The Statesman.
London, England, 1809-09-18 00:00:00

ST. DOMINGO.

The following is a copy of the General Orders
issot•d by the President of Hay ti, after the recent
signal victory obtritted over the troops of his rival,
Petiou

" My 1. 1009.—Sitth Year.

46 On the 10th of April, the rebel Pethm an.
ouneed in a Proclamation, that he was making
great preparations to relieve his accomplice. La-
marre, who was closely blockaded at the Mole;
A levy en masse of all the forces of ..the South,
and of part of those in the West, in possession of
the rebels, numerous requisitions of young and
old, and even those who filled civil employments,
were destined to this enterprize.
" The rebels appeared with all their disposable
force, towards the middle of June, before Mira-
facials, having at their head their two perfidious
leaders, Polon and Guerin ; but having made
Some movements as if they intended to attack Mi-
rabelais, almost the whole of their force defiled
under the command of the rebel David 'Frail.
Lys, Rourdet, and others, *were under the orders
of Trois. They appeared before the quarter of
Dtt Sourtle, threatening that of Grand Rivierc,
and flattering themselves, in their silly expecta-
tions, with withing less than to arrive at the en-
trance of the Cape.
•t The President immediately ordered some
troops, with two squadrons of his horse.guards,
to overwhelm the rebels. Such was their activity
and ardour, that the rebels had not time to occu-
py a single position. They were briskly attacked,
and thrown into such confusion that they had not
time to remove their dead and wounded, whom
they left on the field. The infamous David Trois
paid with .his life the forfeit of bis crimes. His
colleague Boordet, having lost his way in the
-woods, fell into our hands, and also a great num-
ber of prisoners.
cc
. Our army, under the command of Lieutenant-
Carrels Romaine and Joachim, effected a junc-
tion with that of Marshal Pierre Toussaint, and
pursued them into the Spanish Savannas.
On their arrival at Banique, the rebels found
the river Artibonite swollen by the rains ; and not
being able to succeed, they encamped on the
banks, supposing they were out of danger. At
this moment they were attacked by the whole of
our troops. The horse-guards then charged them,
overwhelmed and routed them a second time. The
greater part of those who-attempted to cross the
river were carried away by the strength of the
current.' A battalion and a half were (lionised ;
very few reached the opposite shore, from whence
they continued their eight. NYhtm our troops
were able to pass the river, they pursued the re.
bets, and arrived at Mirabelais without being able
to come up with them.
46 The rebel Lainarre, endeavouring to take
advantage of this attempt, made an attack on the
lines with w hich he is so closely invested ; but he
was driven iuto his den at the point of the bayo-
net. The field was covered with dead ; leis two
Aides-de-Camp were killed, and himself escaped

in disguise."
We 11;:ve also seen another official piper, which
states, that the President Christophe had received
from Sinches, Commander of the Spanish
troops before the city of St. Domingo, authentic
proofs of the existence of a constant connexion and
undcritan►li",g between the Governor and
Petion. 'they were found among the papers of
Gyn. Bari:pier, and arc to be published, in order
to undeceive the adherents of Petion, and unfold
• the real views of this very adroit traitor. Were
it not for the assistance he rendered the garrison,
it must have been iii the hands of the Spaniards
long since.

By a Royal Resolution, issued at Copenhagen
on the 20th ult. aliSwedish vessels and boats, hav-
ing licences froweahe Danish Chancery of State,
may not only navigate all the Danish seas, hut
enter the ports of Copenhagen, and those of the
Wands of Finnia, Langeland, Jutland, Schles-
wig, and Holstein. In bail weather, they may
also put into every port or bay of Zealand, La_
land, Falater, and Moen ; but in both cases they
are to be ender a military guard. Those ships 'bat
bare licences from Norway, have the same privi-
leges as the former. These conciliatory measures
sufficiently evince that peace is likely to be speesli.
ly concluded between the Swedish and Danish
Courts.
• As some young rhilJren were last week playing
at the eater of Leith, near the mill-wheel, one of
them, two years old, fell in, and was carried by
the force of the water through a sinice-gate, out.
side which the water falls to a declivity of twelve
feet. An alarm being given, two persons ran to
the assistance of the little sufferer, and .to their
astonishment beheld the child grasping by a piece
of the rock, having received no other injury than
a slight contusion on the forehead.
Corporal punishment for desertion has been
abolished in all but the condemned regiments
of the army, excepting in cases of desertion from
the depot in the Isle of Wight, and deserters arc
now subject to the severe penalty of incorpo-
ration in such condemned Regiments. Two prison.
ships hare btt'n fitted up in the Medina Ode
of Wight), fur the reception of deserters, and
are said now to contain seven hundred, waiting
opportunities to be sent out to the regiments to
which they arc to be attached.
A new aqueduct, composed of cast iron, and
suppOtted by three pillars of freestone, is about to
be erected near Stoney-qratford ; the middle pil-
lar is to be thirty-fuer feet in height, standing
upon a base of twenty.sis feet long l'y eight feet
wide. The aqueduct will be one hundred feet
long, and in width eight feet, and barges of ninety
tons will be able to pass it. Mr. B. Bevan, the
Engineer, attended brthe neighbouring gentry, in
the presence of a great concourse of people from
Stoney-Stratford and the surrounding neighbour.
hood, laid the first stone of the aqueduct en the

9th instant.
The Danish gnn.boats in thellibe multiply every
day, and intelligence is said to have been received
of their having ca tared, after a sharp engage_
meet, an knglishilrig, of 10 guns, at the mouth
of the river Oust.'