Star.
London, England, 1803-10-31 00:00:00

PROM LLOYD'S LIST.

Oakersr.eo, Oc T. 30 —rzircd!-: the Nor hoirherbnd,
kw, Archangel ; .ty of Dantist h. I ivner ; ArtitLe lonic Wcwit,
—, from 13:wale), ; Juieow Il,rmoria, from Ardor-
(lam ; jacnba, lv..rolanman; Elizabeth. Guile ; Frederic*, joim-
fon ; Friende,. Brost; Jeep Jaw. Bifs; Johanna Margaretta,,
Frekh; Jane johansa, Nate; sod Vrow Anna,—. from am-
teniam. feaelol the Johanna, Haer. fewSnlLe ; and Colonies,
Welling, few Emeden.

Autivrit—At Pillow h, km!, Dolt, fr..ti 74.0,ra; al d
InrJ Nelfaw, from Scwintubakinti. At 14.c.t4L a MS, ,
• WPM, f• I.l‘.4l;ttit. UK 1 Atatouth, Vaterottie, A$ As, Ittak

Honduras. At Llverpool,P,ntifylvanla, Bray, from Philadelpliia.
At Demerara, Aurora, Vag Bled. from Arrica. At Nevis, itibet.
fn, Tad, from London. At New York, Alice Bridger,
nom Antigua; and Ceres, Fuleher, from Trinidad. At Quebec,
M•lntyre, from the Weft Indies. At Newfoundkn',
Minerva, Hare, from Poole ; Braver, saunders; and indultry„
Hall. from New York. At Gibraltar, Zephyr, Fletcher; and
Filing Fib, Tomlinfoo, from Cork.
The prise-money of the Dutch ordnance and Roves has at length
been Med.

The Cyannc [loop away has captures' and fent to St Vincent's,
two large Dutch fhips from Surinam, bound to Holland, with va-
luable cargoes of fugar, coffee, &c. L'Heureut has taken another
of like defcription.
The Coop Fanny, from Trinidad, for St. Kitt's, with feveral
paffeogers, has been captured ufl BNIIIA, by a French privateer of
tour guns and 7o men.

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FRENCH TrR.llO/r,

DISPLAYED, IN •UTHENTIC DOCUMENTS,

Continued front the STAG of Thurfday

OPPRESSION, CRUMTY, FRAUD, AND PECULATION,

WRITTEN IN ST. DOMINGO EY AN LYE-WITNE3i, AND INTENDED

TO IL TRANSAII [0 TO FRANCR,VOR TML INFORMATION OF

?UL AUTHOR'S MERCANTILE ERICNOSAND CORILESPONDLNI

RESULT OF THE EXPEDITION TO SAINT DOMINGO:
CONDUCT OP GENERAL LECLERC AND OTHERS.

It appears, from what I have colletilcd in different
converfations, that General Lictsac committed a
great fault.
When he arrived in the miclit of his formidable
army, compofed of the conquerors of Italy; when he
found himfelf wrong, when his army was entire, he
Ade of Liberty to the Blariir, having in his hand Botta,
PARTE% Proclamation of the 4.th of Nivofe, year 8-
which lays, "The Cow suts of the Republic, in an-
pouncing to you the new focial compadt, declare
that the Jarred prineipb of tie liberty and apish', of
the Blade will never experience among you any infringe-
ment or mothjication." And the 9th paragraph, "If
there are in Saint Domingo any evil minded perfons,
if there are any who maintain a correfpondence with
the enemy, remember, in ave Blacks ! that the French
people alone acknowledge your liberty and the equality of
your rights."
Gaseral Lactate had alto in his other hand Bo-
soseitats's letter to GeneralToussm w r, in which were
the following words:—" What doyen col/blot.? Liberty
to the Blad.: l You inato, that in every country, where we
have been, we have given liberty to people who never before
enjoyed it. Henceforth; the tranquillity and ftrength
of Government will enfrre the liberty and property of the
people of Saint Doering*; toil thew, that liberty to them is
the greatO good, they cannot enjoy it but with the title,
of French Citizen ; afrure them that you will take
no account but of their prefent condua, and make
no enquiry into the pia, but to find out thofe who
have diftinguithed themfelves in the war which they
maintained againft the Spaniards, and the Englifh,l
who have been our enemies.
_ _ _

General Lsccsac in a decree of the tilt of Plu-
vlofe, year to (fee the ictosittor f Germinal 29) lays.
fome perfons endeavout to give a wrong opinion of
the army which is come hither only to fllabgb order,
sad se safe Mem to be rilielfed."
General LECIARC. in a proclamation iffued at St.
Domingo (fee Moniteur Germinal 2) Pays. " I have
"moil-el liberty to the inhabitant, of St. Domingo, and I
/all make them enjoy it."
Such are the fentirnents he expelled when he found
binefelf in force. and at the head of a powerful army ;
and when his army was weakened. and almoft an-
nihilated by difeafe. General Laculac then began
to (peak of llavcry.
The needary refult was a violent commotion.

