Le Cap. A brig brings the colonial prefect of Tobago.

On 25 July, in the afternoon, a great number of French officers strolling on the beach at Le Cap saw an English frigate bring up to the ship carrying the commodore a brig which they at first took for an American. About an hour later the brig left the flagship, hoisted the French colors, passed before Fort Picolet, which she saluted, and entered the harbor. The French had a moment of true happiness; they believed that peace had been made between France and England. They already saw communications with the mother country reopened and the colony saved. But their illusion was short-lived: the brig was bringing the colonial prefect of Tobago, who had capitulated to the English and, under the terms of that capitulation, had obtained leave to go to Le Cap. He was received with distinction by the captain-general, who handed him the reins of the prefecture of the colony. He at once set to work issuing new bills of exchange, which the merchants accepted with a fair degree of confidence despite the calamities that struck the Europeans every day.