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. .MMINIII not lay down their arms ; they will remain united, in -rder to finish their mat work. • 7 Ott . CO Owl.. _ ,;----- •----- " If you doubt this truth, General, your Excel- Itltcy has only to consult, by means of your 3 ger.ts, t .• dispositions of England,late the enemy of France, . no w her rpost fi:ithful Ally, and they will attest the trut h..of what I have now said. . . 66 general. if 13onaparte.with a great part of the forcecof Plante .sunk under the niass r f the forces ' o E, t h e Awn, who now can resist France united to all - ,, Eutope,—France become the ally of England ! And who doubts that Bonaparte must have rapidly consummated the infernal wock of destruction which 'he began in 1802, if in lOUS England had not de , i. elated war . against Prance, and thus .broken, by. its immense fleets, the conmUnicatipa kilted France and St. Domingo t . . 16 Every thuig,has been fOrefeen iP.the Treaty of Peace between .tie SOvereigni of Eurone. Mot aware of the - pindencir in,d a .the principles `of your Aicel. lency, it was suppord ,t :it - You might" hesitate as to the course whiCk yttii`o ' 'Et to' pursue; thitlie: w as Aw ed, that in `.order ' rplaer the ppptilation2 of Hayti, which, in such eVent, would he totally Ina: bilatedby the rnasiei iff 'bide brought aguinst . ii,' it Was necessary that' Platteesihould continue' for Seve ral years the African Slave Trade, trith the doable view of replacing . the hinds employed in cultiva ticia; and forming shldierS, in imitationof the Englislt. 66 It would irtitAtlitt'be 'useltss to enter into de. tails with a man of so duperior Ito understanding as your Excellency . ; but it is proper, perhips, that those great considerations should be presented •to the per sons whom your Excellency honours with your toms: . . dence. • s 66 If the alliance ofibe Powers of Europe has had for its object the eestottation •of order, .and the fall of the Usurper who incessantly disturbed it, the august Monarchs,. who are parties to that alliance, did not on that ground display less esteem, for the meritorious supporters of the glory and independence ef France; 14,r those illustrious warriors who, during twenty-five years of calamities, - never deserted the post of danger, and who saved their country both from the ho;rors of civil . war, and the disgrace of dimemberm.t.'lle most wise and generous •of Kings, the virtuous Louis XVIII. has felt . more sen siely than any of his great Allies the claims which these brave men hsel to the royal munificence, as well as to the gratitude : they are now loaded with honours ; titey enjey immense fortunes, and they bless the events which have given to their superb es tablishmsnt s that stability which an usurper could never have conferred. 64 Follow their example,. General ; proclaim Louis . in Hayti, as they have proclaimed him in France, and not only honour and reward awaits you, but those whom you designate shall receive •mirks of the satisfaction of our S.overeign, and of the grati. tulle of our country ; and the empire of prejudices, which is destroyed with the late regime, shall prove no obstacle to these .rewards being made equal to the greatness of the services performed to the King.' " Doubtless, if Bonaparte, from the height of the • French throne, addressed to you the words of which I am now the barer, I should lament your confiding• in them. His success in policy was due to his des ceitful arts, his perfidy equalled the power of his arms, and General Toussaint was not the only one who loend out this by cruel and fatal experience: but tl.e legitimate King of France, the august successor of so many illustrious sovereigns, the deseendint of kit. Louis and Henry IV. has doubtless no need of the vile tesorts of an Usurper; his royal word is as sa cred as his race is ancient and venerable ; and Louis XVIII. has said, like one of his magnanimous an cestors, that if good faith was banished the earth,. it should still be found in the hearts of Kings.' • 64 Thus,. then, what be promises you, General, will be firm and stable,—you canna doubt it. • 66 But perhaps there are among your Generals per ions who fear less the chit fs sent by the King, for. getieg the instructions which they shall have re ceived, and permitting themselves to be influenced by Creoles end Emigrants, may re-establish gradually the regime of prejudices.. But believe me, General, t reign of prejudices