which she has hardly tasted the first fruits. Every sacrifice has heen made to obtain that end; but that implacable enemy of Frenchmen, has not been satisfied with the incalculable advantages which it has obtained by a peace, which it alone ought not to have enjoyed. It is not against France alone that it directs its attacks, but against the whole world. Its ambition embraces all, from the shores of India to the mouths of the Orenoque, from the Nile to the Tagus, it pretends to exercise its tyranny. In the extravagance of its ideas, it believes that on it the empire of the seas is devolved. Among the powers which have supported the destructive war which has rent the continent, which of them has been enriched by the spoils of the other? Is it not England?-Inhabitants of Guadaloupe, who have already so victoriously fought her soldiers. You brave warriors who have seen the phalanxes fly before you in the fields of Hondscoote, on the coasts of Flanders and Holland, prepare yourselves to encounter that enemy who, forgetful of honour and the rights of nations, cowardly takes your defenceless shipping sailing under the faith of treaties. You are now at war with the subjects of that perfidious government! Remember Quiberon, the camp of St. John, and the horrible attempt of the 3d of Nivose.Soon will the hero of France re-establish the liberty of the seas, soon will he prescribe just limits to the inordinate ambition of that government, alike the perturbator of his country and of the world.—The colony of Guadaloupe and its dependencies, are placed in a state of siege.-Done at Bassetterre, Guadaloupe, the 5th of Messidor, 11th year of the French Republic. (Signed) ERNOUF.

In the name of the French Republic. Arrêté, respecting the opening of the different ports of Guadaloupe and its dependencies: and a new Tariff of the duties of Import and Export--Basseterre, 6th Messidor, year 11,— June 15, 1803.

Augustus Ernouf, general of division, captain general of Guadaloupe and its dependencies, and Daniel Lescallier, counsellor of state and colonial prefect,-Considering that the critical circumstances, in which they find the colony, call for efficacious measures for supplying its wants and those of the army, as well as for disposing of the colonial productions at present on hand, decree as follows:- -Art. 1. The ports of Basseterre, Point Petre, Bayé-Mahaut, St. Martin and Reunion Marie Galante, shall be open to strangers from the date hereof.- -In consequence all articles of consumption, salted meats, military and naval stores, cattle, lumber, and tools of every kind, particularly instruments of agriculture, may be imported by them; and they may export sugars, coffee, and cotton, independently of syrups and taffia.Art. 2. On the arrival of each vessel, the captain or supercargo is to wait on the captain general and colonial prefect, and afterwards apply to the chief of administration and the director of the custom house for the necessary permits, having previously made out a detailed statement of what the cargo is composed. Art. 3. If such statement shall be found to have been forged, the transgressor shall be prosecuted in manner and form prescribed by the laws and regulations of commerce.

Art. 4. No French or neutral vessel can depart from any of the ports of the colony, before her captain or supercargo has made a declaration at the custom house of the nature of her cargo and of the tonnage or quantity.--Art, 5. No

vessel shall load in whole, or in part, at any other ports than those designated in the Ist article, unless by the express permission of the colonial prefect, under penalty of confiscation of vessels and cargo, and the punishment of the captain.--Art. 6. French as well as foreign vessels, sailing to and from the islands or neutral ports, are expressly forbidden to pass by way of the River Salee, under pain of confiscation of vessel and cargo..

