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Ficns de GRENADA GAZETTE. D!SCCVI KY OF .1% 11:11.7.DID VittURRICTION. TAJBAC.`, JAN. have authority to Hate what follow. : -.-fo r tome weeks pall rumours pre vailed that dititobances would take place during the holidays, and particular eftates were men tioned, the negroes of it hich were fuppofed to be c‘ateei :led in the plans that mei e forming. Several ntlemen codeavoured to find out whether there was any tr tali in the t in:lours ; but their inveltiga. lion diteuvered nothing ; yet the rumour, instead of t:ailiding, inereated. On Tuefday evening, Mr. Hotilion oveiheard a converfation among fume of his nea - 0 ova, which he cnnfidcred of a dangerous tendeecy. I 1 : gave information of it to his Ho nour tic Prefaient, ho defired they might be con fined in the tort, which was done, and they were ilactrogated by a Magiftrate, but would confefs nothing. On Wedneldity morning, three Islagif t: a:es went to the Otate where it was laid inform'. tion could be get, and difcoveries made. They took feveral depofitions, and, in confequence, or dered several negrocs to be taken tip. The pre ceding evening, Mr. Houlton had heard a negro, in pailirg his honk, fay, what fignified Mr. Hots lion's fending tau or three negroes to the fort, it would only mai,: the others keener to do mifchief. Mr. Houllon knew the neg ro by his voice, and eaila next min iiing made affidavit of what be had Laid before a Megiarate, who immediately had the negro brought before him, who, after fume difficulty, made the following declaration on oath, he having been chriftened : " That a plan had been formed by the negroes e.f B:lveiere and Bacolet climes, for fetting fire to the canes ; and that when the white people went to put it out, the negrocs were to kill them, and take their arm', &c. that a negro named Roger, (the driver on Belvedere) was made Governor ; 'Thomas (a cooper), Colonel; and Sandy, Major: he alio named the principals on Bacolet, and their ranks, and laid they were to be joined by Mr. Robley's negroes, who were to rife at the fame time, and in the fame manner in Sandy Point : and that Sandy, the Major, whole mother belonged to Mr. Robley, car' ied nn the correfpondenec." In the comic of his examination, it appeared th.tt tlie leaders had not communicated their plans to many, but that when they began to raife their troops, and appoint officers, they pretended it was for the pairpoie of helping one another to work their grounds. , In confequence, information was fent to the Prefitlent, and as no time was to be loft, the Ma gistrates applizd to Brigadier-General Carmichael; and Major Canipbell, with a party from the gar rifon, foon fecured the negroes accufed, and they wet.: lodged in the fort. The Prefident got to town in the evening, and ordered the Privy Coun cil to be fummoned to meet car next morning. During this day and night confidetable alarm and anxiety prevailed, although meafures had been taken to put the inhabitants on their guard. On Thurfday morniiig the Council met, and, after hearing the depofitions read, and examining the negro who had made the difcovery, it was de termined that martial law fhould be immediately put in force ; and that the holidays that were to eranmence the following day fuodd be deferred. ,1 Conformable to the advice of Council, his Ho nour iifued Inch orders as appeared nccelfary for the public fecurity ; and a perfetft underftanding f'ou'ling between his Majesty's troops and the mi litia, and all die negroes, fuppofed to be princi pals in the plot, having been fccured in the courfe of the day, and B 1 igad:er-General Carmichael having (hewn the greatell real and alacrity, from the firil information he had of the danger, towards evening confidence and fittisfaelion fucceeded thofe fears that had agitated, with fo much reafon, the rnblic mind. NVe :ire happy in having it in our power to Rate that this infurieetion was not planned by Africans, nor on the fmallefl pretence of illareatment, but by fome cunning and defigning creole negroes, na tives of a neigbouring ifland, two of the principal of the leaders high in the favopr of their mailers. On Friday morning the Council refumed the ex amination of feveral negroes taken up en informa tion, or fufpicion, of being concerned in the intend ed infurreftion, when feveral were confidered as implicated therein, and they were in confequence ordered into confinement, and it being found that the ditty in the gat rifon would he exceffive, if they were obliged to gnarl the pi ifoners, they were co:ire:pence fent en board the 'hips in the liar .hour ; in the courfe of the day the alarm increafed ; the ladies in the vicinity of the t. ova all retired into it ; the night, howeter, naffed without diquebalice, and next day a Court was in nitrated for tile trial of the pi ifooers. Exanzihation of Thustar.