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GENOA, December 3T.
IT now appears to be certain, fiys our gazette, that
the African piratical powers will not be 1 offered much
longer to continue their depreciations. The hates of A
merica have already declared, that, instead of submitting to
a difgraceful tribute, they will fit out fome frigates for the
protection of their trade; and, it is generally afierted, that
English and French frigates, with flags of truce, have de
manded of the bev, in the name of their refpeClive nations,
i ft. That all slaves of those nations now in the hands
of the Tunisians shall beset at liberty.
2d. That all the corsairs shall be disarmed.
3d. That all European ships shall be peilnitted freely to
carry on their trade.
The fame demands have been made of all the piratical
slates of Barbary.
Brunru ’January 13. Letters from Semlin, of the
28th ult. bring the following circumflantial accounts of the
murder of the pacha of Belgrade, Muftapha:
“ Some days before this barbarous feene the Janiflaries
formally renounced their obedience, declaring, at the fame
time, that they would only acknowledge as their matter
him for whom they held Belgrade, of which he would soon
take pofleffion. All attempts of the pacha to gain over
fome of his numerous guards were in vain; and he remain
ed in this Bate of anxiety and dfflrefs till the 27th De
cember. which was the Taft day of his life. About 2in
the afternoon 3 of the boldest Janiflaries of the 300 who
guarded the entrance of the chamber of the pacha, with a
menacing voice, alked him, “ Where are your treafurest”
at the fame time putting a pittol to his breast. Scarcely
had the pacha filcntlv answered this question, by pointing
to fome coffers in the chamber, when he fell lifelcfs on the
ground, by the difeharge of the pittol in the hand of the
Janissary, who immediately cut off his head, and threw it
on a table which flood near him. After ti e murder, a
herald proclaimed through all the streets of Belgrade, by
order of the Janiflaries, that all the houses should be (hut
up, and the families remain quietly in them, except the
men able to bear arms, who ihculd repair armed to the
upper fort refs.”
Amjierdam, January 2. The French commissioners
who are gone out to St. Domingo with the Brett fleet have
it in charge to invite gen. Touflaint Louverture to collie
to France to take upon him an important office. Should
he,refufe, and not submit, he will be treated as an enemy
to the republic. The numerous land forces which are on
board the Breff fleet are not intended folelv for St. Do
mingo. hut the effeiling of fome other purposes; among
which is the taking pofleffion of Louifiaua, which has been
ceded by Spain to France.
If Touflaint Louverture consents to leave St. Domingo
it is intended to give him the place of a senator in France.
January 24. The fliip YValhington, capt. T. Liule,
arrived in the i'exel the 23d from New York, but in the
ftorni*t>f l id night (he Brack on the ground on the South
Will. In the fame florin was totally foil an American ‘hip
called the Franklin, from Philadelphia; a part of the cargo
lies on the I'exel ft ran 1. The road of the Texei is full of
floating pieces of wreck.
Hague, January 14. The coholufioh of the lift year
was unfortunately diitinguifhed by the breaking down of
the dykes, and by dreadful inundations; though Holland
is the natural bafon into which f.vo rivers difeharge thefri
fedves, the Meuse and the Rhine, the great precautions
which had been taken for several centuries pa ft leaned to
have removed all fear of their overflowing their banks; but
nothing could oppose the impetuolitv of their waves, quays,
dykes, and every thing else, were swept away. The south
of Holland has in particular fuffered very much; for many
years the inhabitants congratulated themselves on being
spired. The late inundations carried every where terror
?".d devastation; the land which separates Rotterdam and
G uida was one vast inundation, which seemed to have
given back that country to the lea, from which it was
gained by the incessant inuuftry of our ancestors. It is
impossible to calculate without terror the extent of cur
losses; mere than 6000 acres of land are under water.
Lyons, January 11. The firft consul arrived here at
9 this evening.
The conilituted authorities, 150 young men on horse
back, all the military corps, the prefects of the southern
departments, a coniiderable deputation from the Cifalpine
cosifulta, the ininiflers for foreign affairs and the interior,
and an ivnmeufe crowd of people, met the firft consul a
league from the city.
Pie arrived here amidfl the acclamations of all the citi
zens, who were transported to fie him among them. Great
numbers fat up all last night expecting his arrival. Through
out tl e whole of his journey lie received repeated teftiino
ljicis of the affection and confidence reposed in the govern
ment.
London , January 20. Yefierday morning five of the
mutineers, Alien, Taylor, Dixon, and Simmoncls, were
to he executed at Portfiuouth, in purfuaucc of orders re
ceived from the admiralty.
