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LEGHORN, March i.
Jnfurre Elion in Sardinia.
A Canon and Curate of Saflari, in
Sardinia, who have made their cfcapc
from the troubles in that island, gave the
following details :
The people of Cagliari, having mnf
facred the general of the troops, as well
as the*lntcndant general of finances, cre
ated a provifionary council of govern
ment. They difiniflcd all the foreign
ers in office, and only admitted the troops
to remain in the island, who took oath
tof obedience t* the chief, elefted by the
people.
They sent deputies to the king of
Sardinia, to claim the rights and privi
leges of the Sardinians.
Thcfe deputies ha ing returned dif
tniffed with their million, the people re
solved upon a revolution. The vice
roy was received in truth, but he was
not fuffered to exercise his authority.
The popular council continued, and
Hill continue to regulate every thing ;
the inhabitants of the towns in the intc
ridr Os the island took up arms, and re
fufed to obey the orders es the Viceroy.
The town of Onatona adopted the fame
measures; so that the town of Saflari
alone remained attached to the ancient
government.
The Governor, the Arch-Bilhop,
and the Nobility of Saflari, united to
oppose theinfurgents*and twice the duke
of Afinara, by dint of money, appealed
the popular tumult, which tended to a
complete revolution. At length the
lawyer Mondi, repaired to Cagliari,
and having conferred with the mal con
tents, returned to Saflari, and persuaded
the inhabitants of the country parts to
fecondhis projcHs.
These inhabitants, to the number of
twelve thousand, appeared under the
walls of Saflari, and tried to force one
of the gates of the town ; but being re
jwlfcd, they leid waste all the ncigbour
ing country.
Nevertheless, the governor fearing
that the people, who had hitherto re
mained Ample fpedators, would finilh
by taking part in the insurrection, pro
posed to admit the besiegers into the
town, and carried his point againit the
archbifliop, clergy and nobility. The
insurgents were no sooner in town, than
they arrested the governor and arehbi
ffiop, and sent them to Cagliari.
_ More than 40 families quitted Sa(Ta
ri, and the people adopted the fame form
of government as at Cagliari. The
hopes of the inhabitants wiio have taken
no part in the revolution, rely upon the
English, who are to fend fome regiments
on board a ftiip of the line coming Irom
Leghorn.
BASLE, March 9,
We have just learnt the molt impor
tant news Irom a correspondent, who
informs us exactly of every thing which
palfes. He writes to us that Baron
Jngleftrom, who arrived lately from
London, has been for fome time in Pa
ris, and is now on his way to Vienna.
It is believed, that he had fome confer
ences with Mr. Pitt on the fubjed of
peace; the result of which he has made
known to the French government;
It is said, that Mr. Pitt gave him to
understand, that England would consent
to the disunion of Belgium ; but that
he infills upon an indemnification for tne
expences of the war, viz. Corsica, the
Cape of Good Hope, and the Dutch
ellablifhments in the East Indies ; to .
which the French government will nev
er accede.
CONSTANTINOPLE, Feb. r.
A squadron of fix or eight Ihips is
ready to fail to bring home the Asiatic
tributes, and protgft the Turkilh merch
antmen trom any accidents, in confe
rence of the appearance of English and
r rench fquadron* in the Archipelago.
All the palaces of the foreign minis-
Jirs, the houles of the principal Franks,
will remain lhut in consequence of the
plague, the fy inptoms of which ft ill ap
pear : between ao and 30 bodies have
been, carried through Pera, the port of
Adrianople, in the courfc of leveral days.
French officers, Engineers, arrive here
ahnolt every day.
MADRID, February 20.
V c are affiired that two Englilhmen
now here are charged with powers to
treat with France under the mediation
oi his Catholic Majtfty. I t j s added,
all L W . h ? CVCr P relimi ™rics are ligned,
t i ng son ;r re to ** dismantled, excep-
T , B^U^ E LLEs7 M arch 16.
I he head-quarters of the army of the
Kambr, and W have been removed
-cm bonne to Cologne, which is a
Columbian £&♦
more centrical situation for the military
operations which are about to take place
ort the right bank of the Rhine.
