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November laf, a body of natives, headed 
by two of the Nova Scotia infurgents, 
who had effected their efcape after the in- 
furrection of the former year, made an af- 
fault on the unfinifhed fort in which the 
government- houfe was fituated. After 
file lofs of men had been faftained on 
both fides, the aflailants were repulfed ; 
and they have fince been forced to with- 
draw from the fituation they occupied in’ 
the immediate neighbourhood of the colo- 
ny. A truce had been cencluded when 
the lat accounts came away ; but it was‘ 
conceived that the chiefs engaged in the 
attack, who were entirely of the Timma- 
ney nation, were endeavouring to gai a 
over people of other nations to their 
by exciting areong them an apprehenfon of 
the confequences of the growing ‘power 
of the Sierra Leone fetilement. 
About fixty-five additional Britith 
troops had arrived trom pet and one 
of his M ajefty*s fhips of way remained In 
Sierra Leone river, for the purpofe of pro- 
tecting the colony. Some friendly chiefs 
had fent’a large force to Freetown; but 
the Gevernment, unwilling to niiccnehid it. 
felf with the expence of maintalving them, 
and net wifhing to employ in its defe.ce 
allies of this defcription, uniefs there 
fhould be a ftrong neceflity for it, had-al- 
lowed them to return home. 
No immedizte dinger to the. fettlement 
was apprehended ; but a necefiity is (tated 
toexift for the maintenance of an Europe: 
an force, for the com pletion alf of the 
fort, and for the enlargement of the annual 
expences of the Company’s eftablifhmentr. 
‘The fum of gocol. per annum, which nas 
been already twice voted in Parliament, 
has been far from fufficient to fupply the 
whole annua! expence of prot teéting and 
maistaining the fettlement. 
(To-be continued.) 
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For ihe Monthly Magazine. 
ANALYSIS of G# HISTORICAL ESSAY ¢# 
caufe, 
the COMMERCE and NAVIGATION of 
the BLACK SEA, by M. PEUCHET. 
HE firft remark made by the reader 
on perufing this work is, that it is 
not fo dry as books which treat of fuch 
fubje&ls in general are. The author, who 
appears to be wel sinformed on the fub- 
jets of which he fpeaks, has had the art 
to attach fo much intereft to the dry de- 
tails of commerce, as torender it an amu- 
fing publication. He gives an account, 
and in a manner equally pleafing and in- 
tructive, of the voyages and enterprifes 
On the Commerce and Navigation of the Black Sea. 
[May I, 
undertaken conformably tothe ufeful pro- 
jets which he conceived, and in a great 
meafure executed, for uniting Roffia and 
France by the bonds of a commierce active 
and advantageous. 
It was by 1 means of the Black Sea and- 
the Mediterranean that the author-of the 
Hiftoricali Effay judicioufly thought this 
communication ought to be attempted ; 
and from the facts and reafons which he 
fates, it appears that the courfe of things 
mult not only produce this revolution in 
the commerce of the South, but that each 
of the two empires is deeply interefted in 
its completion, and that the refpeétive na- 
tions may expect from it the moit-benefi- 
cial refults. 
To render’this truth more ftrik: ing, we 
fhall follow the author through the ac- 
count of his labours, his veyages, and his 
projects. It will furnifh us with an oce 
cafion of colleCiing, by the way, facts and 
information, conneéted in more than one 
refpe& with the profperity of the trade and 
commercial marine of France. 
If we caft our eyes ona map of the- 
fouthern part of Ruffia and the northern 
provinces of the Turkifh empire, we fhail 
{ze two extenfive pulphs or inland feas ; 
the fir, called the Black Sea, and known 
to the ancients by the name of Pontus 
Euxinus, is connected with the fecond, or 
Sca of Azof, formely Palus Mzeotiis, 
by the freight of Taman, bkewile deno- 
inated the Cimmerean Bofphorus.—« 
Thefe feas were once the centre of an im- 
menfe trade, efablithed by the Egyptians 
and the Phoenicians. After their example 
they were navigated by the Greeks ; and’ 
according to the learned refearches of M. 
Formalecn, the celebrated fleet of the Ar- 
gonauts, conducted by Tafon, was equip- 
ped to penetrate into the Black Sea, and 
to proceed on an expedition to its eaflern 
ccalts. In the fequel the Greeks made 
fr equent voyages to thefe parts, and were 
Imitated by the Romaas. From the lat- 
ter the commerce of the Black Sea was 
trarsterred to the Greeks of the Eafern 
Fee The Genoefe raifed it for the 
fpace of acentury toa very high degree 
of fplendour, by makisg the Crimea the 
mart of their trade with Perfia and India 
by way of the Cafpian Sea: but they weve 
obliged, in 1476, to yield to the Turks — 
this theatre of their profperity. The Ot- 
tomans having become fule maft-rs of the 
coaits which border thefe two feas, cloled 
the entrance of them againft other nations 5 - 
and thefe regions which commerce fors— 
merly rendered fo flourifhing, being coms 
