Star.
London, England, 1803-02-19 00:00:00

AMERICA.

New Yna a, Jas. 12.—The Mercantile efelvertifir
of the t rth of January, Rates, that the account
pnbliffied in an American Paper, relative to the
cruelties committed by the Blacks, in the Bite of
Leogane, is an old ftory, and was publiflied on
the in sof December lea ; and its repetition now
can only tend to render it more difficult to procure
icemen for a voyage to St. Domingo. The fame'
Paper continues to Rate, on the authority of Capt.
Ds MICA, of the (loop Sam, that there is no other
precaution neceffary in navigating the Bite of
Lengane, than to have two fwivels on board the',
trail, and to provide a mufket for each (cameo,
merely to keep np a (hew of refinance. Captain
De MICR alto brings information, that on the 13th
of December, a Drench 74 gun (hip and a frigate
arrived at Port Republicain, with sOOO men on
board, who were landed immediately ; that on the
14th, eight plantations were burnt by the Brigands,
and that an engagement had taken place between
them and the French troops, the refult of which
Capt. Dam ic 2 did not learn. Except this affair Tin
engagement materially interefling had occurred
fence the departure of General Roc neresa•tt.—
The people in the town felt themfclves in perkft
fecurity. Capt. Demice left that quarter on the
s6th of December.
The differences at New Orleans Rill occupy the
attention of the Americans. The following motion I
refpeaing them was made in the Houfe of Repre-
fentatives by Mr. RANDOLPH, on the sth of Jan.
and referred to the Committee of the whole Houfe,
to whom were committed the kleffages from the'
Prefident of the United States, dated the zad and
30th of December.
Refolved—" That this Houfe receive with great
fenfibility. the information of a difpofition in cer-
tain
Officers of the Spanifh Government at New
(Means, to obnruift the navigation of the River
Miffillippi, ferured to the United States by the
moR folemn Ripulations. That adhering to that
humane and wife policy, which ought ever to
charafterizela free people, and by whichthe United
States have always prof-did to be governed ; wil.
ling et the fame time to afctibe this breach of
compaiß to the unauthorifed milcondua of certain
individuals, rather than to a want of good faith
on the part of his Catholic Majefly, and rel!ing
with refpeßful confidence on the vigilance and
wifdom of the Executive, they will wait the iffue
of fuck meaftwes as that department of the Govern.
anent limn have purfued for ailerting the rights,
and vindicating the injories of the United States
Holding is to be their duty at the fame time to es-
refs their unalterable determination to maintain
the broundarios and the rights of navigation and
commerce through the River Milliffippt, as eftab-
Wind by czitling Treaties."
A letter from Fort Wilkinfon, dated December
S, mentions, that it has been dated there that the
Trench intend to take part with the Indians to driva
the Americans from the lands of which they have
dill:v.lft lied them.
A Decree has been officially communicated by

the French to the American Onvtriinient, which
de c th . torn the United States wiil
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•a•ie 'trench Ports with.
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