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MILITAR r INoTrIR r. SUPPLEMENT TO THE THIRD REPORT. are-- Since the publiCation of our Third Report, we have obtained the following information relative to the lopply of coals in the ifland of Alderney : Major General Elle, who had the military elm mand in that iiland, daring the years 1799. ISocr and tßat. procured Arne of his coals from the Barrack Mallet's (lore. Mier fome communication between the Major General and the Barrack Officer, concerning the mode in which he should account for thefe coals, amounting to upwards of four hundred and ninety-two bulbels, it was fettled that he (mould retarn the fame quantity. By a letter from the Ba• rack Office, it appears, that this quantity was return ed into the Barrack Store on account of Major Ge neral Elle, in the months of Antal and September, iBoi ; and from the Major General we learn, that he bought there coals of Mr. Davifon, at that time Applying coals to the barracks in the gland ; and that he paid for theta is. 7d. per buffiel, or 575. per chaldron, including all expences, into the Ilene ; and that he about the fame time bought of G. R. Walker, of Guernfey, so buffiels for his own ufe, at is. 9d. per buffiel, or 635. per chaldron. Mr. Davifon's prices for the coals delivered to the barracks in Alderney, during thole two months et :801, and for which he has produced the ufual cur tificites, are for 216 buffiels, at the rate of 725. per chaldron, and for the remainder, amounting to 7665 huflrels, the prices vary from 755. to 131 a. per di on. We learned further from Major General Elle, that 09 the 2111 October, 1799,• he paid Mr. Rouhillard, of Alderney, for 54 bawls of coals furniffied to him at different times during that year, 2s. der bufhel, or 725. per chaldtop. The prices charged by Mr. Da vifon during that year are at no time leis than 95,. per chaldron; and in the Spring are as high as 15os. Whether Mr. Davifon, therelore, intended to charge the wholefale or retail prices for the coals de• livered to the barracks in Alderney di n ing the years alluded to, it is impoffible to reconcile tru.fe prices with that paid to him by Major Generil Etle whiltl he raided in that ifland, or with thof paid by the Major General to G R. Walker and Mr. Roubillaad, which it is to be preformed were not lower than thefe the inhabitants of Alderney were paying at the time . We have mentioned in our Third Report, a iranf aEtion refreling the delivery of 6o chaldron of coals at Brighthelmllone Barracks, in which Mr. Har graves, the Teller of the coals, had, on 23d January, 1799; charged Mr. Davifon 465. per chaldron for theft, and had certified the price of coals to the inhabitants on that day to be, including 2s. for car riage, 6os. per chaldron. Having learned that Mr. Hargraves was defirous of explaining his part in this tranfaelion, we exa- Mined him on the fubjee. He laid, " that being in larirth.n.in December, 1793, he was applied to by Mr. Daniel Wilkinfon, Mr. Davifon's Clerk, to put in 6o chaldrons of coals in addition to a conlidera ble quantity already delivered by him at Bright helmitone barrack , ' and at the fame price;. that he complied with the application, and began the deli• very of thefe coals on the Bth of January 1799, and completed it on the 22d, having delivered nine chill thous by the tub of the month, at . which time the price to the inhabitants was 48 (billings per chaldron, and the remaining 51 cheldrons, between the rah and 22,1, during which period the price to the inha bitants was 58s. per chaldron, which • price, exclu dive of two 'billings for carriage, he certified on the r3d of January." Mr. Hargraves (fates the reafon of his confining the certificate of price to that day, to be that he was invariably diraled by Mr. Da vifon to certify the pike of the day on which he got the Barrack Mailer's receipt of the quantity which had been delivered ; and he thinks he never procured theft receipts until the whole of a fpecific quantity contralled for had been delivered, although he was Ametimes four to five months in completing the con trail." He afterwards Paid, " that he abuttals , . he had been fix or feven months, or from May to December, in completing a conttaCt, in which cafe the certificate trice fent to Mr. Davifon, was the price of December in that year, at which time tile pt ice inti:.l have been much higher than in the preceding runittlis; for, that the price is always, higher in the winter than in the lummer months." We learn further fwom Mr. Hargraves, that when he was at Mr. Davtfon'i