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Ee - State'of Public Affairs in March, 1801. [April 1. 
Mr. Jefferfon, who had New York, New without a parallel in the annals of Britith, . 
Jerfey, Pennfylvania, Virginia, North Ca- 
rolina, Georgia, Kentucky, and Tennefle. 
Mr. Burr had New Hampfhire, Mafia- 
chufetts, Conneéticut, Rhode Ifland, De- 
laware, and South Carolinas Vermont 
and Maryland were divided. 
EAST INDIES. 
By accounts at the India Houfe, on the 
6th March, though not official, there is 
fome reafon to fuppofe that the Englifh 
had taken Batavia, the valuable Dutch 
fettlement in the Eaft Indies ; it was cap- 
tured by the {quadron of Admiral Rainier. 
/This intelligence, which was broughr by 
-an American veffel, arrived at New York, 
obtained confiderable credit in the city. 
It has alfo the fanction, we underfiand, of 
fome private letters, brought by the latt 
overland difpatch. + di) 
An article, under the head of Paris, in 
the Moniteur of the roth of March, fays, 
that letters received there from India, 
mention, that the Mahrattas bad declared 
waragazintt the Englifh, and that feveral 
actions had already taken place. 
GREAT BRITAIN. 
The principal bufinefs of the Imperial 
Parliament, after the report of the Bud- 
get, has been as follows: 
' Mr. Sturt,,on the roth of February, 
rofe and faid, he wifhed only that the 
feelings of the country might be appeafed 
refpecting the expedition to Ferrol; he 
prefied for inquiry, becaufe he telt con- 
vinced that the honour of the Briuifharms 
rendered fuch inquiry effentially necefiary. 
‘That blaine attached fomewhere, no can- 
did obferver, who had directed his atten- 
tion to the fubject, would attempt to con- 
trovert. After lying three months ina 
ftate of inaftion, off Quiberon, the fqua- 
dron ordered to act againft Ferrol, pro- 
ceeded to its place of deftination. The 
landing was eficéted under the moft aufpi- 
cious circumftances ; our troops attained 
poffeffion of the heights which commanded 
the town ;—the reduéiioa of Ferrol was 
deemed an event certain, not of difficult 
accomplifhment; the troops gave three 
cheers according to wonted cuttom, and 
the principal officer of the engineers con- 
gratulated the commander on the triumph 
of his arms, pledging himfelf to put him 
in poffeffion of the town within lefs than 
two hours, at the rifque of but an hundred 
men at the utmoft; when fuddenly, orders 
were given to the troops to lie down under 
a ftone wall, from which flation they did 
not rife again, till the trumpet feunded a 
vetreat. Surely this was a.cafe almoft 
warfare. Our troops received the orders. 
for retreat with fymptoms of the moft 
marked and lively indignation. A {fpirit 
of general difpleafure, falling little fhore 
of dire&t mutiny, manifefted. itfelf on the 
occafion. Colonel Stewart was unfortu- 
nately wounded early in an a&ion he had: 
with a few of the Spaniards, or ultimate-, 
ly he would have taken poffefion of the. 
town. When the fleet arrived at Lifbon, 
it was known, as.a fact, that the greateft 
confternation had pervaded the whole place; 
that the municipality were fummoned in, 
order to confider of the propriety of fur- 
rendering it. It, therefore, was necef- 
fary to go inte a committee, in order that 
the itigma might be removed from the ar- 
my and navy coricerned in the expedition. 
When the general held a council of war, 
the oficer commanding the engineers was, 
nor calied ; this was another ftrong reafon 
for the inquiry; if he was not fummoned,, 
why was no caufe given.. There was one 
fhip of 112 guns, two of 1005 one. of 84, - 
and two of 743 36 fail of inferior metal, 
a conliderable nnmber of merchantmen,— 
in the whole, 88 fail of fhips, which might 
have fallen into our hands, if the proper. 
fteps had-been purfued. The general muft, 
then have fome ftrong reafonfor retreat- 
ing. Mr. Sturt. then read an extract from. 
another letter, fimilarin detail, and which 
ftated, that Lord Cavan. would have im-. 
mortalized himfelf, if his advice had been 
taken. He concluded by moving, ** That 
this Houfe do refolve itfelf into-a com- 
mittee of the whole Houfe, to inquire into: 
the caufes of the failure of the expedition to 
Ferrol.”? Sir James Pulteney faid, from. 
what he faw himfelf, and from the obferva- 
tions of the other officers, he could not 
eftimate the number of the enemy. within: 
and without the town at lefs than 6000 
men. Ferrol was defended on three fides 
by three branches of the river, and on the 
fourth was ftrongly fortified, in the mo-' 
dern manner, wich fix bafions, five ra- 
velins, a curtain, and a ftone wall, the. 
accefs to which, on the fame fide, was 
rendered difficult by avidge of rocks of. 
great height. Of the hazard of any at- 
tempt to take it immediately he had then 
no doubt; and his opinion was fince con- 
firmed by the Spanith official account,’ 
figaed by the commanding officer, and by 
the maritime prefect of France. From the 
accounts of the trcops im that! paper, it _ 
appeared that the garrifon was at firft com-. 
poted of at leaft 4,500 troops, which, be=: 
ing reinforced the next day, from. Corun- 
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