In the month of Prairial, year to, (about the end
of May, tilos) TOUSSAINT-LOUTIATURS was Cr.
relied contrary to the faith of treaties, and by de.
wising him, difeontent was neceffasily excited.
Though feveral of the black generals were jealous
of TOUSSAINT, aad anxious to afume his place, his
being carried away could not fail of being a eau& of
diforder. I was told that TOUSSAINT had retired to
his plantation at Gonaive. A numerous detachment
was polled either on the fpot or in the neighbourhood:
it appears, that being incommoded by it, whether
the foldiers committed any trefpifs, or the draws
had treated him with contempt, he wrote to Gene-
Tal-Bauair to requeft either that the detachment
might be withdrawn, or that it might be retrained
by a more fever difcipline. General Battairr tom-
municated Ton ss ate T'S Letter to General Laity Le,
and the lams in his anfwer, defired General Baum sr
to arrange the matter with Toussaint, at the fame
tialk-he fent him particular infinieions either in
writing or by Come confidential perka. General
331V111T made known to TOUSSAINT ills contents of
General Lactsac's Litter, and invited him to pay
him a vilit, in order that he might confer with him
on the fuhjett. TOUSSAINT wept as defired, but was
arrefted immediately on his arrival, and fent to the
Cape by fea. Such is the account given to me ; and
to me it has every appearance of probability.

Some think that the fubmirson of Too SUINT was
perhaps not perfe&ly lincere, and that he fecretly
waited for a favourable moment to recover his au-
thority. It was pretty generally believed, that his
charaBer did not difplay complete fincerity, but, on
the other hand, there does not fecm to be any proof
that he was forming a confpiracy at the time he was

Others are of opinion, that government would have
done well, had it been poffible to fecure all the prin•
eipal chiefs, CHI ISTOINII, DIBIALINIS, &c. leaving
them the free difpnfal of every thing that belonged to
them, and treating kindly the Officers and foldiers
v. Yin had ferved tinder them, in order not to excite
general difeontent, and to afford no pretext to their
partizans. _ _ _

Thcfe perfons afert, that if we confult the human
heart, it may eddy be teen that men who had fo long
enjoyed power, would not readily content to refign
k gratuitoufly, and to return to a Rate of 'safe&
nullity or degradation ; and that they ought to have
been fent to France, giving them tome aqp&nunenu
or penfions, with the enjoyment of the* property,
and without affording them any caufe of ditcontent,
for far of alarming and irritating their confidants.
Were it indeed propofed to all our generals, off-
- o rot 'kat Flow 1•1.7.-1.

they were before the revolution, ran any one believe
that they would willingly content ; that they would
fuller themfelves to be deprived of their rank and
their appointments, and that they would not take up
arms to refill, and excite all their comrades to do
the fame ? Meafures diametrically oppofite to thole
principles have been purfued at Saint Domingo, and
they have produced the moll fatal effefls.
Almon all the black corps have been difbanded.
Thefe difbanded foldiers, accullomed to live amiclft
the buftle of a camp, amidft rapine and plunder, as
the equals, or the masers of the white people, could
not, without danger, be incorporated with tradefmen.
They could net return to the nate of peaceful la.
bourers, fubjed to imperious masers. They went
back to the plantations from which they were taken,
but only to early thither difcontent, confufion, and
revolt. The greater part found themfelves (tripped
of their epaulets, which ferved to gratify their vanity,
and deprived at the fame time of all means of fubfif•
tence. The general difarming, attempted to be carried
into execution, and which chiefly affefted that clafs of
men, could only ferve to increafe the general difcon•
tent. It ought to have been done not to them, but
by them, in order to place them in oppofition to the
blacks of the plantations, to bring them into difcredit
with them, and prevent them from being Able to ex-
cite them to infurreftion in future.

