out for Spain and Portugal have been
refuted clearances. If the Editors will take the
trouble to go to Lloyd's, they will find the following
notice Ruck tip thi.re :
" All velfels bound to Spain and Portugal are pro-
hibiLd from clearing out at the Cullom Houfe till
further orders."
T; e general underßanding on this fubje& is, that
the meafure is the precurfor of a declaration of war
againrl both their powers. They are both funk under
d minion of France, and front the Rate of nego-
ciati ,rt with tliem there kerns little hope of a hecelf.
•
ilke. locked wt fee none upon the principle on
which 13 = mu! a.". The tranfports ordered
to be got ready ate by t.,tre fuppofed to be for an
expedition not unconneßed %via: the expefted war
with Spain and Portugal.
In addition to the rumour that the French troops
would not embark, is a very current tepott that the
gun boats are quite inadequate to the purpole for
which they were intended. It i> faid that many of
them have been funk by the very recoil of the pieces
they carried. It is long fence we heard that the gun

boats would be overlie in a rough fea by firing the

guns they cat ried. 13ot much lircfs ta not to be laid
on this experiment. The French boats unquentona-
bly are nt.t fit to make refinance ; they are meant
merely to bring over troops when it can be done in
favourable weather, without any danger of meeting
rht op!), fition of our navy. The boats the French
have built arc, ve have no doubt, extremely unfit to
nand the fn, and mud equally perith if they arc
tackeJ :.itacr hr Usc elenscuts or by the Erin& navy