at his death; but you will punish them for their detestable joy. The General of Division, Rochambeau, will take the place of General Leclerc. He has just delivered the South and the East from the banditti by whom they were desolated. He is the person chosen by the Government, and by the General whose loss you lament.-The French Government watches over you, and will never abandon you. Daure, Colonial Prefect.

P. Boyer, General of Brigade, to the Minister of Marine and Colonies, dated November 9.

Citizen Minister, General Leclerc died on the night between the 1st and 2d November. In him the army has lost a father whose only care was to promote its happiness and glory. The colony has jost a Governor whose only ambition was to promote its prosperity. He called me to receive his Jast wishes, which I communicate with this letter. The army is in mourning for the loss of its General, and St. Domingo will for ever regret one who wished to ensure its happiness and tranquillity. I have the honour, &c.-Boyer.

Head-Quarters at the Cape, Nov. 1, three o'Clock in the Morning.

P. Boyer, General of Brigade, certifies and attests, that General Leclerc caused him to be called into his presence, and ordered that a vessel should be dispatched to acquaint General Rochambeau, that he should succeed him (General Leclerc) as Captain-General, and also as Commander in Chief of the Army, &c. &c.—[Then follows a Journal sent by Peyre, Physician in Chief to the Army of St. Domingo, containing an account of the illness of General Leclerc, which terminated in his death.]

The General of Brigade, Chief of the Etat-Major of the Arey of Saint Domingo, to the Minister of Marine

and Colanies.

Citizen Minister,-In the month of June Toussaint Louverture was arrested and sent to France. The plots of that brigand being at an end, tranquillity was more than ever assured. The organization of the colony made every day a new progress, and the justest hopes promised to the unfortunate colonists, future prosperity, and seemed to announce the end of their evils. They approached the haven.-The disarming of the negroes, an essential operation, and the first basis of tranquillity, was pursued with as much activity as success. Some slight insurrections broke out. A man of the name of Sans Souci, hitherto confounded amongst the negroes, assembled around him several unfortunate Congos, and endeavoured to set fire to the habitations. Pursued by the general who commanded in the northern part, he escaped into the most distant Mornes, and we heard no more of him.-The heat was, however, excessive; it became impossible to make any movement. The least elevated mornes presented to us obstacles proportioned to the inconveniencies of the temperature. The number of brigands increased. Our hospitals were filled with sick, and every day the sickness made new ravages. The brigands calculated its progress with a secret joy.-The insurrection reached the quarters of Marmalade, Dondon, and, Moustique: our troops were every where, and fought with courage. The quarters were re-conquered, and a part of the brigands punished and disarmed.-In the latter end of August, Ch. Belair, an atrocious African, who had hitherto submitted to re republic, rose in insurrection on the heights of Arnbonite. A party of the colonial

troops, who had been in our pay, joined him. After different combats, the wretch was taken, with his horrible wife. A military commission condemned him to death on the 15th of October.In the south, different partial insurrections equally obliged our troops to leave their quarters. General Desbureaux put the brigands to the route, and succeeded in re-establishing tranquillity-The negro Domage revolted in the quarter of Jérémie, and burnt several habitations. This wretch was arrested, tried, and put to death.-The quarters of Leogane, Jacmel, and Bains, were also the theatre of different insurrections. Our troops every where quelled them, and the chiefs died the death of criminals. Since then, the southern part has been tranquil. The Spanish part is defended by the white population rising en masse, and who have done ample justice to all the negroes who attempted to penetrate thither.-The northern part is a prey to the most dreadful disturbances. Dessalines, Clervaux, and Christophe are with the bri gands. Their boldness increases with our weakness. Maurepas and a great number of the chiefs are arrested, and are on board the squadron.—In the beginning of November the general in chief, seeing the season a little improved, and impatient to repress a troop of those Africans who had taken a position before the Cape, in the plain of the north, ordered general Brunet to fall back upon him, resolving to disperse the brigands; but fate had decided otherwise. He fell sick in the latter end of October, and died on the 2d of November. -The army, witnesses of his solicitude, his constant labour, and indefatigable activity, wept for him as a chief and a father.-At the report of his death, the brigands advanced with dreadful cries; but the general of division Clausel, every where checked them.-On the 6th of November circumstances becoming more urgent, and the generals resolving not to wait any longer for general Rochambeau, a general attack took place. The enemy were every where repulsed and pursued: they evacuated the plains, and took refuge in the mornes. We expect with impatience the 300 men, of which the 86th made part: we reckoned on their arrival in the latter end of September, and they have not yet appeared.-The sickness has made dreadiul ravages; the oldest men never remember a year so sickly.-Some time before his death, General Leclerc transmitted sealed instruc tions for general Rochambeau, whom a vessel went in search of. General Watrin has set out to replace him. What was provided in the instructions has been punctually executed.-General Dugua, chief of the Etat-Major, died in the beginning of October, after a few days illness.-The ravages begin at length to diminish, although the season has been considerably delayed, and there has not been as much rain as we had reason to ex pect at this time of the year.-Health and respect, (Signed) Boyer.

