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DJUSS.iIiVT TO BON41?,11:TEJ r:The fon:min has bs,u commul icate,l to us as the An.wer or the Ll.tcl. Cnie: t4tne LRnr uc t`.tr FIX ST CO:: al' I .requiring hia uticunktit.on it:SmAdion to the ?Mother K.:!.pubhc. carrot you, .1 .f it: autatiticity, Lhoubh the teatontng of it a s Tealsli,rieztlf jult.j SOLI SISAiNT LOUVERTURE TO GENERAL BONAPARTE, FIRST CONSUL 01 THE FRENCH REPUBLIC. "CITIZEN C../ NEI' T. Nur. IS, 18,:a. 4 ' Pout letter of the 2 7th Brumaire, has been tr infrnitted to me by Citizen LECLE R C, your bro. titer-iialaw, whom you have appointed Captain- Gmeral ~f this ifland, a title not recornized by the Comlitution of St. Domingo. 'lle fame meffeng,er has rettored two innocent children to the fond em braces of a clouting father. \Vhat a noble itiilance of European humanity! But, dear as thrae piedges are to me, and painful as ow reparation i-, I dill owe no obligations to my enerni•:l., and I th.. - refore town them to the cuitody oftheir ga9!-rt. •• The forces necefrat y to make the Covereiglity of the Ftenett people rcfpeeled, have effeaed a 1411(1111g aifo, and tiler are Ipreading flanglitcr and si,fulation atinnia them. Why is it thus ? For what crimes, and by what authority, arc a rude, but inotientive people to be coufumed by fire and by the lwoi d We have dated, it kerns, to form a Conilitution adapted to our circumilances ; con t lining, as yrat admit, many good things, but con taining others, forfooth, derogatory from the fo. veieignty of the French people. \Vhat is the fo ve:cignty of the French People ? In whom does it refide, and how tar is it to extend? Is it to be beyond contruul, without !mature, and without bounds? " Sr. Domingo, a colony forming an integral part of the French Republic, aims at independence, it is laid. Why Ihould it not? The United States of America did the fame, and with the alliflance of Monarchical France they fucceeded and eitab lifhed it. But there are &fiat as well as prefump tion in our Conflitution. I know there are. What human inftitution is without them? Yet I will challenge that fyltem you have impofed upon the Republic you govern, to (hew a greater regard to perfonal or political liberty, to the freedom of fpeech, cr the freedom of man. The high fitua• ion I fill is nut of my own choofing ; it has been forced upon me by Imperious circumflances. I have not overturned a Conflitution I had fworn to maintain. I few this wretched Ifle a prey to fran tic and contending faBions. My charaCter, my complexion, gave me Tome influence with the peo ple who inhabit it, and I was alma by their una nimous voice called to authority. I crufhed fedi rvin ; I pot down rebellion ; I reftored tranquil lity ; 1 eftablifhed order in the place of anarchy ; I gave them peace, and I gave them a Conflitu tiou. Have you, Citizen Conful, another or a better title to the commanding . fituation you oc cupy ? If they enjoy not under it as great a por tion of liberty as is to be found under other Go vernments, the caufe is in their habits of life, and in the ignorance and barbarity infeparable from a (late of Lavery. I eftablifhed for an unfortunate race of beings, that were jolt loofened from the yoke, the only fyftern of rule that was fuitcd to their conditions or capacities. That it leaves room, in many inftances, for coercion and defpotifm, cannot be denied; but is the Conflitution of the Repuldic of France—the molt enlightened part of enlightened Europe—quite free from them ? If thirty millions of Frenchmen find their happinefs and fecurity, as I am told, in the Revolution of the 18th Brumaire, furely I Ihould rot be envied the love and confidence of the poor Blacks, my Countrymen. It will be for poflerity to decide whedva we have ruled through affeftion, or through apathy and fear. " You offer freedom to the Black., and fay, • that in all the countries you have been in, you have given it to the people who had it not.' lam not perfeCtly acquainted with the eireumflances that have recently happened in Europe, but the reports that have reached me do not accord with ibis affection. In faa, it is of little confequence. The liberty that is to be found in France, or Bel gium, or Helvetia, or in the Republics, Batavian, Ligurian, or Cifalpine, would never be cordially received, or chearfully acquiefced in by the people of S , . Domingo. Such changes, or fuch freedom, are far, very tar, from being defired even by us. You afk me, • do I