—A negro belonging to Caldeti; ill etiate, who was apprehended by infor mation (on the oath of Mr. Houllon) fwcars there is a gen oal plan uf an infurredion throughout the ; he has been present at feveral meetings on the fnhjv et, but he has been moll acquainted with the plaits of the Belvidere and Bacolet negroes.— That the commanding officers at Bacolet eftate were, Carter, Houllon, Cooper, and Pipper. The commanding officers at Belvidere eflate were lltiver Roger, Governor ; Cooper Thomas, Colonel ; Sandy, Major. !The /'lug.—The whole of the negroes, on all the different elates iu i the Mane!, are to affemble at gun-tire, on the nigfit of Chrißmas, and bet fire to o.e canes neared the dwelling hotrfes of each tnate ; the negroes cape& this to bring the white men to the fpot in bade, and withour arms, then the negrees are to minder the whites, and plunder able dwelling houfes of all the arms and ammuni tion. They have at Belvidere and Bacolet one win, and plenty of powder, but the murder of the v. hitt s is to be with cutlaftes, the event of there pro ceedings the negroes erpeft will be freedom to theinfelyea, and full polfetlion of the country, like (*o.;:dali aye. By an eeamination taken before E. and J. Pla ner, Douglas further laid, that after the negroes have killed all the whites on the eftates, the ne groes acre then to meet in a body, and take the town and butt by furprifc. ' ,FRANCE. PARIS, MARCH zg. THE MINISTER OF SI:.RINE, COLON? OF SAINT DO MINGO. THE GENERAL IN CHIEF, TO THE MINISTER OF THE MARINE. Y HeattQiarters 2t the Cape, Feb. 9. " I leave to Admiral VILLARET to give you the details of our paffae. W e made Cape Fran cois on the 29th ofJanuary, and the ditTercnt fquadrons from Brett, L'Orient, and Rochefort, were here united. The Syr en frigate, which the Admiral had fent to Guadaloupc, came to inform us of the Infurreetional Movements which had taken place in that Colony. " On the pth, Central KERVPESEAU was de tached with a large fquadron to Santo Domingo. On the 3111, the Admiral fent for Pilots to Monte Chrifli. Thefe Pilots allured us, that TOUSSAINT was difpofcd to receive us in a friendly manner. ; " FEB. I.—Rear Admiral I.vrotictra, having 1 on board his Squadron a Divifion of the Army ' 1 under the order, of General Bovorr, (leered for Port Republicain, in order to occupy the Southern quarter. ' " zd.—Captain MAG EN having on board of his' Divifion General Rocusstseau, with a body of . Troops, (leered for Fort Liberty ; but the calm prevented him from entering the port. 3d. —At (even o'clock in the morning he ef reeled his dikmbarkation at Mancenille ; 600 men had jolt landed, and put themfelves in order. of battle; when a cloud of Blacks poured down upon them, calling out, 4 , No Whites ! No Whites !" In vain did our men make figns of Fraternity to them; it was neceWary to attack them. They were loon routed and difperfed. Ge neral BRUNET, who commanded the advanced Guard, entered with the fugitives into the Forts of Aucc and Bouquc, and took them hand to hand after a defperate . cfillance. At the fame irritant, Captain MAGRI entered the Roads, and was re ceived by canon-(hot from the Fort. The Blacks, however, were foon compelled to fly, and our Troops threw themfelves into the Canoes, and en tered by the embrafures. At Fort Liberty, and the neighbourhood, we found 150 pieces of cannon. We found among the papers of the Commandant of the place, an order of TovssstaT, to fink the veffels which approached, and to hold out to the Taft extremity. The sth Light Infantry maintained its former reputation. Generals ROCNAM BEAU and BR UN FT, and Captain Mao I w,greatly diPtinguilhed themfelves. Citizen LACHATRE, Aid-de-Camp to General ROCHIAMBEAU, a Captain of Carabineers, and 1 a Soldiers were killed, and 4o wounded. I have rcquefled Admiral Vuzaasz to make Capt. MAG Fri a Rear-Admiral. " On the ad I arrived with the Admiral and the main body of the Army before Fort Piccolet. I conformed myfelf to the general plan of the Ex pedition. Two Frigates carried the Proclamation of the Firft Conful. A Cutter approached the Battery of Piccolet, made its way through the fire, and anchored in the Road, although the buoys had been taken up. At three o'clock, Latacts, a Man of Colour, who ailed as Captain of the Port at the Capc, came on board the Admiral. He told us that General CnRISTO r li r had fent a Con- rier to TOUSSAINT, to requea orders, and that till the arrival of an anfwer, he would meet the (qua dron with cannon, burn the city, and maffacre the 1 Whites. I replied to General CHRISTOPH E; and Citizen LEBRUN, Aidede•Camp to Admiral Vit.