The Wilmington Gazette

              1'i.t v demantls were a.ldrclted to the rhit datioo s.b.-lltoti inda o'clock p m ri.ed for a d,-iinitive reply the fet tlement was totally unprepared lor defence no cannon ivi 1 mounted and there were no troops to defend it no ttilwer being imtitiutd at ihe apt tinted hour the eng particular of the capture and deltvuc tioti of vi ike a malay fettlement on lite coait ot sumatra on he 13th of april two large eng liltl dii j an-i l " re ? t»riy pii is to anchor in ma t-y foahsj dole in lliore they were well anned t and had on board trom 3 to 400 scaboy tru<ips commanded by europe otlj jrs the expedition was fitted out at b.ncoolen 1 he ctimmad jing omcei immediately m.idc the fol id str ing demands . i that the natlvsli f1i<fula pav ioo,oo dollars or ho dellruclioi ot a limit ar mament by the french in i'ttlo bay near bencoolen ab-uit lix months previous which armament was detlincd ag.inlt a that a fecnnd 100,000 dolls hould bs paid lor the lofs of a country hip near maki y whirh the briiilh altedged had been plum red by the m da\s }. they demanded another too 000 fnr th.-cxpetice of the iccoi.d fleet then before th uort i is reported in the foreign papers that ruffia is anned againft france and me didates an attack againft her on the fide of italy by means of an armament from the black sea and the co-operation ol the fnglilh fleet in the mediterranean it is alfo faid that rnflia has already a confiderab.e number of troops in the if lands of the adriatic and has ill tied a proclamation calculated to cultivate the ell cm of the people in thofe parts where her iroops may find fo convenient a red ing place previous to their landing in italy by the hamburgh mails which arrived on thurfdsy were received two letters from berlin one of which dates that the cabinet of relet fburgh will certainly re - fufc to acknowledge the new emperor of france it it however added hat this reftifal will have no eft'c.l upon the other courts of europe . the fecond letter informs ill that the elector of baden has entirely fet to rctt the difcuffion that was to take place in the diet of ratifhon on the liibjeci of the violation ot the ter ritory of that electorate by the french thus it appears thai bonaparte has in fulrtiily declined lo turnifh any explana tion of his condiicl in this affair on the zt i inhant a boat was obfervcd br our fqusdron to ihe wcflward of bou logne at a greater distance from the land than ilia to which hilling boats go in ge neral the ligttal being made to chacc the locutt came up with her and found wilmington gazette i rut an lo published wki.b_v by allmand hall tuesday september 5 t.cu e from a london papkk ok u ly 7 r.v.ts bolls n jtswjji a private letter from rhc hague ot the tfl ir.tt lays we arc - n iceitain how foon the expedition agaiull firfgund will be undertaken although every v thing is rcarly and feveral regiments t vc been embarked for more than a , foriui v -'. flt », ° 11 board the fleet in the texel , on i.^l °- ther hand nearly one hundred roerclu v "> men put in reimifi inn or hired jafl au tumn have been rellcrtd to t rare g radii ' ally , fo that tlis.whole number of franf pori actually employed and at anchor in the texel do not amount lomoie tkvn eighty the armed veitels as frtgs'rjf gun-boats and cutters c have beet augmented ev.ry where in the coall ort account of the repeated attempt's of tl>c engltlh crtii'rers in the mcufe alone one frigate five ptin-boatr and three cut ters are rationed in addftfon to ihe num ber employed lad may . " of the fourteen thtftifti'hd men 1st the i 1 ! elder and in north holland eight ihou fand arc embarked tbe remainder are yet encamped but in fitch a hate i.rat they may be taken on board in a few hours tne cjmp near utrechr litter general mormonr contains only etghfecn thou and trier moll ly french ', of v/rkim one thou'fand five hundred are at am'.lerdatn one ihctffand two ht/hdfed at rotterdam and eight hundred at the fragile " several corps o"f french recruits o'r conferipts to the amount of fourteen thoti fand men have paf!ed through holland tor hanover within thefe la(t tour weeks in her two defertcrt from the french ar my they had taken a li:hing boat from tortal at ten o'clock the evening be fore with » view of joining our fleet ihen at anchor in bbttlognt hay \ but being un acquaihed with the art of managing a boat and having rowed againft tide till they were almolt cxhauftcd they drifted to the fit>:ation in which lhey were found about three o'clock iti the afternoon ac cording t»>the accounts given by thefe de ferters thrre are one hundred thoufatid men encamped nr ambletetife vimcreu'x and on the right and left of eup!