defire confideration, ho nours, and fortune ?' Molt certainly I do, but not of thy giving. My confideration is placed in the refpeet of my Countrymen, my honours in their attachment, my I.irtune in their difintercfted fide lity. Has this mean idea of perfanal aggrandize ment been held out, in the hope that I would be induced thereby to betray the carafe I have under taken ? You Ihould learn to eflimate the moral principle in other men by your own. If the per ion who claims a right to that throne on which you ate feared, were to call on you to descend from ic, what would be your onfleer ? The power I vacs has been as Isitinustely acquired as your own, and nought but the decided voice of the people of St. Domingo !hall compel MC to re it. •• It is not cemented by blond, or maintained by the artifices of European policy. • The fern. dons men whole perfecutions I put a (lop to,' have confeffed my ciemency, and I have pardoned the wretch wl.ole daper has been aimed at my life. If I have rerun% ed from this ifland certain tut bulent fpirits, tan Grove to feed the flames of civil war, their guilt has been fit ft eflablifhed be. fore a competent tribunal, and finally confefred by thcmfclves. Is tivlrc rine of them tvha can lay that he has been condemned ualm.Pl or un:r;al And yet theft monfiers arc to be brought back once more, and, aid:d by the blond hounds of Cuba, are to he irneoupled and hallooed to hunt us dun and devour us; and this by men who clar... to call theinfelves Chrifliant. Why flould it excite your praife and furptife that I have upheld • t!.e religion and wurloi of Con, from whom all tuill7s cu , p s at all bounteous Being, whole k•e l - 1 .• 44 •_,•• ately found favour in 7r..r A oh , r: been honoured and E lora'. l , I have fought for ', ) l r*. gers Ansi ditficul : IF-14 4. t. -rn :,nfly" ties, then encompaired by treachery and trearom and I was never difappointed. ' Before Him and You I am,' as you fay, ' to be the perfon princi pally refpontible :or the maffacres and murders that are perpetrating .n this devoted die. Be it fn. In His all-jtitt alid dread iiirpafal be the dine of this eo,ted. Let Him decide between mikand my ene. mits; between thofe who have violated his pre ccpts, abjured his Holy Name, and one who has never ceafed to acknowledge and adore him. (.signed) 46 TOUSSAINT LOU IMILTUILE." FRANCE. PARIS, JANUARY r. The Deputies of the Eighteen SwiCs Cantons met on the t I th of December 'aft, when C. BAR.. THELEMY communicated to them the letter of the Fotsr Covsui. as follows Saint Cloud, December so, 18os. BONAPARTF, FIRST CONSUL or THE REPUBLIC AND PRESIDENT, TO THE DFPUTIES OF THE EIGHTEEN CANTONS OF THE HELVETIC REPUBLIC. " CITIZENS DEPUTIES OF THE EIGHTEEN CAN. TONS OF THE HELVETIC REPUBLIC.—YOUT Country IS in a critical fituation ; it can be laved only by modera:ion, prudence, and a facrifice of your pall (ions. I have entered into an engagement in the face of all Europe, to render my mediation effec tual. I than dilcharge all the duties impofed on me by this angult function, but what would be a tall; of difficulty without your fupport, will become cafy by your Alliance and influence. " Swizerland bears no refemblance to any other State, either on account of the events which have luccalively taken place in it for feveral centuries, of its geographical and topographical fituation, or of the different languages, different religions, and that extreme difference of manners which prevail in its different parts. " Nature has made your Rate federative ; to (hive to fubveet that cannot be the part of a wife man : circumflances, and the fpirit of pall centu ries, had eflabliflied among you fovereign and fubjea people ; new circumftances, and the im proved fpirit of a new century, more continent with reafon, have re-eftablifhed equality of rights between all the portions of your territory. Several of your States have followed, during centuries, the laws of the moll ablolute democracy ; others have teen fume families arrogate power to themfelves, and in thefe you have had fubjeas and fovereigns. The influence and prevailing fpirit of Italy, of Savoy, of France, and of Alface, by which you were bounded, hid effentially contributed to ella blifh this order of things in the latter cantons.