- LARF T, carried my letter. A Deputation of the Municipality of the Cape arrived during there tranfaCtions, conjuring me to take pity on the unfortunate fituation of the Inhabitants. I could eafily perceive, from what they told me, that the lot of theft wretched people was decided; that they wifhed to gain time, but that the affair could only be determined by the (word. In this cruel alternative there remained with me only one plan to be purfued ; which was, to difembark at fome leagues from the Cape, and to march to the Heights behind the Cape, while General Roca A st- 1 Bray gained the Heights of St. Sauzanne, Don don, and Grande Rivicre. I was certain by this meafure to Pave the beautiful Plantations which furround the Cape, and I had even hopes of Paving that beautiful and important city. A calm re tarded the courfe of the light veffels, on board of which I had embarked. At three o'clock I arrived at Port Margot. The debarkation was effeCted near that at Limbe. The enemy had a battery there, and received us with a difcharge of Artil lery. But our foldiers milted on (hare with fo much rapidity, that they fuflained no lots. I af. terwards Pet forward to put my defigns in execu tion. All the fettlements were deferted. The fet tiers had taken to flight. They had been made to believe the moll abfurd and oppofite reports. — They had been told that the fquadron was com poled of Spaniards and Englifh, who had come to conquer the Ifland and put them all to the fword. At two o'clock I arrived at Salee, at the bottom of the bay of Acul, with my advanced guard. It was not long before I learnt that General CHRIS TOTH E was poled with his troops at Mount Eng lifh, half a league from us. General HARDT with his divifion marched thither; and about , half a league farther, in the direCtion of the Cape, he met the incendiaries, who were on their way to burn the fettlements. In the mean time the General bad ordered feveral yell - els to approach the harbour, and had alio landed General Hu tAlliiT at the head of a body of troops. • " I marched to the height of the Cape in order to put an end to a fire kept up between our difem• barked troops and the blacks. The Brigands had let fire to the Cape by General CNRISTOPH F's orders. By the united efforts of the fquadron, the fire was put a (top to. Since my an i cal here I have been employed in re-organizing this city, and refloring it to order. I have named the brave black Telemachus to be Mayor. He did all he could to put a flop to the mischief. The Negroes attempted to kill him, but our troops arrived in time to relcue him out of their hands. The plain on the North, the quarters of Limbe and Acal, and all between the river of Maffrcres anti Limbe remain untouched. The inhabitants carried away byCnatrrorna are returning. 'Wherever I go through the city and its environs, I obferve the people fmiling in fpite of their immenfe folks. They think there of no account, now that they are fOr ever delivered from the horrible ts.ranny of the fe rocious Africans. Two expeditions are on their march to occupy the Port de Pais and the Mole. I have already embodied 12,000 blacks. I base not yet received the details of the expedition to Port Republicain. I only know by report that our troops have entered that town. I have learr.t nothing whatever of the expedition to Santo Do minr and Des Cayes. In fpite of the atrocity of 'I oussats-i's conditd, I did not with to de part from the g eneral infirudions of the Fi r if Conful. I haverent him his children, with a let ter from t7se I irlt Magifirate of the French Re public. I have given him to underftand, that I will take upon mylelf to receive his rubmitlion.— On the lath I (hall match to Gonaives, to form a jiin..!tion with the divifion difesnbarked at Port Re. publicain. I cannot enough commend the condud of Adm. VI LLAR ET. His experience has enabled us to ad in the moil difficult circumflances. His only aim is the fuccefs of the expedition, to refcue from the ferocious Africans this colony, the fruit of 200 years of labour and profperity, and which will be a lolling monument of the danger of abffrad no tions and vain theories in matters of government. The Spanifh fquadron has affifled us in (itch a manner as to call for a fpecial acknowledgment to Admiral GRAVINA from the FIRST CONSUL. I have to complain bitterly of the want of engi neers : I have not one fuperior officer. The Mi n itler at War had ordered the Generalslof Brigade CARNOT, as well as QUENTIN, BEAUVERT, CA• LON NE, and POLIGNE, to repair hither ; but none of them have come. Are not the Officers of Ea ginecrs bound, as well as others, to march where honour calls them? I beg you will requell Go vernment to fend me, without delay, two Chiefs of Brigade, and two Chiefs of Battalion of that corps. TIIEGENERALINCHIEF,TOTHE MINISTEROT MARINE. " Cape, Feb. g. " I have found in the Cape a, quantity of pro vifions, a great quantity of cannon, and ammu nition of all kinds. The fails, cannon, and powder have been furnifhed by the United States. Although we are much incommoded by the great quantities of rain which have fallen, in five days we fhall purfue Totis SA INT. lam uncertain whither he will betake himfelf, and what he will do. I am informed, that one part of his treafures is at Gonaivcs. If