Tkefe black foldiers ought to have been employed
to fupport the political fyilem of government. They
ought to have formed one of its principal engir es.
How was it poffible not to forefee th.t the moll re-
fpeetable of the black tradefmen, when forced to re.
tire to the plantations, would apply to agriculture
with a good will; that by boating of their battles
and exploits, they would infpire their companions
with relwaance and hatred for the whites, were it only
to extol and to loftily their pail conduit, and that
they could never be any thing but brigands, unlefs
retrained by the fir iaelt and mot fevere military dif-
cipline.--Is is well known, that this difcipline, intead
of hurting, flatters their pride, for thefe men, as they
polies a military fpirit, think lets of the fubordination
they are obliged to be under to their fuperiors, than
they do of the power which they acquire of com-
manding theiv,inferiors.
The generallaspeifation of all the authorties un-
dertaken about the fame time produced only new
caufes of fear and alarm.

There were people of every colour, whites, mulat-
toes, and blacks in the different conftituted bodies,
the admiaiftration, courts of Mice, gendarmerie, Sec.
None but a few white men, three or four perhaps,
were filtered to retain their places, all the reit were
fucceeded by milt-ass from France, or by the moft
cfiftinguithed men of colour, who had been in the
pay of the Engin!), and who with them had carried
on war againft France.

It is very extraordinary, that all theft were the
jells ot preference, and of particular predeliaion ; and
what is very remarkable, and thews the height of im.
prudence, there in power excluded in general from
all places. without any swarths or dflisaies, not only
the blacks, but the men of colour, and even the old,
rich. free. and mod enlightened proprietors. This
excludes was a degrading kind nfprofcription, a fort
of condemnation, a fort of civil death, which remind.
ed them of real death.

It was in the month of Thermidor, then at the pe-
riod of the organifation of the conftituted authorities,
that partial movements of infurredion began to be
manifefted, and daily to increafe.
In the mean time, very imprudent language was
ufrAl in France in the Tribunate and Legiflative
Body, and the Offices of the Minifers, where flavery
was talked of for the colonies. This language was con-
veyed even to Saint Domingo. Evil minded perfons,
den blinded by their paffions, who wiffied to over-
turn every thing that their party might triumph, and
to gratify their refentment, took care to tranfasit
thither this intelligence. Their objeft being to pro-
duce confufion, they fpread uneafinefs, dread, and
forpicioa, that they might afterwards excite an in-
furre{tion, and have it in their power to punifh and
to gratify their vengeance.
On the other hand, the Englifh and the Americans
took care to traofmit to the Cape the Englifh or
American Newfpapers, containing an account of
what was done in the Tribunate or Legiflative Body,
where flavery bad been fpoken of for the Colonies.
There newfpapers were, perhaps, in English ; bat
Cm erstor it s, one of the principal Chiefs. was an
Englifliman, and underftood Englifh perfectly.
Hence arofe diftruft; alarms were ipecac!, and
produced infur ration.
Government might, and ought to have formed at
the very commencement a national guard, complied
of the whole Citizens. This meafure was negleßed;
and, as it was not carried into execution at fief, it
molt appear extraordinary that (even or eight months
after the arrival of the French, jun at the moment
when they had the imprudence to fpeak of flavery,
they took it into their heads to form a national guard,
exclufively compofed of white men, rejeeling all rasa
of colour.

Tbek matures could not fall of exciting a great
deal of umbrage and uneaGnefh and mull hay' cos
tributed to excite difalfetlion among the black Gene-
rals, and chefs of the men of colour, ■nd to produce
the unfonunate eataltrophe of the end at Venda-
miaice, year t 2, (middle of Oeober. semi
(To k seliffet) .

VOLUNTEERS.

O6NUR•L ORDIRS.

1102112 GUARDS, OCTORti 29, Igo3.

His Royal Highnefs the Commander in Chief has received the
![tic's command to convey to the fevcral Volunteer an 1 Affuclated
Corps which were reviewed in Hyde Park on the 26th and 28th
inftant, His Majeety*s hieett approbation of their appearance,
which has equalled His M jetty's utmoll. expedtation.
His Majefty perceives, with heartfelt ratisfadtion, that the fpi•
rit of loyalty and patriotifm, on which the (Atm of the Armed
V.Aunteers throughout the Kingdom was originally founded, has
rifen with the exigencies of the times, and at this moment forms
fueh a Bulwark to the Conititution and liberti:s of the Country,
as will enable us, under the protedlon of PROVIDZNCE, to
defiance to the unprovoked malice of our enemies, and to hurl
back with becoming indignation, the threats Which they have pre-
fumed to vent againft oar independence, and even our exiftenee as
a nation.

