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ment. The last intelligence from Martinique is extremely satisfactory: more than forty French vessels have already arrived, and sold their cargoes well.

Retterdam, Oct. 9.-Citizen Dumonceau, Schimmelpenninck, and the French Ambassador Semonville, are arrived at the Hague. General Daendels has had a conference with the President of

the Executive Government.

Lieutenant General Daendels and Dumonceau to the Council of War of the Batavian Republic. "It would be unbecoming the rank we have the "honour to hold, were we to enter into an excul"pation of ourselves, with respect to a certain "bulletin, of which we have been informed by "the publication of the government of state of "the 28th Sept. Yet we think it necessary to "declare publicly, as officers, who love honour, "that our sentiments have been entirely misin"terpreted, imagining that by inserting our names "in the said bulletin, the army would be per"suaded that we approved of the propagation of "the spirit of opposition among the troops, to "the government, and that we wished to excite "them to disturbances. We intreat the Coun"cillors of War to make known our sentiments to "the Government of State. Health and respect.

(Signed) "Daendels. Dumonceau."

DOMESTIC.

On Thursday, 7th inst. her Majesty held a drawing room at St. James's, which was numerously attended. The presentations were

Lord St. Helen's, on his arrival from the Court
of St. Petersburgh-The newly elected Sheriffs of
London, Messrs. Alexander and Welsh-Admiral
Lord Keith, from the Mediterranean.-Gen. Sir
Thomas Trigge, on his arrival from the West-In-
dies-Maj. Gen. Doyle, on arriving from Egypt.
Gen. Craig, from the East-Indies.--Commis. Sir S.
Hood, on setting off for the Island of Trinidad. —
Lieut.-Col. Sir E. Butler, or arriving from Egypt.-
J. Burton, Esq. Gentleman Usher and Quarterly
Waiter, had the honour to kiss the Queen's hand.
-Lord and Lady Fitzgerald took leave on their
setting off for Lisbon; as did Capt. Fielding for
the same place.-Lady Warren was at Court for

the first time since the death of Sir Geo. Warren
Mr. Spencer Smith, his Majesty's Minister Pleni-
Pitentiary to the Ottoman Porte, on his return
from Constantinople, with leave of absence, by
Lord Hawkesbury.-Mrs. Spencer Smith, on her
marriage and arrival in England, by Lady Hawkes-
bury, Baron Herbert of Rathkeal, an Austrian
Officer of the Reg. of Cobong, and Knight of the
Military order of St. Stephen of Tuscany, by Baron
Reigersfeldt, the Imperial Charge d'Affairs.

been pleased to grant to the Reverend John Bar
ton, Clerk, Master of Arts, the Place and Dignity
of a Canon or Prebendary of the Metropolitical
Church of Canterbury, void by the Resignation of
the Honourable Edward Legge.