hoole, in Harpur-areet, which was in the firrt year of lei. dealing with Mr. Davifon, he was informed by Mr. DanieCWilkintnn, Mr. Davifon's Clerk, that the °Neel of requiring him to fend certificates of the prices which the inhabitants were paying for their coals, was " to convince Go vernment of the advantage of Mr. Davifon's doing their Wind's, for that Mr. Davifon was allowed a per tentage only, (he thought Iylr. Wilkinfon named two and one•half per cent. for his trouble )" Mr. Hargraves laid, " that it was not until the publica tion of our nit d Report, that he learnt Mr. Davifon was paid the certified prices of coals, for that he thought Mr. Davifon charged the Government the prices he paid to him (Mr. Hilt graves)". Mr. Har graves' evidence, in this part of it, is - confirmed by two letters addrelfed to him, and figned by Mr. Da vifon In a part of the firll, dated fireet, Jane 13, 1795, Mr. Davifon lays, " and, in order to prove to the Barrack Marler•General (if neceirary ) the advantages wiling by the pi efent mode raf supplying the barracks with coals, in comparifon ith the prices paid by •the ordinary inhabitants, at the iefreCtive filtrations, I will trouble you to get the annexed certificate properly filled up, and figned by two te , peCiable perions at each place, &c." In the other, dated Harpur (freer, December 21, 1799, he lays, " the annexed certificate being wanted for my rra u fatisfaftion, and to prove to the Barrack Mailer Genital the propriety and economy of the prefent mode of fupplying the barracks with coals, you will oblige me by getting the fame prapir)y filled up, agreeable thereto, and figned by y , urfelfan I another relpeelable inhabitant to that for Brighton, and two relpeeable inhabitants tel that far Shoreham, and return the fame as boon as poffible." Mr. Hargraves laid further, " that, had he known that Mr. Davifon was paid the certificate prices, he would have fent certificates of the prices, on the days of atinal deli very, and he would have delivered the coals at the times when the prices were the lowell." This part of Mr. Hargraves' evidence fuggells this rifftea, hi: Con, nig .en o, point of view. But we do not prelim to give an opinion on this :.cad ; and we !hall merely pate the further infor mation obtained relative to the fupply of coals at •Blightlielmltone barracks, Among the many letters addreffed to Mr. HarL ' graves on the firbjed of this fupply, which lie toer mined us to fee, is one dated sth April , t800`• ed (for Alexander Davifon, Efquire, Daniel Wilk on) in an extra& of which, speaking in tire perfon of Mr. Davilon, he lays, ~ I have very much to lament hay ing to trouble yon and Colonel Moore, by returning inolofed his receipt for the laid coals ; it being dated on the 4th inilant, for coals supplied in the coo' fe of the lail nine months, is too inofficial for the voucher rf a public account. This obliges me to requell his r ectiots for the different deliveries ; or rather, that the qoanti y delivered to 2.0 December, fhould be acknoaledged in three feparate receipts, and the quantity tupplied since to the 4th intlanr, in three others, the dates of which should, as near as poffible, correfpond witlithore at which Colonel Moor's retut n (tate the coals to be received." Our (irk oVer vation on this letter is, that although the apparent object in it, of procuring receipts from the Barrack Matter, which (horrid correfpond with his returns to the Barrack Office, was. perfaCtly cor ref% ; yet, had the fix required receipts b_en obtained, with their corresponding cer tificares, the circumttance of lone of them bearing date in the winter months might have given Mr. Davifon an advantage in the prices charged by him to the Office. But we cannot find, on examination of the vouchers, any other re ceipts, rhan one on the L oth September, 1799, and ano ther on the 4th April, isoo, to both of which the annexed certified price of coals is sixty. fhillings per chaldron. We may alto ohferve, from what arrears in this letter, that although the contrast for coals mull have been made in the fornmer months, yes, br giving the cot:trader nine months to make his deliveries, the prices to the public being according to the deliveries, ' the fupplies were not to be made as they ()ooht to have been, according to Lieutenant General Dc I Lancey's letter to Mr. Davifon, " at the molt advan tageous feafons " In another letter, of thik April, I Roo, Mr. Wil kinfon, aoain (peaking in the perion cf Mr. Davifon, lays, " I am favoured with yours of the 1 4th ink. I and obferve your propolition of