The Recorder, Or, Lady's And Gentleman's Miscellany

NEW-YORK, June 22.

Captain Gemmels, of the schooner Hector from Guadaloupe, informs us, that on the 5th May, news arrived at the Government House of a fleet being off the harbour, when the town was cleared, and every preparation made to receive the division destined for Point Petre. The day following four frigates, a cutter, and four transports, entered the harbour, and came to anchor. General Pelage prepared to receive General Richepanse with military parade, and on his landing delivered up possession of the place without any disturbance, the blacks laying down their arms. The second in command, a mulatto, and the commandant LaPlace, in the mean while, retreated with some troops to Basseterre, where they made a stand against the French. May 12th, at midnight saw four plantations and the town of Basseterre on fire, during a heavy discharge of cannon and small arms from the fort, which continued with little intermission until the sailing of the Hector, no vessels being permitted to enter. General Pelage was sent on board one of the frigates, on the second day after their arrival.