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A c, respondent of the Boston Advertiser, writing from N a a, under date of Feb. 21. gives ilie par ticuars of the acquisition by the French of the is. land af Bassilau, of the East Indies. IL seems that in the latter part of last year F,enth man of war landed upon ihe island for water, and while pro- curing boat was cut of and several of her crew killed. ..uIr t..t. ...

 The French then proceeded to Samboaugau and acquainted the officers of the Spanish fleet there with the facts, but could obtain no satisfaction. Some two months after. a French steaner with the French ambassador, frigate and two coryettes, sailed from Manila for the straits with the iniention as is SUD- posed, of acquiring possession of Bassiau. A sub- sequent letter states that il had been ceded to the French for one hundred years, by the Raja at Soc. $IOO OOO