7. The duties of anchorage, established by the arrêté of the 1st Vendémiaire last, concerning the commerce of neutrals, are diminished one-fourth from this day.These duties shall be collected by the receiver general of the colony and of the domains, at the payment of the duties of entrance and clearance; a part to be paid the captain of the port, the balance to be deposited in the public treasury. Art. 8. The interpreters, commissioned by government, shall not, under penalty of deprivation of office, demand from captains of foreign vessels more than eight dollars for all the necessary formalities in which they are to give them every direction from their arrival to their departure; but if the said interpreters shall be employed by the said captains of vessels on objects different from those customary, they shall be indemnified for their trouble in the manner prescribed by the tariff of April, 1771.——Art. 9. The duties of import and export on articles permitted to be imported and exported, shall be paid at the custom house, and collected by the receiver of the domains, according to the following tariff: -Import.--French vessels, arriving from a port of the republic, shall continue to pay a local duty of one per cent. upon merchandize subject to weight:1 per cent.--French vessels arriving from foreign ports, shall pay a local duty of one per cent. on the value of articles of subsistence:i per cent.--Foreign vessels shall pay the customary duties of one per cent. local and one per cent. additional on the total amount of the articles imported: -2 per cent.--Export.-French vessels, returning to a French port, are subject to a local duty of one per cent. and a colonial duty of two per cent.-3 per cent.--French vessels, returning to a foreign port, shall pay one per cent. local, and six per cent. additional.-7 per cent Foreign vessels shall pay the local duties and an additional one of two per cent, and of six per cent. on the value of sugars, coffee, and cotton exported.-8 per cent.--On syrups and taffia no more than two per cent. shall be paid as a supplementary duty.-2 per cent.--Spanish vessels, laden with cattle and other provisions, shall be treated on their entrance and clearance, on the same terms as French vessels.Art. 10. According to the preceding dispositions, the arrêté of the 1st Vendémiaire is and remains in force; and the 3d article of the arrêté concerning the duty of six francs, col lected by five myriagrames of cod and salt fish, of foreign fishery, is provisionally suspended, as well as the 5th article of the arrêté of the 30th August, 1784, concerning the duty of 3 francs per quintal on salt meat imported by foreigners.Art. II. All the regulations of the arrêté of the 30th Angust, 1784, shall be executed, as they respect the vessels, declarations, and formalities to be perform. ed by foreign vessels and by French vessels engaged in the same commerce.--Art. 12. The chief of administration and the directors of the customs are respectively charged with what concerns the execution of the present arrêté, which shall be printed, read, published, and posted up as is usual, and a copy addressed to the commissary of

justice, in order to be enregistered among the rolls of the tribunals. ERNOUF. LESCALLIER.

Bruix, Counsellor of State, Admiral of the National Flotilla, to the Minister of the Marine and the Colonies, dated Boulogne, Sept. 30, 1803.

Citizen Minister,I have the honour to inform you of the arrival at Boulogne of two divisions of the National Flotilla, which yesterday effected a union. I had given orders to Capt. Saint Haouen, commanding the division at Calais, to repair to this port, where the enemy shewed a disposition to attempt a bombardment. My object in giving these orders was to avenge this insult, while at the same time I placed his division in a situation to pursue its route for Boulogne. The division of Dunkirk, which was under the orders of Captain Perrieux, thus preceded, had to encounter less formidable obstacles.-Some delay in the preparations for sailing presented to the enemy an opportunity of attacking us. They retired, however, discomfited and disgraced. Our two divisions, after a variety of skirmishes, succeeded last night in repulsing the enemy, though they were attacked before they could prepare for action, and even before they were unmoored. Rear-Admiral Magon commanded in this last engagement. I had in my instructions explained the different movements which he was to make. The subjoined order contains the details of the engagements of yesterday and the preceding day which have been distinguished by complete success.Health and respect,

(Signed) BRUIX.

GENERAL ORDERS.-Bruix, Counsellor of State, Admiral of the National Flotilla.-Boulogne, September 29, 1803.

The Admiral arrived here yesterday. He surveyed the ports of the first maritime district, and was employed in bringing together the divisions of Dunkirk and Calais. The courage and skill of the two Captains who commanded these divisions perfectly seconded the measures which he had taken and equalled his warmest expectations. Rear-Admiral Magon, whom the Admiral had ordered to proceed from the port of Boulogne with the force already collected there and those which had the preceding day arrived from Calais, brilliantly executed his instructions.

Our gun

boats on this occasion shewed that the exclusive empire of the sea will cease to belong to our rivals. The skirmishes which preceded the junc. tion of the two divisions of the flotilla do the greatest honour to Captains Saint Haouen and Perricux. These two officers combatted the English divisions, much superior in point of force to the divisions which they commanded. The first not only sustained for several hours unsupported, repeated attacks, but actually obliged the enemy to make an ignominious retreat; the other, weaker still, and in a situation of peculiar difficulty at Cape Grine, was intrepid enough to pass along under the fire of fifteen or sixteen English vessels without being able to return a single shot, so important was it to make every possible use of the oars, and not to lose the tide. The Admiral who was a witness of this intrepidity, was altogether astonished at the coolness of the soldiers of the 46th demi-brigade, hitherto little accustomed to the dangers of the sea, Their zeal, however, produced a result not less happy than could have been expected from the most consummate experience. The reports made by the Ad

miral on the subject, and who beheld in person the whole scene, prove that our land batteries did not a little contribute to the success of the day. The greatest praise is bestowed on the soldiers of the 46th and 22d military divisions, and to the sailors on board the division of Captain Perrieux and that which immediately preceded him. The cannoneers of the battery of Cape Grine particularly distinguished themselves.The enemy, though twice humbled, again_tried yesterday towards the evening to wipe off the shame they had incurred, by attacking the flotilla at the time it was casting anchor, and before it had got into a place of safety. Here a new proof was exhibited of their inability to injure us. Their bombs, which they had employed in dis tressing some families at Calais without at all accomplishing any important object, were only the means of preparing the defeat of their fleet by exasperating our warriors. In this last action RearAdmiral Magon commanded in person the united force of the flotilla. (Signed) BRUIX.

