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of the fliort produce of their last 

 ■vintage, and the increased de- 

 mand for their wines. The 

 "farmers in consequence, have 

 so raised their prices to the 

 smierchants, that port wine is al- 

 ready advanced three pounds 

 the pipe. 



JBarcelona, Dec. 23, A few 

 dr^s ago, about 200 officers ar- 

 rived in Catalonia from Rousil- 

 lon and Perpigoan, from whence 

 they made their escape. 

 , Genoa, Dec. 24. On Wed- 

 nesday last died, at the age ot 

 cightVj Mark Durazzo,ex-doge 

 of this republic. 



I^etters from the isle of France 

 inform us, that the Hag of in- 

 tiepcndence has been hoisted at 

 the Cape of Good Hope *, the 

 inhabitants who have been op- 

 prefsed by the monopoly of the 

 Dutch East India Company, 

 afsembled, and declared to the 

 governor, that they were de- 

 termined on having a free trade, 

 and no troops, finding them- 

 selves fully competent to their 

 own protection ; at the same 

 time signifying that if he did 

 not chuse to comply with their 

 terms, there v/as a vefsel ready 

 to convey him to Europe. 



Three hundred houses were 

 burnt at Port-au-Prince, in St 

 Domingo, in the lire malicious- 

 ly occasioned by the mulattoes 

 en the 2 2d of November, and 

 which lasted from Tuesday 

 morning ^o Wednesday after- 

 liocn at four o'clock. 



Recent accounts from St Do- 



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mingo inform that the affairs of 

 that colony are in a train, of 

 being settled, the negroes ap- 

 pearing to be weary of doing 

 mischief. But the destruction 

 which has already been com- 

 mitted there, has wholly ruined 

 every prospect of revenue from 

 it for many years to come. 



M. Bouille has not succeeded 

 in his negOciations for 10,000 

 Hefsians for the emigrant Prin- 

 ces, but the Landgrave is said 

 to have agreed to let them have 

 all the malefactors at a louis 

 d'or a head. This is certainly 

 much more osconomicalthan Mr 

 Pitt's plan of transportation to 

 Botany Bay. 



The adherents of the French 

 Princes, like the followers of 

 the house of Stuart, were encou- 

 raged to quit their country, and 

 ruin their fortunes, to promote 

 the views of foreign powers j 

 and for the convenience of those 

 very powers, they are now dri- 

 ven from one place of refuge 

 to another, in the rigour of 

 winter, and through roads al- 

 most impafsable. Several hun- 

 dreds of Mirabeau's legion have 

 returned to France with their 

 arms ai>d baggage. ,^ 



BOMT^STIC. 



The prinoe of Wales in com- 

 pany lately declared aloud his 

 determination of rslinquifhing 

 the turfiox ever, and that his. 

 stud of amning horses at JJew-« 