delivering too I chaldron of coals at Brighton barracks for 535. per • chaldron, but that you mill not engage to deliver them fo form as a fortnight s. and that the prefent !price of coals in Brighton is hos. per chaldron. I am I willing to extend the time to a month or fix weeks I from this dare, provided that you agree that the price (hall be 7 , . per chaldron lefs than the felling price of coals in Brighton on the day Colonel Moor's receipt Hates them to be received, and this felling price to be ascertained by certificates, figned as heretofore by two refpeetable perfons of the town. Had Mr. Hargraves acceded to this propofal, Mr. Davifon would have at all events teemed to himfelf 95. per chaldron by the agreement ; for as. for car riage is to be added to the certificate price. Mr. Horgraves, however, declined the propofal. We learnt alfo front this examination of Mr. Har graves, that there was no ingrain, or any thing in lieu of it,. allowed either in quantity or price front Sheer nefs to Ply mouth, and that there was no diffinflion between the wholefale and retail price of coals at Brighthelmlloae, except in the fate of loch large quart ii.ies as were deiivered to the barracks, in which cafe the difference is generally about two (billings per chaldron cheaper. And he laid, that the coals delivered at the barracks were Sunderland and Bligh coals, and that it was the price of there coals which was certified, and not that of the belt or New‘allle coals. In all there refpeCts, therefore, there appears to be no ground for obfervation. Our tint general remark on the information com municated by Mr. Hargraves is, that although under the imprellion of Mr. Davifon's providingthe barrack coals on commiffion, it may be imagined Mr. Har graves was not, perhaps, always attentive to certify the eta& price of the day, yet we fee no reafon to fofreft him of any collufion with Mr. Davifon ; for, according to his own account, a great advantage was once taken of him by Mr. Davifon's making a* contract for coals two or three days previous to an embargo. Mr. Hargrave's information juflifies us ton, we think, in the remarks, that owing to the Mk repre• fentation of the terms under which Mr. Davifon was providing the barrack coals, the public has paid much higher for them than would have been the cafe had the real terms been known ; and that, in another view of the fubjest, the barrack coals might have been provided by Mr. Davika on conuniffion, without fuch large contingent expenses as in his letter to the late Barrack Mager General of 3111 March, 1795, he flared would be neceffary, and that thereby the public would have raved confiderably in the price paid for the coals fupplied to the barracks. In additioi to the information communicated to us by Mr. Hargraves, relative to his course of deal ing with Mr. Daviion for the coals delivered to the barracks at Brighthelmanne, he his by letter fug gelled a plan, for the future . lapply of coils to' th'e barracks at large, which, he thinks, would be more economical than any mode hitherto adopted of for plying thole coals. In Litutemit Gential De what ought now to he done in the inflances of the .Lances: time, the barrack coals *e r e almoll entirely I d e livery of the fidchaldrons , and of fimilar de liveries. Davifon, according to tbe'tetms either at Brigthelniflone or at mile, places in which I much.iiisiad by us in oar Third Rep - rt. Since the the coals were delivered at various times ; bait the laspnointmrnt of Lieurenaat General H ewett to the receipt and certificate of prices , for one d a y , viz. to office of 'Barrack Mailer General, the barrack coals afcertain the days -1 aeltral delivery, and the prices havx heen procured by the Commillary General en on thofe days When this &ire, the account be- . l.contraas made After public notice for tenders to be tween the Barrack Office and 4r. Davifun lhouldhe I fent in. But the dillrifts for which the tenders are made nut in conformity to the information acquiied; I required are large, including generally many bar• and if it appeals that he has received more than by I racks, and often three or four counties. The confe fetch account he would be entitled to, the balance I quence of this, in Mr. Hargraves' opinion is, that thould be enntidered as a debt due from him to the' none but a few opulent and fpeeulative Public ; for the agreement between him and the late i can engage in the undertaking, who being unable Barrack Mailer General was. "to be paid at fueh aflually to execute the contrails themfelves underlet rate as was the market price