Thine unadult'rate manners are lefs foft And plaufible than focial life requires, And thou haft need of difcipline and art To give thee what politer France receives From nature's bounty-that humane ad◄ drefs

And sweetness, without which no plea fure is

In converse, either starv'd by cold reserve, Or fluth'd with fierce difpute, a senseless brawl;

Yet, being free, I love thee. For the fake Of that one feature, can be well content, Difgrac'd as thou hast been, poor as thou

art,

To feek no fublunary reft befide.

But once enflav'd, farewel! I could endure Chains no where patiently; and chains at home,

Where I am free by birthright, not at all. Then what were left of roughness in the grain

Of British natures, wanting its excufe That it belongs to freemen, would disgust And fhock me. I should then with double pain

Feel all the rigour of thy fickle clime; For which our Hampdens and our SidAnd, if I must bewail the bleffing loft neys bled,

I would at least bewail it under skies

Milder, among a people less austere, In fcenes which, having never known me free,

Would not reproach me with the loss I felt. ENIGMATICAL LIST of YOỤNG LADIES in SOUTHAMPTON.

FOREIGN

From the LONDON GAZETTE. WHITEHALL, March 16.

THE

HE following are extracts of a letter from Major-general Williamfon to the right honourable Henry Dundas, one of his Majefty's principal Secretaries of State, and of one inclofed therein from Lieutenant-colonel Whitelock, received this morning.

Extract of a Letter from Major-general Adam William fon to the Right Honourable Henry Dundas, dated King's Houfe, Jamaica, Feb. 9, 1794.

I have the honour to fend herewith an extract of a letter from Colonel Whitelocke, with the particulars of the capture of Cape Tiberon. The bufinefs was fpirited and well done.

This poft is of the utmost importance; it fecures the paffage, and, with Cape Nichola Mole, commands that fine extenfive bay..

It has alfo driven the Brigands as far back as Aux Cayes, which leaves the parishes of the Grand Ance in the most perfect fecurity..

The trade between this ifland and St. Domingue is already prodigious; and the quantity of produce brought here will, I hope, on its arrival in Great Britain, add confiderably to the revenue. Extract of a Letter from Lieutenant-colonel Whitelocke, of the 13th Regiment, commanding at Jeremie, to Major-general Williamfon, dated Europa, off Tiberon, Feb. 3, 1794..

The commodore and his fquadron called at Jeremie on the morning of the 31st ultimo: the troops were immediately embarked, and the whole failed in the evening.

We did not arrive off Tiberon till the evening of the 2d, when three frigates anchored near to the fhore, in the Ance du Mitau.

The enemy were ftrong, and feemed to wait our landing; but, after a few broadfides from the hips, the beach appeared to be clear, and just before dark I ordered the flank companies to land, and take poffeffion of a houfe about 150 paces from the beach, and well fituated for defence, and to protect the landing of the whole.

ftant, charged, and in a minute routed the enemy and furrounded the post.

I landed at day-light with the 13th and 20th, the marines and British legion, and found that the Brigands had evacuated all the posts, and escaped towards Aux Cayes, by the mountain road, without burning or deftroying property of any defcription.

The numbers of the enemy were about 650 blacks and 200 mulattoes and whites, very ftrongly posted. About 150 more furrendered themfelves, and remain.I understand 50 of them were killed and wounded.

I have only to add on this fubject, that the conduct of Major Spencer was highly honourable to him, and he was handfomely fupported by the officers and men of the flank companies.

I have left Lieutenant Bafkerfield to command, with 50 men of the 13th, the colonial troops, and Jean Kino's corps from Irois.

The poft of Irois being no longer neceffary, I have directed it to be dismantled. The enemy are now fhut out of our poffeffions, there being no poft of confe. quence within 60 miles of Tiberon. Return of the Killed and Wounded at the Attack of Cape Tiberon, Feb. 3.

13th regiment. 2 privates killed; 1 captain, 1 fubaltern, i volunteer, and 2 privates, wounded. 1 ferjeant, and 4 pri

20th regiment. vates, wounded.

49th, light infantry. I private, killed; I private wounded.

Total. 3 privates killed; I captain, 1 fubaltern, i volunteer, 1 ferjeant, and 7 privates, wounded.