His Majelly has obferved with peculiar pleafure that, amangft
the unprecedented exertions which the prefect cireninftances of
the Country have called forth, thufe of the Capital of His finked
Kingdom have been anhuntly ennfpicuous ; the appearance of
its numerous and well-regulated Volunteer Corps, which were
reviewed on the 26th and agth iaftant, indicates a degree of
attention and emulation, both in Officers and men, which
can proceed only from a deep fenfe of the important objects
for which they have enrolled theinfelva, a jolt eitintation of the
blenings we have fo long enjoyed, and a firm and manly determi-
nation to defend them like Britons, and tranfaitt them unimpaired
to our pofterlty.

The Commander in Chief has the blghc* fatisfaftion difcharg-
ing his duty, by communicating theft His MaJcity's moft gracious
fentimenta, and requefts that the Commanding Officers win have
reeourfe to the readirit means of making the fame known to their
refpeCtive Corps. (Signed) Fast:mann, Commander in Chief.
ULNCRAL aCTURN OE TUE VOLUN VEER CORPS RIVIEITED IV
113 MAJESTY IN 117DL TARR, ON TUt 26T■ AND 21411 OP
OCTOBER, 18:.3.

Co a PS.

ON WIDNESDAY Tec 26TN.

COMM I. IttteCTlVt

in the Fuld.
Loyal London Vetkm. Cavalry Lient.-Col. Anderdon 217
Hon. Artillery Contrany CoL Paul Ls Mefuria 994
1R Royal Eaft India Volunteers Col. Sir L. Darrell 640
sd do. do. do. Cal. Sir Hugh Inglis 636
3d do. do. do. Col. John Roberts 583
lit Reg. Loy. Loe. Volun. Infan. 1 icut.-CoL Birch 737
ad do. do. du. Lieut—Col. J. Smith 6f7
3d do. do. do. Lieut.-CoL Xen6ngton 804
4th do. do. do. Lieut.-Col. Price 790
sth do. do. do. lieut.-CoL T. Smith sot
6th do. do. do. Lieut.-Col. Wlgram 647
7th do. do. do. Lieut.-Col. Shaw 404'
Bth do. do. do. Licut.-Col. Canning 777
9th do. do. do. Lieut.. Col Sir W. Curtis 6s o
icith do. do. do. l.icu4•Col. Combs 587
i tth do. do. do. Major Seddon 293
i ttßeg.Tower Hamlets do. Licut.•Col. Meal& 350
Whitechapel do. Lieut.-Col. Craven 44t
Mile End do. Major Llptrap 2,33
St. George in the EA do. Major Splidt 230
Radcliffe do. Major Baskat /83
Sholreelltch do. Major Martian 294
Bromley St Leonard do. Major Smut 175
Bethnal Greta da Major Carrick z 66
St. Cathiirine do. Captain Jenkins 221
ChriAchurch Volunteers Major Stevens 184

•M IIIDAY TIM 1111711.

T
18,401

London &Welirnin. Light Hark Colonel H emits 727
Wdttnin itetof Volun.Cavalry 'AWL CaL Elliot SU
Southwark Troop at Yeomanry Captain Colhngdon 69
Ckri.,.,well Cavalry Captain &Eon 46
Lambed' do. Captain Watran 40
St. r ,of VaL infant. CaL Bad at Clederfield 667

A. Gooses Reg.. _J;
St. James's do. do. Cot Lod Mast 954
Bloom. and Inns of Court do. CA Cat 929
Royal Weft:Mutter do. Col. Robed* 961
Prince of Wales's do. Co/ AL P. Mews 640
St. Margaret's and St. Jan's Mao Lieu. OIL Nen Sas
Loyal Needs &Mos Lieut. CoL Lard Lay 1116
Mary-la-bonne Col. Lord Deneamas 905
Law Afibelotion Lieut. Col. Has. T. Saltine 33s
Doke of Olastolleee Col. Lard Chetwind 46%
The Seuserfeeldees Colonel llama,. 380
The R. Oilee's Neat. George's Lim. CoL Slr j. Nelson6os
The Chibmeell... !4 ii.r Mrl,c lot

Loyal 111611 h &diem -
Lieut. Caked autos 542
The 14/41 Mum Lkut. Camel Day Von z 47
St... Askew and IL Ocerge• Lieut. Coked leader 314
Ift alstaig. ad Dettelkus }Clres's aurae Wood Lord Hebert 986
The Miler Eyre to
71e at. 52: ee
Dom Mier Nike se%
rit Surrey Lieut. Woad Clean 313
The Sc Sepulchre - - ',. reed 174

Tbe St.Sioiour 74ajor .
Major Potts Ist
The Loyal Southwark Colonel Tknier _ _ 34S
Lambeth Lieut. Colonel ?Awards sss
.
Chrlltehorei 17!