— The fpirit of their teveral countries has changed ; the renunciation of all privileges is your first want, and your firft right. " What is at the fame time the defire and the intereft of our nation, and of the vaft Rates that furround you, is, therefore, t ft, Equality of rights between the eighteen Cantons ; ad, A fincere and voluntary renunciation of all privileges on the part of patrician families ; 3d, A federative organiza tion, by which each Canton (hall be organifed ac cording to its language, its religion, its manners, its intereft, and its opinion. " The moll important thing is to fix the orga nization of your eighteen Cantons. The organ'. Cation of the eighteen Cantons once decreed, it will remain to determine the relations they fhould have with each other: and then your central or ganifation, which is much lefs important, in rea lity, than your cantonal organifation. Finances, armies, adminiftration, nothing can be uniform among you. You have never maintained troops under pay; you cannot have confiderable finan ccs; you have not even had diplomatic agents con. dandy at the Courts of the different Powers. Si tuated on the fummit of the chains of mountains which feparate France, Germany, and Italy, you participate of the (pink of thole different nations. The neutrality of your country, the profpnity of your commerce, and a family adminiltration, are the only things that can fuit your people, and fup port you.—This has been my language to your Deputies whenever they confulted me refpeding your affairs. It appeared to have its foundation lo grounded in reafon, that, even without any extra ordinary interpofition, the very nature of things ought unavoidably to lead you to adopt the fyflem which it dcfcribes. But, they who Teemed the molt fenfibly to difcern its truth, were, by intereft, the moll attached to the fyftem of privileges and family fitperiorities. Their wifhes, their perfonal aid, their icrvice in arms, had been with the ene mies of France. They inclined, thetefore, to look elfcwhere than to France for fuppoit to themfelves and to their country. " No Conflitution to Government which might have been allablithed among you, in oppofition to I the wilhes and Usterelis of France, could ever have been for7our good. " I have fpuken as a Citizen of Switzerland.— I mutt now (peak as the supreme ma;.;iftrate of two other great countries. And I mull explicitly in• form you that France and the Italian Republic will never permit among yo❑ any eltablithment which might prove of advantage to their enemies. " The quiet and tranquillity of forty millions of men, your immediate neighbours, indepen dently of whom you cannot lubfill either as indi viduals, or even as a political community, are of great confequence in the fcale of general junice. Nothing amonglt you mutt have an hoflile afpeft towards them. You moil be in all things, in perk° hal ninny with them. As it was in part times, you mull Hill make it your interelt, your policy, your duty, paramount to all other coat tierations, to permit nothing, to (*tiler no aft, to allow no intromiffion upon your territories, by o, e or th e hot.rur of France may be direttly or inditealy affected. " Had not your own interest, and the need:My there w•as to terminate your interline ditkntions, been ftiffizient to call forth my interpolition ; yet the ;nitre!' t.f the Allied Repub:ic mutt even alone have procured it. The infurgents among you have been gt:idcd by men who had made war on France. Their firs of is went to restore the privileges of p irticular Lon;liec, so abolifh ro•ta lity, to offer a e:::eCt to ;Lc I much N Not any one of your parties mull triumph over the Fell, kali of all that which has been van quilled. There mull not be a counter-revolution. I have a pleafure in thus c )mmunicating with you, I (hall often repeat the fame ideas, till they reach the conviaion of your fellow-citizens. I can not expel you to come to that unanimity of opi nions in which alone you can be happy. " The policy of Switzerland has been ever confi dered throughout Europe, as infeparably conneaed with that of France, Savoy, and the Milanefe ; becaufe the particular condition of Switzerland muff ever-have an intimate relation to the fafety of thole (fates. _ _ _ . The firft, the molt effential duty of the French Government will ever be, to take care that no fyftem hoilile to her, may be introduced among you ; and that none who are in the interea of her enemies may ever acquire influence in your govern ment. France mutt never have reafon for uneafi nefs in regard to that portion of her frontier which is open, except as covered by you. We mutt be be affured, that, were you ever conflrained to