by a crowd of blacks, who were however foon difperfed, and the army took poffeffion of Fort Liberty, where they found 150 pieces of cannon; and, among the papers of the place, the order of Toutfaint, to fink all ships that might appear, and to hold out to the laft. On the rit of February, Leclerc, General in Chief, and the Admiral, with the greatest part of the army and navy, arrived off the battery of Picolet. A cutter approaching it, received the whole force of the battery. A Mulatto, named Sangos, exercifing the office of Captain of the Port at the Cape, went on-board the Ocean, the Admiral's fhip. Inftead of confenting to pilot her into the Cape, he declared that the Black General Christophe had ordered him to acquaint the Commander, that the Whites would be maffacred, and the city fet on fire, the inftant the fquadron attempted the harbour, if the French refuted to wait the return of a courier which he had fent to Touffaint Louverture. The General in Chief, Leclerc, withed to write to Chriftophe, to inform him of the friendly intentions of the Chief Conful, and to attempt to bring him back to his duty, by explaining what was due to a foldier and a Frenchman. En fign Lebrun was charged with this delicate miffion. The Captain of the Port was kept on board, and the fleet stood off and on. On the 4th, Enfign Lebrun brought back the answer of General Chriftophe, containing an abfolute refufal to receive the army, and a positive resolution to burn the city, in cafe the French perfifted. Chrif tophe had formally declared, that he would receive no orders but thofe of Touffaint. A deputation of the inhabitants of the Cape went on-board the French Admiral, begging him to defift, as the city would otherwife be destroyed. In the mean time, the 24 hours requefied for the anfwer of Touffaint elapfed, while all private accounts agreed that he was in the city, or at leaft in the neighbourhood, the invifible fpring of all the movements that had taken place. The General in Chief fent back the deputation, ordering the Mayor to read to his fellow-citizens the Proclamation of the Chief Conful, and to explain to them the perfidious intentions of, their Chiefs. Cæfar Telemachus, a Negro, truly French, performed that duty with the most heroic courage. From that moment it was neceffary to give up ali hopes of faving the city, or permit the French laws, and the honour of the Government, to be trampled under foot. While the debarkation was going on from the frigates, two ships were ordered to prefent themfelves at the entrance of the barbour, to draw up them the attention of the enemy. A fire of cannon and bombs was immediately opened on thefe vellels. The approach of night obliged the fleet to retire from the coat, when the reflection from the horizon announced that the city was on fire, and the French troops were obliged the whole night to witnefs this fcene, without being able to lend any affistance. On the following day, the French Admiral, taking advantage of the first breeze, made for the harbour, ordering all the ships to follow him. The forts were abandoned, and the fquadron anchored at the Mole without damage. The ships' crews were immediately difembarked. The French troops arrived in time to fave the lower part of the city. The French troops had taken poffeffion of all the country between the Cape and Fort Dauphine. General Leclerc, in his letter, gives a detail of his operations fubfequent to his landing. At three in the afternoon of the 4th, he reached Port Margot. The difembarkation was effected near that of Limbe. The enemy had one battery, which played upon the French; but they landed without lofs. The advanced guard reached the river at two o'clock. Gen. Chriftophe was pofted within half a league of them, at Morne-English; General Hardy, with his divifion, moved to that point: at half a league on the road to the Cape, he met the incendiaries, who had come to fet fire to the fettlements. General Leclerc arrived with the advanced guard at the Cape, to put an end to the firing kept up between the troops difembarked and the Blacks. The rebels had fet fire to the Cape Town by Gen. Christophe's orders. Two expeditions were on their march for Port-dePaix and the Mole. The Proclamation of the Chief Conful to the Inhabitants of St. Domingo aflures them of their freedom being fecured, whatever be their origin, or whatever be their colour; ftates, that all nations have celebrated the French; faction has ceafed at home; and recommends to them to receive the French as Friends and Brothers. "The Government (proceeds this document) fends you the Captain General Leclerc: he has brought with him a strong force for protecting you againit your enemies, and against the enemies of the Republic. If you are told thefe forces are destined to wreft from you your liberty, anfwer, the Repubic will not permit it to be taken from us." In the letter of Bonaparte to Touffaint, he announces