DECREE of the VICE PRESIDENT of the ITALIAN REPUBLIC REGULATING the CONDUCT of the PRESS. Dated Milan, Sept. 27, 1803.-Year 2.

The Vice President of the Republic considering the necessity of procuring the means requisite for the revision of the printing-houses established by the Decree of the 21st of January, 1803, that he may discharge with success the important functions with which he is charged, to secure the liberty of the press, and the responsibility of the authors and printers according to the terms of the same decree, on the report of the Minister of the Interior, and the Minister charged with the affairs concerning religious worship, decrees :— Art. 1. Every printer, before he puts in circulation, by sale or distribution, a book, or any pam⇒ phlet or paper whatever, printed at his press, shall present a copy to the revision of the place, which shall return it to him if there be no cause for censure. Art. II. The revis on, if there be a well-founded presumption for censure, according to the spirit of article I, of the decree of the 21st January, is authorised to order the sale to be suspended, as well as the distribution of the book in question. The police of the place shall, if necessary, lend its aid to enforce the execution of the order of suspension.Art. 111. The suspension shall be taken off by the same revision, if, after a subsequent examination, the presumption which had given occasion to it shall be removed; if, on the contrary, it exists after the examination, a report shall be made of it by the organ of the magistrate of revision to the Minister of the Interior, and to the Minister for Public Worship, each for the subject under his cognizance to be definitively determined by them,The Minister of the Interior, and the Minister for Affairs relative to Public Worship, are respectively charged with the execution of the present decree, which shall be printed, published, and inserted in the Bulletin of the Laws. MELZI.

The Counsellor Secretary of State,

L. VACCARI.

PROCLAMATION of the Agents of the KING of SPAIN FOR SURRENDERING LOUISI ANA TO FRANCE, dated New - Orleans, May 18th, 1803.

Don Manuel de Salcedo, brigadier in the ar mies of the King, military and civil governor

of the provinces of Louisiana and West Florida, inspector of the regulars and militia of the above places; vice patron, judge royal subdelegated for the superintendance of couriers, &c.........and Don Sebastian Calvo de la Puerta, and O'Farrill, Marquis de Casa Calvo, Knight of the order of St. James, Brigadier in the armies of the King and Colonel of the Stationary Regiment of the Havannah, commissioned by his Majesty for the cession of this province to the French Republic. Be it known to all the subjects of our Lord the King, of whatever class or denomination soever, that his Majesty has determined to retrocede this province of Louisiana to the French Republic, to the reciprocal satisfaction of the two powers; and in continuing the same proof of protection and satisfaction which the inhabitants of this province have universally experienced, his Majesty has thought proper to decree, amongst other things, certain points which we conceive it our duty to make known to the public, for the guidance and particular government of those whom it may interest.-Ist. His Majesty having presented the obligations prescribed by treaty, and wished to avoid any dispute that might occur, has resolved, that the cession of the colony and Island of New-Orleans, which is to be made to Victor, General of division, or other officer legally authorised by the government of the French Republic, shall take place on the same terms that France ceded to his Majesty the said Colony and Island; by virtue of which the limits of the two shores of the river of Saint Louis or Mississippi, shall remain on the same footing, as they did at the term of the seventh article of the definitive treaty of peace concluded in Paris on the 10th Feb. 1763; and consequently the establishment from Manchac or Iberville river, as far as the line which separates the American territory from the dominions of the Kings, remain in the power of Spain and annexed to West Florida,—2d.All individuals, who are in any ways in the service of, and wish to continue under the dominion of the King, will repair to the Havannah, or some other parts of his Majesty's possessions, unless they prefer remaining in the service of France, which is left to their option; but if any just or well-founded principle prevents them for the present from fulfilling those dispositions, they will assign from time to time, and in a proper manner, through the organ of their respective chiefs, sufficient reason.-3d. The generous bounty of the King will not discontinue the pensions of widows, or other persons who have retired, and will suggest to them at a proper season, the manner in which this arrangement will take place.--4th. His Majesty manifesting his hopes for the advantage and tranquillity of the Colony, promises himself, from the sincere friendship and strict alliance, which unites the Spanish Government to that of the French Republic, that the latter will issue its orders to the governor and other officers employed in its service in the said Colony and City of New-Orleans, to continue to the ecclesiastics, and religious houses which may officiatenparochially, or as missionaries,

DOMESTIC OFFICIAL PAPERS.