War Office, Oct. 12.-6th Reg. of Drag. Guards,
Alex. Kennedy Clarke, Gent. to be Cornet, by pur.
chase, v. Blake, who retires. Assistant-Surgeon
James Arthur, from the 23d Light Drag- to be As-
sistant-Surgeon, v. Cladwell, who retires upon
Half pay. 3d Reg. of Drag. Rich. Staunton Sit-
well Gent. to be Cornet, by purchase, v. Tucket,
promoted.-4th Ditto, Assistant-Surgeon
Matthews, from the 52d Foot, to be Assistant-
Surgeon. v. Sargent, who exchanges.-rith Reg. of
Light Drag. Ensign Charles Maximillian St. Paul,
from the 60th Foot, to be Lieut. by purchase, v.
Mingay, who retires.-20th Ditto, Surgeon Rich
Cobbe, from the 2d Batt. Royals, to be Surgeon, v.
George, whose appointment does not take place.
Assistant-Surgeon Henry Coates, from Half-pay
of the Royal Waggon Train, to be Assistant-Sur-
geon.-22d Ditto, Licut. Orford Gordon, from the
334 Foot, to be Capt. by purchase, v. Sinclair,
who retires.-23d Ditto, Cornet Peter Warburton,
to be Lieut. by purchase, v. Aburthnot, pro-
moted. 2d Batt. of the 1st Reg. of Foot, Surgeon
William Morlen, from Half-pay of the 54th Foot,
to be Surgeon, v. Cobbe, removed to the 20th
Light Drag.-5th Reg. of Foot, Lieut.-Col. Wm.
Cockell, from Half-pay of the 46th Foot, to be
Lieut.-Col. v. Lindsey, who exchanges.-8th
Ditto, Cornet John Mac Mahon, from the 8th
Light Drag. to be Lieut. by purchase, v. Batters-
by, promoted.-16th Ditto, Hospital Mate, Edw.
O'Reilly, to be Assistant Surgcon.-20th Ditto,
Capt.-Lieut. John Colbourne, to be Capt. v. New-
man, deceased. Lieut. Charles Des Voeux, to be
Capt.-Lieut. v. Colbourne. Ensign William Lyons
to be Lieut. v. Des Voeux.-21st Ditto, Surgeon.
J. H. Macpherson, from the late Clanalpine Fen-
cibles, to be Assistant-Surgeon.-30th Ditto, Ens.
Alex. Young to be Lieut. by purchase, v. Russel,
promoted. William Stewart, Gent. to be Ensign,
7. Young-36th Ditto, Capt.-Lieut. R. R. Camp,
bell to be Capt. without purchase, v. Williamson,
placed on Half-pay. Lieut. Alex. Williamson to
be Capt.-Lieut. v. Campbell.-38th Ditto, Lieut.
James Annesley, from Half-pay of the 17th Light
Drag. to be Lieut. v. Bowen, who exchanges, re-
ceiving the difference. Surgeon Gurge Burleigh,
from the late Essex Fencibles, to be Assistant-
Surgeon-44th Ditto, Francis Bernard Jervoise,
Gent. to be Ensign by purchase, v. Cumming, who
retires. Hospital Mate John Inglis to be Assis
tant-Surgeon.-45th Ditto, Lieut. J. Bond, from
Half-pay of the 17th Foot, to be Lieut. v. Wm.
Bond, who exchanges. Hospital-Mate John Gib-
son to be Assistant-Surgeon.-50th Ditto, Hos-
pital-Mate Edgib, to be Assistant-Surgeon, r.
Cooper, who resigns. Hospital-Mate Alexander
Coulson to be Assistant Surgeon 52d Ditto, As-

FROM THE LONDON GAZETte, 1802.
St. James's, Oct. 7.-Count St. Martin de Front,
having received new Letters of Credence from his
Majesty Victoire Emanuel King of Sardinia, giv-sistant Surgeon Andrew Sargent, from the 4th
ing him the same character of Envoy Extraordi-
Bay and Minister Plenipotentiary from Sardinia,
had this day a private audience of her Majesty.
Whitchul, Oct. 9.-The King has been pleased
grant to the Honourable Edward Legge, Clerk,
Fachelor of Laws, the Place and Dignity of a Pre-
bendary of the Free Chapel of St. George, in the
Castle of Windsor, void by the death of the Reve-
zend Doctor William Arnald. The King has also

Dragoons, to be Assistant-Surgeon, v. Mathews,
who exchanges.-56th Ditto, Ensign Alexander
Macdonald to be Lieut. by purchase, v. Buckley,
who retires.-62d Ditto, William Cooke Collis,
Gent. to be Ensign, by purchase, v. Tomkinson,
who retires.-63d Ditto, Thomas Ricketts Myers,
Gent. to be Ensign, by purchase, v. White, pro-,
moted.-68th Ditto, Ensign H. Willis, from Hali-
pay, to be Ensign, v. Jones, who exchanges.

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71st Ditto, Assistant-Surgeon James Evans, from Half-pay of the 14th Foot, to be Assistant-Sur-, geon.-72d Ditto, Hospital-Mate William Wilson, to be Assistant-Surgeon.-8;d Ditto, Ensign John Lindsay Bucknall, from Half-pay of the Corsican Corps, to be Ensign, v. Oliver, promoted.-Ist West-India Reg. Michael Stretch, Esq. to be Paymaster, v. Calcott, deceased-5th Ditto, Lieut. Col. Thomas Barrow, from the 6th West India Reg. to be Lieut -Col. v. Sir Rich. Bassert, who exchanges. 5th Ditto, Col. Sir Richard Bassett, from the 5th West-India Reg. to be Lieut.-Col. v. Barrow, who exchanges.

Brevet.-Lieut -Col. Thomas Barrow, of the 5th West-India Reg. to be Col. at the Bay of Honduras only.

BANKRUPTS.

Truste, William, Cripplegate, shoe-maker.Davey, James, East Anstey, Devonshire, yeoman. -Cox, James, John Street, Minories, painter and glazier-Bevington, Thomas, Worcester, draper. Bridgman, John, Lothbury, merchant.-Gowland, Thomas, the younger, Birchin Lane, merchant.-Biddulph, John, Staffordshire, cordwainer. -Horton, John, Islington Road, mealman -Stanbury, John, Charlotte Street, Blackfriars Road, baker,

BIRTHS AND MARRIAGES.