the appointment of his brother-in-law Leclerc as Captain-General and Chief Magiftrate of the Colony, and affures Touffaint of his efteem and fenfe of the eminent fervices rendered by him to the French People. He allows, that the Constitution formed by Touffaint contained many good things, but alfo contained others contrary to the dignity and fovereignty of France; and that under the prefent happy ftate of circumstances, it was expected that he, Touffaint, would be the first to render homage to the Sovereignty of the Nation; affuring him, that on his continuing true to his country he ought to have no doubt with respect to confideration, the fortune, and the honours that awaited him. But, on the other hand, as he was the first of his colour who had attained fuch power, he should also be the person responsible for the conduct of the people of St. Domingo. General Leclerc, notwithstanding the oppofition of Touffaint, fent him his children, whom he had carried out from France, along with the Chief Conful's letter, and at the fame time made known to him that he would take on himself to receive his fubmiffion. [While this Sheet was at prefs, more recent advices arrived, Aating farther fuccefjes of the French army. Of thefe in our next.] SIERRA LEONE. Dispatches have been received from the Governor and Council of Sierra Leone, dated 16th December laft, which state a fudden and unprovoked attack to have been made on the fettlement by fome neighbouring natives, on the 18th of November. The following is the fubftance of the Governor and Council's communication: "On the morning of the 18th November, a boily of Timmanys (the fubjects of King Fuama and King Tom) made a furious and unexpected affault on the fort. A fmall but fele&t party of them, said to be headed by two rebei fettlers, forced their way into the fort, fupported by a number of marksmen, who kept up a very deftructive fire on those who advanced to repel them. In about 15 minutes Lieut. Laidlow and Serjeant Blackwood, and one private of the African corps, Mr. Cox, Mr. Crankapone, and feveral others, were killed and Governor Dawes, Meffrs. Gray, Car, and fome others, were wounded. At length a small body of foldiers and fettlers collected from different quarters, and, headed by the Governor in perfon, gallantly pushed forward, and with the bayonet drove the enemy from the fort: the retreat of the affailents foon hecame genera'. Their lofs appears to have been confiderable, and at leaft equal to that foftained by the defenders of the fort. This treacherous and provoked aggreffion is attributed to the Timman S, and it appears to have Arongly excited the indignation of many of the neighbouring African Chiefs, feveral of whom had repaired, with a confiderable number of men, to the afliftauce of the fettlement, and had joined in the excurfions which were undertaken against the enemy. When the difpatches came away, fome pacific overies had been made; the conditions of peace propofed by the Company being thofe of having the rebel settlers delivered up, and the district to the Weftward of Freetown, which had been poffeffed by King Tom, the principal in the war, ceded to the Company. Total-Killed or fince dead, 18; wounded, 38-56. Subfequent to the 18th, in an attack on one of the enemy's towns, by the explosion of fome powder keys, Mr. Wilfon, and five natives, allies of the colony, were burnt. Mr. Wilfon has fince recovered, but three of the natives died. In another attack, one feaman of the Wafp was kil led, and four wounded. NEWS FROM SCOTLAND AND IRELAND. Dec. 23. Mr. P. Martin, ftudent of medicine in the university of Edinburgh, on a vifit to his friends at Dunning, attempted to cross the Ochill mountains betwixt Kinrofs and Duuning. It was evening before he reached the mountains, and a thick fog came on. He loft his way, was precipi tated from an eminence into a deep gulph, and, when he recovered from the furprise into which his fudden fall had thrown him, he found himself immerged in a deep wreath of fnow, from which he found it impoffible to extricate himfelf. He was therefore obliged to make a hut in the fnow, by prefling it in all directions. In this fituation he remained for 15 or 16 hours, not only in danger of being drifted up, but of being ftarved to death by the cold., The cold was fo intense that he became faintith, and trembled vehemently. In this fituation, he recollected that he had brought from Edinburgh, in his bundle, among other medicines, a quantity of gum, camphor, and manna, fome of which he inftantly fwallowed. The camphor produced a glowing heat, and, as he continued to fwallow both it and the manna from time to time till morning that day-light appeared, he was able by that time to force his way out of the fnowy habitation, and, as the froft had been severely intenfe through the night, the furface of the fnow was become fo hard as to bear him up tolerably well. He reached Dunning