Gazette Of The United States

Domestic Articles.

NORFOLK, January 9.

On Sunday last arrived here the brig William Pennock, Capt. Williams, who sailed from Point Petre, Guadaloupe, on the 15th December. Four days before Capt. Williams left the island, the frigate La Felicite arrived at Dominica, in 35 days from France, and bro't news of the defeat of the Combined Forces, which set the whole island in a fermentation; the inhabitants were all quitting the island, in expectation of a fleet coming from France. Capt. Williams took in 20 passengers for St. Eustatia, where he arrived on the 18th, and found five more American vessels from different parts of the island, full of French passengers, and a number more momentarily expected. St. Eustatia was full of French people, and scarce a house to be got on any terms. At St. Martin's on the 20th ult. likewise found several more vessels from Guadaloupe, with 4, 5, and 6 passengers on board; also a vessel from Martinico, with passengers, who informed him that that island was in the same situation as Guadaloupe, which was continually under arms. A gentleman on board the vessel from Martinico says, 1700 of the inhabitants quitted the island, and all kinds of business was at a stand; nothing doing except fortifying the island, repairing the forts, and getting in order to arm the negroes against the fleet arrived from France which they expected. In Guadaloupe they purchased 50, 200 stand of arms from the other islands; and on the first appearance of the fleet, the Planters were determined to arm their negroes to protect the White Flag. The frigate La Felicite got information of a French frigate who wore the White flag, manned with mulattoes, which the La Felicite gave chase to-she run into Basseterre, Guadaloupe, under cover of the guns. The Captain of the La Felicite wrote the Governor of Guadaloupe, if he caught any Aristocratic Flags in the West-Indies, he was determined to sink them-He bent his course to Dominica, as he could not obtain any supplies in the French islands.