this be true, the war will foon be finned, as I (hall be there by the 14th. The whites, the people of colour, and the old free blacks, begin to return to their habitations. His troops are even beginning to abandon ToosSAIN v. The Government may reft a ff ured that the army will never repofe till all be completed. The black Generals make the cultivators of their own colour work more feverely than the whites do. A letter from a Secretary of TOIJSMINT'S, who has come to Port Liberti, allures me, that for a month pall he has been making the greateft preparations to l oppofe our lauding ; that his real force confifts.of ten demi-brigades, each of 11 or t zoo men, and a body of Cavalry, amounting to from 12 to isoo horle. He adds, that TouLsaimr did not exiled our fquadron for three months, and that our fud. den arrival had difconcerted his plans completely. —I have alfo in my hands a Treafurer of Toys , war's, who is immenfely rich. I have canted a 'loaded veffel to be feized, which was on its way to the United States. The Merchants may relk affured they may now trade in the fullefl fecurity to the Ports of the Colony ; and that they need be afraid neither of requifitions nor any arbitrary meafures." PROCLAMATION. THE FIET CONSUL TO THE INHABITANTS OE ST. DOMINGO. " Paris, Nov.B, 28oz. " Inhabitants of St. Domingo; " Whatever may be your origin and colour, you are all Frenchmen, all free, all equal before GOD, and the Republic. France, like St. Do- mingo, has been the prey of fallions, and torn by civil and foreign war. But now all is changed. All Nations have embraced the French, and fworn to them peace and friendthip. All the French are likewile reconciled to one another, and have fworn to be friends and brothers. Come you alfo to embrace the French, and to gratify your , laves with a light of your friends and brethren of Europe.—Government,fends you Captain General LECLERC ; lie leads with him great forces to pro ud you againit your enemies, and againfl the enemies of the Republic. If it be raid to you, Thefe forces are deilined to deprive you of your liberty,' do you reply, The Republic will not futfer it to be taken from us.'—Rally around your Captain General. He brings you abundance and peace—rally around him. He who dares to feparate himfelf from the Captain General is a traitor to his country, and the wrath of the Re public (hall devour him, as the fire devours your dry canes. (Signed) " BONAPARTE, Firft Conftd. " H. B. MANZI', Sec. of State." TO CITIZIN TOUSAAINT LOUVeITURE, GENER•L IN CHIEF OF THE ARMY OF ST. DOMINGO. " Citizen General—Peace with England and the other powers of Europe, which has railed the Republic to the tint degree of power and grandeur k has alfo induced the Republic to take poiTeflion of St. Domingo. We have fent thither Citizen LE. CLERC, our brother-in-law, with the rank of Cap tain General, as firft Magiftrate of the colony.— He is attended by a force fuch as is proper to make the fovcreignty of the people refpeeled. In there circum(tances we flatter ourfelves that you will prove to us, and France in general, the fincerity of the fentiments which you have conflantly ex ladled in the different letters which you have writ ten us. We have conceived an efleem for you, and we feel a pleafure in acknowledging and proclaim ing the great fervices which you have rendered to the French people. If its colours wave in St. Do mingo, it is owing to you and your brave blacks. Called by your talents and the force of circum 'lances, to the chief command, you have extin guilhed civil war, impofed a reliraint on the per-, Caution offome ferocious men, rettored to its re-. per rank, religion, and the worfhip of a Coo whom all things emanate. The Conflitittion y, have made, includes many p.od things, but con tains all, others contrary to the Liignit ) and rove. rcipitty of the Ft ench people, of which St. II.). min g () is only a portion. The circtintliance , , ia which you have been placed, furrotind;.,l by enc. mies, without being able to derive any ailiflance from the Mother Country, have legitimated the articles of this Con(litution, which otherwile would be improper. But now that things hav e happily changed their appearance, you will no doubt be the fill" to pay homage to :he $.)