St. J.in•.
Ht. Olives
Reeks*(die

Major Tolima
MaMe Yr.

i King tsi
Captain Stn► asi
Major Wells 158

ibe &is of Cumberland's i -
Cords limber 84
Slexp Simms
Onja Lim Carps of V. Mimeo Captain J. E. Cabs 3g
IP 11111,

14474
HAUT C 'Adjutant-00,ml
The total number of the troops infpeeed amounted
37,077.—1 n many inflances a confiderable pan of
the corps were abfent on bufinefs nr otherwite ; and
we underhand that the returns of the effective Orength
of the feveral battalions, rendered Come weeks Once,
made the number of Volunteers within the City to
exceed 35,000. The Corps in the vicinity of the me-
tropolis—as the Hackney, Pancras, Fulham, Hamp.
Read, Illington, Camberwell, Wandfworth, &c. exceed
t,OOO, making in the whole a force of 46,000 men.
Friday fel:Might the Marquis of HIIIITLT inrpeeed
at Fortes, the two companies of Forces volunteer
infantry, when his Lordthip on the ground defired
Captain STILACNAII, who commands then, to exprefs
to the corps his LordUtip's entire fatisfahion at their
appearance.—This corps has a few fupernunteraries
above the ehablintment, and only one man was raft
for a blemith in one of his eyes.
The Mike of GLOVOSTIR'S Loyal Volunteers
were prefented nn Tucfday with a pair of colours, by
their Colowel, Lord Cm grime, as proxy for her
Royal Higbee!. Prince(' SOPIItA of Gsotscssrea.
—His Loral* made as apttte fpeech upon
the occafion, in which he ex his confidence,
that the corps would ached colours upon all oe-
e,aGeos„ with the loft drop of their bleed t and be
trilled that the Assnowre Betio, that ruled all
meats, would crown their honourable efforts with
complete foccefs. The corps received the addrefs
with three cbmrs.

A fabfaiption bat bees begun
.11 the Ladies of
lefgow. for the pole, of the rib: reels,
of the id! regiment of volunteers with
which as V alairdel to the heel* of &Was in that
damp ammo. particularly is dis ems of their bdog
L tailed it• •flwl Swim

FRENCH COM.VERC2.

The following letter is from .a
neutral Cenral at Path, to &idol
and eourtryntan of lilt own In London. Our itsaners may
rely on its authenticity :