Births. On Wednesday, at Battersea Rise, the Lady of H. Thornton, Esq. M.P. of a son-On the 7th inst. at Margate, the Lady of Commissioner George, of a son.

Marriage. At Ayr, on Monday se'nnight, Capt. Robert Hamilton, 79th Reg. of Foot, to Miss Margaret Bowie, of Cambusiscan.

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SUMMARY OF POLITICS.

In Holland there has been discovered a plot, or a pretended plot, against the present government; and, it has been suggested by some, that it is a contrivance of the French for the purpose of exciting commotion, and providing themselves with an excuse, as in the case of Switzerland, for taking the country more immediately under their command. This appears to us to be speculating rather too deeply. France is certainly at the bottom of the plot, which we believe, too, to be no more than a inere sham; but the object is, we should think, not to provide an excuse for seizing on the country, but to obtain a plausible pretext for delaying the departure of the French Holland cannot, in the present cri

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danger to the interests of France in that country. The example of the Swiss might embolden the Dutch to make an attempt at breaking their chains. Belgium lies between Switzerland and Holland-two magazines of combustibles connected by a train of powder! The French know this, and they will not, 'till affairs are settled in the former country, withdraw their troops from the latter.

The Emperor still resists the insolent mandates of France, with respect to the projected division of Germany; and, if the interposition in behalf of Switzerland, on which, it seems, our ministers affect, at least, to have determined, should actually take place, it is possible that the Empire may yet be preserved from the fangs of the Corsican wolf.

With regard to the grounds, the nature, and the object, of this interposition, we shall lay them before our readers precisely as we find them described in an article, which appeared in the True Briton of Thursday, and which we look upon as the unofficial "The extraormanifesto of the ministry. dinary interference of the French govern "ment in the internal affairs of Switzer

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"had with this country. Under these "circumstances, the cause of Switzerland "becomes a common one with every Power, "that is not a voluntary slave to the influence "of France, and a resistance to THE SYSTEM "at present pursued by Buonaparte becomes a duty in the rulers of every free country." [Stand to that, whatever you do.] "Know

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ing, as we do, how important it is to the "interests of this nation that the peace "should be preserved, we cannot be sup"posed to be the advocates for war" [Oh! by no means!] "Far from it-We have ever thought, and we still continue to "think, that the present ministers deserve "the warmest gratitude of their country for

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"land, and the evident intention of the "First Consul to prescribe to the people of "that country the form of government "which he chooses they should live under, "seems to us to be of more importance to "this country, as well as to all Europe, "than we apprehend is yet generally conceived." [Bless us! how vigilant we are become all of a sudden !]" It is not only the generous "feelings for an oppressed and injured "people that Englishmen have, upon this occasion, to indulge (aud surely the con"duct of France towards Switzerland must " arcuse all our indignation against the one party, and awaken all our sympathy for "the other), but the question embraces "that which, perhaps, involves our own" having procured peace at the time, and safety and welfare as a free and independeat state. If the government of France "is to assume to itself the right of invad"ing at pleasure, and modelling the government of one independent country, it may claim the privilege of doing so for all. The principle must be considered as a general one, and, as such, affects all independent countries alike. It springs "fren that system of gigantic and hideous "ambition, which would revolutionize all cations, and render all people tributary " to France. It was reasonable to hope yes, the solid young lord,, and Lord Castereagh, the "safe politicians," thought ; but Mr. Windham, in his Speech on te Preliminaries, p. 29, said it was NOT Tasonable. He said, on the contrary, that such a hope was base and extravagant] "that when general tranquillity took place, "the views of conquest and aggrandize"ment which France indulged and prac"tised during the war, would have given place to sentiments more equitable and pacific-that the principles which the re"volution had called forth would have been abandoned upon the restoration of "a fixed government, for something like "moderation and justice, as applied to other states. If we are to judge from the pre"sent conduct of France towards Switzer"land, however, such hopes are not very "likely to be speedily realized, and the "dictatorial language used towards that unhappy country, cannot be considered as very respectful to the powers of Europe at large. The proclamation of the "First Consul deciding the fate of a free people, is issued from the Consular Pa"lace, without even the compliment of " previous communication to any other "power, at least certainly without any previous communication having been

"upon the terms, they did." [Though it has produced such tremendous mischiefs!] "Peace was ardently wished for by the whole "nation, and ministers, by procuring it, "shewed a praise-worthy attention to the "public voice." [So, so! the "experiment” having failed, the blame is now to be laid on the poor mob!] "But the greatest blessings "which humanity can enjoy, may be pur"chased or preserved at too dear a rate. "There are evils in the lot of nations, as "well as of men, between which wisdom has "only to make its election of the least," [IVisdom had then, nothing to do in the choice of peace.] "In the abstract, peace is al

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peace may demand; and certain we are, "that it is not in the nature of Englishmen "to purchase the greatest national blessing by any sacrifice of the national honour "and independence. By such a conduct, "indeed, we should only embrace a delu"sion, and should have voluntarily paved "the way for our own disgrace and downfall.