Order of Council relative to the Yellow Fever at New York.-Dated St. James's, Oct. 26, 1803. Whereas information hath been received that an infectious distemper is now raging in the city of New York, in the state of New York, within the United States of America: and whereas by an act passed in the thirty-ninth and fortieth year of his Majesty's reign, intituled "An Act for erect"ing a Lazatet on Chetney Hill, in the county "of Kent, and for reducing into one act the laws "relating to quarantine, and for making further "provisions therein:" It is among other things enacted, that it shall be lawful for his Majesty, by and with the advice of his Privy Council, by his Royal Proclamation from time to time to declare any infectious distemper, the communication whereof may be highly dangerous to the health of his Majesty's subjects, to be of the nature of the plague.- His Majesty, in pursuance of the said power, by and with the advice of his Privy Council, deems it expedient to declare, and doth hereby declare, that the said infectious distemper is of the nature of the plagueAnd his Majesty doth therefore hereby order, that all ships, vessels, persons, goods, wares, and merchandizes now at rived, or which may hereafter arrive in any of the ports of Great-Britain, or the Isles of Guernsey, Jersey, Alderney, Sark, or Man from New York, or any port within the state of New York, and shall have cleared out from New York, or any port within the state of New York, subsequent tự the 15th day of August last, (not having any per son or persons on board the same actually ill of the said fever), do perform a quarantine of fourteen days at the several places appointed, and according to the rules prescribed by his Majesty's

Order in Council of the 29th of July, 1800, for performance of quarantine by all ships and vessels coming from or through the Mediterranean, or from the West Barbary on the Atlantic Ocean, and arriving with clean bills of health; but in ease any of the crew or passengers on board any such ship or vessel which shall have cleared out from New York, or any port within the state of New York, subsequent to the said 15th day of August, and shall have arrived, or may hereafter arrive in any of the ports of Great-Britain, or the Islands of Guernsey, Jersey, Alderney, Sark, or Man from New York, or any port within the state of New York, shall have died of the said fever during the course of the voyage, the cloaths and all personal effects which are susceptible of infection, worn by, or belonging to such person, shall be forthwith burned, or sunk in deep water; and if such cloaths and effects shall not be so burned or destroyed, the said ship or vessel, with the whole of her cargo, shall not be permitted to perform quarantine at any port or place except at Standgate Creek, and shall be compelled to depart from any other port or place at which the same has arrived, or shall arrive as aforesaid, and shall repair to Standgate Creek, and there perform quarantine, and not elsewhere: and his Majesty is further pleased to order, with the advice atoresaid, and it is hereby ordered, that if it shall appear upon the arrival of any ship or vessel from New York or any port within the state of New York as aforesaid, that any of the crew or passengers belonging to the same are actually ill of the said fever, then such ship or vessel, and the persons, goods, wares, and merchandizes on board the same, shall not be permitted to perform quarantine at any port or place except Standgate Creek, and shall be compelled to depart from any other port or place, and to proceed immediately to Standgate Creek in order to perform quarantine, and shall there perform quarantine and not elsewhere: and the Right Honourable the Lords Commissioners of his Majesty's Treasury, the Commissioners for executing the office of Lord High Admiral of Great-Britain, the Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports, the Master-General and the rest of the principal Officers of the Ordnance, his Majesty's Secretary at War, and the Governors or Commanders in Chief for the time being of the said Isles of Guernsey, Jersey, Alderney, Sark, and Man, ate to give the necessary directions herein as to them may respectively appertain.

W. FAWKENER.

ORDER OF REVIEW for the VOLUNTEER Corps belonging to the LONDON district, which are to be assembled in Hyde Park, for the purpose of being reviewed by HIS MAJESTY, on the 26th and 18th of October.

