The National Intelligencer And Washington Advertiser

WASHINGTON CITY.

MONDAY, October 25, 1802.

We learn that the French national schooner Enfant Prodige, from Guadaloupe, which she left on the 20th of September, has put into New-York for the purpose of delivering dispatches to the address of Mr. Pichon, and that she proceeds immediately to France.

The Colonial Prefect, Mr. Lescallier, had, by an arrete, opened the Colony to foreign vessels. The information received by Mr. Pichon states the Colony to be in want of provisions, and especially salt beef and pork.

General Lacrosse had been installed in the government by General Richepanse, but only temporarily, to assert the power of government. He was to give up the government in a short time to General Richepanse, and to proceed to another destination assigned him in the Colonies; but in consequence of the death of General Richepanse, General Lacrosse retains the government.

Permission had been given to people of colour to return to Guadaloupe.

Translation of a letter written by Rear Admiral Lacrosse, Captain General of Guadaloupe, to Mr. Pichon.

Basse-Terre, the 4th Vendemiaire, 11th year, (26 September, 1802.)

I have the honor to inform you, citizen commissary, that by a decision just taken by citizen Lescallier, counsellor of state, colonial Prefect at Guadaloupe, all the ports of this colony shall in future be open, as formerly, to the American vessels and the exportation of colonial produce permitted on paying duties.

(Signed)

LACROSSE.

Translation.

In the name of the French Republic.

R. Lacrosse, Captain General of Guadaloupe and its dependencies.

Being willing to insure and maintain tranquility in the colony of Guadaloupe, orders as follows:

1st. No white individual shall be admitted in this colony without a passport.

2d. No person of colour or black shall be admitted in Guadaloupe unless they are provided with a passport from the commanding officer of the colony where they reside, and they will not be permitted to land until they are permitted to do so.

3d. No person whatever can leave the colony without a passport from the commissary of Government.

4th. Every Captain arriving in one of the ports of the colony shall declare the number of men composing his crew, their names and colour; the number of passengers, their names and colour. When they depart they shall present all the men composing their crew, as well as such of the passengers, who should not have been permitted to land or remain in the colony.

5. All foreign vessels on board of which negroes or mulattoes should have been introduced without passports, shall be seized and confiscated if the captain does not, when he arrives, declare that such passengers are on board.

6. There shall be no intercourse between a vessel arriving and the land until the health officer has made his visit agreeably to the established rules and regulations, and until the declarations has been made by the captain.

(Signed)

LACROSSE.