January 26. The dismissal of capt. fir Edward Ha
milton, of the Trent frigate, from his majesty’s service,
ibr leizing up a gunner and his crew into the shrouds, as
mentioned in cur paper of yetterday, rt fleets the highest
credit on the honor and impartiality of the gallant mem
br*s of the court martial which inflicted that fentcnce,
notv/ithftanduig t’iie eminent ftrvices of fir Edward on
many, occasions, but particularly the almost unparalleled
exploit of cutting out and recovering the Hennione fri
gate’. in spite of all the refittance of the Spanifn fort and
garrison. It is a pity that officers so capable of diftinguilh
i; g thenffelves by tlieir /kill’ and bravery, and, on that
account, so clear and valuable to their country, should dafli
ar.d ruin ail their future hopes of arriving at superior emin
ence by any batty aft of cruelty or injultice which would
tarnilh the luftre of ail their former achievements.
January 29. The final adjustment which, a few days
since, we announced had taken place, rtfpe&ing the long
pending claims made by individuals in this country against
potions in the United States, was a tranfiuftion which we
have since ah® ..lined to have been of even greater mo
ment titan v/e tnen Bated. The. demand made bv Britiih
iybjccts .for tluiie debt-, which were immediately the ob
ject in difipute, amounuu to about four millions funding,
i'fee ium which ran King, the American ambaflador, lias
contracted, on the part of the United States, to give, is :
600,0c0i. which is to be paid by inftalments of 200,000 b
every two years; without interett. A bargain so favorable
to the Americans, it cannot be supposed, would have been
•agreed to by this government, but from a conviction that
moft of the demands of Eiiufh fubjedfts were not well
founded.
January 30. The rnonopolifts in Paris are Hid to have
bought up all the wool they could find for sale in Spain,
bv which they are enabled to let their own price upon it.
This however is not surprising, nor is it the only way in
which the poor Spaniards have been fleeced by their re
publican allies.
By the Theresa frigate, which arrived yetterday at Ports
mouth from Malta, we learn, that lord Keith was with*,
his fleet at that iffand on the 29th of ‘November. Gen.
Hutchinson had reached Malta a few days before. A
deputation of the principal inhabitants of the iff and to our
government is arrived on board the Theresa, which is now
performing quarantine.
February 3. The death of lord Clare, mentioned in
our paper of yetterday, has caused several reports refpccl
ing changes in the law departments, fome giving the Irish
chancellorlhip to the fpeaker of the house of commons,
while others aff.gn it to fir Edward Law, our able attor
ney general. Avery lhort time however will decide this
fubjedt of doubt.
February 4. T he population of Cadiz, which formerly
amounted to 80,000 fouls, is reduced by the late epidemic
disease to 45,00 c. Several English commercial houses
are about to revive their efiablifbments in that citv.
February 8. The Lisbon mail of Saturday brings a
report of the dispersion and loss of several fliips of the fleet
which failed from Brett for St. Domingo.
Le Duquefne, of 74, citizen Querangal, and La Corne
lia, of 40, citizen Villemandrin, part of this fleet, and
full of troops, werefeparated from the admiral on the 26th
December, to the northward of Cape Finiffcrre, and put
into Cadiz on the 6th of January.
On the 16th ult. a brig arrived at Oporto from Balti
more, and reports that, on the 3d, in lat. 23. 5. long.
30. 8. (lie saw a fl.ip of the line, under French'colors,
with her malls by the board, and in great apparent and iff refs,
which was further expressed by fign.it guns. The brig
endeavored to approach her, but the lea ran 1b high, and
the wind blew lb fre'h, that, after devoting several hours
to the attempt, the was obliged to relinquilh it.
The Milbrooke schooner, which arrived at Lisbon on
the 21st ult. from Gibraltar, mentions a report to have
prevailed at Cadiz that several of the fleet had been loft.
We have now the iatisfaflion of being able to announce,
from undoubted authority, that the terms of tire definitive
treaty between this country and France are at length fin
ally agreed upon and concluded.
Indeed it is more than a week since this was the case,
but the official publication of the terms has be n delayed
from a vvilh on the wart of our government to improve the
provisions intended for the■ ft ad t holder, andalfo to arrange
l’ome points refpedtir.g Switzerland, before the ratification
be formally declared.
The public, however, may rely on what we Bate, that
every article reffedling this country is completely and fin
allv fettled.