with the coal dealers.at them to perfons living in the neighbourhood of the the tine of delivery," which mutt mean the time refpeftive barracks, at a reduced price, and thereby of afloat delivery, not the time at which the Barrack get a profit which might have been Paved to Govern- Mailer's receipts may have been obtained. ment. He then propore:;, that the notice for tenders, What We have jolt laid would be equally applica• and of comic that the contraels. Ilionld be for each ble, whether the aaual deliveries were left to Mr. refpedive barrack ; this, he Pays, would produce a Hargraves' difcretion, "as he lays they were fubjeet competition amonglt the neighbouring coal dealers, to the contrad," or were regulated by the orders of who, from their local knowledge and eonneelions, Mr. Davifon. But if it fhould appear that Mr. Davifon would be enabled to do the Wind's on better terms bad conirived to obtain an adv a ntage a 3 airjl the p u blic in' for the public than perfons living at a &lance. This hi vita - then be collidered in another r mode of contrafting. Mr. Hargraves believes , would produce a f tying to Government of upwards of ten per cent. on the amount if the prefect original con tractor's fuppofed profit. [Here follow the fignatures.] 4ONSTITUTION OF 711 E S.l -17'E OF 11(1271. The underligned Mandato. iec, charged with the powers of the People of Hayti, being legally convoked by his Excellency the General in Chief of the Army; penetrated by the neceffity of making their Omni tuents erjoy the facred, imprefcriptihle, and tinalicn• able rights of man ; proclaim, in the prefince, and under the aufpices of the ALL•TOW sat ut., theAr tides contained in the pref:nt Conflitutional Paft. TITLE 1.-OF THE CONDITIr)N OF CITIZENS: T. Every body reading in the territory of Hayti is free. in the %Heft fenfe. 2. Slavery is for cvcr aholiihed in Hayti. Nn one has a right to violate the Afylum of a Citizen, nnr to enter forcibly into hi* Dwelling, without an order, emanating from a fuperior and competent authority. 4. All Property Is under the protedlinn of the Government,— Every attack upon the property of a Chain h a crime, which the law punglies. .5. The law punithes affaffination with death. TITLE 11.---OF THE LIIIVERIVIVIEST. 6 The Government of Hayti is compote.(—Fire of a Chief Ma- gilt rate. who takes the title and quality of Prefident, and General- Moo of the forces of. Hayti, both by land and lea : every collet de nomination is for ever profcribed in liayt I—Secondly, of a Council of Seat-: the Government of Ilayti takes the title, and will be known by the ernomination of " he State of Hayti " 7. The Conflitution names the General in Chief Mr NR CIIVI • STOPS' Prefident and Ge.,eraliffimo of the forces, both by land and fea, of the State of Hayti. 8 Tlic truft of Prefident and Generaliliimo of the Forces is for life The Prefident has the tiet to chnofe hie Succdfor hut only from among the Generals, and in the manner hereafter prefcribed. This choice mutt he fecret and contained in a leafed p tcl et, which (hall he opened only by the Council of State, folenmly atlimhled for that gint-pore. The Prefident (hall take all neceffary precau• tint's for informing the Council of State where this peke. null be &policed. to. The arnv-d force (hall he tinder the direaion of the Weft dent, as alto the admittiftntinti of the finances. t The Prefident his the power to make treaties wilt foreign nations, as welt for the pu: pore of eftablifhing commercial relrions as to fccurc the independoice of the State. 12 He is to conclude peace, and to declare war, to maintain the rights of the people of Hr, ti. r 3. He has also the right to confider of the means of favouring and increafing :he population of the Country 14 He is to propole the laws to the Council of State, who after having adopted them and drawn them up, fend them back to him for his fans i no, without which they carmot he executed. Is. The appointments of the Prefident are fixed at 40a oo dol Jars a-year. TITLE tll.—OF THE COUNCIL OF STATE. 16. The Council If Stare is sompolcd of Nine Mmhers. nomi nated by the Prefident, oLwhich, at loft, two thirds arc to be Ge neral;. 