neutrality, you would rather, from gobd fenfe, and national affeEtion, take part with France than with her enemies. " I (hall take into ferious confederation, all fuch plans and obfervations as the Deputation !hall communicate to me. BARTHELEMY, FOUCHI, ROEDERFR, and Dissisuassa, Senators, whom I have directed to hear your opinions, will commu nicate them to me, either of themfelves, or is your papers. Given, at St. Cloud, Dec. so. (Sined) " By the Fir!! Conful, (Signed) "H. 3. MARET." Citizens BARTHELEMY, FOUCHI, Dismsussica, and ROSDERER, prefented, on Sunday the szth of December, a Deputation confining of Citizens ROTTMAN, D'ATTILY, RHEINHARD, KUHN, &C. to the Fitsr Cousus., who converted with them more than two hours. He took a view of the dif ferent periods of their hinory ; the various Revo lutions and ancient Conflitutions of the Thirteen Cantons. Every thing be raid expreffed a nrong de fire to put an end to the Revolution.—Mswiteur. FROM THE PARIS PAPERS. VIIINNA, Dec. ig.—His Serene hlighnefs the Prince of LICHTINITIIN, Colonel of the Hulans of the Archduke CHARIAS, fet out yefterday for Paris, with difpatches of the utmolt importance. According to fume perfons General Macs is ap pointed a Member of the Council of War : others aifert that he will attend his Royal Highnefs the Archduke Am-rainier, who is going to Venice, as Captain General of that province. LONDON. FRIDAY, JANUARY 7. PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK t 3 per Cent. Rol. 7 11 7s- 3 per Cent. Conf. 721 73 Omni= 31i dif..—Ccolois for opi. 7311. There is no doubt that St. Domingo is ina ftate of the utmoa danger and difquietud: from the force and aaivity of the Infurgent Blacks. A pollfcript of a letter from !Port Republicain, late Port-au- Prince, dated Oftober 13, and communicated to us by a Gentleman on whofe authority we can de pend, flues, " I am lorry to fay that we are in the moil alarming fituation, conftantly under arms to protea our property and lives. The Englith and Americans here have formed a company which I command, and hope to good purpofe." We have received Come important intelligence from our valuable.correfpondeot at Gibraltar, of Co late a date as the 16th December. The accounts now received, confirm what we llated Come months ago, refpeaing the probability of orders having been fent out to our troops at Malta, not to eva cuate that Wand, fo fpeedily as was at firft intend ed. The natives are all rejoiced at the eircum. (lance ; and the belief at Malta, is, that the Nea politan troops will be fent back again. From the change however that teems to have taken place in the political horizon, it is now as probable, that fubfequent orders may have been fent out, for thefe troops to remain where they are, till the fate of Malta be decided. It appears from our letters, that tranfports have allually ailed from Malta to bring away our troops from Alexandria. A little time will Phew whether a change has taken place in this refolution. Thofe who are interellei in the Mediterranean Trade will rejoice to hear that proper explanations have been made at Algiers refpetking the Pains, fo that this pretext for interrupting our Commerce is now done away. In oppofition to the accounts that have been circulated, (and on high authority too) of the French force on the coatis of the Mediterranean being trifling, and unworthy of any ferious notice, we have to affert, on the authority of our Corref pondent, and we know its value well, that the pro ceedings of the French in that quarter, ought to be well looked after by our Government—and we are confident they will. Our Readers will fee by our Port letters, that the 'loop Bourn arrived at Portfmouth, and which failed from Gibraltar the day before our letters were fent off, has brought accounts of a mutiny having taken place on board one of our Chips in the Mediterranean. From our Correfpon dent not mentioning the circurnflanee, we are inclined to believe it is an old affair, mentioned in our Gibraltar letters force time ago; and we are tilt more confirmed in this from the eircumlianee c.f the Algerines having agreed to give up three oat. to France, being brought forward as new, though we Rated the fad fu far back as the t of Oftober, on the authority of a letter from Gib raltar, of the t 7th of September, an authority which Tome of our contemporaries affedted at that time to difcrcdit ! GIBRALTAR. DECEMBER .16. a On the 14th, the THETIS frigate a: rived from Malta, in 13 days, having on board about ago invalids and difcharged men, for England. • Previous to the failing of the:nisi-is, the Re. sisranca had arrived at Malta, in 13 days, from Portfmouth ; by which they had received the firft certain accounts, that we were not to evacuate Malta, and which had excited the greateft joy amongft the natives. • The Neapolitan troops, it was conjeaured, would {portly be fent back again. • Tranfports failed from Malta on the 27th of November, to bring away the remainder of the army from Alexandria, which was then under the command of General Sr. awatur. Lord CAW/ had arrived at Malta, on his way to England. 