is terminated forever. It will as little revive to the French colonies. as in•Frence and who can suppeseehat they still exist iu the latter country, when, by the side of the Moatmoreucys, the Rohans, the Perigords, &c. are seated the Soults, the Suchets, the Dessolles, &c:—when men of such diffe. rent origin, though equally illustrious, the one class for their own high exploits, and the other for those of their ancestors, sit as ecpiels in the Chamber of Peers, and equally participate in the high dignities of the Stated The King, who wishes that benefits be every where equally dispensed, will doubtless act in this in stance like the Monarchs of Spain and Portugal,-who, by letters of white, give an individual, whatever be his c olour, the privileges of a white. His royal power, which -has equalized the Neys. the &milts, the Suchets, with the Motemorencys, and the Bohan:, by an act of munificence . and equity which all . France ap plauded, can in like nianner make a negro or a mu latto equal befoie he Throne and the law, and in the intercourse of social life, to the fairest man in Pi. tardy. You will not force us, General, to convert into soldiers the negtoes whom we are at this moment purchasing on the coast of Africa ; you will riot force us to employ all possible means of destruction ; you • will not expose yourselves to witness the desertion of your battenons, who wiii won be. informed that the French disciplioe, the most perfect in the world, does not entorce that excessive severity which you have so, often exercised :,we know all your means of defence. 64 When I say you I mean the persons who are un der your orders ; for I believe you have too sound e head, too enlightened and noble an understanding. not to be satisfied with becoming a great lord or a general othcer, under that ancient dynasty of the Bourbons, which PfIuVIDENCE, in despite of all hu man calculations, seems to take a pleasure in perpe tuating on the throne of our dear France ; you will prefer becoming an illustrious servant of the great so vereign of the French, to the fate, MOM than preca ?Mats, of a chief of revolted slaves. And if tient pies are necessary to lead you to imitation, behold the Generals Murat and Bernadotte, who had been tot several years chiefs or kings of nationic whom thee arms have illustrated, nobly descending from s e t thrones to which the effects of the French revolution had raised them. Behold them, I say, nobly al i o Voluntarily descending from these thrones, in male, ti, become great and illustrioueLords, and preferring l ee ;t4nate and.darable tidialor themsplves and their posterity tiltshekodiestie apg precarious dile ti .410 not cleceiee yourself, General-:--theaso. • vereigns of tr e oger,,,allboogh they have made paSee, h av e not retu the sword into the scabbasd ; doubt"... 1, 6 s yeti are .not ignorant ,of what every body in Eta rope knows, although a thing not yet diplomatically p u blished —that the principal articles of the compact. whi•lt the European Sovereigns have just signed, on their toyal honour, is to unite their armies, if need aad to lend each other all necessary aid in order to destroy all the governments which have been the cifspring of the FrenCh Revolution, whether in Eu ri.pe pr in the New World. Know, also, that it is Great Britain who is the mule of and principal party to this Convention, to which, a few months sooner or later, every Govern ment will find it necessary to submit. Every Govern. ment and every Potentate who shall refuse so to sub mit, must expect to be treated as traitors and bri gands; whilst those who voluntarily and cheerfully , shalt prove themselves honest and reasonable enough to adhere to these.principles, in contributing to induce the people whom they govern to return under the s way of legitimate sovereigns, will obtain from those sovereigns a provision and an estahlishMent not leer honourable than permanent. ,o '1 he last consideration which . I shall submit .to pier Excellency LS that of the morality and loyalty which characterise the present Minister of the Marine.; It is universally known, that during the rule of the Coasatuent Assembly, where he constantly appeirred as one of the most zealous defenders of the royal cause, he ever insisted upon the necessity as well as justice of ameliorating the condition both of the blacks and the men of colour. To prononnct the name of Malottet, is at once to recal the memory of the most exalted virtue, and of integrity the most inflexible.