the fame evening, but he has, in confequence, caught a very fevere cold. When people are obliged to travel in fevere weather, they ought, for their own fakes, to carry a little gum camphor in their pockets, as in cafe of numbness it has the belt effects. It is certain but for it Mr. Martin would have perithed in the fnow. Dublin, Feb. 9. On Sunday arrived the King's Letter for putting into Commision the Great Seal of Ireland. The Comm:ffioners are the three Chief Judges of the Courts of Common Law. COUNTRY NEWS. Manchester, Jan. 21.. This morning, about half paft leven, a very high chimney belonging to a factory in Long Mill-gate, came down with a prodigious crash, deftroying two fmall buildings clofe to it, and the front of a houfe on the oppofite fide of the street, in the ruins of which a man, his wife, and a child, were buried. The man was got out alive, not dangerously hurt, but the woman and child were killed. Another man was killed by a wall being blown down upon him as he was paffing, and a fecond by the falling of a chimney. At the upper end of Bridge-ftrect, a large chimney fell upon the roof of a room where fix young women were at work: it crushed in the roof, and two floors, and buried them all in the cellar. Immediate affittance was given, and the women were releafed. Cee of them unfortunately, by a second fall of rubbith, &c. was killed, and two others materially injured. In every part of the town the difafter was more or lefs felt, and the continual fall of flates from the roofs of the houses, bricks and ftones from chimnies, large pieces of lead, &c. made it dangerous to pass the streets, and diffused terror amonft the inhabitants. The dial on the Exchange pillar, and one of the dialplates of the clock at St. Ann's church, were blown down.-The majestic, but, well-built fpire of St. Mary's iteeple, waved in fuch a threatening manner, as greatly to alarm the furrounding inhabitants-From the vaft force of the wind, every high building was viewed with fear, and the work people were terrified, we underftand, out of feveral factories. It was indeed a most awful day, and fuch as cannot be forgotten by thofe who witnelled its terrific effects. The Theatre was not opened in the evening, in confequence of the storm. It was impoffible, at the ufual time, for the lamplighters to trim the lamps: nearly one-fourth of them were ftripped of their covers by the violence of the wind, and a great number both of lamps and burners were broken. Jan. 28. A man of war's boat upfet at Portsmouth, with two officers and nine men, who were all drowned. Jan. 28. James Richardfon, of Heigh. ington, near Lincoln, aged 15, and Abfalom Wray, a young man, late of Stix wold, near Barney, aged 23, attempting to crofs a deep piece of water called Blackney Delf, in a very Imall fcutler, with an afs therein; when arrived at the deepest part, the boat uplet in a moment, and the two young men were both drowned. Rich rdfon's father was ftanding on the bank at the time, and witnelled the afflicting feene, without being able to render any aitance. March 9. Sarati Richardion, aged four years, and daughter of a labourer, at Springfield, in Ellex, being let with other children, near the fire, her clothes caught the flame, which (preading with refiftlefs fury, in a very thort time rendered the poor infant a most shocking spectacle. The mo ther (who is unfortunately very deaf) was hanging out linen, and remained for fome time ignorant of the accident; and, on entering the houfe, witneffed the fituation of her child; whom, in the moments of alarm and distraction, the fnatched up in her arms, and plunged in an adjoining pool; by which the progrefs of the flames was, indeed, arrested, but though immediate furgical affittance was procured, the miferable victim died on the following evening. March 19. Arrived from Egypt, at his father's houfe, Plymouth, the gallant Capt. T. Bogen, of the Royal Artillery, who particularly diftinguished himself in the battle of the 13th of March, before Alexandria. He was feverely wounded in the neck, but is now in a state of convalefcence. March 24, were executed at Hertford two men, for breaking into the houfe of Sir Abraham Hume, Bart. at Wormley; for which burglary a third fuffered on the 21ft; two others, for robbing and cruelly beating a carter of Mr. Newdicks, returning from felling a load of hay; and a fifth for theepftealing. Snooks, convicted at Hertford aflizes for robbing the Berkhamstead mail, was hanged at Berkbamftead on the 11th. As Mr. Patchell's waggon was on its return from Oxford to Murcot, loaded with barrels of beer, it accidentally flipped, and was overturned in a stone quarry, and one of the cafks fell on the carter, crushed his head, and killed him on the spot. As fix colliers were at work in a coal pit near Chesterfield, the inflammable air which had collected took fire, and three of them were burnt in fo fhocking a manner as to