6 , Our fleet were all well in, Oriflein Bay on the 4th of November, which is the laft accounts we • have from them. Sir ROBERT Bart cow, with the TRIUMPH and Acincooar, had been at Algiers. to carry the copy of the New Mediterranean/7111 - CE to the Day, and it was fuppofed all our differences with the Dar were adjufied. " The French have colleeted upwards of twelve thoufand men in Corfica, chiefly in the neighbour hood of Ajaccio, which had excited confiderable alarm'and uneafinefs in the ifland of Sardinia. • The GREYHOUND frigate afro arrived here on 14th, in 14 days from Leghorn : the had alfo been at Toulon about fix weeks ago, and had vifited moll of the principal ports in the Mediterranean. At Leghorn there was a French garrifon of about 3000 men : at Toulon they had four fail of the line, ready for fea, and a number of troops in the neighbourhood, though in the town they had not mote than fix thoufand men as a garrifon. • The Dutch fleet of five fail of the line, under Admiral De Winraa. was lying at Cagliari, in Sardinia. The French had withdrawn their troops from the town of Genoa, but they had sOOO mon encamped near it. “ The TH art s frigate, and the Hoy No (loop of war, failed for England yefierday. 44 The Garrifon, thanks to the corral difcipline introduced by his Royal Highnefs the Duke of Kier, and the unceafing attention he pays to the comfort of the troops, is in a good liate of health.” DUTCH MAIL This morning a Mail arrived from Holland. The winter, which has fcarcely been felt in.this country, has put an end to the Canal Navigation there. HAGUI, Die. as.—All our are Canals frozen. and the communication with Amflerdam and odair. cities of the Republic is carried on by land, whits in confequence of the expence of carriage his pro duced an increafe in the price of every kind of provifions. To prevent the importation of prohibited met chandize, the Government has publithed a new 14w, containing meafures which will render the contraband commerce, if not impaGble, at leaf! exceedingly difficult. PARIS JOURNALS. We have alfo received French Journals to its 4th idle= The Monitair prefents another !port philippic, which we fubjoin : it is the only article worthy of particular notice : FROM THE MONITEUR. Some houfes at Franckfort, Nuremberg, and Hamburg)), have long been the channels through which the money defined to pay for the crimes excited on the Continent was tranfmitted. If it be true that the faCtion ha& to the repofe of Europe willed to continue facrificing the treafures of a people who have fo many titles to be ffyled brave and illations, and to fecond the views of DUTHIIL, DANDRI, the Bifhop of ARIAS, Gale. &c. we advife them to employ circumfpec tion, and the Magiftrates in the cities to be vigilant, for all countries, and particularly commercial ci ties,which give (better to the agents of that faction, becaufe their magazines are beyond the fees, and becaufe in this ltruggle they expend money and not blood, mutt know by experience, that war carries with it diallers to which they may become more viftims than others, in confequence of their weaknefs: cities,therefore, whore exiftence depends on commerce, are more interefted than others, that the peace fo happily re ellablithed fhould be of long duration. Several Journals, copying the Mweitter, have aliened that M. Fisou ARLIN had been banker to the wretched MOODIE, and the atrocious W,cs- Itast. This family, one of the firft at Lyons, have been much diftreflid by an imputation fo contrary to their fentiments of honour, and have taken the earlief opportunity 4 f contradiaing this miltake. Here follows a letter from the fon of M. Fla- GUERLIN, in which he aliens th.st his f.tber never had any intercourfe. either direa or indirce. with Marrs. %Vic,'Ham and DM. DIM (The letter alluded to, it is tuuicceffary to give ) . . . 4 S S.