— Whatever may be promised by such a m to w:11 be as certain and as sacred as if (and I ask pardon for the expression) the Deity had pledged himself to the en gagrinent. Be pleased to accept, General, the sentiments of high consideration with which I have the honour to be, acc. (Signed) "DA L'XI ON LAVATSSE, Gen." P.S. Colonel Medina, who is associated to my commisson, will convey this dispatch to your Excel. lency, and will be, found deserving of all your confi dence.—As a proof of the sincere loyalty by which I ant animated, I have subjoined.a copy, of the letter which I have addressed to General Petion. It was scarcely written when I was seized with an indisposi tion, which derived the of the honour of addressing your Excellency at the same moment." COPY OF A LErFE:t FP.ONI GENERAL. D. LAVAYSS4 TO GENERA!. PETIoN. " gingstou, Jamaica, September If. • " General—i One of the persons who enjoy the con. fidence of your Excellency, and with whom General licdgson had the goodness to make me acquainted at Cm- acoa, has already; without doubt, apprized •you of the object of my mission,•as well as of the pa te; n xi and liberal intentions of our beloved monarch, Louis the Eighteenth. • " You, General, are too much distinguished, and arc of too dispai=i•ioniite a mind, not to appreciate and' to feel the difference which exists between the order of thii.gs fixed by the restoration of Louis XVIII. and that whidi is now called the Ancieut•Systern, to wit, that wh;ch the despotic government of Bona vane laboured to establish in France. 44 To deceive, in miler to subjugate, had become for ten years the great secret and the principal means employed in the policy of that hateful and perfidious usurper. Execrated by the whole world, abandoned by the companions of his military glory, the tate of this demoniac, let it be hoped, will tor ever furnish a lesson to those who exercise an illegitimate and pre carious power, and are at the same time in posses sion of their senses. 44 It requires no great knowledge of public law to enable us to perceive the difference between the con stitutional form of Government existing in France from any that has prevailed in that country since the year 1789. 46 'l'he present chattge is not what emigrants and republicans are accustomed to call a counter-revolu tion : the Bourbons have been long since restored to the throne of France. The Kings of Europe made not war upon the French people, nor have their ar mies achieved the conquest of our nation. The ge ncrcus Al....Linder and his allies, having entered France to revenge themselves on a delirious tyrant, them selves presented a rallying point to a people long op pressed under the yoke of an extravagant and san guinary despotism. " It is under Alexander that the wise, able, and energetic characters. who have performed the chief parts in our revolutionary history have thought pro- per to enlist.themselves. The Talleyrands, the Des solles, the Dupont., the Marmonts, the Neys, the Bournonvilles &c. &c. after labouring through la years of revolution in accomplishing the work of French liberty and independence, are now the princi pal agents in again building up the fabric of our mo narchy on the bases of a five and representative con stitution : this constitution it is of which LouisXV 111. has a right to be considered the author and compiler. How powerfully, General, ought this circumstance to render the name of its author dear to ,every true friend of liberty ? Of what happy augury ought it not to be to our brethren. of the Isle of Hayti ? " Yes,. Geoera!, it is a philosophic King, a new Mircus Aiiielfus, a new Henry IV. whois now seat. ed on the throne of France ; believe me, I speak not the language of flauery,.l speak in the voice of truth, in the voice of my countrymen. " To understand well the spirit which this day reigns in France, you have ouly to fix your eyes on the list of the Chamber of Peers and the principal Authorities of the State. There you will perceive in the Monundrencys, kohans, Perigords, Rochelou ! caults,• the ancient Corinthian: columns of the French Monarchy, mixed with heroic pillars of a more mo dem order, the Neys, the Suchets; the Marmonts, Malouets, &c. the recent defender's of French glory and independence. " You will there see all those men, who, by their genitih, talents, valour, and virtues have rendered themselves illustrious amidst the stormy scenes of our 'evolution ; you will see them worthily placed, b'etween the King and people, • not less the supports of the due prerogatives and majesty of the crown than of national i z .,-tits and of public liberty. 