N. B. Hon. Captain Colvil of the 13th regiment, wounded flightly in the leg; Lieutenant Dana of the 13th light infantry, wounded in the hand, but not dangeroufly; Volunteer Dolphina, danger. oufly wounded.

Return of Ordnance taken at Cape Tiberon, Feb. 3.

WHITEHALL, April 5. Extract of a letter from his Royal Highness the Duke of York, to the Right Honourable Henry Dundas, dated St. Amand, April 1. SATURDAY morning the enemy attacked the advanced pofts of the prince of Cobourg's army near Cateau, in confiderable force. At firft they obliged the Auftrians to retire, and to abandon three villages in their front; but, upon the battalions appointed for the fupport of the out-poft moving forwards, the enemy were beaten back, with the lofs of upwards of 500 men killed, and 60 prifoners, with five pieces of cannon. The lofs of the

Auftrians, in killed and wounded, a

mounted to about 120 men. Since this every thing has been quiet. TOURNAY, April 2. We are affured that the day after the affair of Cateau

there was another action, in which our troops took four pieces of cannon. Fifteen hundred perfons have put down their names to guard our city and magazines during the abfence of the troops.

WHITEHALL, April 12. Extract of a Letter from his Royal Highnafs the Duke of York to the Right Honourable Henry Dundas, dated St. Amand, April 8. I HAVE received this morning a report from Count Walmoden, that the enemy, having fucceeded in furprising the Heffian pofts at Tenbreuil, between Werwick and Ypres, got behind the Hanoverian pickets, and cut them off. Succour, however, having arrived from Menin, the enemy was driven back, and forced to re-crofs the Lyfs, and to deftroy the bridge they had made. Our lofs was one man killed, one officer and 7 men wounded, and 3 officers and 143 men taken prisoners,

WEST INDIES.

BARBADOES, February 10. DISPATCHES from Sir John Jervis, K. B. commander in chief of his majefty's naval forces upon the expedition against Martinico, dated the 8th inft. to his honour the prefident, mention, that the fleet under command of Sir John arrived in Bay Marin on the evening of the 5th inft. and that Sir Charles Grey landed with the troops early the next morning, and there was reafon to believe General Dundas made good his landing a few hours fooner.

Sir Charles Grey took poft at la Riviere Salée before dark, without any other lofs than a ferjeant of the 9th regiment, who, having just recovered of a fever, funk through fatigue.

Brigadier-general White feparated from Sir Charles on the march, to take poflef

fion of Ance d'Arlet, the Grande Ance, Fort Solomon, and the heights which com manded Inlet aux Ramiers. tain Rogers, having a squadron of frigates Soon after the march of the army, Capand tranfports with Sir Charles Gordon's brigade, failed for Cafe Navire, with a view to operate on that fide, and to awe St. Pierre. By reports of Americans and deferters, Rochambeau was employed, while our army was in motion, in exertions to perfuade the mulattoes and negroes in the quarter of St. Anne to go into fort Bourbon, and the admiral had reafon to think with very little fuccefs.

At eight o'clock on the morning of the 7th, the admiral difpatched the Nautilus floop of war, with two ordnance tranfports, and two victuallers, for the fupport White, who, after a very fevere march, of the troops under Brigadier-generál and fome attack of pofts, &c. arrived in the rear of Cape Solomon battery and Cape Bourg, where the prefident has the happiness to inform the public, the brigadier foon hoifted the British flag, and meant to attack the posts which intervened between Cape Solomon and Pi, geon-Ifland.

On the morning of the 8th inft. Cape Solomon battery and Cape Bourg were taken without any lofs whatever. Brigadier-general White informs, that Sir Charles Grey had arrived at Lametin, and that the enemy had taken poft oppofite to the Iflet des Ramiers, where the brigadier intended to attack them as foon as he received his artillery, which the admiral acquaints the prefident reached him early enough to anfwer all his purposes.

The inhabitants of the quarter in which the Bay Marin is, come in very faft, and report that La Trinité was in poffeffion of Major-general Dundas.

