Alexandria advertiser and commercial intelligencer. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1800-1803, 1802-04-30

y tHiS iSetic VIII leave utSp dLd uitiGi III
] pre1lions upon the minds Of thofe who wer
prefent- ESPECIALLY thoie who were NOR
Immediately concerned.
lfrhere cxiasd the mott dormant irarl
OF the am0y pafrig in the United States i
would burit into a fame at the bare recisa
of the fuferings orr fellow citizens are
doomed to endure from French atroc;ty If
St. Domingo. When foreign impoael
and murderer, calling himielf an American,
met with his deierss asdscfeed by the laws
of God and man, the jacoDin bawl was
iet up from one end Of the continent to the
other, newspapers were filled with falic-
hoods, congregational fpeeches were tkun-
defed BY the houie, and even p.eadent .ne.-
FACES profituted upon miasienen.s and
impoition. But the robbery and mar
der Of many Of our countryinen, at which
barbarity itflfmuif fand appalled,, quick
ems no pulfs, routes no patton, calls for
no revenge. Thofe terrible patriots are
all at once funk into apathy, and as TO
ihooting failor or two, at the pIeaiure
Of the general in chief, not worth mind
ing. GaS. Q. STATES.
The port Of Bermuda is TO be alus q
gaiRN neutral yeaels after the tenth OF
May next, agreeably to a proclamation Of
the governor.
Fran az Autigaa Paper Of .f3rH Sfd, re-
ceived at the 41sre effds Mercantile Id
Uerfjlsr.
KrNGsroN (St. Tncenfsj Mayeb 81.
The unexpected arrival of 70 powerful
a naval Force at the time VIXEN we are
AMBIGUITY expecting the completion of the
De6nifise Treaty, naturally excises ma
ny conjeauras bur, we conGder ii more
a cautionary meafure, than 10 protect our
Colonies againa any ilni.eer dcasns asfu-
ally formed either by the Court Of Madrid
or the French Republic.
A French Frigate is arrivsd from St.
Domingo at Martinique in IS days. We
are favoured with the following Tranilat-
ed Copy Of letter from Admiral Villaret
de Joyeuies TO the governor Of Martinique,
dated on board the Gemappe, Case Fran
co.'s, 18th March, 1902.
s. His britannia rnajcay's Minifers have
no doubt acquainted your excellency Of
the deaination of tie land and lea Forces
the French Republic has fent TO ST. Do
mingo
general lie clerc, Captain Generate f
this Colony, being at Preient occupied in
purduing through tie mountains the retreat
ing hordes of rebels I aIn eager TO MORN
you in his name and M own, ci The iuc-
cels of our expedition.
" Throughout the whole extent of this
Illand the Iniurgents have not poaesslon OF
one fea-port. Their lyfen Of defence has
been continued ferries Of FIRE and atlai!i-
nation. The wettern part Of St. Donin-
90 has fuffeYed much from their bloody de-
va1ation; but the ioushern part, the eat,
and the greater part of the north, are pre-
ferved. The chiefs OF tie gcvcl: ere diff
agreeing among themfelyes, ard every
thing prefases a fpeedy termination Ct II
by the punilhmeat Of thoGe who encourage
the remaining fugitives IN IFS fupport.
81 have thought proper TO communicate
this intelligence to your exeellency, which
I have alto done to his Britannia majeGy's
admirals, and general lie Clerc has tranf-
mitted il to Jamaica. "A common In
terea with every power eitabl.lhed in A
merica is evidently attached 20 shc OK
petition which the French republic has
directed againf the lnlurgents Of ST. D.
mingo. My government IS convinced Of
il, and have no doubt Of experiencing
from your excellency, as well as the 60
vernon of Jamaica, the fame attachment TO
caufe truly general, and the fame good
wilhes which ought t. ariie from the pa
c;Sc difpofitions of two great nations, &C.