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grand expedition. The delicate manner in which Petion has con dncled this requTition, has increai'ed our refpedl for him j and I have no doubt but all the parties will be amply compenfa:ed by Petion for any iofs or damage done to the vef fds or property. At the critical moment that the whole fleet were ready to fail, news of the arrival from Jaimai ca, at Aux-Cayes of one ofPeti on’s (Inips ; Die was immediately put under Indigene; colors, and fail ed for this place, and we hourly her. On her arrival, the HAadron will confift of two heavy BHps of 20 guns, 18 and 24 poun tyrs. the three mailed fchooner, Ehe brig Kate, the fchooners Inde pendence, Prcfident, and Rebecca, manned, and with from 12, to men. This is by far the moil BBHLdnblc expedition we have [ten HBvti, and will not only com blockade or annihilate Chris- naval force, but will, it is fupoofed aft on the ofFenfive—So need not be furprifed to lifelilML war brought to lffue rt time ; for it Petion, as ■. , PTI, marches by land ; and La with his augmented force, Hp£hat which he now has at the PTvTole, advances towards the cape, ■there is almcft a certainty of fuc ; ,f We find by letters from Lon don cf the 14th December, that Bfcgland has officially declared, the of Playti. Britifh fub jedts and all others are allowed free ly to trade to Hayti, the fame as to other neutral ports. This im portant aft widens the range of commerce to this country, and we fhall prefently be inundated with Britifh veflels and fabricks.” FOREIGN NEWS. . NEW-YORK, April 20. Laft evening arrived at this port, the brig Cumberland, captain Me ferve, in 44 days from Liverpool, which place the veffel left on the 6<h of March, and captain Mefcrve has politely favored the editor of the Mercantile Advertiffcr with a file of the London Courier to the evening of the jd of March, from which we have copied the following anicles of intelligence. The examination of the duke of York had been re fumed, and was progrtffing ; and it was the opinion of the editor of the Courier, that the duke would be put to trial.— Our London papers are nearly filled with the examination of the witneff es againft the duke. Our former accounts left the Bred fleet at fea—we now find them at Rochefort, but not in a very ftrong fituation—for fays the Lon don Courier— “ The object of the Bred fleet was, in the firfl indance, to furprife our Iquadron off Rochefort, con fi fling of four fail of the line, then to join the Rochefort, and proceed from thence to Ferrol, where uni ted to the Ferrol fquadron, their combined force would have amount ed to 20 fail of the line. It has been reported, thac on their paflage to Rochefort, the Bred fleet called <ff L’Orienr, and joined by the Iquadron there—but this, we under fland, is not the fad ; they made their way dired to Rochefort.— The enemy had no fooner got into Bafque Roads than admiral Stbp ford was joined by three fail of the line, which had been blockading L’Orient. The admiral has now under him the Caefar, Donegal, Defiance, Triumph, Valiant, Re venge and Thefeus. He would foon be joined by the diviflo'n under admiral Duckworth, which had been difpatched by lord Gambier to cruife off Cape Finifferre, his lord fhip very naturally fuppofing that the enemy would pufh for Ferrol.-**- The Caledonia, his lordlhip’s fhip, fupplied admiral Duckworth with all her provifions, which obliged her to return to Plymouth to pro cure a frefh fupply. The frigates belonging to the Breft fLet were a good w f ay behind the line of battle (hips, and hence we were enabled to drive them under the batteries of the Sables d’Olonne. The Cae fer wai left keeping up a tremen dous fire upon them, and it was. hoped would be able to e ffeft their definition. The Breft fleet was in Bafque Roads and expectations, as we dated yefterday, are enter tained that their capture or dtftruc tion may be effected.” In the houfe of commons, March 5, Mr. Whitbread moved for an account of duties levied on exporta tion, in CGnfequence of the aft3 of Lit fefflon,. fubfequent to, and in purfuance of the iyftem laid down in the orders of council. Ordered.. He then made fome obfervations on the fubjeft of the papers relative to America, which had been laid on the table, not being printed. He thought that the correfpondence between Mr. Canning and Mr. Pinkney, and Mr. Role and Mr. Madifon, ought, from their im portance, to have been in the hands of every member of parliament -—but did not make any motion on the fubjyft. Lord Fulkerfon's motion for a call of the houfe on the Bth of March, was carried in the houfe of com mons on the firft of March—lo 2 to 15. London, March i. A queftion was afked by Mr. Ponfonby in the houfe of commons yefterday whether the treaty which had been faid to be on the eve of being concluded with Spain, had been as yet ratified ? And 2d. whether the report to which he had alluded on a former night, viz., that the force fent from Lifcon, had been refufed admiflion into Cadiz, was true or not ? Mr. Canning replied to the firft queftion, that the treaty had not been received, and to the fecond,that he could not give any precife anfwer, though he did not know of any fuch circumftance having taken place.. The gallant fir David Baird is im mediately to be elevated to the Peerage, with the title of Vifcount. Sir John Moore's family are to have penfions. Gen. Hope is to be made a baro net, and get the firft red ribbon. Our communication with Sweden and the Baltic is-at length opened, and this morning i<pof the i6Got tenburgh mails due arrived. On the 13d of December five Britifh and three Swedilh (hips of war, with a convoy of twelve merchant vef fel-s, failed for England, part