Alexandria advertiser and commercial intelligencer. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1800-1803, 1802-06-11

ceiling and then on the floor alternately.
" General Boyer ordered the cloth to be
laid, but Touaaint would not eat at table
he only accepted bit of bread and cheefe,
which he ate in his chair. He ipoke
little, notwithstanding all the efforts he
made to appear bold.
&c The following are the only words he
articulated difin6ly: MY arr all tbele
people eol2eaedvound ibis bsuls '''-" they
are the idle and the curious, General, =
anfwered Boyer, attracted together by
your prefence. 2 After rocking himielf
for fome time in flence, and with look
of vacancy iurveying every part Of the
room, hid, !" This boufS has nat been
bu,xt tbeu ?' The monlter! what efron-
terry AT tina, moment all the armed
ihips in the harbor fired falute on the
General in Chiefs leaving the Admi.al's
flip. g Wbafis that 2" iaid the alright
ed Toufaint, farsing on his feat. The
bare idea of Treafon made him fhudder.
$ Nothing was he anfwered " it is the
General who is coming. a-7br General
in cbIsf coming ?" exclaimed he, rifng
from his feat and pulling offhis hat; /" tie
General coming S' He then retired into
tie adjoining room, where be waited for
him.
/" lie Clerc came. He reqaefed all the
officers to withdraw, and the two Gene
rails remained comfortable time toge-
ther. 1t was 10 o'clock at night when
Tou7aint vert out OF town.
6 ! am indebted for ihefe particulars to
friend who was IN witnefS. Tout
faint is TO retire upon one OF his ettates,
and cauie the negroes to return to the plan
tations. There is much talk about this !;
but | think he is the wifeit who draws no
concluhon; as he will not have the NOR
tilication Of having given falfe or rah in
depreciation.
/" Yesterday the articles of the Europe
an peace were read, accompanied by mar
tial muGe. The armed ihipping and the
arfenal fired their cannon on the location
and all the venels in the harbor were dref-
ed in colours. In the evening all the III
1abifed houGes were Illuminated. Modeff
rejoicings. The FIRE works will take
place in "a little time: but not in town,
on account of the quantity Of houles that
are covered with ihingles.
A general and uniform mode is about
to be eftabliihed for the reloration Of
property, and for the taking podefflon
hercof. Every legitimate owner may re-
occupy his lands without any other forma-
lily than producing the deed Of property
or any aa of notoriety.
g Notwithstanding all thefe fine things
would with to be far from hence /; for
at the preient moment this town affords
no fort Of refource; and, befides, the
country is neither fafe nor tranquil. All
the negroes Of Plailance, have not lurren-
dcred. They continue burning the plan
,ations and coffee on the glacis; but We.
~ few VIII elcaPe, ana l lear iiiucii ioi
ours"
On the evening of the aeth April, when
the Examinations took place in London on
account of the Peace, the houle Ct WILL
AM CoBBETr, bookseller, in Pall-mall
1.-THE notorious Peter Porenpiae) in conhi-
tency with the fame fpirit of anti pacific
darkness which diifinguilked it onthe for
mer Examinations for the Ggnature Of pre-
liminaries, remained inexorably opaque.
The mob with equal conGeency, took
umbrage, and vented their indignation
on the windows, falhes, fhutters, and eve
.ry thing about the front of the houfe that
was not impregnable 70 bludgeons and
paving Aones.
Price of ftoeks on the goth April, at
n l. r.. !