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WEST INDIES. 
We have inferted, under the article 
France, what fhips and men are gone to 
St. Domingo. : 
The following particulars refpecting 
the difturbances in Guadaloupe, have 
been received in a letter from Martinico, 
dated November 15, 1801, for the au- 
thenticity of which, however, we cannot 
pledge ourfelves. The news of peace, 
jays this letter, arrived very feafonably 
for Guadaloupe, where a new infurrection 
has broken out—not of the Negroes as at 
St. Domingo,—but the Mulattoes are the 
inftigators of it. They wifh to command : 
one of them, named Pelagoe, fceing that 
General Lacroffe’s meafures thwarted his 
views, formed a party, feized on the gene- 
ral, as he was vifiting the out-polts, and 
forced him to embark. The veffel in 
which he was on board was {topped by one 
of our cruizers, and taken to Fort Royal. 
Four-and-twenty hours afterwards, our 
governor having heard of the fignature of 
the Preliminaries of Peace, concluded it 
better to fend him back to Guadaloupe, 
on board one of our frigates, which failed 
with a flag of truce. We are in anxious 
expectation to .know if he has been per- 
mitted to land, but we doubt it. One of 
the unfortunate emigrants, who left this 
place about a fortnight fince to return to 
Guadaloupe, went on fhore at the com- 
mencement of the infurreétion, but was 
fortunate enough to find means to efcape, 
and is juft arrived here, leaving behind 
him his wife and children. He givesa 
melancholy picture of the ftate of that 
ifland. The Infurgent-general has dif- 
miffed all the Whites from their employ 
—has re-eftablifhed all the municipalities 
which General Lacroffe had abolithed— 
Jias placed at the head of every depart- 
ment Mulattoes—diforganized the army, 
and placed alfo at the head of the troops 
people of his defcription. Thefe men not 
only refufe to affimilate with the Whites, 
* but will have an empire over, and com- 
mand them. 
EAST INDIES. 
A difpatch from the Rejfident of the Eaft 
India Company at Amboyna, dated July 
6, 1801, brings intelligence of the furren- 
der of Ternate to the Britifh arms, which 
was delivered over, by capitulation, to 
Colonel Burron, the 21ft of June. ‘The 
Dutch Governor made a mott refolute re- 
filtance, having defended the place with 
uncommon firmnefs for fifty-two days, 
but at the expence of the poor inhabitants, 
who perifhed by famine from ten to twen-. 
ty a day, from the Englith blockading by 
State of Publié Affairs in Fanuar}, 1802. 
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fea and land. The value of the captured 
property taken by the (quadron, amounts 
to a lack and fifty thoufand dollars. 
The Ifland of Ternate is the largeft of 
the Moluccas. 
_ AMERICA, 
The feffion of the United States was 
opened on the 3th of December, by a long 
and important communication from the 
Prefident to the Senate and Reprefenta- 
tives, from which it appears, that the re-~ 
turn of peace is likely to be attended with 
the greateft bleffings to this country, as 
well by the fuppreffion of all continental 
taxes whatever, as the augmentation of 
commerce. Its inhabitants have nearly 
doubled their number within the laft ten 
years. 
' GREAT BRITAIN. 
The following are the principal proceed - 
ings of the Imperial Parliament fince our 
lait publication. ‘The Chancellor of the 
Exchequer, on the 28th of December, 
moved, that the Houle, on its rifing, 
fhould adjourn to Monday. ‘The reafon 
for adjourning for fo fhort a period, arofe 
from prudential confiderations, which gen- 
tlemen were doubtle(s aware it would at pre- 
fent be highly improper to explain. ‘The 
motion being put from the chair, Mr. T. 
Grenville faid, he had entertained a hope 
that no circumfance would have occurred 
that would have rendered any obfervation 
from him, on the fubjeé of peace, necef- 
fary, till the Definitive Treaty fhould have 
been adjufted and fettled; but a report, 
which was generally believed, had latt 
night reached him, which he could not 
but confider as a fufficient caufe of alarm, 
and conceived it his duty to explain the 
grounds of his apprehenfions. The re- 
port was, that an armament had failed 
from Breft, confilting of no lefs than 16 © 
fail of the line, with 10,000 troops on- 
board, for the Weit Indies. He did not 
know there was any danger to be appre- 
hended ; but he was convinced that the 
circumftance he had mentioned, was of a 
nature to warrant the Houfe, in requiring 
from his Majefty’s Minifters, an explana- 
tion of the light in which they viewed the 
fubject. | 
The Chancellor of the Exchequer faid,, 
that Government had received no regular 
official information of the armament hav- 
ing failed from Bret for the Weft Indies ; 
but that fuch an event had actually taken 
place, there remained no doubt. In the 
prefent pofture of affairs, he was perfuad- 
ed the Houte did not expect him to ex- 
plain whether any communication on the 
fubject had taken place between the Go- 
verament 
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