17 The functions of the C omen of State are, to receive the pro politions of laws front the Prefident, and to draw them up in the manner they may judge advifable; to nx the amount of taxes, and the mode of colic Ring atm ; to rand ion the treaties concluded by the Prefident, and to fix upsn the mode for recruiting the army. An account thall be prefented to them annually of the receipts and espences,and of the refourccs of the country. [The 4th and sth heads refpedt the appointment of a Superin tendant General of the Finances, the Marine and the Interior, and alio the appointment of a Secretary of State.] TITLE VI -Of THE TRIBUNALS. - - - - There (hall be in every divifion a Tribunal. to determine both on civil and criminal matters. There (ball be alto a Tribunal or Commerce in each divifion. - - The re (hall he a juflice of peace. in each parith, to determine controverfies up to a limited turn. Each Citizen may, however, have his difputes determined by arbitrators, if he thinks proper. TITLV VII. The Catholic. Apoftnlic, and Roman Religion, is the only one acknowledged by the Govetnment. The extreife of other religions is tolerated, but not publicly. There is to be an Apoftolie reefed, to fuperintend what con cerns Divine worihip, and to communicate directly to tbcPreffdent upon the riskier% The Srate gives nothing to the fupport of any minilter, but the aw will tic the emoluments and perquifites that they are to receive. No one has a right to difturb the ezereife of any religion. TITLE V1111.—..-PUBLIC EDUCATION. There 0%411 be elablidsed a Central School in each divlGun, and particular Schools in each fubdivillon. It (hail be, towtver, lawful for every Citizen to have private Seminaries. The filarial Or the Profelfors sod Matters Ih4l be fettled by a particular law. TITLE 11.—OF THE GUAELSKTEN OT THE lISIOHIEnua INC COLONIES. The Government of Hayti declares to thofc powers who hate Caligula in in neighbourhood, its fixed determinatiou to give no difturbanee to the Government of thofe Colonies. The people of Hayti make no can quells out of their own Wand, and confine themfebros to the prerervation of their own territory. [After thole nine beads, there follow fame general regulations, the Principal of which are—That every Hayt an from t 6 to so, can ;leaned into the army,whenever the fafety of the State requires it—that the Government folemnly guarantees the Foreipa Mer 'chants the (reality of their perfons and properties—divorce is &All forbid in Hayti, and agriculture, which is declared the mina ancient, the moa noble, and the moft ufeful of alt the Arts, is to be encouraged and protafted.) This beatitude° was publifbed at the Cape= the tyth of Fe hruary, tiloy, and is *geed by three Geseraio of Divifion, eight Generals of Erll4e, joar Adpuost Getterolo, owl a gooy= of Civil Oki". PROCLAMATION. HENRY CHRIPTOPRE, Pre&lent and General;Rimo orate Mak a - T atal Na•al Foices of the State of Hayti, to the ARMY and PEOPLE :- K The light has broke in upon us, and a benefi. cent Conflituti at has put an end to the plots and machinations, of which you were an the point of be coming vkli,nt. A wife code. adapted to our ma n . tiers, our climate, and nor cullonis, has fprung, as it may be laid, out of chaos, and fired once n ote the deltittits of Hayti. el Lung had I in vain (ought to prefent you whi s this precious gift ; in vain did I *tremble the and urge them to fend Deputies to Port au Prince, to Rive you a Conflitution. My anxiety, inflead of being followed with the defired fuccefs, Only Operated as• an additional incitement to the faCtious, to pe rvert the public opinion, and to efiablilis a Contlitutim favourable to their intereffs, and diary of their adh e . rents—but as hoflile to the liberty of the people, as it was to the principles of found reafon. el Fellow Citizens, you have all been witneffes to the purity of my views, and the fincerity of my In tentions. You know bow this fincetity hi, been abufed, by the mifcreants who fomented rer.dt, and kindled civil war. Their efforts never intimidated me for a fingle moment, or diverted me from my defign of ferving my country. By night or by day I have never ceafed to occupy myfelt in providin g for the public fifety. What have I not done to effect it ? What have I not foffered in c itulteraCting the fecret wiles and plots of the faetious " I have always been in the taidtt of you, and pin can fay whether my c indna has ever been influenced, or my honour tarnilbed, by ambition. Invelled with the Supreme P,. wet, this day, by the with of my Fenton Citi4ens and my companions in arms, I have yielded to their defires—and I have confented to bear this weighty hut honourable burthen, becaufe it w as their with that it lbruld be entrulled to my hands— and becaufe I am willing again to ferve my country. Happy (hall I be if my eff 'it. are crowned with loc. eels, and if they tend to the hep e inefs of my Fellow Chimps! " But, to attain this, my efforts alone will not he fuffi