The chief difficulty in the negotiation arefe from its
being 11 ongly urged by this government that Demerara
and Surinam should be declared tree ports for three years,
to enable the Britiih fubjecls who had fettled there the
more ealily to dilpcfe of their property, and to remit it
dircdl to this country.
Liverpool, January 25. On Thursday morning, be
tween 1 and 2 o’clock, the moft dreadful florin of wind a
rose fivnn the wettward ever remembered by the oldeit in
habitant of this town or neighborhood, and continued with
equal or increased violence until 3 o’clock in the afternoon,
in which many Hoops, fome laden, others in ball aft, were
funk at their anchors, between the O.J Dock quay and the
port; boats beaten to pieces on the beach, as well as large
cruft; the Hoop Peggy of Greenock, capt. M‘Lean, laden
with proviiions from Cork, was driven on (here near the
Half-niile-houff, where (lie went on her beam ends, and
soon filled with water; the crew, (6 in number) with a
gentleman and 6 loldiers, pafiengers, lalhed themselves to
the mail and rigging, and remained there a considerable
time, not 50 yards from the Ihore, in fight of many spect
ators, who in vain attempted relief, but were unable to af
ford any, from the violence of the. Bunn and tremendous
surge of the lea, and, melancholy to relate, the pilot, puf
fengers, and crew, were all unfortunately drowned, except
oite, who was walked on Ihore nearly exhausted, but was
happily recovered. The tide flowed near 6 feet higher
than mentioned in the tide table. The devastation com
mitted by the Bonn on the houles in the town is beyond
defeription, scarcely any but retains lbme marks of its un
precedented fury; 15 new built small houses in Chiffen
holme-fneet, and other streets in the neighborhood of Vaux- !
hall road, were levelled to the ground; the roof of a gentle
man’s house in Bold-flreet was beat in, by the flack of
chimnies falling, which broke through the roof and floors
down to the tea room; another h use in Price’s-ftrttt fuf
fered the like disaster, in which a woman in the lail ll.ige
of pregnancy -was killed by the ruins, whilll in bed with
her husband and two children, the latter dcaped with fome
contusions; a gentleman in Ranelag'n-ftreet had not quitted
his bed many minutes before it was completely covered by
the chimnies, which falling, penetrated through the roof;
but the moft wonderful mark of preservation was that of a
gentleman in his bed at Everton, who, by the falling of
the chimnies, was entirely overwhelmed by them, but, as
if by the special care of Providence, two of the large cop
ing stones from the chimney top fell in such a manner as
to form a kind o{ arch over his head, and thereby preserv
ed his life; a contusion and several bruises were
voidable conffquence, b it we are happy to fay that he is
in a lair way of recovery, though the weight of the rub
bill* was fi> great as to break the bed (locks on which he
lay, and to force a passage through the floor into the room
below. ‘Die houses in Bedford-llreet, Harrington, Edge
lull, Low-hill, and Everton, and their neighborhoods, have
fullered severely in their roofs and windows, many of them
being completely uncovered, and the garden walls levelled
with the ground; indeed there is scarcely any part of the
town that has its fury; the fame, we Lira, ’
been the case in all % neighboring townfliips; i n
wood many trees torn up by the roots, and barns tbrov’
down or uncovered; in Simonfwood, anew built U c
house, and many other houses, barns, and fliippnns, throw’
down and completely deftroved; in Down Holland v
aiib learn, the like disaster took place, as wtll as at Croft,!
and the venerable church of Sefton, that has flood uowe ■’
of 1000 years, has loft about 5 feet of its spire, with ft
weather vane, which is blown down on the body of ti le
building. The fame Bonn, we find, has extended itffitf
far as Lancaster, Chester, Shrtwfbury, and Mancliefle*
but, we are happy to fay, that we flatter ourselves the
ricane lias not reached far to the wettward, as on Friday
(the day after the ftoi m) two vessels came in from fia wi-h
each a top gallant yard aero!;.
ALEXANDRIA, October 27.
AN event of the moft abominable and atrocious nature
has lately happened here, and which, as well asw e
may think ourselves acquainted with all the Turkilh peril
dy, we Aruld scarcely have believed would have been at
tempted in the face of a Britiih allied army.
