1798.] 
only fix men. Pafwan, has pofleffed 
himfelf of Thrajowan, and impofed con- 
tributions in all the adjacent country. 
AMERICA. 
While a great part of Europe has'been 
fuffering under the calamities of war, the 
United States have been afflicted with a 
‘dreadful vifitation of a different-kind. By 
intelligence received trom thence, in the 
month of Ogtober, it appears that the 
ravages of the yellow tever have been 
very great. In Philadelphia, notwith- 
dtanding between forty and fifty thou- 
fand of the inhabitants had left the city, 
deventy or eighty deaths upon an average, 
are reported to have commonly taken place 
in the fpace of twenty-four hours. In one 
inftance the report of the health-committee, 
ftated nt8 deaths within that fpace of 
time. In New York alfo, though many 
‘had quitted the city, yet between forty 
and fifty are faid to have died daily: and 
feveral of the principal phyficians are 
‘among the number, who have fallen a 
facrifice. 
WEST INDIES. 
The Englifh forces, after holding for a 
confiderable time a few ports in the ifland 
of St. Domingo, at the expence of ten 
‘millions cf money, and the lofs of ten 
thoufand foldiers, have at length quitted 
‘that deftructive ifland. ‘This evacuation 
has been followed by cireumftaices which 
afforda field for much conjecture ; two 
proclamations in a conkderable degree’ 
contradigtory have been publifhed, the 
one by the directorial commiffioner, and 
‘the other by the black general Touffaint. 
The former has fince been difmiffed 
‘by the latter, who has declared St. Do- 
mingo an independent.{tate! The pri- 
vate @rrangement made a dong time fince 
between Touffaint and the Englifh gene- 
ral, by virtue of which the Britifn troops 
effected tlieir evacuation, are brought 
forward as probabilities of his treachery. 
JREZLAND. 
The fyftem of energy firft eftablithed 
‘by the immediate predeceflor of the mar- 
quis Cornwallis, and continued by him 
with fome happy modifications, has at 
deaft fupprefied the moft open and dan- 
gerous outrages of rebellion at prefent. 
‘The projeé&t of a Union, fo much fpoken 
of, feems however to'be difapproved by 
a ftrong party. The lawyers’ corps in 
particular, in a public meeting held on 
the 6th of December, expreffed their dif- 
like of that meature in feveral {trong refo- 
lutions, which were propofed upon that 
wccalion, The impropriety however, of 
any kind of difcuilion, by an armed body 
heing fuggelked, the refolutions were 
MontTHiy Maa. No, xxx1x. 
State of Public Affairs. 
‘J. Cormick, Dean Swift. 
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withdrawn ; and ‘it'was agreed, that the 
bufinefs fhould devolve on a general meet 
ing of barrifters, which was held in the 
courle of a few days afterwards, and tre- 
folutiops entered into againft the propofed 
‘Unicn. 
The following ftate prifoners have been 
informed, by order of the lord lieutenant, 
that circumitances had occurred to require 
the longer confinement: viz. Arthur 
O’Connor, E. Emmett, John Sweetman, 
Henry Jackfon, Doétor M‘Nevin, John 
Chambers, Samuel Nielfon, ‘Thomas 
Ruffell, Matthew Dowling, J, Sweeny, 
H. Wilfoa, Miles Duignam, J. Cuthbert, 
Notice was 
at the fame time givento all other perfons 
included in the bill of emigration, that 
they were at liberty to go to any part 
of the continent of Europe not at war 
with his majefty, and that \if ‘they did 
not depart by the 5th of January next, 
they muft continue in prifon at their own 
expence. 
The famous Napper Tandy, hav- 
ing been driven by adverfe weather 
from the coaft of -Ireland to Nor- 
way, and fearing thence to proceed 
to France by fea, travelied it appears to 
Hamburgh, in company with three of his 
companions, who were likewife United 
Irifhmen, Sir J. Crawford, the Britifh 
minifter, apprized of their arrival under 
fictitious names, obtained, with much 
difficulty, an order trom the magiftracy 
for their arreft, which he effeéted at fix 
o'clock in the morning, of the 24th of 
November, and ordered them to be con- 
fined in feparate guard-houfes, As foon 
as this event however became public, citi- 
zen Marragon, the miniiter of the French 
republic, difpatched @ note to the fenate, 
claiming Napper Tandy and his col- 
leagues as French citizens, and threaten- 
ing to quit Hamburgh if they were not 
releafed. ‘Che British minitter on the 
other hand oppofed this demand in terms 
equally ftrong, and the fenate, after 
mature deliberation, fet free ‘Tandy and 
Blackwell, as foldiers of France. 
GREAT BRITAIN. 
The chancellor of *the* exchequer, on 
the 3d of December, in a committee of 
the houfe .of commons, introduced his 
new plan of finance. He firft tock 
a full‘ review of the total amount 
of the fupply, which had been voted to 
meet the public fervice of the prefent - 
year. The firft article of fervice which 
he noticed was the navy, which, with 
the tranfport fervice, amounted to 
13,000,coq]. The extraordinaries were 
eftimated at 725,000, and as 120,000 
30 feaman, 
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