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106 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.