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London, England, 1803-01-31 00:00:00

LONDON.

MONDAY, JANUARY 31.
PRICE OF STOCKS ON SATURDAY
3 per C. Red. 71 k Short Ann. 44 1-t6
3 per C. Conf. 74ai India Stock zo9i
4 per Cent. Conf 814 Excheq.Bills, par Is. prem.
s per C. Ann. zooit (Minium ail dif.
5 per C. 1797. to3th Lottery Tickets a 71.165.
Long Ann. lot 3-16 Conf. for El b. acc. 7I
DUBLIN, •JANUAR• 27 —Sroen Exc HANGC.
i 31 per C. Gov. Deb. 83 82U-5 per Cent. Gov. Dtb.pB3.
Comic of Eschange—Dublin on London 114 I.

No foreign mails of any kind have arrived fince
our laft.
We are happy to learn from Ireland, that the
flate of the county of Limerick is very different
from the alarming reprefentations which have been
made of it. In confequence of Mr. WICKHAM'S
Vila to that county, and of his communications
with General PAYNE, (the Commanding Officer
of the Difti ia,) and with the principal Gentry, it
has been thought advifeable by Government to
decline any extraordinary interference, under the
conviftion, that the ordinary courfe of the law is
fufficient for the prefervation of tranquillity. The
report that the Infurredion AC was to be extended
to that county is therefore unfounded.
Mr. WICICHAbt returned to Dublin from his ex-
curtion on Saturday fe'onight.
Various letters from
.Tarnalca, St. Domingo, and
America, cor.cur in afiliming, that fume of the
French Generals in St. Domingo poifoned them-
fclves in confequence of a dtteCfed plot. This in-
telligence has score foundation than was at firft
imagined. The White Proprietors in St. Domingo
have been greatly oppreircel and difgufted by the
French Government and Army, and the profpeds
to them refulting from the extirpatiOn of the
Blacks are of the moft gloomy complexion. Hence
they began to difcover, that if the Confular Army
triumphed, they would be in a worfe fitnation than
living as they have done, in a fort of alliance with
the fr:e Blacks. Under thofe imprellions, it is 1
1 laid, Come of the White Proprietors intrigued be•
tween the revolted Blacks and the French Officers,
with the view of forming a new eftablifhtnenr, and
expelling the Confular Army. Gen. DUCUA was at
the head of this plan ; and all the Blacks under
LECLERC were fuppofcd to be well affected to
it. The difcovery is faid to have made General
DUGLIA poifon himfelf, and to have occafioned the
removal of the Blacks on fhip board, or into awful;
thefe Blacks being more dreaded than the others
on accofint of their difcipline. Since the Taft of-
ficial French accounts, the Blacks have attacked
the Cape and St. Marc, but have been repulfed.—
Port Repnblicain, it is laid, they have taken by
norm, making a dreadful maffacre, potting all
the white men, women, and children to the fword.
This happened early in December.
Every effort is made by the French Government
to reinforce the troops in St. Domingo. The fol-
lowing letter flews at once the exertions employed,
and the little hopes of fuccefs. It is dated }here,
z 3d January :-
1 "We are here very bufy in fending out more
viaims to the Weft Indies.—zooo fail tomorrow,
and a very large force is preparing; it is laid 6•,000.
If they (boutd fond roo,ooo, the yellow fever will
provide for them all.-27,000 men have fallen un-
der this diforder. An Officer who left St. Domingo
one month ago Aiwa me the ietuaLreturns—not
a houfe remains ftanding in the ntry—every
thing is levaled to the ground, or burst. A white
perfon dare not move half a mile from the centi.
nels, without tire certainty of being murdered. No
quarter is given. The blacks, in dying, will not
take quarter. He afrured me that, under the ftroke
of the bayonet, they declare death to be prefer-
able to (Livery. The cruelties on both fides are
dreadful, and are even incredible. Frequently fifty
or one hundred of thee unfortunate wretches are
conveyed ten or twelve leagues to lea, and thrown
overboard, tied back to back, though they are ge-
nerally firft fuffocated in the hold. I do not doubt
the veracity of this Officer. Indeed his account
has been confirmed to me by others."
On the lad December, the Governor and Coun-
cil of Effequibo and Demerara, and the difrias
thereunto belcnging, publiffied a Proclamation,
notifying to the inhabitants, that ANTHONY MEsa.
TENS, the newly appointed Governor General of
thole Colonies, had arrived with the Batavian
troops, and after the Colonies had been duly fur.
rendered to the Batavian Republic, had appeared
in the Council affembled, and delived his commif.
lion from the Batavian Direltory, as Governor
General, which conunitilon is as follows :
The DireCtory of the Batavian Republic, to
all whom thefe prefents may come, Health. Be
t known, that, having judged it neceWary for the
ad vantag- and lets ire of the country to appoint a
Governor G.:reval for the C.,:onies of Effequibo
And 11:rn:!3ra, Kr hereby came and appoint fuch
t Govenon t!le perfon cf A%THOMY MRERTERS,
.4; :Owl: abint'es, and vigilance, we can
reiv, elArging him to conduCt himfelf in
his :recording to the oath he has
taken to Icr. ronntr.y, and Aper.ibly to the duty of
a good and taitirtirl Gurcti.o General, according