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cally, and from the first impression which the "parent conduct of the French government "excites. We still hope it has moderation and justice enough to listen to a remon"strance on the part of a government equal"ly independent as itself, against such "monstrous aggressions as it threatens to "practise against the people of Switzerland. "We believe that this subject has occu

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submit to any glaring acts of violence and injustice. The honour, the dignity, the safety of the country, seem to us to de"mand some interference on our part in be"half of the Swiss, and we leave it to the "wisdom of our Government to decide in "what manner that is best and most effec

which has already preceded, decree:-That they receive with the most lively gratitude this new testimony of the good wishes of the First Consul, for the Helvetic people, and that the Senate will conform to the contents of the said declaration, as far as it relates to them. A notification shall be given of the present decree to all the authorities, as also to the commanders of the troops who have armed against the government.

tually to be done. Whatever they may "determine upon in vindication of the ho"nour, and in support of the rights of their country, they may rely upon it will be "warmly seconded by the energy and the patriotism of all descriptions of His Majes-ed ty's subjects."

We regret exceedingly, that our limits will not permit us to enter into an examination of this precious state-paper. It must be deferred till our next.-It will be perceived, by the postscript, that the Swiss people have again beaten the troops of the Usurpers.

POSTSCRIPT.

Lausanne, Oct. 4.-Yesterday evening an action took place upon the whole of the line. The Helvetic army was put to the rout by the insurgents, and fell back in disorder upon Moudon.

The Executive Council yesterday appointthe chief of brigade, Wonderweid, commander in chief of our troops, in the room of Gen. Andermatt.

According to letters from Basle of the 4th of October, the unexpected news of a French army being collecting in the neighbourhood, produced so alarming a sensation, that cou riers were immediately dispatched to Berne, Zurich, and Schwytz, to apprise their leaders of this important event.

Oct. 5. We learn that the confederateSwiss did not enter Moudon till yesterday evening at five o'clock. Bachmann's right wing arrived yesterday night, before Yverdun. As to the upper country, it does not appear that any thing has happened on that side. They say that Pilichoor is in the Ber

nese army.

It is now eleven o'clock; still no news: we hope that General Bachmann will not re

Lausanne was this morning under the greatest alarms, it was even thought advisable to remove the seat of Government to Geneva, when Citizen Rapp, an AdjutantGeneral of the First Consul, was on a sud-ject the proclamation of Buonaparté; yet, den observed to arrive.-He went to the Senate, accompanied by Citizen Verninac, the French Minister, and delivered to the Senate a proclamation, addressed to Buonaparte to the eighteen Cantons of the Helvetic Republic, dated St. Cloud, the 8th Vendémiaire.

The proclamation being read, General Rapp acquainted the Senate, that he was going to Berne to make the same communication to the insurgents. He accordingly set out a few minutes after. It is asserted, that should the Bernese refuse to obey the summons of the First Consul, General Rapp has orders to declare to them, that the French government will send 40,000 men into Switzerland.

The Senate issued the following decree, for publishing the proclamation of the First Consul:

prudence requires that we should be prepar ed for all events. The générale is beat, and troops sent to the heights that command Lausanne. In the official report of the batetle, the government say, that their force was only 14 or 1500 men, and that the patriots had 6,000. The defeat was complete, and the retreat in great disorder.

The Senate having heard read the declaration of the First Consul of France, dated St. Cloud, the 18th Vendémiaire, brought this day by General Rapp, the tenor of

Baste, Oct. 4.-A report is just now in cir culation, that the French general, Ney, who is to have the chief command of the troops collecting upon our frontiers, is arrived at Huninguen. A deputation is to be sent to him, to inquire into the object of his mission.

Strasburgh, Oct. 6.-The passage of troops to the froutiers of Helvetia by the two roads which lead to Basle, continues with great activity. Other troops from the department of Mont Tonnere are in full march for the same destination. The chiefs of the corps are charged to take care that their troops, after their arrival on the frontiers of Helvetia, do not meddle in the internal affairs of the country.

