LONDON. 
entered the town by night, and endeavoured to make his 
efcape on-board a fm all veil'd 5 not fucceeding, lie blew 
out his brains. This man was a native of Martinique, 
and had been Pome time at St. Domingo, whence he re¬ 
turned with the title of vifcount. The whole number of 
infurgents apprehended was about 130 3 of whom twenty- 
fix were brought to trial, and of thefe fifteen were con¬ 
demned and executed on the 10th of October. The go¬ 
vernor of the ill and-, major-general Charles Wale, iffned 
a proclamation on the 15th, relative to this confpiracy, in 
■which he obferves, that “ the object of this plot is inex¬ 
plicable ; for among the confpirators were Pome perPons 
who, having the rank of freemen from the effect of co¬ 
lonial beneficence, might be expected to have nothing 
left to with for but the profperity of the country.” He 
goes on to remark, that “ thefe men paved the way for 
the feduftion of the inferior clalfes, by throwing out opi¬ 
nions that have been repeated upwards of half a century 
by revolutionary writers and he further explains him- 
felf by Paying, that “Pome individuals Prom bad inten¬ 
tions, and others from imprudence, have of late made it 
their particular bufinefs to comment upon the contents of 
the public papers, to difcufs the opinions of journalilts, 
and therefrom to deduce conclufions alarming to that fyf- 
tem which has for two hundred years fecured the prof¬ 
perity of this Archipelago.” 
That a Hate of Pociety in which a great majority of the 
people are Haves, and many more are excluded from the 
rights of citizens, is not one in which free dilcuflion can 
be Pafely allowed, is very evident; and the tenure of the 
WeH-India iflands has been rendered more infecure fince 
the fuccefs of the men of colour at St. Domingo in elta- 
bliihing an independent government. For, although that 
ifland has fince been a prey to the molt fanguinary con- 
telts, it has prefented an image of liberty and equality 
highly captivating to men groaning under degradation 
and bondage. To other attractions is now added that of 
a feiiiblance of European honours and dignities, open to 
the ambition of the fable race. ChriHopbe, the moH 
powerful of the competitors, whom we mentioned at p. 166, 
under the title of Prefident of Hayti, caufed himfeif and 
his wife to be folemnly crowned at Cape Francois as King 
and Queen of Hayti, by a titular archbilhop, on the 2d 
of June, 1811 ; after which he gave a fplendid entertain¬ 
ment, at which were prelent two Englilh. captains and all 
the Engliili and American merchants. His majeHy drank 
the health of his brother the king of Great Britain, and 
wiHied for his fuccefs againH the French tyrant. He has 
created various ranks of nobility, and has ilfued edicts for 
theeftablilhment of a royal guard, an order of knighthood, 
and an eccIefiaHical hierarchy. A body of 250 infantry, 
and a company of light horfe, are to take care of the per- 
Ponal fafety of his (able majeHy, and two companies of 
light horfe are to attend upon the queen and prince royal. 
The military order of the negro legion of honour is de¬ 
nominated the Order of St. Henry: it conlifcs of the king, 
the prince royal, 16 grand erodes, and 32, commanders. 
A fund of 300,000 livres conHitutes the endowment of 
the order, all the members of which muft profefs the ca¬ 
tholic faith. King Henry has alfo his Royal Gazette. 
The motto to this publication is a quotation from Vol¬ 
taire : 
Le premier qui fut roi fut un foldat heureux 5 
Qui fert bien fon pays n’a pas befoin d’aieux. 