40 PARIS, OCT. 10.

" You can form no idea of the dillrefs of the mer-
cantile part of this nation; all confidence is at an
end, and all fpeculations are at a Rand; no man
gives another credit for a week, and nn capitalilt
dares to trufl his money out of his hands. Here,
and at Bourdeaux, Bayonne, islarfeilles, Lyons,
Names, L'Oricnt, Havre, St. Maio, and Rouen, no
let s than 965 bankrupts, or floppagc of payments,'
have taken place within this latt five months; and
of fifty.two banking houfes in this city, only five
continue to do honour to their affairs. The caulk
to this rain of our trade and of our merchants, is
the peace which the deceitful pulley of BONAPLITII
concluded, and the war which his treacherous ambi-
tion provoked. During the former pant of the Re-
volution, many of our rich mei chants had emigrated,
or fared their fortunes in foreign funds. The peace
recalled the fugitives, and with them their capitals.
The latter were immediately employed in diftant fpe.
culations, particularly to St.Domingii, and the other
Wen India illands. But betine any returns could be
rece i ved, by LECts it c's tyranny St. I),rilingo was loll;
and what had efcaped the plunder of the negroes, and
the requilitions and pillage of the confular generals and
commiffaries, has been captured by Englith cruisers.
—Coffee, fugar, and other colonial produllions, of
which we and is fa great need, we obtain front
on the Adriatic lea, and from Lubeck, on
the Baltic, where they are brought in Britifh vat's.
Judge, therefore, what the darnels mull be here;
when what we pay for the freight, land-carriage, &c.
often amounts to feven-eighths of the original price
in England ; and of the iinjuil and impolitic conduct
of the Government, which, contrary to treaties, and
to what it has done during former wars, prevents all
dire& intercoorfe with England, ty ours and other
neutral fhips.
Money is fo fcarce, that upon landed patrineetial
ewer, the interefl is two and a half per cent. in the
month ; and upon natioral property, four and up-
wards ; and no money is lent for longer than three
months, when new facrifices muff be made to have
the loan continued. Except bills, accepted by five
of our Ertl banking-houfes, there is no pnflibility to
get any difcounted ; and for thofe of fbart dates,
two per cent. is paid in three decades. Yon may,
perhaps, think I exaggerate our fituation, becaufe oar
funds are kept up ; but the military defpotifm rules
as much our Exchange, and our mercantile tranfac.
.ions, as thole of the Cabinet, of the forum and of
the field. You have heard that many perfons, by
intrigues, plunder, and crimes, have made fmmenfe
fortunes lance the Revolution as national deputies,
army commiffaries, contradors, &c. &c. Menthe
war began, they were ordered, under pain of having
their former candoa and accounts revifed, to lay out
their capitals in our funds, and to receive their filed
interefts, es lose as tbe „rootrionaa jaielpe prefer, mad net
to fell ad before the goveranaw termite - and fuch is the
fevcre ihfpeftion over the floc tranfedions, that when
lately the famous navy contrador OUDOVAILI4 who
has eighteen millions of byres in the five par cents.
fold out only froze:zoo byres, be was ionsfediate-
ly fent to the Temple ; and only efcapsd teantorta-
tion to Cayenne, by dividing tome of his millions with
Lomas, and tome other members of the Confular
family.
" The commercial chambers, which the vanity of
the Conful lately eilablifhed in our principal cities,
have patented upwards of isoo memorials to the
Minifter CRAPTAIL with complaints and demands of
fuccours; but when he laid tome of them before the
Frasr Cowart., he met with •foch rebuke, that he
demanded to refign his place. Ansongfl other fevers
things, Bowe aaaaa (aid, that if the merchants did
not eeafe to torment him with their reprefentations,
he would be forced to regulate a ineranne ; or by the
bayonet filence Is twine warebawle.
" Upwards of boo merchants' clerks here are with.
out bread, far le pawl; who from neceffity will join
our armies as wolaateert, in the manner as feveral hun-
dreds of them ax Boordeaur, Marcella, Nantes, and
other places, have already entered on board privateers
or gun boats. When fuch is our fituation, after a
war of only five months, I tremble to think how great
our wretchednefs mod be, mould hoailides mamma
twelve months longer.
" The merchants is Italy, Holland, and Switzer-
land, think themfdves work off than we are here';
beanie requifition and contribution increafe and are
augmented, in proportion as their trade or indokry is
haraffed, profcribed, or annihilated ; and every mail
from thefe countries brings us accounts of tome new
dißrefs and tome new failures."

A detachment of the Royal Army of Referve,
which has been flationed at Edinburgh Goes they
were railed, marched for Ayr.

The boxes and trunks which were brought from on
board a Yarmouth brig lying at Blackwall, were on
Saturday privately infpeeted at the Mullion Houle,
being fuipaled to contain charts, and foundings of
our coafts and harbours ; which were fupporecl
have beefs taken by Come Frenchmen who have Wed
for the Continent in a neutral vac!. A French wo.
man who had the care of this luggage. gave toms
account of the owners of it ; one Of them, fbt bid,
was a man who had been concerned in an exhibition
at Leicefter Name. Every thing relative to the con-
tents of the trunks and boxes is at prefeni a profound
fecret.

On Saturday about fourteen or fifteen Lafintrh
who had been found wandering about the llreethiand
committed to the Poultry Compter, were brought
before the LORD Marin. They all belonged to an
outward-bound country Eel Indiaman, lying at
Greeahithe. Three of them who could (peak Englilb,
flatted that they had been cruelly treated by the
mates of the fhip ; and that looser than go back to
her, they would rather be hanged or lie in prifun.—
The Captain, who was prefent. ftid he was bound
by articles of agreement to take thefe men back to
India. and that he could not (offer them to leave the
fhip. The LORD MAYOR gave them to nntlerfland
that they Dna either go back to their fbip or be
committed to prifon; becaufe no beggars or vagrants
kold be allowed to go about the areas of London.
The Licari ebninately refuted to go on board the
fhip; and they were OCCOrdingly committed to pti•
is for firm clays.

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