4 , - Redid the Coniiiriatioiial Charter and the acts of the exiting Government, and you will there discetu • Aiittitte.l4, .. . VM t !at a 1 , 1; I; • 4 . • how, in contehipt of the alsbrd clamours of bliml anti Jittemted pertizans, all which the Revolution, has produced of good, of iiktiti principles, cotzipit table with snonarchical habitudes, has been religiously preserved. " Reflect well upon these things, and say to your self,*, I beseech you,' General, s Certainly Louis the Eighteenth is a philosophical King; one who before and at the commencement of the Revolution, was one of the most zealous defenders of public liberty ; the high Magistrates, the Commanders by whom lie is surrounded, are almost all the children of that Re volution, and hostile alike to ancient abuses and an cient prejudices. These men have raised themselves by the Revolution to a level with the first families of France, and are elevated by the same meanir.—and lifted up in the same storms; it is impossible that we tore than they should now sink into degradation.' " Say also to yourselves, ' Bonaparte was a perfi dious and cruel despot, who scarcely employed in his policy any other agents than such, as were as faithless and immoral as himself ; better had it been to have battled in our last entrenchments than to have nego ciated with that Corsican, who knew no: what it was to respect a promise. Louis XVIII. is a legitimate Sovereign, the descend:Liu of St. Louis and of Henry IV. He employs to treat with us only men of honour, of unprejudiced minds, and who have perhaps, under another Government, supporter! our cause, both in their wrhings and discourse. They will not listen to the voice of men blinded by their errors or vaned by their Inisforwries. Louis is the father and the corn. mon arbiter of all his subjects. Let us place ail our emitiatnce in thisgenerous, patriotic, and enlisillitened Prince; he will communicate to us tiro rights. of French subjects and of French citizens, a gilt flefAr tainly more precious than the hazard of being cleated as criminal barbarians or Maroon siegroes.' " Make these refh.ctions, entertain this monol:que, General ; impress your own conviction on the sensible men who merit your esteem ; anti you will at o;:ce entitle yourself to the most honourable marks of yonr Sovereign's satisfaction, and of the gratitude of your country and the Haytians, whom we cannot consider other than French. " You have too much penetration, ten sound an understanding, General; you know FrAtice too well, to mistake this language for that of weaknesst.weAlc ness is content to menace ; the strong or the powerful strike and crush whenever they find - their generosity disdained or misunderstood, &c. (Signed)• " DAUXION CAVAiSSZ." Count Limonade thereafter read to the Council the pamphlet of one H. Henry, printed at Jamaica, and entitled—is Considerations addressed to tle tants of St. Domingo, on their pre,-nt state, xad the fate that may be presumed to await them." The reading being terminated, his Majesty c yid 4 4 I leave it to the wisdom of the Council-General of the nation, to take the measures :aid resolutions which it may deem necessary for the sal - ay 4 our country. The result of its deliberations, provided it do not compromise our lio.:our and the interests of the Haytian people, shad be tlie iavaliable rule of our conduct." His Majesty then retir,:i amidst acclamations of Ville le Rol 1 The CounGil hav i ng been then condi- tuted under the Presidency of the Prince de Linrbe, Minister of War and Marine, the Coult de 14 Taste, Minister of Finan:e, officiating, as V•ce-President, and Count Ennery and llircn Des alines as So‘re taries, the following Address was unanimousli 'agreed t•• ADDRESS TO TILE LIMO. 44 SIRE—In the annals .the world nn example can be found of an overture for peace, accom e anorti by such fright!ul and disgraceful circumstances, 44 that made by the French General llakizion La. vaysse, in the name and'as the agent of his Majesty Louis XVIII. . " Nations, Sovereigns, and even individuals, have certain rights, which are respected even by the most barbarous people, and no one is permitted to violate them. But if men in general have agreed to respect these rights, sanctioned by custom and public de. corum, - how much more odious it is that the Envoy of an enlightened Monarch and nation has dared so openly to violate them ! 