Printed by Cox and Baylis, No. 75, Great Queen Street, Lincoln's Inn Fields. Published by R. Bagshaw, Bow Street, Covent Garden, where all the former numbers may be kad,

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VOL. 2. No. 16.]

London, Saturday, 23d October, 1802.

[ Price 10D

CONTENTS.-Com. St. Domingo, 491. Russian New Minis. 485. Switzerland Civil War, 485. Soci. of Ship-Own. Pro. 489. Ship-Builders, 492. Let. from Mr. Cobbett to Ld. Hawkesbury on the New Disp. with France, 493. Diet of Schwitz, 510. German Indemnities, 511. Grand Master of Malta, 512. New Orleans, 512.

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FOREIGN COUNTRIES.

COMMERCE OF ST. DOMINGO.

The following decree, together with the annexed list of vessels at Cape François, on the 24th of August last, will give the reader a tolerably correct notion of the present state of the commerce of St. Domingo.-The country to which the ships belong, and the nature of the cargoes, being specified, will be found very useful to the pelitical œconomist.

ST. DOMINGO.

Head-quarters at the Cape, Sept. 2.-In the name of the French government, the commander in chief, Captain General, decrees as follows:-Art. I. After the 1st of Vendémiaire, year 11, (Sept. 23, 1802), no other merchandize or articles of provision, except those specified in the annexed list, can be imported into the colony by foreign ships: none can be exported by the same ships, but molasses, syrup, spirits and rum, dye woods, and wood for cabinet-makers, guiacum, coffee, and provisions or merchandize of every kind, imported by the French merchants-II. After the same period, the duties on the merchandize and provisions specifed in the annexed list, imported into the colony by foreign ships, shall pay at the rate of 10 per cent. duty ad valorem in the colony, according to a tarif, which the colonial prefect shall settle every three months, from the medium prices of the preceding three months, In the open ports of the colony. The duties on colonial productions which, according to the permission granted by the first article, shall be exported in foreign vessels, shall pay, ever and above, one half more than those exported in French ships, according to the tarif annexed to the decree of the 3d of Messidor last, (June 22). These productions shall pay, besides, the war tax, established by the decree of Messidor 25, (July 14). Productions and merchandize arising from the French commerce exported from the colony in foreign ships, shall pay no daties-III. All merchandize and products pot specified in the annexed list, imported by foreign vessels, are prohibited, reckonng from the 1st of Vendémiaire, year 11,

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(Sept 23, 1802). The captains of foreign. vessels, which arrive in the open ports of the colony before that period, shall be allowed to land their merchandize, on lodging a declaration at the custom-house. Those which arrive in the open ports of the colony after Vendémiaire 1st (Sept. 23) until 15th Brumaire next (Nov. 6) inclusive, shall be allowed to land the unprohibited goods they have on board. In regard to those prohibited, they shall lodge a declaration of them, and shall be bound to produce them on their departure, under the pain of their vessels being confiscated. After the 15th Brumaire (Nov. 6) vessels, whose cargoes are not entirely composed of non-prohibited merchandize and productions, shall not be admitted into the ports of the colony. Those not coming within the case of being admitted, which shall procure admission by false declarations, or which, after having been obliged to leave the said ports, shall be found effecting or trying to effect a fraudulent landing, shall be confiscated as well as the cargoes.-IV. Nothing in the present decree shall affect that of Messidor 5, which exempts from all duties, till the 30th of Frimaire, year 11, (Dec. 21, 1802) oxen and mules imported into the ports of the Cape, Port Républicain, des Cayes, and Jacmel. All the dispositions of decrees relating to commerce and the customs, not contrary to the present decree, are also maintained.-V. The colonial prefect is charged with carry. ing the present decree into execution.— Signed-Leclerc.

List of the merchandise and productions, the importation of which, by foreign ships, is permitted, on paying a duty of ten per cent. ad valorem, viz. beer, bricks, coals, cables, and cordage, train oil, spermaceti oil, pitch, tar, rosin, &c. essence of turpentine, oats, barley, maize-flour, rice, biscuit, salt beef, salt pork-hams, sausages, &c. are not comprehended under this denomi nation; salt butter, codfish, bacaga, &c. salted mackarel, dried herrings, pickled herrings, shads, codsounds, pickled mullets, stockfish, live cattle, horses, mules, asses, hogs, sheep, ducks, fowls, turkeys, geese, timber for building, &c.

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