The tranfaCtions in the peninfula of India, during the 
laH and prefent years, have not been very important.— 
An event of fome corifequence to the powers in the 
northern part of Hindooflan, and which exemplifies the 
pradtice of Hindoo policy, was that of the death of the 
princefs of Oudipore, by poifon. This lady was the 
daughter of the rana of Oudipore, whofe family being ac¬ 
counted more ancient and honourable than that of any 
other Hindoo prince, his alliance w as fought by the neigh¬ 
bouring rajahs of Jaypore and Joudpore, both of whom af« 
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pired to the hand of the princefs. Their rivalry produced 
a war, in which Scindia, Holkar, Ameer Khan, and all 
the other native chieftains in that quarter, have at one 
time or another taken a part. To terminate this i'cene of 
contention, the poor princefs was facrificed, poifon being 
adminiftered to her by her own aunt, with the knowledge 
of her father. It is laid that the fcheme was i'ecretly con¬ 
trived by Ameer Khan, who, finding the rana of Oudi¬ 
pore (now entirely in his power) was too far engaged to 
the jaypore rajah to retract, and refolved that his own 
ally, the rajah of Joudpore, fliould not be d.i (graced by 
the tTiumph of his rival, fuggelted this expedient as the 
only method of fettling their oppofite pretenfions. 
In the fonth of India, a revolution took place which 
illuflrates the Britijh mode of interference in the affairs of 
that part of the world. The mifconduft of the new rajah 
of Travancore, and his ill treatment of fome of the 
branches of the deceafed rajah’s family, at traded the no¬ 
tice of Col. Munro, the Britilh refident at that court; 
and, an invefiigaticn of his right to the throne being let 
on foot, it appeared that by the laws of the Hate his title 
was invalid, and that the rana Letchma Amah, in her 
18th year, was the rightful fucceflor. The interelt of the 
Britilli government made it expedient that the rajah fliould 
be dethroned, and a notification was made to him to that 
efleCt ; but, as he attempted fome refiflance, he was placed 
under an efcort of the 17th regiment, and marched from. 
Trivanderum to Tellicherry. On the next day, March 
17th, the princefs Letchma Amah was proclaimed, and 
invefled with the klialut, jewels, and fword of Hate. 
She was crowned at an adjacent pagoda by the principal 
brahmins, the Britilh troops being drawn up on the oc- 
calion, to each corps of which lhe made a donation of 
500 rupees : lhe was alio honoured with a royal falute 
from the fori. On her return to the palace lhe alcended 
the throne, where (he received the congratulations of Col. 
Munro, the officers of government, &c. and was pre- 
fented with fome valuable jewels, and other articles, in 
the name of the Britilh government. An attempt on her 
life was made by the adherents of the depofed rajah, but 
was fruflrated. This revolution, laid to have been “ ren¬ 
dered neceii'ary by certain political confiderations,” was 
happily free from the guilt of bloodlhed. The new fe¬ 
male fovereign promoted to places of high trufl leveral 
brahmins attached to the Britilh interelt. All foreigners 
in her military fervice were difmifl'ed ; various arrange¬ 
ments were made at the fuggeflion of the Britilli relident; 
and pains were taken to reconcile the minds of the people 
to the new order of things. No attempt was made, as 
was apprehended, to refcue the ex-rajah ; and a handfome 
eflablilhment lias been formed for him at Tellicherry. 
The province of Vellore was afflicted, in 1810, with a 
drought and famine, in confequence of which 6000 peo¬ 
ple periihed, together with a great number of cattle. 
From Bombay, news was received of the capture by 
florm, and the refloration to its lawful chieftain, of the 
fortrefs of Cliya, a dependency of the rajah of Poorbun- 
der, who had fought and obtained the protection of the 
Eafl-India company. It had been ulurped from him by 
his fon. The Engliili force employed on this occaflors 
confilted of the 47th regiment. 
While the events, palling on the continent of India* 
have been thus limited to a few comparatively minute 
tranfaCtions, its iflands have afforded fcenes of extraordi¬ 
nary interelt.—The molt fplendid acquifition made by the 
Britilh arms in the courfe of the year 1811, was that of 
the capital of the Dutch fettlements in the Eaff-Indies, Ba¬ 
tavia, with the rich iltand in which it is fituated. After 
the reduction of the iflands of Amboyna and Banda, with 
the French files of Bourbon and Mauritius, (fee p. 3/,) 
the governoivgeneral of India, lord Minto, refolved to 
complete the Britilh dominion in that quarter of the world 
by the conquefl-of the Uland of Java. In the m nth of 
March, a body of troops deffined for this expedition was 
encamped at Madras* confining of liis majefly’s 14th, 591h a 