44 What! the most abominable tyrants, when they wished to oppress and impose on people the yoke of tyranny, employed perfidious means, and concealed their criminal enterprises by specious pretests, be cause they did not dare openly to vtolate public rights • but the Envoy of the King of the French im pudently violates every right, and offers the greatest of insults to a free people, by proposing to than the alternative of slavery er death ! " And to whom does this vile agent dare to ad dress this declaration of the atrocious intentions of his Government ?—to your Majesty, the conqueror of the French—the defender ot liberty and independence, to you, Sire, who have devoted your whole life to the maintenance and defence of the indestructible and eternal tights of man—to your Majesty, who have al. ways taken, as the rule of your conduct and actions, the honour and glory of the Haytian people ! He dares to propose to you to descend from a throne where you were placed by thejor and gratitude of your fellow citizens!-Oh, extravagance of insolence and infamy ! He duet to suspect your great soul of such an enormous perfidy 1 'To whorls do they dare to speak of master: And, of slave: P To us—to a free and iadepeadent people—to warrior. covered with noble wounds received in the field of honour. who have rooted up the ancient tree of prejudices and sla itery—to those warriors who, in a thousand combats, have. made theie barbarous colonists bite the dust. And now the remaining colonists who escaped our just vengeance, dare still to speak of the re-establish ' meat of that detested reign which we have' for ever cast offl—No, there shall never exist a master nor a slave in Hayti ! " Could your Majesty have expected such exces sive insult from a Sovereign whom fame has repre sented so as a wise, good, and virtuous King, instruc ted in the school of adversity, and an enemy of illibe ral prejudices ? How little truth, Sire, is there in fame, when we compare events with her anticipations. The first overture for peace, the first words of conci liation which are addressed to us in the name of this Prince, of whom we had formed so pleat.ing.an idea, are outrageous insults. It is proposed to men who have been free for 25 years, who still hay:. arms in their hands, to lay them chra n in order to take up again the fetters ot ignontiokus and barbarou s slavery 1 In insiimating to us these horrors, they ',•• ' ;...s :-•••• - ....f . • :,.. • • . anuscv e ciliati onperfidy t h eni w with 1 1 t li the T tl h e e h y sP o e e n n e o !e ra ll lo s ti p P i e lretelt e the poniard c tdueti li v o ce e f t a r n ea ci s o mantlenre of the liberal sentiments of jeatice and humanity of the French Monarch towards us I But on a sudden this vile agent,this anthropophasoua monster changing his language, taking a tone and atrocious character adapted to his odious mission, threatens to destroy our race and subsitute another. What justice ! what liberality I what humanity I 66 From this last proceeding of the French, does not every thing shew that the CAIV:e of the Heytiaes is distinct from that of the people ? In fret, to what people—to what Savereign —would any one have dared to propose conditions so bane end degradiog They despise us; they thick us so stupid as to see. fse, that we want the instinct which acimels posse , their preservation.—What madness I what cam> of audacity, to dare to pro pine that we shall give ourselves up to the French, and submit to their odious dorninien ! Is it for the benefits we have rneived that we should again take up the chains of servitude ? Is it for a Sovereign who is alcogeiher a ',trimmer to us, who never did any thing Ler tie, that we shoUtel change our Master ? Is it, in short, for the pur . ptiie of being again delivered over to tortures, end of hem: devoured by dogs, that ueshould ren , bonc . ,e the fleas of twat:rap-film yaws Lavin i . Viil:4 l it eu, have we now ikeommoss Abide that. peer,lo, 1 . ILve we not brokeo 411 the bonds that could unite.u; with tboni We brie changedfthe :time, :!"''Mc, the •inalatcrs. We beat' no rese4rth: mice tokhe Pt en ct: -;-tlietti pimple, Who neeet ceased to Fn-settee us, and wham on! ele. 9r: ny.then should we submit to tlralti : ae of liming , ()wiring(' . co, groan .. under .thear i ,:yeeitay and o f; . i reision? . . 