DOMESTIC.

Yesterday being the anniversary of the festival in honour of the birth of Her Majesty, who completed the 58th year of her age on the 19th of May last, the same was observed with the usual splen dour and magnificence. The court was numerously attended.

From the London Gazette, Jan. 15, 1803. Whitehall, Jan. 7, 1803.-The King has been graciously pleased, in consideration of the signal and very distinguished services performed to his Majesty, and to his ally, the Ottoman Emperor, by Sir William Sidney Smith, Kaight, Commander and

some trifling variation in the order and in the phraseology), in every paper, we believe, that is published in the cities of London and Westminster. How far this reply is calculated to answer the intended purpose, we shall, by and by, be able to judge; but, we cannot, for a moment, refrain from expressing our satisfaction, that the modest Mr. Addington has endeavoured to vindicate any part of his conduct, which, when we consider how high he stands in the opinion of Buonaparté, is an act of condescension, which this poor trodden-down nation had scarcely a right to expect at his hands.-The paragraph, which we before quoted from the demi-official paper of the Ministers we must repeat here, as being the text for our comments:-" We are happy," said the True Briton of the 12th instant, "to be able to state, for the satisfaction of the Public, that the surplus of the consolidated "fund, ending the 5th of January, 1803, "amounted to £.1,248,032 being an ex"cess of £.399,329 in the three quarters,

beyond the £.4,500,000 which was calcu"lated as the amount of the surplus of the con"solidated fund for the whole year, ending 5th "of April, 1803."-The CONSOLIDATED FUND, is, as our readers must recollect, the aggregate produce of all the taxes, those of the Land and Malt excepted. A certain portion of this aggregate is constantly appropriated by parliament to the discharge of the interest of the national debt; and whatever sum that aggregate contains over and above the amount of the said interest, is called the surplus of the consolidated fund, and is, of course, reckoned amongst the ways and means for defraying the expenses of the year. When, therefore, parliament is called upon for the supplies to meet those expenses, it is the practice for them to vote a certain sum upon the credit of the consolidated fund, that is to say, a certain portion of the surplus arising from that fund; but, it will be readily conceived, that, in the amount of the sum thus voted, they always take care to keep very far within the amount, at which the whole of the surplus is estimated. Indeed, this is an invariable rule; and now we come, at once, to the application of these remarks, in the detection of a shameful falsehood, attempted to be imposed upon the Public in the above paragraph from the True Briton. The surplus of the two quarters up to the 5th of October was stated at 3,800,000l.* the demiofficial paper, adding thereto the surplus of the quarter ending on the 5th of January (1,248,0321.) says, that it makes "an ex

See Register, Vol. 1. p. 778.

cess of 399,3291. * in three quarters, "beyond the 4,500,0001. which was cal "culated as the amount of the surplus of the "consolidated fund for the WHOLE YEAR, "ending 5th of April, 1803." Now, the fact is, that there was a vote of 4,500,000) †(in the manner above stated) upon the credit of the surplus to April next; but, the sum of 6,500,000l. was "calculated" as the amount of that surplus; nay, the 6,500,000!. was not only "calculated as the amount of "the surplus;" but, it was taken as a calculation far below what the Chancellor of the Exchequer taught the parliament and the nation to rely on. Thus, then, this paragraph, which could not possibly have reached the Public without the knowledge, nor, indeed, without the consent, of the treasury, contains a falsehood evidently intended, by a confusion of terms, of times, and of sums, to elude exposure and to prolong the delusion spread abroad by means of the consolatory budget.-Having fixed this point, we shall now proceed to an examination of the other statements of the paragraph.-Mr. Addington having, as we have already seen, stated the produce of the two quarters (we speak always of the surplus), ending on the 5th of October, at 3,800,000l. the average of which is, 1,900,000 1. it appeared to us by no means satisfactory," that the quarter to the 5th of January should produce no more than 1,248,0321. We knew, indeed (what has, since our last, been published, in explanation, by the treasury), that the dividends payable out of the consolidated fund, in July and January, exceeded those due in April and October, and, consequently, that the surplus of those former quarters must be less than that of the latter quarters; but, allowing half a million for this purpose, even then the quarter ending on the 5th of January will be found to have produced no more than £1,748,032. To know what proportion this bears to the produce of each of the two former quarters, we must first add to the £3,800,000, which was the aggregate surplus of those quarters, the £500,000 for additional dividends in July, and then we shall find, that, had it not been for those dividends, the average of the July and October quarters would have been £2,150,000, whereas the quarter ending on the 5th of July has produced, including £500,000 for additional dividends, no more than £1,748,032. Shall we be told, that the additional dividends are