«?s and st boulogne there are in the harbd.r and without it one thoufatld flat-bottortte boats luggers brigs and trarifports • be 25 h regiment of light infantry arc encamped behind boulogne and perform r.o other fervice than working in rhe har bour and fort they itate itkewtfe that nomoic preparations are making ftrr rhe invalion i his crm utry thcttflels have had on bo.,ir there tbete fen ihonths part pities of ordnance for land ft r mice but they do hut know when ihe attempt will be made tlfey contrailrc-f i jc re port of the coronation ot pouapirif tid alfer that he wi?l 1101 he clownei , ft he i it is cxpcct-d t h i the people 0 palis will revolt ; even a great many ot h>s own countrymen arc againft it one of thefe defcrtets'/aid he was a drum major of the 5'h regiment of artillery the'omer was a isrjeant in the lame regiment and both fay lhey were diflatisfied on being fifgra ced in the regiment but on what account we have not been abe to learn ; they add that gr.?a'i difcontent prevails fhroi-ghout the who'e arm v the fame liters inform us that the c nemy has not be ti ve'rv lately oblf.tr.d to be making anv difpofition forcomint our but when our flee is off boulogne there a'fc always about torty.fix brigwnd f event y fix lngy-rs lying ar anchor under protcc lionot heir batteries a great lumber of foldicr have been obferved exercifing bn the coa ft but as far as our cui.crs are able 10 judge the irocvps feen tn this tide of the eminence behind boulogne do nbt exceed ten thotifvndmcn lifh commenced the attack by firing on the town from all their vellelc many natives were killed before a tingle hot was returned in the night they hove up banks of and and planted a few cannon and in the morning of the 14th returned the fire a warm engagement continued for abootfix hours 1 he etiglifh loft a bout twenty men the captain of one of the brigs was wounded the firit hot from dlore killed three men on board finding little could be done by continuing in their veftels the er.glifh landed the toldicrs and attack ed t its inttenchmenis here heie was a of one of the hips brave refinance but finally the natives a har-doned the ground flying in all direc v is into the o.miry dattoo s-ibell the malay rnj^h who bravely detcn ft ih piaco ta fuitpofetl to b mortal ly wounded tbe englilh now entrench ed themtelvsts in turn built a fort and took polferfion ol tire country nd fearing the natives might poifbn all the itreafn an wells in that neighbourhood landed 200 calk of waicr'frorn the hups thev tiellroyed the town of makey burning all the hdtifes t the grounds and plundering the natives of all the pepper which hall been collected fi/r the leafon thequantt ty is flared to he equal to five fi'.ip loads the american velfels in port took un part on either fide a few hot from rhe eng liih vrffels palled over then 1 , but did no damage not having completed their loading application was maite after the furrenderof the place to th britifh rtfi dent tor permifiioti to purchafe pepper bdt'the afhlwcr was that it was atiain.'l his iiiltruction rnd tro pepper cotild be loll to foreigners it will be heyc nec.jflary nn'v to make a fingle obf-tvation to prove that this un provoked attack has fallen on the malays chiefly in confluence of ihe americans vtfiiing their country and pordiafing pepper laft year it was publicly repor ted on theco-fr ilia fo iour as the ame ricans were fubere to trade among the natives the englifh hips could ger little or no pepper and declarations was made that it would bei.ecefl.ry to take poifeffion of the na:i pons with a v ew of ex cluding all foreigners from any participa tion in the trade fth therefore pre-tv evident that pep per mui in f-iture be either ptirchaled l through englih hands at double pricey or not he had at all at sumatra whiio the englifh cat keep poll-fiion a fplrit of univerfal commerce has feized this peop'e thev wim to cngrofs the who'e trade of the