1802, J . 
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Peri ae SPR I hry 1 : 
STATE OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS, 
In March, 1802. 
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FRANCE. 
UROPE at large feems diffatisfied with 
many of the late meafures of the 
Chief Conful, particularly his acquifition 
of the ifland of Elba from Tufcany, and 
his eleétion to the Prefidency of the Italian 
Republic; but the diflatisfaétion will pro- 
bably.terminate for the prefent in empty 
murmurs. 
The. French Minifter of Police, Fouché, 
has fent a letter toa Prefect of one of the 
departments (a fimilar letter in all pro- 
bability, has been fent to every other Pre- 
fet) relative to the emigrants. - The 
ftriéteft vigilance is enforced with refpect 
to them ; ‘‘and though my inftruétions 
upon. this ‘fubjeé&,” fays the Minifter, 
‘« havealways been fo precife as to render it 
Mnneceflary to add any thing to them at 
prefent, ic is proved that it is not ufelefs to 
Fepeat them.” »._ 
~.. The French. Government havemade un- 
common efforts to complete the remainder 
of the armament, which they have deftined 
to. the Welk Indies.. Spain and Holland 
have beep, rendered tributary to this im- 
portant Bure 09, hotwithftanding the 
different, ,fquadrons which have failed 
from various. ports of France, Spain, and 
‘Holland, there is another expedition for 
Guadaloupe, preparing at Breit, fo that 
the plan for the reftoration of order on the 
other fide of the Atlantic is executing 
with a promptnefs and vigour which, are 
likely to infure it fuccefs. 
The French, Journals received on the 
z8th of March contain difpatches. from 
General Lecletc and Admiral Villaret of 
- the. gth of February, with full details re- 
{peéting the. expedition to St. Domingo, 
where it,has. been neceflary to ufe force 
againft Touffaint, notwithftanding the 
fuppofed underftanding between theFrench 
Government and the Negro-chief. From 
thefe dipatches it appears, that when the 
fquadron. arcived. off Guadaloupe, they 
learned toe events that had occurred there, 
and thence the General and Admiral, fear- 
ing. oppofition, concerted meafures accord- 
ingly. The iailors and troops were fepa- 
rated-into three divifions—the firft under 
the orders of Rear-admiral Latouch, to 
debark at Port-au-prince a corps of the’ 
army, the command of which the General 
in Chief gave to General Rauder ; the {e- 
cond to ferve under the orders of Captain 
Magon ; to debark at the Bay of Mance- 
vile, the divifion of General Rocham- 
beau, and to (econd his a.tack upon Fort 
MontuLy Mac. No. 85. 
Dauphin ; the reft of the naval force, and 
the forces that General Leclerc had re. 
ferved, to the Cape and the neighbouring 
quarters, the moit important points in the 
colony. ) 7 
General Rochambeau, on the 2d of Fe- 
bruary, debarked at Maloniere, and was 
oppofed by a crowd of Blacks, who were 
however foon difperfed, and the army took 
poffeffion of Fart Liberty, where they 
found 150 pieces of cannon; and, among 
the papers of the place, the orders of 
Touffaint, to fink all thips that might ap- 
pear, and to hold out to the laf. ~ ; 
On the 1ft of February, Leclerc, Ge- 
feral in Chief, and the Admiral, with the 
greateft part of the army and navy, arriv- 
ed off the battery of Picolet. A cutter 
approaching it, received the whole force 
\of the battery. A Mulatto, named San- 
gos, exercifing the office of Captain of the 
Port at the Cape, went, however, on 
board the Ocean, the Admiral’s fhip : ‘but, 
inftead of confenting to pilot her into the 
_ Cape, he declared that the Black General 
Chriftophe had ordered him to acquaint 
the Commander, that the Whites would 
be maffacred, and the city fet on fire, the 
inftant the {quadron attempted the har- 
bour, if the French. refufed to wait the 
return of a courier, whom he had fent to 
Tooffaint Louverture. The General in 
Chief, Leclerc, withed to write to Chrif- 
tophe, to inform him of the friendly inten- 
tions, of the Chief Conful, and to attempt, 
to bring him back to his duty, by explain- 
ing what was due to a foldier and a 
Frenchman. Enfign Lebrun‘was charged 
with this delicate miffion; the Captain of 
the Rort was kept on board; and the fcet 
Stood off and on, On the 4th, Enfien 
Lebrun brought back the anfwer of Ge- 
neral Chriftophe, containing an abfolute 
refufal to receive the army, and a pofitive 
refolution to burn the city, in cafe the 
French perfifted. Chriftophe had formal- 
ly declared that he would receive no ofders 
but from Touffaint. A deputation. of 
the inhabitants of the Cape went alfo on 
board the French Admiral, begging him 
to defift, as the city would be otherwife 
cefroyed. In the mean time, the twenty- 
four hours requefted for the anfwer of Touf- 
faint elapfed, while all private accounts 
agreedthat he was in the city, or at leat 
in the neighbourhood, the invifible {pring 
of all the movements that had taken place, 
The General in Chiefthen fent back the - 
deputation, ordering the Mayor to readto 
‘ la ee his 