4 11aillitiitis fl . Thee dere to . des Tie us! They think us unworthy of the bs.es;ing of I,herty end inde rirndence I They think diet we ate net cape 'o:e of sith rie 'emit:petits, or of these generous impulses which ... heroes, and make lima rimesters 'of their own destinies ! But they are deeeivid. Let therri know something of the Magnanimity, tile energy, and the tossup of tlwi people whom they date to outrage 1 Oar will is'to be free, and we shall be so in spite of tyrants I—Oh I if our cause should be separated from that of other people—if injustice should prevail over equity in this enlightened age—it our tyrants should ' at lens th be able to triumph over us, lit the glory of the Haytian people at least stand unequalled in the annals of nations ! Yes, we kokninly pledge okrselves diet, sooner than renounce liberty and independence. our entire race stall bi exterminated. But before any Frenchman gains a footing here, let Hayti become e vast desert —let our towns, our manufactures, cu. dealings, become a prey to the thmes. T. ft Let ends of us multiply his force—redouble his energy and his cedii.ege, in ttnmelathar, to our just fury thousendt 'of those tigers, who are alienated Iron our blood ! Let Hayti present nothing but a heap of ruins, let terrified countenances meet nothing but sights of death, destruction, and ven,;eance I Let posterity have to say, on beholding these reins. Here lived a free and generous people : . tyrants wanted to strip them of their liberty, but tiny resolv- • e,l to perish sooner th in 'part with it I' rosteritt will applaud this act of in ignaiiiinit y. 0,1 I will there be a }lnman beiiig so destitute of gmterosity AS to refuse us his admiration, ' is esteem, end his good wishes , 4 In the political wars carr'ed on amolg met riled" Mates, the armies tight, and tilt people live iii peace. Bitt.in-a war of extermination, such as thill with which we have been threatened, when evmv mai, thinks of defending his home, the tombs , t ills pa rents, his liberty, his independence—what do I say ? his very existence, and that of hia wife and children, it is then a war of man against man ; women and boys are in a state of war :* ail are in arms; all the evil we can do our enemy is a sacred duty; all means of de. struetion are lawful for us to use. . We shall revive those dreadful ex trnples of exasperation :urging people who terrified the earth I Posterity will shudder WI. t l horror; but far from blaming us, it will only impute these acts to the perversity of the age, to tyrants, and to necessity ! But this will never happen— it is iat pos. Bible. Hayti is invincible ; and justice, as %L . :Ai a. the cause of justice, will bear her triumphant through :II obstacles. No, never shall this execrable enterpete take place. There is honour, there is glory among the Sovereigns and people of Europe ; and Gnat Britain, Mat Liberator of the Work!, will prevent such an abomination !" • THE EVENING STAR. LO N DON. NEXT WEDNESDAY I'HE LOTTERY BEGINS.—TIIE FIRST 41Clek.T DRAWS A vaiZE ABOVE 225, Wit I. RECEIVE Aino oo IN AD/JlllOll, AND MAY ploy he A PRIZE OF Asoxo. THURSDAY, JANU&S,Y ISt, 1815- Last week we laid before our &batten; dealers respecting the Miii*of 11.AVAT.111*.tp St. Domingo, to 'persuade tlier.afile,i4h&bitant's luatarily to submit to that Rigte rf ,dairery hoax which they had so nobly emantipased themselves.—. We this day' lay before them .. nsmi'atimple ditajs concerning this infamous busitteisiteilik'which ire are confident will inspire in the bosoms of free mtg. wherever they may be found, sentiments ot indigna tion nix inferior to those expressed by the inhabitant: of St. Domingo. TO case of the people in that island is singular aail interesting : nor will all the ingenious efforts offal,. logic ever be able to assimilate their situ mon to trtat rI revolted' slaves. They were made freemen by a of the French Convention, as regular and as bincii.T, as any of those laws by which the estates of the emi grants and other victims of the revolution were said, and are now he4l by those who became the purchasers. Is the compact by which Louts has pled tied himself not to disturb or overturn the Arrangements brought. about by the revolution, to be considered as binding only in as far as respects while men ? Have the ci• decant white slaves of Boicamars, now that they are emancipated, a right to destroy the liberty mule:red on the blacks ? Is it consistent that, as a nation, 1