ealt and weft indies and to fix boun^3 to even that ot europe and ameri ca as a commercial people ourfclves wifhing to come in for a ma hare a leail of what may be called common property we cannot and ought not to wifh them fuccefs in any fclteme which fcems to aim at feizin'g the whole com mctcc of both hemifpheres one ofthe engliih brigs on her return to bencoolen was fallen in wirnbt a french privateer and lent to the i fle-of france •• theie had been two embirgoes on all clipping ai calcutta and on i be river limgly in conltrquence ol the failing of rte company's hup for europe •' the event of the war feemed to dif fufe a general joy among the inhabitants of calcutta both europeans and natives and his excellency the governor had publicly received a congratulatory addrefs on ihe fubjed irov.the principal inha bitants ot the leitlenient about the be ginning ot march the palace an i envi rons were moll fuperbly illuminated the naincsof lakc and wkm.es ley were exhibited in fire works in various politions and a fplendil ball at he go vernment houfe doled the fefliviiiej of the night an imtnetrfe throng ol all nations hues and tongues furrounde.l the palace in everv direction in hort the toot khsxxb4.r wat grand and interef ting beyond dcfcriprinn •' a rupture between fiolkaar a l\jah ratta chief and the companv was much expected , ant it was aifo whifpered that pegu would foon fall into the hands ol tho englilh on this fubj however no tirmife cou'd poffibly lie formed from the jcii.ct'es ol calcutta as not a fyllable appears in them which has not previoully undergone examination by the chief se cretary to government i who expunges fuch articles a fie thinks proper 44 theve had been a number of french prlfoners fro tn the lfle-of-france cruifing in the bay ot bengal fevcral of which had been taken by englilh cruisers and fent into calcutta they had been at ben coo'eii nd ilcllroyed a quantity of pepper and feve/al vcllels in the harbour i n d . a 1 ivs sxn-nt augufl 24 a gentleman who arrived ycflerday in the lucia from calcutta has favoured us with the following luminary ol intelli gcncc : . " the news of the torlir'in europe reach ed calcutta abont the beginning of de cember ; in confcqoe.'i-c ot which a num ber of tailors were iifiprclfed from thr mcrican hipping for the britilh ll.ip caroline captain page a grc ' r |. her of american fearnen harl delcn icir hups in the months of septemoer oito ber^and november and voltr ered on board the ii m corttoany'i tr c bom bay capta'.i la t wh-rr lej^'till are and prni j '' eeurmg ne war •« 1 he vjo:i:p.my had concluded a peace with fh mahr.tta pewett the war was ot but hott duration though extremely obltinateon the part of the black princes many hard battles were fought in which the laughter on boih ides was ve ry confijerable in one engagement scindiah the m-hratta chief hjft 90 pie ces of artillery a number of european officers fought under his flandard his ioldicrs weie armed and clothed in a flyle fuperior to that of their enemies and the englilh troop tound them much belter killed in war than at any former period several able and diftinguifh-d britiih offi cers fe'l in the courfe of the campaign by the peace the conpany have game i as uftial a i inge acceffion of territory befides feveral lirong torttfled to«vns and a good fh.re uf.plunder rxow co^bv-tt's k.ci-t'er 6f jumejo irish finance from the official accounts rccent'y laid before parliament ir appe re ihitl the whole net annual revenue of ireland a mounts to k 603 3051 anil that its annu al expenditure t call its rxr^nditure for the lallyear amoiiriied to 7,798,15541 leaving an annual deficit o and when we crs.fider the anxiety that mud have prevailed to make as good an appearance as p'o'hbfe it is being jy no means uncandid to piefume that the a mount of the annual expenditure is very little i any 21 alb lefs than doiitil the amount of the a'nr.tia revenue the new chancellor of the exchequer has impofed new taxes vvhieh he has elltm*r>..l _« t,-o6,oobl annual produce this is ad ding mote thaii a fourth fo the total of the tovef en 1 revenue and iffuch on addition ii actually collected mr ft iter will cet taiuly be regarded as a conjurer this gentleman has been fuppr.led 10 under hand the principles of taxation and in deed the whole bufinef