February 17. Difpatches received this day from Martinico, dated Boyne, Fort Royal Bay, Feb. 15, from Admiral Sir John Jervis, commander in chief of his majefty's naval forces, &c. to his honour the prefident, give the following impor tant information:

On the 8th inftant Sir John detached the Irresistible from Bay Marin, to co-operate with Brigadier-general White, at Ance d'Arlet, and the admiral himself followed in the Boyne next morning, leaving Cap. tain Nugent, in the Veteran, to protect the ordnance ftore-fhips, victuallers, and tranfports, in Bay Marin. The feamen of the Boyne and Irrefiftible carried the artillery and stores neceffary for the reduc. tion of Iflet aux Ramiers, four and an half miles of the most rugged and mountainous road imaginable, under an inceffant fire of a numerous artillery of

mortars, howitzers, and guns, by which a few gallant feamen and artillerists were killed, and fome officers and men wound. ed. On the 10th, at night, the batteries were completed, and at day-light opened upon Iflet aux Ramiers; and, after about four hours firing, the island surrendered to his majesty's arms, and was taken poffeffion of by Lieutenant Rogers, (by order of Sir C. Grey, who was then present,) with go feamen of the Boyne, and about 50 marines and 25 artillery-men.

Fort Bourbon and Fort Royal are completely invested; the transports, ordnance ftore-hips, and victuallers, were, when the difpatches came away, working into the cod of Fort Royal Bay, where there is a good wharf at no great diftance from the height of Bruno, where General Prefcot commands, and at which place, as well as Cafe Navire, every exertion was to be made to land the battering train.

February 22. In difpatches which were last night received by the prefident from Sir J. Jervis, Fort Royal Bay, Feb. 19, his honour is informed that St. Pierre was carried at three o'clock in the morning of the 17th, with very little lofs in numbers, except the irreparable one of Colonel Campbell, than whom a better and braver man never exifted.

February 24. It is now reported here, that Fort Royal is taken. Two French frigates, and feveral other fhips, are in Fort Royal harbour, which is effectually blocked up by the Boyne man of war.

FRANCE. PARIS, March 25. ON the 21ft inftant, Hebert, Ronfin, Momora, Vincent, Du Croquet, Kocq, a Dutchman, Col. Laumur, M. M. Bourgeois, Mazuel, La Boureau, Ancard, Le Clerc, Proly, Desfieux, Anacharfis Cloots, Pereira, Florent, Armand, Descombles, Dubuifon, and the wife of General Quitineau, were brought before the Revolutionary Tribunal, charged with a confpiracy against the state.

The following is an extract of the act of accufation, which runs to very confi-. derable length:-" After a very strict examination, partly by private interrogato.. ries of the prifoners, as well as by written documents, it appears that there never existed a more horrid confpiracy against the fovereignty of the people-a confpiracy which was extended in a variety of ways, and from which the most dreadful confequences must have enfued, had not the most active vigilance of the convention counteracted it, by unmasking and delivering up to juftice thofe, who feemed to be the principal instruments of it. This execrable confpiracy was directed by in

dividuals who had cheated the nation by a specious pretext of patriotifm, Their object was to annihilate the fovereignty of the people, and the liberty of Frenchmen, and to re-cftablish defpotifm and tyranny,by using all their means to deprive the people of fubfiftencies, and to maffacre the moft zealous reprefentatives of the people. The national representation was to have been annihilated, and was to have disappeared with the reprefentatives of the people, who were to have fallen under the poignards of these confpirators, for the unpardonable crime. of having courageously fought to fupport the rights of the people.

"The English government, and the powers combined against the republic, are the true heads of this confpiracy, the perfidious agents of which were marked un-, der the cloak of hypocrify, and clothed with the public authority, which they had ufurped. Heaped with their favours; elevated for the most part of them, to public functions, fuch as Rofin, Hebert, Momoro, and Vincent; foreign bankers and generals were the intermediate perfons between the chiefs and their agents, who wished only to gain honours and places to fatisfy their ambition; and whofe debaucheries were fed by the gold of tyrants. This meditated confpiracy had, for a long time, all the appearance of patriotism, and approached to its execution in the very moment when it was discovered. It was these factions which excited troubles and wants, to compass the deftruction of the republican government. It appears that the chiefsof the confpirators held their nocturnal meetings at the house of the Dutch banker Kocq at Paffy; that there, having planned their criminal revolt, they delivered themselves up to all forts of iniquitous orgies. It appears that each of them had his part alligned him. Ronfin and Mazuel were to go about Paris, armed with their authority, and fearch the houses of arreft, where they took lifts of the prifoners in order to difcover who beft could fit their purpose. We fee Hebert and Vincent fometimes denouncing bad citizens-fometimes the moft zealous defenders of the people, to mislead the public opinion, and to confound in one common ruin the national representation, and the good patriots, to whom the scarcity of provisions was attributed. In fhort, we fee thefe confpirators vilifying the members of the committee of public fafety and public welfare, and demanding a re-election of the national representation."