occafion their deaths. Woolmers, in the vicinity of Hertford, late the feat of Mr. Whitbread, and now purchafed by the Duke of Bridgewater, was, about 40 years fince, the property and refidence of Mr. Browne (called Senfe Browne, to diftinguish him from Capability Browne), the most eminent Land Surveyor of his time, and Garter King at Arms. He left it to a Mr. Collins, and Mr. Godfrey, the well-known Chemist, on a new project of cllico-printing and bleaching, but which did not anfwer. The ftream that skirts the domain has no original connexion, as mistakenly stated, with the famous well on this fpot. The mouth of the well is not large in its circumference; but its ebullition (though not warm) is wonderful! We do not know the quantity of water it emits every five minutes, but it amounts to many thousand gallons! It would turn a mill without the aid of any other water, within a few yards of its mouth. DOMESTIC OCCURRENCES. Great Marlborough-street were alarmed by the watchmen, who loudly exclaimed "Fire!" which was feen to break out in the house of Mr. Chilvers, No. 16, in the fame street. The fervant who first difcovered it, was afleep on the ground floor, and immediately fprung from his bed. In attempting to force the door, he was interrupted by the flames, which, turning fhort on the winding faircafe, penetrated to the first floor, and gave the alarm to the watchmen. His fereams foon awoke Mr. Chilvers, who, with the fervants that flept in the attic ftory, and the fervant who first gave the alarm, made their retreat over the parapet to the houte of Capt. Kempiter, No. 20, which they entered in a few minutes, in their night-clothes, after knocking at the windows; but Mr. Chilvers and another gentleman who flept on the fame floor, burft their way through the flames at the risk of their lives, and got into the street, where they implored the afitance of the few that were then collected to fave the books: but in less than half an hour, before any affiltance could arrive, the whole houte, with its contents, was burnt to the ground. The fire immediately communicated to Mr. Dew's, which fhared the fame fate; alfo to Mr. Guichard's, which, fortunately, though very much damaged, was not burnt down, owing to the great exertions of the firemen, who were then affembled on the occafion. No. 17, the houfe of Mr. C. Reynolds, is alfo much damaged. No lives were lott; though the furniture, wearing appare!, and every other article of value, have been completely destroyed. The counterfeit Seven-Shilling pieces, of the date of 1800, now in circulation, differ from the good ones in the following particulars: they are paler in colour, and they ring more thrill; the milling is more wide, the eye in the head feems fwelled, the crown is not fo rotund, and appears cut off at the edges; the A's in the infcription want the bar across, and have the appearance, of course, of a V reversed; and the bottoms of most of the letters are more curved on the whole, they are very wel executed, but their weight will detect them at once. The conqueft of Egypt, independent of its political confequences, has enriched our country with a number of rare and antient mionuments, fome entirely perfect, and of the highest and most undoubted antiquity. Col. Turner has brought home, in his Majefty's fhip Egyptienne, a very large block of black granite, found by Menou, at Rofetta, and intended to be sent by that General, the first convenient opportunity, to France. It is charged with three infcriptions, in different languages and characters, commemorating a gift of corn from Ptolemy Philadelphus to the inhabitants of that part of the country; particularly mentioning Memphis, and the month Mecbir, the fixth month in the Egyptian year. The first infcription is in hieroglyphicks, the fecond in the old Coptick, or vulgar character of the antient Egyptians, and the laft in Greek capitals. All three are tolerably perfect, and the two Jaft but tranflations, it may reasonably be fuppofed, of the first-With this was alfo brought a statue of lfis, of the fame material, fquatted, and her arms croffed over her breast; in the right hand an ear of corn; and between her knees the figure of Ofiris, in his funeral cheft, as the is faid to have difcovered him after his murder, by Typhon.