ota financier but luch a fuppofttion is not very itiongly torroborai'ed by the taxes he bar felected by the expectations he ha held torih anil particularly by the obfcrvations he made vclati'vc 10 the ettect ot his tax upon bank notes which tax he faid at the fame time that it augmented the revenue would tend to keep the quantity ot the bank paper within due bounds on occa lions like ibis it is that one is ovcrpow cred wiih mclancholly refli-etior.s ! what hut the immediate inferpofi'tion ol provi dence can bting us fafe out of fuch 11311115 " tend to keep the quantity of paper within due bounds ! " and that too at he very moment when he is augmenting the taxes one fourth which augmentation ntujl produce a gieat augmentation in the quantity ol circulatingjricdium that mull be made in bank notes nay the very tax upon ihe notes will caufe an increafe of their quantity and a depreciation in their quality upon the fame principle that a brandy merchant would put water into his cafks if you were to impofc a tax up on his liquor without permitting him to raifc its nominal price there wanted only this one obfervation from mr fof tcr to convince me that the lnfh trtalury had gained nothing by the recent change the new taxes naay pohaps produce 8oo,bool lome periuns think they will produce o.oo.cc'ol but there is no one irnagineiihal they will add morethan6oo 000 10 the icvenue becaiifc thi y mill certainly occaliona confiderable falling off in the produce ot the old taxrr money mbft however be had and loans mull be made under the guarantee of great bri tain ; the debt evill go on rapidly inc.rea fing on both fides of ihewater and if the grefent fyltem continues for five years fiippofing the war to continue fo longal fo the ifttereft of the debt of great-bri tain will fwallow up neatly if not qui'e the whole of her revcnric it is begin ning to be the tafhion aimmgft the parti sans of the minilter to throw the blame of the financial diltrtltes ol ireland upon i the fhoulders of mr addington and hie s jii'v 9 the rumour of invafioi ir now r;vived and the app'rehenfions of the public arc fiippofed n't have ihe find ion of ike m i silter and the government mr vnt %.« indeed the original froakcr and ihe try which wonnd up the nation to inch a pitch ot anxiety and energy when be wan out will certainly be renewed as one of the mcavii of keeping him in the minor ral tvhich mr pift fo'r tn»ily v'-commended to the admivatty is row to be brought into tife and to fail to the fevcral depots to attack the enemy upon wituri we arc allured a vigorous alt.irtlt is hortlv to be made they are to engage the frcnthgun-boa't under the protection ot the greater ihipit and it is thought that they will doubtlefs provoke ihem to a general engagement wchav only to obferveuport thill that if they ven ture too near the coaft they will be expo fed to the land batteries and it cannot be fuppofed that the french will ha2ard ihemtelvii out of their protection it is impoilibleto fay whether the chance ol invafton dimitiilhes or increafe as we have no fource of information but the occahonal report of a hocp who hat peep ed into the harbours and can at bell give but an imperfect account ; tor furc v we cannot trnft to the intelligence of the defertcrs of boulogne or to the exa iterations or del.flons ot the french pa pers it is generally thought that the brcll fleet is prepared far lea and will venture on an attempt agoinll ireland our blockading heel is not fo flrong but tha the enemy will hazard a meeting with it _, july >*• the french force now at havre con fiftlof 140 gun-vellels and boats of which 70 lately came down the seine letters from the britilh fquadron employed in the hlockatfe of that port flate that ex pectations are entertained by our officers of an attempt being fhortly made by the enemy to force a paffage along fhorc a report prevails at dover that nearly one hundred fail of the enemy's gun-bo'ats under convoy ot a hoop nave within ihcfe lew days back crtedled ihcir efcape from boulogne to cucibourg they procee ded lo near in fliore ihat it vivas irtpoffible for our ihips either to intercept them or in any material degree to interrupt their progfefs we trull that the fmall craft now fining out to annoy the enemy in flioal water will be fitted out with all pof lible expedition