They were all convicted, and fuffered death this morning, except La Boureau, who was acquitted. INDIA

HOUSE OF COMMONS, APRIL 4.

order for the into a

were unobjectionable, but on account of moft de

accounts before the houfe, relative to the finances of India, was read; on the quef. tion for the speaker's leaving the chair being put,

General Smith took the opportunity to obferve, that, on an occafion fimilar to the prefent in the last feffion of parliament, he had reprefented the calamitous fituation of a great number of the oldest and most refpectable officers in the Bengal army to the right hon. gentleman, who then faid, that Lord Cornwallis was expected shortly to come home, and that, when he had arrived, an arrangement in favour of thofe unfortunate gentlemen thould be devised. He now rose to ask the right hon. gentleman, if any, and what, steps had been taken in that affair.

Mr. Secretary Dundas agreed with the hon. gentlemen, that the fituation of the gentlemen alluded to merited every attention, and accordingly that the noble marquis had been indefatigably employed in examining the business; and he hoped, that speedily fuch an arrangement would be formed, as would remove the alternative from thofe gentlemen of "either ftarving at home or dying abroad."

The question being put and carried, the house refolved into a committee, Mr. Beaufoy in the chair.

Mr. Secretary Dundas rofe, and, in a fpeech of confiderable length, laid before the committee a statement of the very important, but at the fame time complicated and various, accounts before them, relative to the finances of India. He obferved, that he had given fuch gentlemen as were interested in thofe concerns

a full opportunity to make themselves mafters of thofe accounts, to which he prefied their attention; and he could not avoid taking notice, that thofe gentlemen who, two or three feffions back, were very attentive to his statements, and not backward in attempting to difprove them, had latterly either not attended the committee, or had not favoured him with their obfervations on the subject.

He was alfo about the fame period frequently honoured with anonymous and other correspondence, relative to his budget, but of late thefe perfons were filent; from which he must infer, that their filence proceeded, not only from their own internal conviction that his statements

incontrovertible evidence of figures.→→ Of the truth of what he laid down in the present instance, he flattered himself, that he thould, as he had hitherto done, bring forward such a satisfactory statement to the committee, as to justify the various arrangements he intended to propofe on the occafion.

He then launched out into a diffuse and minute difquifition of the various and complicated fyftems of finance under the confideration of the committee; his different ftatements and calculations were drawn from the voluminous collection of papers then on the table. a

In taking a review of the general incomes and expenditures of the different fettlements, he calculated chiefly upon the average of three years, and on the double mode of eftimate and actual receipt and expenditure: and, according to this, he stated the estimated revenues of the prefidency of Bengal, for the cur rent year, to be about 5,104,950l. which fum was exceeded by the actual collection, as it amounted to 5,526,9341. He then ftated the particulars of the charges of this fettlement according to the estimate and actual coft, which he was happy in being able to ftate fell short of the revenues fo far as to leave a balance in favour of the latter of about 2,550,000l.

He next adverted to the fettlement of Madras; the estimated revenue of which was 2,458,000l. and was exceeded also by the actual collection, which amounted to 2,476,3101. He said the charges of this prefidency were fuch, as to fall fhort of the revenue in a fum of 520,0001.

He

With refpect to what related to Bombay, he was forry he could not be fo accurate as he wished, on account of his not being furnished with documents later than 1792, except upon bare estimate. stated what upon this conjectural ground were the revenue and the expenditure of this fettlement; the latter in this inftance, as is always the cafe, confiderably exceeded the former. He then touched upon the charge of Bencoolen, the Prince of Wales's ifland, and the other small de pendencies of an Indian poffeffion, the whole of which he stated to amount to 77,000l.

Having dwelt upon thefe points with minutenefs and precifion, he proceeded