500 
to recoyer her rights,and that of the roth 
of Auguft, when the throne was deftoyed: 
—laftly confidering that every man that 
bears in his hearta hatred of flaver y, and 
who deferves the name of a Frenchman, 
will be eager to alift in the {plendour of 
celebration :—upon thefe confiderations 
there were feveral decrees paffed, relative 
toregulating the grand feitivals of liberty. 
t was decreed, that the two fefti- 
vals of lib bertyat fixed by the law of the 3rd 
Brumaire for the 9th and roth Thermi- 
dor, fhall be celebrated withevery becom- 
ing pomp, in all the diftriéts of the re- 
public. On the firft day of the feaft, the 
adminiftrators, the commiffary BE the 
éxecutive directory, and all the conftitu- . 
ted authorities, e{corted by the national 
guard, fhall fet out from the Town Hall. 
They fhall be preceded by fix groups, 
the firft confifting of fathers of families; 
the fecond, of mothers of families; the 
third, of youn’ men, of cighteen years 
old at leaft; the fourth, of young girls, 
about the fame ages the fifth, of male 
children; and che. fixth of children of the 
female fex. The men and the women 
fhall hold branches of oak in their hands, 
and their hats fhali be adcerned with tri- 
coloured ribdands. 
Wiese INDIES. 
We have already noticed th 
of the ifland of St. Lucia u 
head of Exzland. 
WNotwithftanding all the vigilance and 
exertion of the Britifh government, th 
French’ have landed fach confiderable 
reinforcements, both in men and warlike 
frores, upon St. Domingo, as almoft to 
infure the repulfe of any future attack 
upon that ifland, if not to ‘enable them 
to act offenfively againft the Englifh 
Hlands. 
fa the month of April, Stephen La- 
veaux. general in chicf and governor of 
St. Domingo, and Henry Perr oud, ordon- 
mator of the French. eee publithed 
an Addrefs to the United States ot - Ame- 
rica, and the Daniih iflas nds, laforming 
them of the outrages that had been com- 
mitted againfi the ‘reprefentati Ves df He 
French nation. It ftated, that the frit 
authorities of St. Domingo, the only 
perfons intrufted with the powers of th 
French people to govern the colony, had 
been torn from the helm of government, 
dragged and thrown into dungeons like 
the vileft criminals, and that ail the vir- 
fuous men who were attached to them, 
fhared the {ame fate. That the mot vir- 
tuous of the anhabitants affembled cx 
moge, in arms, and order was ceitored, 
e taking 
neer t 
Public Affairs... «Weft and Eaft Indies. 
[July 
The intent of this addrefs was to af- 
fure the Americans, that they might, 
with fafety, continue their commerce 
with St. Domingo; that ali the means 
of guarantee in the addreffers’. power 
would be exerted ; and that fince their 
misfortunes had fubfided, the cultivators 
of the foil had recommenced their la- 
bours, and the earth continued, without 
interruption, to grow fertile under their 
hands. 
On the 21ft of July, intelligence ar- 
rived from the Weft Indies, that the 
Britifh army was divided into three 
parts, 3000 at St. Lucia, 3000 at St. 
Vincent's, and 3000 at Grenada. Ge- 
neral Abercromby was expeéted to fail 
for England, and return after the hurri- 
cane month, for the reduéticn of Gua- 
daloupe. Information was brought at the 
fame time from St. Vincent's, that the 
reinforcements had arrived at that 
ifland ; that General Abercromby would 
foon reftore tranquillity ; and that the 
French had prayed Viétor Hugues to 
fend veffels to take them off the ifland, 
-as they were not abie to hold out. A 
Gazette has alfo been publi fhed fince thefe 
papers were committed to prefs; con- 
taining an account of the entire fubjuc- 
tion of St. Vincent’s and Grenada. 
Admiral Chriftian arrived at Marti- 
nique, in-the beginning of June, with 
feveral fhips of war in company. It was 
reported in this ifland, that a French 
fieet, of feven fhips of the line, with 
7000 troops on board, looked imto St. 
Lucia, on the znd of June, but finding 
it in et of the Englifh, ftood away 
for Gua adaloupe. Admiral Pole went 
vafter them with three fhips of the line, 
and the fleet at Martinique were ordered 
to fail immediately and join him, in or-" 
der to give the enemy battle. but it was 
feared that they would get into Guada- 
loupe before the Engitth fleet could 
come up with them. 
The Britith navai force at this time in 
the Wett Indies was faid to be, 1 fhip 
of 96 guns 5 13 of 743 4 of 643 4 of 
t43 tof 50; 18 frigates, of 44 to 36; 
eee 20 floops. 
In all 7o men of war, of which 28 are 
line of sail fhips. 
al 
East INDIEs. 
Columbo, the Dutch fertrefs in. the 
‘ifland of Cevlon, and the only place re- 
maining, in that ifland, in their poffef- 
fien, furrendered to C€clonel Stuert, 
on the’ 16th of February, 1796. The 
public property that fell into. the oe 
