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wood to wood; and twenty times he me 
on the pont of being put to death. - On 
the 29th of March Touflaint fent for him, 
complained of the difagreeable ftate of 
things, and fent him back with letters. 
The commander in chief complains of the 
troops being fent without arms, and the 
want of packets. He wifhes carpenters, 
mafons, &c. to be fent out. © General 
Leclerc’s brother was the bearer of the dif- 
patches received from St. Domingo. Two 
thips, of 74. guns each, were to fail from 
Breft on the 18th of May, if the wind 
permitted, for that colony. It appears 
further that General Leclere has publithed 
an arrét, intimating that all French veffels 
arriving direétly from France, and loaded 
with French merc handife, fhould only pay 
the half of the duties on importation and. 
exportation paid by foreign veffels. 
The French government has paffed a 
decree, that flavery is to be re-eftablifhed 
in the ifland of St. Domingo, and re- 
fanéions the flave-trade, which it had 
abolifbed. 
Since the above, authentic intelligence 
has been received by the Moniteur of the 
13th of June, of the complete furrender 
of Touffaint, who has, probably, obtained 
favourable conditions for himfélf and his 
family. The conditions will, no doubt, 
be kept fecret. It is probaole,. however, 
that he may have preferved tome of the 
property which ‘he accumulated during 
his government of St. Domingo, Leclerc 
afferts, that, notwithftanding the violence 
and extent of the late devaftations, three 
fourths of the ifland have not received any 
damage. He juftifies the feverity of his 
proceedings againft the mafters of Ameri- 
can veffels and the conful of the United 
States, by obferving, that, although the 
figning of the preliminaries was known in 
America, fupplies of cannon, mufkets; 
and ammunition, were conftantly fent to 
the Negroes from that quarter. 
The re-eftablifhment of order in St. 
Domingo is an event that muft prove 
highly gratifying to the commercial inte- 
relts of this country. While a Negro g0- 
vernment, fo powerful as that formed by 
Touffaint, continued in that quarter, it 
was impoflible to confider our Welt India 
poffeffions but in a (tate of alarm and 
danger. Mr. Bryan Edwards was how- 
ever of opinion, that if the French fuc- 
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ceeded in fubduing the Negroes in St. Do- 
mingo, and reftoring the European afcen- 
dancy, it would be almoft impoffible to 
prevent them acquiring the dominion of 
the whole of the Weit Indies. 
An ‘infurreétion took place. in the 3th 
Weft India regiment, ftationed at Prince 
Rupert’s, Dominica. ‘The cauies affigned 
by the mutineers are various; but the 
having been obliged to work at the drain- 
ing of the {wam ps feems to have been the 
principal. It is faid that 100 whites have 
been killed in the infurre&tion. 
GREAT BRITAIN. 
A commercial treaty is now morethan ever 
likely to be fpeedily effected between this 
country and France ; M.Coquebert Mont- 
bret, Commiflary-general for Commercial 
Affairs at Amferdam, having been offici- 
ally appointed, and gazetted in the Moni- 
teur, for this important ftation. 
It has hitherto beena matter of national 
-boatt, that the Englifh, in the paft treaties 
of this defcription, have trenched very 
confiderably upon the commercial advan- 
tages of France, which her antecedent go- 
vernment, idly and abfurdly delpifing a 
commercial character, too readily relin- 
quifhed. Weare not, however, afraid of 
the afcendancy ftill remaining, in our fa-~ 
vour, provided only, that trade fhall not 
be put, on either fide, under too narrow 
fhackles.. With a free intercourfe, upon 
equal terms, both England and France 
may reciprocally enrich themfelves to the 
utmoft extent of their wifhes ; and almoft 
every Br apapment required is of a nega- 
tive, rather than of a pofitive, nature ; an 
arrangement to prevent harm from the in- 
terference of government on either fide, 
rather than to aff? and promote the vari- 
ous objects of traffic. It is plain that, on 
the one hand, France will infift upon the 
introduétion of her ftaple commodities, her 
wines and brandies, upon much eafier 
terms than are now ajlowed ; if, however, 
(with this concefiion) our manufaéturés 
fhall be freely admitted. into France, the 
paultry deficit in the wine-duties will be 
amply compenfated. Situated as we are, 
it is the undoubted policy of Great. Bri- 
tain to force her manufadiures into every | 
foreign market. It is thele, only which © 
give us a pre-eminence over other na- 
tions, and thefe only can fecure it. 
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