They left Cologne on the 12th inlb.
and on the fame day Gen. Jourdan set
out for DuiTeldorff, whither upwards of
20,000 men have received orders to re
pair with ail possible diligence. This
order appears to have been occasioned
by the movement of the Austrians, who
have left their camp in front of the Lahn,
aifd have advanced towards Siegbourg.
Every day large bodies of the enemy's
troops are perceived, from the left bank
of the Rhine, commg down from the
mountains, and collecting on the left
bank of the Sieg.
It seems to be the intention of the
Austrians to open the campaign by an at
tack on the entrenched camps at Ober
blick and Dufleldcrff. This last town,
and the tort hied lines eftabiilhed for its
protection, i-hich torm in front of it a
complete crefeent, the two extremities
of which extend to the Rhine, are in a
refpeCtable llate of defence, and capable
of making a long and effectual refinance.
It is confide red as certain, that hos
tilities will commence before the end of
March.
Different corps of troops which were
on their march for Coblentz and Treves,
have received orders to return* and to
proceed to Crevelt.
They are about to draft all the best
troops, horse and foot, from the nine
new departments, in order to fend them
to the Lower Rhine. Some of thcfe
have been feleded, and are already on
their march.
Sr. BRIEUX, March 5.
The {late of the department of the
Cotes-du-Nord, is very critical. The
Chouans are committing new ravages
extending their conquests there—spread
ing far a,id near the desolation of rnaffa
cres, without our being able to oppose
to them fuflreient numbers of troops. In
vain do we ask troops from government
—-in vain to our Conftjtuted Authori
ties declare, that without the speediest
fuccours, we shall fee this country be
come anew La Vendee. Our claims
leem loit in the space which divides us
irom the centre of authority.
We are in w ant of xo or 12,000 men,
in order to eflabiilh every where strong
cantonments ; and we have scarcely more
than between 1500 and 2000 men.
When, then, will government ieriouily
take our dangers into consideration
Every day, we have to groan over a
murder, which is accompanied by the
moll atrocious circumiiances. The
sworn priests, the known friends of the
revolution, the purchasers of national
property, are fucceliively pillaged and
afiaiiiaated. The despair of the latter is
lo strong, that, in order to escape from
their murderers, they hasten to make
fltam falcs, restoring to the priests, to
the relations of the emigrants, the eilates
which they had brought.
The villages are uninhabited. The
Chouans, who for a long time had laid
waste only the frontiers of our depart
ment, make great progresses ; they ad
vance to the centre, and threaten to de
vour the whole, as they havedorfe with
Morbihaiu
This country will be annihilated, if
we do not receiveipeedy reinforcements;
if, before the fine ieafon arrives, we have
no troops to prevent the lpreading of
the emigrants and soldiers, which Eng
land will never ceafc attempting to throw
on our coast.
The other diftriHs, formerly called
Bretons, viz. that of Lannion, of Guin
garnp, and of Bontneux, have hitherto
prelervcd whnquility ; thanks to the
energy and the vigilance of the towns,
and the good conduct of the country
people; but at present they are invaded’;
the diltria ot Guingamp has already
been the theatre of different ailinations.
A gang of emigrants, commanded by a
certain Delangie, have advanced as far
as the diilrkt ot Pontrieux, and have
ttript the farmers of this ci devant count
who had bought a part of his estate.
LONDON, April 3.
From Last Night’s Gazette.
rvr H° r f e -Gut*rds t March 3 1.