A lhort time since the captain pacha invited fome of
the principal beys, with their Mamelukes, to come down
and visit him at his camp near Alexandria, where lie post,
ed them in the middle of his own encampment, and treax
ed them with every marked exterior cf civility, auurin?
them, in the namtyaf his matter, his prophet,’ hi*. ftpjf
and every thing that they ttiould be protested
their persons, in their properties and fiti.
ations, as a guarantee to which our own commander in
chief bound himfelf moft fully. Thel’e declarations were
at the fame time accompanied with an invitation to them
to visit the grand fi ignicr at Conflantinople, to vhofe ft.
vor their good conduct, they were told, had restored there
and who was denrous to confer upon them in person the
honors and dignities due to their acknowledged services
diltiuClions, nevertheless, of which the prudent beys very
fubmifiively pleaded excuses for not being at the time in
a condition to avail themselves.
On the 22d instant, however, the captain pacha invited
them all to breakf.ft, and after many careffts, and a dit
tribution of presents, and other tokens of affection, pro
posed to the whole of them to accompany him by water, in
his own barge, to Alexandria, for the purpose of paying
a visit of ceremony to the Britiih commandant there;’the
intention had even been notified to gen. Oakes, who had
prepared his iotas, his coffee, his fiierbet, Ac. Accord
ingly the beys, with great confidence, accepted the offer
of civility, and went with him into his boat; but they
were scarcely seated when the pacha made a pretext of
stepping a (bore for a moment to his tent, on a fubje& of
bulinefs, and, the boat inllantly putting off, they were
tOid iiiev weie a*idled, and were to be carried on board
the i urkilh Hups of w.,r to be feat to Conftantinopic.
One or two of them, it is said, were! prompted to make
an effort to refill, when they were inllantly fallen upon,
and the greater part of them, thus deceived under the
mulk ot hospitality, moft inhumanly put to death. Seven
beys and ag is, among whom were the principal bey, Oi
man, the fiicceftor cf Mouhrad, who so acceptedly joined
our army with lus Mamelukes in the march to Cairo, and
young Mohammed Alnadar, (another active friend) to
gether with five other beys and agas, perlflied in the boat;
the remainder, amounting to five, who escaped the gene
ral massacre, (among them Oihfnn Gergavi and Osman
Ilkar) vyere nut -wounded as prisoners on board the fleet.
Aoout noon an interview took place between the pacha
and the commander in chief, fir John Hutchinson, when
the latter, being informed of the atrocious infidicus deed
that had been committed, expressed himfelf with horror on
the abominable ail, ana quitted the pacha with the Itrong
eft signs of indignation, and his excellency inllantly re
foiveit to demand the rel. ale , ; of the Mamelukes, about
400, who were at this time surrounded in the Turkilh
camp, the immediate lioeration of the beys who had sur
vived, together with a rettoration of the bodies of the mur
dered beys; but the answers lent to these requilitions being
equivocal and unfatisfaclory, gen. Stuart was, without
further delay, ordered to march, with four regiments of
infantry, a detachment of cavalry, and fome pieces of
cannon, to enforce the demand; when his higlmefs the
pacha did not think it advifeable to refill the arguments of
this formidable and perfualive embassy. The Mamelukes
were releaitd and given up, with all their tents, horses,
camels, arms, baggage, See. to the general, together with
the bodies of their murdered beys, each of which was found
upon examination to be pierced with 10 or 12 dagger or
fibre wounds. The Mamelukes, on receiving these re
mains of their matters and benefactors, embraced them
with the deepest and loudtft tokens of despair, and the
procelfion, as they bore the bloody corpses to the Englilh
camp, was the moft affecting _ imaginable. It was not,
hwever, till the next morning, that the bey3 who iur
vived were give up; the pacha is said to have exprened
much hclitation on this fubjedl, as his orders, he ftatcu,
were to fend them to Conflantinople; but gen. Stuart,
having been invariably firm in the exposition to his hig!>-
nefs of his qvvn orders, which were, to employ the force
then drawn up in face of the Turkilh camp to condram
compliance, and having accordingly ipecilied the next
morning for the term thereof, fie beys were relanded
from the Blips during the night, and in the morning were
restored to the general, who, having continued the troops
all night upon their position before the 1 urks, went .jf
person, at daybreak, with a numerous effort of Briti
dragoons, to the tent of the pacha, to receive them. 1 e
grateful feelings of men thus relieved from terror andcr*
tain dtttrudlion may be eafiiy conceived, and I could not
but envy gen. Stuart his own triumph on this occalion, > n
a duty of generolity and humanity. As they palled a ong
the line of troops in their way to the headquarters 0 t
commander in chief they were fa luted by their deliverers,
and in the evening they joined in the lad solemn ceremony
of the interment of their slaughtered brethren, at w
the commander in chief and all the general officeis
present, with the tribute of every military honor,
1 the walls of Alexandria*