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by ſtratagems, and by the deſperate valour of his troops: He retires that t he French may follow to where tley muſt inevitably periſh.

In Guadeloupe, PELAGIE is fill maſter of the military force, and by con- ſequence, of the whole government of the iſle, He has not diſplaced all the former civil officers; but, his adminiſtration is in open defiance of the or- ders and authority of the Firſt Conſul. We know not that any French force has hitherto attempted to enter the iſle and ſuppreſs his rebellion.

From the ANGLO-AMERICAN STATEs we have not lately been informed of any very great and intereſting events. The Southern States have, indeed, been much alarmed by the deteétion of a general confpiracy among their llaves to riſe in rebellion, deltroy the families of their maſters, and ere& another Negroe and Mulattoe Government, in imitation of the preſent inſurgeats in

St. Domingo and Guadeloupe. Zz

Commercial Affairs.--

ROM an official paper by the French Miniſter for the Internal Départ< ment ofthe Affairs of that Government, we learn, that in the French

year ending M September 18300, L£- Sterling. The value of the Imports of the French Trade was“ 13,500,090 Of the. Exports*---- 11,300,009

Balance“ L£2,200,000 Tn the year ending in September 1801, the Imports were 17,370/000 Exports----= 12,716,000

Balance-£4,6 54,000

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Value of Prizzs captured, this year, from the Enemy. 670,000 Total clear balance againf Prance-£3,984,009

On the zoth of April, the Tiers Conſolide funded débt of the French Go-

- Verninent, bearing an intereſt of 6 per cent. was at 56 livrés and 18 fols

per cent. The Bank Stock was on the ſame day at 115714 livres per 1000. The Exchange with London yielded 20s. and 1d. for every pound ſterling to be paid in the Britiſh metropolis.

On Monday, April 26, the Stock of the Bank of England was at 1941 per cent. the 3 per cents, red. at 792 per cent. the 3 per cents. conſols at 76F‘per cent. the Oiunium of the Loan, at a premium of z2 per cent.

‘Phe uſual prompt payments have not been made on the Loan for the pre- ſent year.

It was ſettled on Monday, April 26, that the bidding for the Lottery of the preſent year ſhould’ take place fon Thurſday, the 29th, at ten o'clock A. M. There is to be an alteration in the arrangeinent of this Lottery.

The Loan for the public expenditure in the Government of Treland, in the courſe of the preſent year, will be nézociated in Treland, on or about:the 6th

i

of May, a Iíaac Corry, Chancellor of the Iriſh Exchequer.

The tol owing is the order in which the inſtalments of the Iriſh Loan are ta be paid,, Es May 6th, depoſit°-- Z 60,0009 — ic th,. À.‘. 109,000 4 Amount carried forward E[£160,000‘d

Com.& Ag, Mag, Vol, VI. Rr