Diipatches from Major-General Stu
commanding his Majesty’s and the
halt-Inoia Company’s troops In the isl
and of Ceylon, dated Trincomale, Oc-
Eave been received by
the Right Honorable Henry Dundas,
one of his Majesty’s principal secreta
ries ot state ; by which it appears that
the Fort of Batticaloe, in that Island,
furrendcred on the 18th of September,
to a detachment under the command of
Major r rafer, of the 72 regiment. That
on the 24th ot the fame month, General
Stuart embarked from Trincomale, with
* coi.fidcrable detachment of troops and
artillery, onboard of the Centur. m
of war, the Bombay frigate, the
bay store-ship, and the Swalle l
John packets, and on the 27th, <
barked the troops at Point Pedeo,
twenty-four miles from JafFnapat.
which important place he took
fion on the following days. TJ
the ift of October, Capt. Page,
majesty’s ship Hobart, with a p
the std regiment, under the con:
of the Hon. Capt. Monfon, on the
turn from Point Pedeo to F rinct
took pofleffion of the Fadfory and
tary post of Molletivoe; and that <
pth of the fame month, the fort an
and of Manaf furrendcred to Capt.
burr, whom General Stuart had and
ed on that service, with the flan’
panies of the 72d regiment ar. *
companies of Sepoys* imraediar
his havjng obtained polfeffion <
napatam.
From the London Gazette, M j.
Admiralty-Office, March
A dispatch, of which the folk is a
copy, has been received at dice
from Sir John Boilafe ren,
Eart, K. B.
La Pomone, Falmouth, Mar 1796.
SIR,
I beg leave to inform y . on the
isthinft. in consequence ‘ .etter to
their lordships from Fa? 1, I flood
over to the French coaii march of the
Artois, who joined me c the 18th; and
on the 20th, at day-Break, having dis
covered from the mast-head several fail
of veffelsin theS. S. E. the Saints bear
ing N. N. E. three or four miles, j
made the signal to thedquadron under my I
command, for a general chace, and upon
our nearer approach perceived them lo I
be a convoy of the enemy fleering in for |
the land. At ten A. M. being up with I
part of the merchant (hips, captured four, I
and ordered the Valiant Lugger to pro
ceed with them to the nearest port, I I
continued in pursuit of the men of war; I
who were forming in line a-hcad to I
windward, and kept working to come I
up with the enemy, who I soon perceiv- I
ed were endeavoring to preserve their I
distance from us, and to avoid an aftion,
by their tacking at the fame time with I
our Ihips ; but being at length arrived I
within half gunfliot to lee ward, the two j
squadrons engaged, and pafled each oth- J
er tipcin opposite tacks. Immediately j
upon our fternmoft ship being clear of j
the enemy's line, I made the signal to J
tack and gain the wind, which, by mak- I
ing a very short board on the starboard I
rack, was obtained ; perceiving them I
rallying round the Commodore ctofe in I
shore, and beginning to form again, I J
made the signal for our’s in clofc order, J
to endeavor to break their line, by cut- I
ting off the rear (hips, and directed the J
Galatea to lead down for that purpose ; I
but tnc enemy bore away, and made all 1
fail poflibie from us, and flood into the j
narrow part of the Raz de Fontenay
among the rocks ; I was, however, ena
bled to cut off their rear ship. Night j
approaching, and being unacquainted I
with the pallage, I did not think it prop- I
er to continue the pursuit further, at the j
risk of losing fome of our (hips in so dis- j
ficult a pass.
I have every reason to be convinced, J
from the firm support and zeal I have I
always experienced from the officers and I
men of every ship of the squadron under J
my command, that the ifiue of the con- 1
test would have been more complete if j
the enemy had been disposed to give
them an opportunity of trying their
force. I
I have enclosed an account of the ene
my’s force, together with the veflels of I
the convoy taken ; and a lift of the kil- |
led and wounded on board his Majesty’s J
ihips, whose damages I fliall make all j
dispatch possible in repairing; I have I
the honor to remain, Sir,
Your moft obedient humble servant, I
(Signed) John Bor l a s e War re n. |
Evan Nepean, Esq. bV. &c. bfr.
Authentic Communication. I
STEPHEN LAVEAUX,
General in chief, Governor of St. Do- 1
mingo, and
HENRY PERROUD,
Ordonator of the Colony,
To the U. States, commercial towns, I
the Merchants and Captains of the I
Continent ot America and the Dan- j
ifh I Hands.
Cape s the General, fourth I
Jtar of the French Republic I
one and mdlftjible.