The Corps to be reviewed on those days respectively, are as follow, viz.-On the 26th are the Loyal London Volun. Cavalry; Lieut.-Col. Anderson. Hon. Artillery Company; Col. Paul Le Mesurier.st. Royal East India Volunteers; Col. Sir. L. Darrel.2d do. Col. Sir Hugh Inglis. 3d do. Col. John Roberts.-1st. Reg. Loy. Lon. Volun. Infan.; Lieut.-Col, Birch.ad do.; Lieut.Col. J. Smith. 3d do.; Lieut.-Col. Kensington.4th do; Lieut. Col. Price.-5th do.; Lieut.-Col. T. Smith.-6th do.; Lieut. Col. Wigram.-7th do.; Lieut.-Col. Shaw-8th do.; Lieut.-Col. Camning.gth do; Lieut.-Col. Sir W. Curtis.-10th do.; Lieut. Col. Combs-1th do.; Major Seddon Bank Reg. Volunteer Intantry; Cola Manaing-Bank Supplementary do.; Captain B. Long.

-1st. Reg. Tower Hamlets do.; Lieut.-Col. Mellish. Whitechapel do.; Lieut.-Col. Craven.Mile End do.; Major Liptrap.-St. George in the East do.; Major Spildt.-Radcliffe do.; Major Boulcott.-Shoreditch do.; Major Marshall.Bromley St. Leonard do.; Major Stonard.-Bethnal Green do.; Major Carrick.—St. Catharine do. Captain Jenkins.--On the 28th the London and Westminster L. H. Volun.; Colonel Herries. Westminster Reg. of Volun. Cavalry; Lieut.-Col. Elliot.-Southwark Troop of Yeomanry; Captain Collingdon.-St. George's Reg. of Volun. Infan.; Col. Earl of Chesterfield.-St. James's do.; Col. Lord Amherst.-Bloomsbury and Inns of Court do.; Col. Cox.-Royal Westminster do.; Col. Robertson.-Prince of Wales's do.; Col. M. P. Andrews. St. Margaret's and St. John's; Hon. Lieut.-Col. Eden.-Loyal North Britons; Lieut.Col. Lord Reay.-Royal York Mary-la-bone; Col. Lord Duncannon.-Duke of Gloucester's; Col. Lord Chetwynd.-1st Surrey; Lieu.-Col. Gaitskill.-Lambeth; Lieut.-Col. Edwards.-The Somerset-place; Col. Tierney.-1st and 2d Batts. Queen's Roy.; Col. Lord Hobart.-The St. Giles's and St. George's do.; Lieut.-Col. Sir J. Nichol).— Loyal British Artificers; Lieut.-Col. Burton.St. Andrew and St. George's; Lieut.-Col. Reader. -The Clerkenwell; Major Magniac.-The St. Sepulchre; Major Ford.-The Loyal Britons; Lieut. Col. Davison.-The Knightsbridge; Major Eyre. -The St. Saviour's; Major Potts.-The St. Clement's Danes;-Major Blake.-The Loyal Southwark; Col. Tierney. The Duke of Cumberland's Corps of Vol. Sharp Shooters; Captain Barber.The Gray's Inn Corps of Volunteer Riflemen; Cap. John K. Cooke. -The troops will be drawn up in lines forming an irregular pentagon, and the ground will be occupied on both days, as follows: The right extending along Buckden Hill, from the Serpentine River to the North Wall of the Park; the right centre in a line perpendicular to the first, extending to Cumberland Gates the left centre parallel with the East Wall of the Park, extending towards the Gravel Pits, where its left will be thrown forward, lining with the gate that leads to the head of the Serpentine River. The left on the South side of the Serpentine River, and parallel to the road leading to Kensington Gardens.Under his Royal Highness the Commander in Chief.--General the Earl of Harrington will command the line.---The four divisions of the line will be commanded by-RightMajor General Burrard.-Right Centre Major General the Hon. E. Finch-Left Centre-Major General the Hon. C. Fitzroy,-Left-Major General the Hon. J. Leslie.On the days before mentioned his Majesty will be on the ground at ten in the morning precisely. It is therefore necessary that each corps shall arrive in Hyde Park (marching in by the most convenient gate), so ao to stand assembled in close column of companies, in and behind the right of its own ground, at eight o'clock in the morning, ready at the moment, when ordered to deploy into line.A quarter master, or intelligent officer, with the camp colour men, to be at their ground one hour before their corps, one of whom is to be detached for the purpose of conducting his corps to its proper point.-la this manner the right company or division of each corps will stand on its proper ground which it is to occupy in the line, and the others be in close column behind it; and each cotps will, for this purpose, march with its right in front.--From this situation the general line will be ordered to