..e -reignty of the nation, which ntim aer, you among its molt illullrious citizens, by the fervic:s which you have rendered to it, both by the ttlents and intrepid charafter with which Nature ha; endow ed you. A contrary line of condudt will not be reconcileable to the fentiment we entertain of you. It will make you forfeit your numerous claims t , the gratitude and to the rewards of the Republic, and will open a gulph for yourfelf, which may alfo contribute to the mifery of thole generous blacks, whofe courage we admire, and wl:ofe re bellion with pain we thould be obliged to puniti:. We have made known to your children and to their tutor, the fentiments by which we are go verned. We return them to you. Affift the Cap tain-General with your advice, your influence, and your talents. Do you with for the freedom of the Blacks ! You know well, that in every country where we have lren, we have conferred it on thofe people who before were rot in potfel lion of it. Do you with for rank, honours, and fortune? After the fervices you ha...e 'rendered, and which it is now in your power, in the prefent ! conjuneture, to died, and with the perfonal erti ' mation which we entertain for you, you need In: doubt of the confederation, the fort:ln.:, and the honours which attend you. Let tile people oi St. Domingo know, that the folicitud e which France has ever felt for their happincfs, has often been inefficient, from the imperious circumtlances of the War; that the men who have arrivedfrom the continent to agitate the colony, and foment divitions, were the fpawn of faaions which were tearing in pieces the Mother Country herfelf; but now, that Peace and the power of the Govern. ment feciire their profperity and freedom, tell than that if Liberty be their chief good, they cannot enjoy it but with the title of French Citizens, and that every aCtion contrary to the interefts of the ; Country, to the obedience which they owe to the !Government and to the Commander in Chief who is the depofitary of it, will be a crime w o raina the National Sovereignty, which will eclipfc their ter vices, and render St. Domingo the theatre of an unhappy war, in which fathers and children will mutually deftroy each other. And you, General! retie& that if you are the firtL of your colour who have arrived to fo high a degree of power, and who have been fo greatly diftinguithed by valour and military talents, you are alfo, to Goa and us, I I the principal refponlible agent for your own con. duit. If there be any evil defigning perfons whd fay to thofe who have taken the lead in the trou ' toes of St. Domingo, that we come to invelligitte what they have been , doing diming the days of anarchy, allure them that we (hall look only to their prefent conduit, that we ihall make no in quiries into the patt, except to learn thofe ex ploits by which they have dillinguilhed themfelves in the war which they futiained againft the Spa niards and Englifh, then our enemies. Rely upon ou- efleem, and condua yourfelf as becomes one of the Principal Citizens of the greateft nation in the world. The Ertl Conful, BONAPARTE." " Paris, Nov. 18, am COPY OP A LETTER TO GENERAL CHRISTOPHI, FROM THE COMMANDER IN CHIEF. " On bc,ard the 0 ctAx. " I learn, with indignation, Citizen General, that you refufe to receive the French Squadron and Army which I command, under the pretence that you have received no orders from the Go vernor-General. France has made peace with England, and the Government has fent to St. Domingo a force fufficiently bong to mat re bels, if there he any found there. With refpeoft to yourfelf, Citizen General, I confefs to you, that it will be painful to me to confider you among the number of rebels. I give you notice, that if you do not this day deliver into my potreffion the Forts Piccolet and Bclair, and all the batteries on the coati, to-morrow at day break, 15,000 men !hall be difembarked. Four thoufand men are now difembarking at Fort-Liberte ; 8000 at Fort. Republicain. Annexed to this letter, you will find my Proclamation ; it expreffes the intention of the French Government. But, remember, that, whatever perfonal u good opinion I may en rtain of your conduft in the Colony, I confider you as refponlible for whatever may happen. 64 LECLERC." ADMIRAL VILLARET TO THE MINISTER OF MARINI ANT) THE COLONIES. " On board the Ocean, in the Road of Cape Francois, Feb. a o, 1802. " CITIZEN MINISTER, _ _ _ - - " I halten to give you an account of the opera tions of the fleet of the Republic, fence its dept . . turc from Breft to the prefent day, and I requeft you will fubmit this Letter to the Firft Codal. —Ypu know that winds :direelly adverfe detained the fquadroe ti l the 14th of December. On the morning of the 17th I rallied dole by Belle Ifle the divition from L'Orient, and not perceiving, et this rendezvous, the divifion from Rochefort, I Itretched as far as Ifle Dieu, in hopes of finding it. I thus literally fulfilled your inftruEtions, and as the weather did not permit me to prolong this dangerous cruize, I made fail for Cape Finiftene. Violent winds, an extremely rough fea, and con tinual fogs, feparated, during this paffage, feveral fhips of the fquadron, and damaged confidcrably leveret velfels. On the soth Dec. the Neptune, commanded by General GRAVINA, left the fqua dron to be repaired at Ferrol. On the 28th De cember I was obliged to permit the (hip Duquefne to put in at the fit : 4 . port, and to order the Cor , nelia to accompany hTr.—[Thefe two velfels have not yet rejoined us, although I exprefsly ordered the frigate not to delay more than 24 hours ;n the