Citizens and friends,
The accounts of the great events that I
have just taken place at St. Domingo, |
will undoubtedly have reached you with j
speed. Wicked and corrupted people 1
cannot have failed to represent you the j
matter under tlft colours which their I
malice and atrocity never ceases to make
use of. They will eveii have inspired
you with diftrufl in order toarreft your
commercial operations with us, and re
duce us a second time, to the formed
state of want, out of which we hadal
ready emerged by your aid. But,
Citizens and Friends,
We hasten to pre-engage a sensible
and generous people againit the effefts
of envy and calumny ; to destroy by
j everlathng truths the fatal impressions
which so many accumulated horrors
might provoke against: the dearest i n _
terefts you have in St. Domingo.
Let no! the impure breath of all vi
ces collected under the lhape of prudence”
afted your tranquility ; repel far from
you ctaft and falfehood ; let your con
fidence in the Republicans of St. Do.
mingo be unbounded.
France will pass a vote of thanks to
j you and the cultivators of the colony
will redoubk their industry in order to
I difeharge what tl;ey owe you.
Horrible outrages have indeed been
J committed against the rep refen tatives of
I the French nation. The firft authori
ties of St. Domingo, the only persons
J entrulled with the powers of the French
people to govern the colony have been
torn from the helm of government
dragged, abused, ill treated and thrown
into dungeons like real criminals, and
I the vmuous men who were attached to
| them in consequence of their funfrions
shared the fame fate.
I horde of iadious people and in-
I triguers, ungrateful men loaded with
crimes have done all thcfe horrid ads,-
altho’ France had heaped up benefits
upon them.
A horrible profeription extending tn
all the white people was already pro
nounced in all the quarters of the colony
& its deftrudion was about to be effeded,
but when on a sudden, the true people,
the real friends of order, and general
| liberty, the faithful fubjeds of the
| French Republic, rose up in amass and
! ft 1 fled in its birth, the disastrous mon
! er : Anarchy and rebellion :
. The true republicans, the african cul
tivators were struck with the horror of
that outrage and haflened to join in
mass, in arms, in order to take off our
fetters without leaving to the ambitious
criminals more time than they wanted
to escape the arm of vengeance.
The whole plain of the North in St.
Domingo was already reviving from its
ashes and a great part or the habitations
rebuilt under our eyes began to rc-ain
their former latitude. The freemen
who cultivated the foil enjoyed in peace
the fruits of their labor, and no day pas
sed but they lifted up their hands to
Heaven, and returned thanks to the
Almighty for the sacred rights which
France has redo red to them.
These very men so gentle and peacea
ble at their refpedive homes became fu
rious, when they heard of our being
arrested. All in amass and led on by
virtuous and intrepid chiefs, they fam
moned the town ot the Cape to restore
them to the Repreientatives of th*
French nation and their Fathers; eiie
that town would again be reduced to
allies, and thole contained in arresting
us, should be put to the sword.
The intrepid Touffaint Louve'rture,
this man without his equal, to whom
St. Domingo and its conllituted autho
rities owe their iafety, has just been
made an afliftant in Governmental op
erations under the title of Lieut. Go
vernor.
We are three representative heads,
forming three strong columns, whereon
you may with fafety cilablifh the conti
nuance of your Commerce. Here all
tne means of guarantee, as far as lays in
our power to promise are exprefled, and
you ought to rely thereon.
1 he wish of the whole republican ar
my diiperfed in different quarters, the
consent cf all the united municipalities,
the union ot all the brave generals and
commanders who with their troops have
broke out chains; in short all the legal
authorities, demand earnestly the return
ot good order, fubmifiion to the laws, /
refpeft to the chiefs and proteftion to
the commerce of neutral nations.
All those brave cultivators have re
commenced their works; the earth con
tinues without interruption to g. row fer
tile under their hands.
T hereforc we entreat you in the name
of the French Republic, which has al
ways been your friend to expedite ves
sels to us; the explosion which we have
just gone through renders our operations
fafer than ever. You will fee that at
no former period you have traded with
as on a more certain and secure bafi3
than at this new epoch.
Health and prefperity,
Stephen Lavaux, I
Henrv Peuouo.
No. 27.