1606 * 
having been captured by the privateers 
from that ifland. The leader of the rebels 
is a Mulatto, named Pelago, formerly a 
flave at Martinique. In-1792, when La- 
crefie, the exiled Commander in Chief, 
inftigated the Negroes to rife againft their 
mafters, Pelago afiaflinated his miftreis, 
that he might plunder her treafures. In 
the next difturbances he commanded a 
company of Mulattoes. He afierwards 
enjoyed the confidence of Rochambeau, 
and defended, with the greateft courage, 
one of the redonprs of the Fort Bourbon, 
when the Englith attacked it. According 
to the lait advices, the Negroes were on 
the eve of joining the Mulattoes, and a 
general convulfion was apprehended. 
AMERICA. 
New York Papers up to the 25th of 
December g:ve us the proceedings of the 
Houfe of Reprefentatives to the 18th, but 
nothing cf moment had taken place, ex- 
cept 2 motion to repeal the. acts impofing 
the difcriminating duties between mer- 
ehandize imported in American, and mer- 
chandize imported in foreign veilels.. The 
motion, however, was not decided on the 
r7th. The French. Treaty was laid be- 
tore the Senate onthe 14th, but firangers 
were excluded upon the dilcuwffion that fel- 
lowed. <A letter from the Agent of the 
United States in Sc. Domingo, dated the 
xoth of Novemher,. itates, (hat tranquil- 
lity was reftercd in rhat ifland. 
A report uponthe finances of the United 
States was made to Congrefs on the 18th 
of December, by which it appears, that 
the permanent expences of the State 
amounted to about 3,500,000 dollars, 
which fum, deduéted from the eftimated 
revenue of 10,600,000 dollars, Jeaves a 
fum of 7,100,000 doilars annually appli- 
cable to the payment of intereft and re- 
demption of the principal of the public 
debt. As this eitimate was made upon 
a period of war, the faving by the 
pezce upon freight, &c. is ettimated at 
200,000 dollars annually. Therefore the 
annual furplus applicable may be confi- 
dently eftimated at 7,300,00c0 dollars. 
The debt of the United States on the firft 
of January laft, amounted to 77,881,390 
dollars, and 29 cents, or better than fix- 
teen millions fterling. 
‘ GREAT BRITAIN. 
Some fpeedy change in Adminiftration 
is daily expected, but the negotiations 
which’ have hitherto been carried on have 
in general proved abortive. Mr. Grey, 
it 3s faid, has ab/olutely declined; when 
applied to, the terms upon which he in- 
hited were a Reform in the Regrefentative 
3 
State, of Public Afairs in February, 1802. 
[March 1, 
Body, together with feveral other amend- 
ments. of minor confequence. The latter 
were all acceded to him, but Mr. Ad- . 
dington peremptorily refufed the former 
article: this, however,» in Myr. Grey’s 
opinion, an opinion to which he has been 
permanently attached from the commence- 
ment of his political life, was an article — 
which he couid not relinguith, although, 
as to individual meatures, he means to ex- ° 
cite no oppofiiion, excepting in cafes of 
palpable impropricty. We underitand 
that the conduct of Mr. Giey has been 
followed by the mere tried and prominent . 
characters among the old Whigs. 
Mr. Pitt, 1t-is well known, is. daily 
falling in the eftimation cf every party 
whatever, in proportion as the character 
of his incoherent, unfyftematic, and faral 
adminiftration is coolly and impartially 
ftudied. ! 
‘The Houfe of Commons met on the 2d 
of February, purfuant to adjournment. 
There was fome curiofity in the public to 
know whether any thing would take 
place to throw light on the prefent ftate 
ot affairs. No queftion was afked, no- 
thing o¢curred to,call for any important 
explanation relative to the Definitive 
Treaty. Mr. Canning, afked a queflion 
of the Minifter re{peéting the fale of the 
King’s lands in the Weft Indies, as con- 
netted with the. fupply for the civil lift 
which is to. be propoled. Mr. Canning 
gave the Houfe to underfiand that he meant 
to object to the fale in queftion, as it mutt 
be upon fuch terms as would make the 
proceeds. comparatively nothing. After 
this, {ome converfation took place between. 
the Chancellor of the Exchequer and Mr. 
Jones, about the Income tax. Mr. Jones 
talked of a motion he had intended to 
bring ‘forward for the repeal of it; and 
the Chancellor of the Exchequer faid, the 
. matter might come under the confideration 
of Members in bringing forward the Ways - 
and Means, but that he wifhed to be un- 
derftood as at prefent giving no direét or 
implied pledge of propofing the repeal of 
the Income-tax. 
Mr. Shaw Lefevre, on the 15th of Fe- 
bruary, prefented a petition, which he faid 
was figned by upwards of 200 perfens 
concerned in the bovktelling and printing 
bufinefs in this metropolis, ftating, that 
in confequence of a late A&ét of Parlia- 
ment, impofing an additional duty upen 
paper and mill board, their interefis wcre 
materially affected ; that the duty fell di- 
reGtly on their capital, and but flowly en 
the public, as they were obliged, upen | 
every publication, to pay the duty He | 
the 