of which were loft by the ice and part captured by the Danes—fome of the prizes were alfo loft in the lame way. March 3. Fcccs between Greet- Britain and Turkey—probability of war bst weeu Aujiria and trance. Dutch papers arrived this morn ing to the 28th ult. They contain very important intelligence. War between Auftria and France is open ly fpoken of, and an article in rhe Leyden paper, of the 47th, informs us of the meafures which have been adopted by the cabinet of Vienna; measures which can only have been adopted i’n the contemplation of an immediate war. Peace has certainly been conclud ed between Turkey and Great-Bri tain. ft was signed by the Turkifh minister, Hakki, Effendi, and Mr. Adair. A fre 111 insurrection had broken out at Conftantinople, and the peace with England is said, in an article from Vienna, to have been the immediate consequence of it. The Russian generals, as soon as they were informed of the event* broke off all negociation with the Turks. Peace with Turkey was signed on the sth of January. An article from Arragon, dated the nth of February, mentions,.that there are 40,000 men in arms de fending Saragofla; that Junotis be seiging it; that the works and trench es are pufhed on to the gates of the town and a bombardment kept up without intermiftion. The enemy hope to force the place to surrender by famine, more than by force of arms.. Lintz, Feb. 8, (via France.) ff The anxiety which the re port of anew war in Auftria had oc cafioned, has been augmented py the late meafures of the court of Vienna. It is certain chat fome light corps are to be formed, which will be fent to join different regiments.— Other military preparations are likewife making, and magazines are forming in Bohemia and Auftria.— M. Falhendcr, who in the late cam paigns was principal Commiffary to the Auftrian army, has been again appointed to that poft, and the Count de Guinne, formerly adju tant general to Archduke Charles, has been appointed adjutant to the emperor. The Archduke Fer dinand is to take the Chief Com - mand of an Auftrian army in Bohe mia, if war ftiould break out, and Count Beliegarde will command an army in Carinthia and Carniola.— In the mean time feveral Generals who commanded cn the Turkifh frontiers, have been recalled to Vi enna. Many perfens however doubt, whether the Archduke Charles approves the meafures of the court, and will be willing to enter into anew war. In the conference which have been held on the fub jeft, and at which both that Prince and the Archduke Ferdinand, the Brother of the Emprefs, were pre fent, it is faid, anew general levy was fpoken of, and different meaf ures propofed to render it agreeable to the people. -Thofe molt expe rienced in military affairs eftimate the whole of our regular troops at i43>coa men—but it is not prafti cable to find a train of artillery fuf ficienc for an army of 60,c00 men. Leyden Ceurant , Feb. 27. Wl ■IIIIIWI 1 , i i■ ■ SHERIFF’S BLANK TITLES FOR SALE AT THIS OFFICE. • GEORGIA EXPRESS. - ■ ■ 1 ATHENS , MAT 13. Anfwer to the Ffuejlion in cur laft. The waggon loads , computing each to carry one ton, will be 83.325, the diameter of the fphere will be 42^ feet and 69 hundrethsy the circumference 134 feet and 17 hundreths y the miles which the waggons will cover (that is allowing each waggon to cover 40 feet) is 631 miles , and the folid con tent of the above fphere will be 410* 201,538 cubic inches. B. Athens, Franklin College, - ) May 9, 1809. y By laft evening's Mail. VERY LATE FROM FRANCE- Bc/fon y April 27. The French letter of marque L** Efperence, captain Deplace, arrived I here on Tuefday, in a fhort paffage- 1 from Bourdeaux. A French gen- I tleman, a paflerger, politely favor- j ed us with a file of French papers i to the 19,:h of laft month—and a. manufeript copy of anew Imperial Decree. A few tranflations from the papers, and the decree, will be found below. The accounts from the European, continent, inthefe papers, are near ly a month later than before receiv-, cd.—War between France and Auf-i tria had not commenced, though the declaration of it was daily expected. The French Amhaffador, and the Minifters of the Confederation of’ the Rhine, had quitted Vienna; and’ all the troops in the North, under the control of Bonaparte, were mi motion. One hundred thoufand off the troops, which were in Spain, had returned into France; and were, moving towards Bavaria. The Em peror was in Paris at the laft date.. We find but little mention made off Ruffia ; and that little did not ind? 4 cate any thing like her taking a part in the war againft Auftria. Thtf peace between Turkey and England is attributed in the Paris papers the interference of Austria* The tidings from Spain are late* —Saragcffa surrendered the 241 Feb. after a- memorable siege : thd* particulars, of which fill three of the* papers. —About 10,000 men of the • garrifon had pafTed thro* Bayonne!,.. —The South of Spain had notbeeib over-run, not had Cadiz been in - veiled. The French had;-entered l Oporto, (Portugal) and were adt* vancing on Lifbon. [translations.] Vienna Feb. 23. The Wurtemberg and Bavaria: s Ambaffadors are about to quit thi 5 capital. The different corps of ou r army are to be commanded by Archdukes, and by generals Li'tch * enftein, Rofamburg, Klenau, Kalio - wart and Beliegarde. ‘ Peterjhurg Jan. 1 6. The Auftrian ambaffador, Prim e- Schwarzenberg has had his firft ai - dience of his Majefty-, and had a coi - ference of an hour and an half wi l h him in his clofe' c . Pa r is March 22. The V' ienn a Court Gazette con tinues t 0 give all the absurdities of ’Englifh journals. The manner i r . which the events in Turkey are recounted, prove evidently that Auftria b.as contributed ali m rcr