The Sun. — 1802-02-05 (London, England)

KING. Sir C. MORGAN laid before HIS MAJESTY Minutes of a Court Martial, and at five o'clock the ROYAL FAMILY returned to BuckinghamHouse. • His MAJESTY yesterday morning took an excur_ sion to Kew, and on his return accompanied the QUEEN to St. James's Palace. •  It was yesterday very confidently reported that Sir JOHN M I TFO R D would be appointed Irish Chancellor, at least his definitive answer was ex.. peeled to be given last night ; in which case Mr. BRAGG E is likely to be chosen Speaker, and report added that Mr. TIERNEY would succeed that Gentleman as Treasurer of the Navy.  The outlines of the new Militia Bill are—That the whole Militia body shall be sixty thousand men. That the men shall be drawn to serve for ten years, but substitutes to be taken for five years, and renewed at the end of that term. One ti'Aird of the body is to be called kout for twenty-one days annually, to be exercised. Regiments of 800 men to have one Colonel, two Lientenant-Colonels, and three Majors. Regiments of 700 men have one Colonel, two Lieutenant-Colonels, and two 'Majors, and so on, reducing the number Field Officers in proportion to the size of the Regiment. The Bill contains a number of other regulations, and we understand that it is generally approved of by the Militia Officers. Three thousand guineas for a Service of Plate have been voted in the handsomest manner, by the House of Assembly of :Jamaica, to His Royal Highness the DUKE of CLARENCE, in testimony of the gratitude of the AsseMbly for his exertions in Parliament in favour of their interests.  Yesterday New-York Papers to the i zth January inclusive were received. They contain Letters which have arrived' in different parts of America, describing the calamitous state of the French West India Islands. A fresh Insurreaion was on the point of breaking out in Guadaloupe. The New_ York Advertiser of the Sth January contains the following Letter on the subject{ :  " Baltimore; 3`a?"4"Y 3.  ec Arrived yesterday the Sloop Exchange, Capt. 1318 E RT, from Guadaloupe ; she left it on the s rth, at which time Port-au-Petre, and the whole Island, was in confusion, another Insurreilion having taken place there, which, if it had not been fortunately discovered, would have involved the total detruction of every White and Mulatto on the Island.  " The Rebels, in the present instance, were. the Country Blacks against the Whites and Mulattoes. The former having lent a helping hand in the Revolution which had been just effeCted, expeded a total emancipation from their masters, but not finding that event confirmed, or even contemplated in the Proclamation of the yellow General PELAGE, they had determined to achieve their own liberty through • the blood of PELAGE and his party. For this purpose i 1,000 were•to have been organized on the night succeeding that on Which the plot was discovered ; to have burnt the towns, and to have, murdered every man, woman, and child of PELAGE'S party. At that very moment only, when it could possibly have been defeated, was the plot discovered, through a Black woman, who was. the kept Miss of a White man, when four of the ringleaders-were apprehended. " Notwithstanding the bloody projet had 'beer, discovered, and for the present warded off, yet every thing was apprehended from the vengeance and ,ferocity of the Blacks, and all was in the utmost confusion. In such haste Was.the island deserted by those who could get off, 'that, the 'Exchange came away on the i.lth, with 'only two' hands on board. An English and a French Frigate were at that time off the Island, cautioning vesselS not to go ir.— Accounts had also been received that General MACDONALD had sailed for the Windward'lslands with 8,000 meta, and