-Thele two malfes, deftined for the British Mufeum, are at prefent in the library of the Society of Antiquaries, by whom it is proposed to publish fac-fimiles of the infcriptions. Three Sarcophagi,of extraordinary workmanthip, were alfo brought over by Col. Turner. The Coloffal statue of the Eleufinjan Ceres, the work of Phidias, given by Pericles to her temple at Elevfis, has been removed there by two gentlemen of Je fus College, Cambridge, on their travels in Greece; and is fent to England, as a prefent to their University. This immenfe figuse was fult difcovered by Sir George Wheeler, in the 17th century. It is of the most exquifite fculpture, but has fuffered fome injury. P. 94. T. Plummer, jun. efq. folicitor, ef Gray's inn, and only fon of Mr. P. of York, died in the 33d year of his age. By his abilities and application, notwithstanding his ill health, he had acquired extenfive practice as a conveyancer with every profpect of fuccefs. P. 186. Newington-houfe, mentioned as the refidence of George White, efq. the elder brother of John White, of Sohofquare, efq. lately deceased, is not in the city of Oxford, but 10 miles diftant therefrom, sear Shillingford, in the county of Oxford. P. 187. Paul Vaillant, efq. was formerly an opulent and refpectable bookfeller in the Strand. In 1739 or 40 he went to Paris, for the purpose of superintending the famous edition of Cicero by the Abbé Olivet; and, in 1759, to fettle the plan for a new edition of Tacitus, by the Abbé Brotier. He ferved the office of fheriff of London in the year 1760, memorable for the conviction of a noble Earl, who, previous to his execution, made Mr. Sheriff V. a prefent of his stop-watch, with many acknowledgments for his polite attentions and civilities; and he was alfo in the commiffion of the peace for Middlefex. His grandfather (Paul Vaillant) was of a refpectable Proteftant family at Saumur, in the French province of Anjou. At the time of the revocation of the ed & of Nantes he escaped with his life from the bloody Dragonade of the Hugonots by that merciless tyrant Louis XIV.; and, 1686, fettled as a foreign book feller in the Strand, oppofite Southampton-freet; where himfelf, his fons Pani and Ifanc, his grandfon, the late Mr.Vaillant, and Mr. Elmay, have fucceffively carried on the fame trade, and in the fame houfe, to the prefent time. The latter gentleman has just been ucceeded by Meffieurs James Payne and j. Mackinlay; the former youngest for of the fate well known and much-refpected Mr. Thomas Payue, of the Mews-gate, the latter fhopman to Mr. Elmily; and we trult that the reptation of the fhop (probably the oldeft in Europe in that line of bufinets) will lofe nothing in their hands. BIRTHS. the lady of Lord Boyle, a fon and heir. At Cork, the wife of Cul. Howorth, of the royal artillery, a fon. At Limerick, the lady of Sir John Murray, bart, of the 46th foot, a daughter. In Dublin, the wife of Wm. Ridgeway, efq. a fon; of J. Connell, efq. a daughter; of Whitney Upton Gleditanes, siq. & fon and heir; of Sir Robert Hodgfon, birt, a fon and heir; the Hon. Mrs. Howard, a fon. The wife of the Rev. Thomas Coney, of Batcombe, co. Somerfet, a daughter. The wife of Dr. Fothergill, of Twerton, a daughter. At Bath, the wife of Hobart Anderson, efq. lately from Jamaica, a daughter; and the wife of W. Goodden, efq. a daughter.. At Blackheath, the wife of John-Robert Miller, efq. a fon. Feb. 25. The wife of John Griffiths, efq. of Lower Grosvenor-street, a fon. 27. The wife of John Warren, efq. of Upper Belgrave-place, a fon. 28. The wife of Marthew Hopper, efq. poftmaster of Sheernet, a daughter. The wife of James Hadden, efq. lord provost of Aberdeen, a fon. March 3. At Edinburgh, the Hon. Mrs. Colonel Cameron, of Lochiel, a daughter. In Welbeck-freet, Cavendish-(quare, the wife of Col. Clinton, a fon. 4. In Guildford-street, the wife of Cornelius Buller, efq. a daughter. 5. In Old Broad-street, the wife of William Thornton, efq. a daughter. In New Broad-street, the wife of Mr. Alderman Perring, a ftill-born child. 7. At the Largs, in Ayrshire, the wife of Col. Hyndman, a fon. 9. The wife of James Williams, efq. of Clapton, a fon. At Clontarf, near Dublin, the wife of Arthur M hon, efq. a fon and heir. 10. At Church-houfe, Northiam, Suffex, the wife of Edward J. Curteis, efq. a daugh. II. In Upper Harley-ftreet, the wife of Lee Steere Steere, efq, a daughter. 14. The wife of Edward Dawfon, efq. of Long Whatton, co. Leicester, a fon and heir. At Manchefter, the wife of James-Alex. Morley, efq. of the 8th light dragoons, a fon. In the Crefcent, Minories, the wife of Mr. Alderman Flower, a daughter. 15. In Pall Mall, Lady Stirling, a fon. On Clapham terrace, the wife of Benja min Bond, efq. a fon. 16. At his Lordship's houfe in Privygardens, Ladv Sherfield, a fun. 17. At Mafiey-lodge, in Ireland, the lady of Lord Malley, a daughter. At Holland-bouf, Lady Holland, a fon. The wife of J. M. Winter, elq. a fon. The wife of Geo. Fennell, efq. of Chelfea, a daughter. 13. The wife of Capt. Lydiard, of the royal nave, a fon. At Armathwa te, co. Cumberland, the Lady of Sir F. F. Vane, bart. M. P. for Carlile, a daughter. 19. The wife of Capt. O'Neill, of the, roval navy, a fon. At Horafey, Middlefex, the wife of B. Pead, e.q. a daughter. 20. 16 Holl s-ftreet, Cavendish-square, the wife of John Larking, efq. a fon. 21. The wife of John Hill, efq. of Linco.n's-inn, a daughter. 22. The wife of John Maddison, efq. of Louth, co. Lincoln, a fon and heir. 24. The wife of William Gilles, efq. of Throgmorton-street, a fou. MARRIAGES |