ient— . he L twsand Conti itto ion which have jolt been ptefented to you, mu% be °hie ved. It provides for the religious prefer vation of your rights—it fc cures to every Citizen his perfonal liberty, his tight of property, and that of hi, family. " The fatal confequences of the wars in which we have been engaged, aid hill mote the immotal ex ample held out to u' by the French, had almoft ee• tiroyed every principle of religion. The moral fylietn was puilicly laughed at, and a c 4ropted youth aband .ned t fell without remo.fe to all the licentioul. nefs of its age—public education was degraded, and confi tel to mercenary infiruflote. It was neceffary to tell•ce to teligion its dignity—to caufc it to be retpec)ed and cherilhed. It was necelfary to revive morality, to , give it due dittinCtion—to inculcate into the minds of youth its facred principles, and ttnifc of honour alfo : in thou, to c invitee the people,. that without religi .n and morality, human focie y could not 01 Your interefl will be (mired to you by proper Ttibunals ; the judgment. pronounced by their Mi 'tillers will be (Mated by equity and jottice. It re mains for the people of Hayti to make themfelves ditlirguilbed by their probity and good faith. Ellen. tially a trading country, as well from its foliation as the na nreof the commoditiesitpr aduces,iti , necelTuy that it amid attt aft the ,werchants of every country n the gl .he, bo lt by its equity and its produce. " Trade being the fou ce all our wealth, it is imp rtant that the foreign merchants who frequent our ports, fhould be equally proteeed with our fellow. citiz.ns ; and that they lb odd receive all that hofpi• tality due to this ufeftil clars of fociety. " T a feed this trade ; to give it a new fpring ; agi ;culture mutt be prufecuted with perfeverance and vigour. Placed under the climate of the world, favoured by nature with her molt precious gifts, eves to profufion, the hufbandman has not at Hayti to contend with the ii,:ottr of a frozen climate, or to fortify himfelf againli the inclemencies of (tarots% A little labour is fufficient to enrich him, and to place him on a level with the manufadurers of other countries. Exert gout felves, then, iodulltious Cold. vents, to fill your warehoufes with the produce our fertile foil. Dif„lay to the eyes of the merchants of Europe all that can tempt their defire., and you I will foon fee your trade ffourills much above your molt Canguine expeflations. el After having to ellablifhed religion, revived nits rali:y, reamed manners, and encouraged agricul. lure and trade, we (ball have dill great labours to encounter. We molt not negleft the ufe of arms. The enemy watches our movements, and cbierets our proceetings. We have as yet nn guarantee of the affeition oh our friends. We mull bind the latter to us by treaties ; we mutt be ready to meet the for mer in the field. Abandoned to ourfelves, our ro founts are in out felves. They are in you, lets, who are ready generoufly to fpill y• ur bl one! than yield to a haughty enemy your No is the reward of your courage ! Thrt act in' habitants and indult tilos cultivators, from opt the State derives its wealth ! It is your union, youl fulv million to the laws, which are to be the cement ail bond of our independence. " The line of politics which Foreign Powers rill purfue with refpeel to us is not yet manila : what ever it may be, let us place nurfelves in fich a fi-tut lion that, without holding out any defiance millet we may, at the fame time, have nothing to dica 1 flea thofe who may entertain hoflile intentions. I.tt ahak who with a political connation with us, or who %toll with to enjoy the advantage of our commerce, fin] an equitable reciprocity. To the le I, let us oatf offer death and battles. le At the fame time that we are occupied trith r theft thoughts, let us never forget that the fafett°' a free people is bell maintained by arms. Ifcultiro tion employs a part of our fellow citizens, l e t us 1 C• member that we are an foldiers, and that it is sodila nations alone who have been able to prefeeve thirst liberty., Let us call to mind, that a handful of Greeks, devoted to their country, confounded the rage Isf a , million of barbarians, who endeavoured to wreli from ' them their liberty. Lee us twear to imitate their ex ample ; let us (wear to obfervc our facred Contlitutioni and to caufe it to be obferved, and to ptrilh,Na ct than allow it to be violated in the (mallet! degree. " Pablithed at the licast•quarvia, at the Cape, Feb. ff. a'n. H6llllll CHRI.TOPME, Prefident; 44 ROVANSZ, SCCICIarY 01.811".' J]