There appears to be an error in the figures here: 1,248,032 1. added to 3,800,cool. makes an excess of 548,032 1. But this is nothing to the arg gument.

See Register, Vol. II. p. 778.
See Register, Vol. II. p. 780,

higher in amount? This will act in a way that the Treasury are not aware of. But, for argument sake, put these additional dividends at a million in the July, and in the January, quarter; still there is a great defalcation, for the average produce of the July and October quarters would then be £2,400,000, while that of January would amount to only £2,248,032. The way, however, to place this contrast in a fair and strong light, is to suppose the January quarter to be, in every respect, equal to that of July; and, then we shall find, the surplus of the October quarter alone must have amounted to no less than £2,551,968, rather more than double the amount of the surplus for January.-Perceiving, therefore, that, whichever way the subject was turned, it still presented a rueful face of defalcation, the ingenious gentlemen at Whitehall fell upon a trick, which never had, as far as we know of, at least, before been played off. We shall give it in their own words, as published in the True Briton of the 18th inst. "It appearing that the statement of the "amount of the surplus of the Consolidat"ed Fund, on the 5th of this month, has "been misunderstood, and considered as less "favourable than the Chancellor of the "Exchequer had given reason to the Pub"lic to expect ;-we are happy to be able, "for the satisfaction of our readers, to ex"plain a few circumstances attending it. "The average surplus of the quarters end"ing in July and October last, having "amounted to £1,900,000, while that on "the 5th of January, amounted only to " £1,248,000, it has been supposed, that a "diminution has taken place in the re66 venue. The fact, however, is, that this

"lions and a half, in the year ending Ja

nuary 5, 1804; a cum which has been "exceeded by the actual receipts of the year ending January 5, 1803, which have "amounted to £6,756,000.”—So! the de falcation first arises "solely" from a postponement of the payment of the customs, and, in the next sentence, great part of it arises from the additional amount of the dividends. We have before noticed the effects of this latter cause, which we shall have occasion to allude to again, in another view of the subject; but, as to " postponement of pay"ment of the customs," we cannot, for one moment, allow it to have any weight at all, in proving that no defalcation has taken place in the produce of the quarter. There is a postponement at every quarter; there must be a postponement; part of the produce of one quarter always falls into the receipt of the succeeding one; and, were we to deduct that part of the produce of the October quarter, which fell into the receipt of the January quarter, the net proceeds of the surplus of the latter, instead of £1,248,032 would not have amounted to more than about £500,000. Again: Mr. Addington did, we are told, build his calculation, for the future, upon the produce of the three quarters ending on the 5th of October, 1802; but did he, in stating the amount of that produce, deduct any thing for the sum, which was produced in the quarter ending in January, 1802, but not received till the quarter ending April, 1802, and which sum was, we believe, much greater than that which is now said to be kept back by "postponement of the payment of customs?" No, no; he made no such de duction, nor will he, in his account of the produce of the present quarter, which will end in April, make any deduction for the sums which have grown due in the last quarter, and which will be received in this. The fact is, and it is a fact well known to every person at all acquainted with public accounts, that every quarter is estimated according to its receipts and not according to any thing else. There is no other certain way of coming at the state of the revenue. To admit of any other sort of proof would be to expose the Public to endless delusion. If a minister, when he finds a falling-off in one quarter, can throw the defalcation upon the preceding or succeeding quarter; if he can build his calculations sometimes upon the produce and sometimes upon the receipt, as it best suits his purpose; if he can thus shuffle his minus and his surplus backward and forward at his pleasure, there is an end of all check upon