to the ;narrations he hat reeeived, or Mall hereaf-
ter receive, hereby commanding all, and every one
to acknowledge, refpeet, and obey the above named
ANTHONY MEERTINS, in the before mentioned ca-
pacity, and to render him every aid and aaillance
in whatever he may judge for the advantage of
the Colony.
Done at the Hague the t tth May, tgOS.
SAMUEL VAN HOOOSTRAATEN, V. P.
By order of the Direften y.
j. DASSEVAEL."
The Governor and Council then diredt and or-
der, that the faid ANTHONY Meserstis fhall be
acknowledged and obeyed as Governor General
of the Colonies of Demerara and Elliquiho, by all
the Colleges within the faid Colonies. They add,
that all the inhabitants within the fame are ;iv",
jaao releafed, by the refloration of the colonies to
the Batavian Republic, from the oath of ficlilety
which they took to his BRITANNIC MAJESTY at
the time of their furrender, and they require them
in confequence to take an oath of fidelity to the
Governor General, of the following tenor :
" I promife and fwear, that I will be faithful to the Merc.
tory of the Batavian Rtruhlic, ai tie ft:pretre iluthori:y to
which I am fubjcift ; to the Cour.c.! of the Americ. a c honica
and poffeffions, and to the Governor General of that colonic.;
that I will render them all doe oliedierce; that I will ta.e no
part in any cionfpiracies, cabals, or fadlicn‘; but, on the con-
trary,
rapport the general tranquillity, fallty, and o,11.1; e. witiA
all my power, and refill every thing that may tad to eatur-
bance or itjury,and on all oceafioni. condudl myfelf as becomes
a gcod and peaceable titizcn and inhabitant, without fuffering
either favour or affeEtion, hope of reward, feiir of the Ids of
property or life, or any other motive to induce me to fwerve
from my duty."
All the inhabitants of Demerara who Mall not
have taken this oath and figned their names to it
in a Regifter, before the 'aft day of January, and
thole of Eltcquibo who Ihall not have taken it, and
figned in the fime manner, before the laft day of
Februaiy, will be compelled to leave the country.

Yetlerday morning their Mammas and the
PR INC LSS ES attended Divine Service in the Private
Chapel in the Q/F N'S houfe. A fermon was
preached by theltev. Dr. GLASSE ; after which
DM:ICJ AN LEY paid his refpetts to their MAJISTIES.
His Excellency held a Privy Council at Dublin
Cattle on Tuefday Tall, at which a Proclamation
was oidered to be iffued, to take off the real iftion
of quarantine from veffels coming from the pro-
vinces of Pennfylvania and Maryland, the epide•
mic fever having there totally ceafed.
Lord Kr LW ARDEN is at prefent indifpofed at his
houfe in Dublin.
General Paews brother to the Admiral, has
been appointed to command the Limerick diftritt,
in the room of General Mo..a term The latter,
when Limerick was lately menaced with attack,
ordered the city to be illuminated, with a view to
ke the Rebels when they entered and this me-a.
Cure, it is reported, has been difapproved by the
Government.
Hyde Park has not contained fo great a crowd
rinse the Review of the Volunteers, as alfembled
yetlerday to fee the fkaiters. At half part three,
about four thoufand people were on the ice, and
more than double that number on the banks of the
Serpentine River, alinoil all of them well-dr...fled
perfons. The carriages did not take the ufual
road, the road to Ken fington., but went to the
Serpentine, and round the ring.—The North fide
of the Serpentine was lined with carriages three
deep, and the firing of them reached back to the
Piccadilly gate,and forward nearly round the ring.
Such a bottle of velvet and lilk peliffcs, of muffs,
and of tippets, has fildom been feen in Hyde Park
Promenade. The fkaiters were numerous; but
the chofen band tool their ice facing the carriages,
on the North fide near the Ranger's houfe. Here
a party of eight or nine young men of faftrion,
difplayed the ornamental flourifbes of the art to
the amufement of a numerous circle, many of
them perfons of the firft rank. Among thefe
(kaiters were the Marquis of Loans, Lord Vit-
t:sits, Sir J. Saints's', Captains CAULFIELD and
UPTON. The ice in this part, protefted from the
north winds by the trees, was not fo thong as far-
ther call, and it obvioufly funk, or rather bent
down, as any perfon moved along; notwithftand
ing this apparent danger, and the thaw which
prevailed, rendering the ice rotten, and unfafe,
many Ladies would go on it, forming them-
felves into parties and endangering their lives.-
-A crowded circle was formed round thefe lupe-
, rior Ihaiters, and the fpettators on the banks were
apprehenfive the whole would be in an inliant
`(wallowed up. At lall, the ice gave way in a part
of the circle, and two ladies, a gentleman, and a
girl about 14, funk. Fortunately it was that part
of the circle nest the (lime, and the water was not
more than three feet deep. The ladies and gentle-
man were loon got out. leaving their muffs, Cis-
, pets, and hats floating behind. with no other in-
jury than a good ducking, and a great fright t
but the girl was fo overcome with the fright, that
(he was falling down, finking, and would loon have
difappeared under the ice, had not Lord Vi LL t Ea s
leaped in and Caved her. The dripping party were
condutted to the Ranger's houfe. When the ice
cracked, br .ke, and the alarm was given, the
perfons forming the circle flew off in all direttions.
After this accident, the fafhionable party conti-
nued their amusement as if nothing had happened,
and no danger could arife. The Ladies crowded
on the ice, walking acrofs in parties in all direc-
tions, and there was reafon to dread every minute
that fifty or an hundred would fink down. At
four o'clock, however. the company began to dif-
perfe, and, we are happy we have not to relate the
lois of any lives. Among the falhionahles. Lady
HAMILTON was much noticed at the Serpentine,
for the elegance of her chefs and appearance.—
Her Lailyfhip was in plain white, with a rich white
fatin cloak, trimmed with ermine, and lined with
amber.