Star. — London, England, 1803-11-08 00:00:00

IMMINI FRENCH TrReINNT. OPPRESSION, CRUELTY, FRAUD, AND PECULATION, DISPLAYED, IN •lITHENTIC 1110CLININTS, WRITTEN IN IT. DOMINGO IT AN art-WITNESS, AND is rano', TO IL TIAN/MITTS/4 TO FRANCS, FOR rna INFORMATION OE TUE AOTMOR ' S MERCANTILE WINDS ANO CORIEStONDEitT Concluded from the STAR of Thurfday fe'onikht. NOTES COMMUNICATED IT ♦N RYI-WITNESS WHO IRIS THINGS CLOSELY, •ND WHO WOULD NOT WRITE THEM DOWN WITH HIS OWN HASSID, TOR FEU 61 Dit WO DILOWbIiD. [What mull alto have created new alarms was the . choice made of chiefs, o ffi cers and tubelteres, who were all men known to be the moil implacable and moil inveterate enemies of the blacks and men of i colour.--:The office of commandant of the national guard was conferred on Tots zard, fo well known by having been one of the authors of and agents in the iiturrettion of 1791, when perfidious intriguers, to favour their own projeas, excited the blacks to revolt and put arms into their hands ; and thole appointed as Touzard's affieants were all men of his party, or perfona known to hire been in the pay of the Eng- Lila government.l . .. . . Should it be laid, that the national guard Is not cosi:poled eicinfively of white men, I (hail obferve in anfwer, that the whites. are formed into feparate companies 1 that fince their fire formation indeed, Tome free compaiies of blacks and men of colour have been added-but they form difiinft corps ; 1 defpifeci and hareted, in whom no confidence is placed ; bat none of them have been fufikied to be fub.lieutenatts, or are indulged with the hope of ever to a nffic — er i s ng mrght perhaps trank.ie excu To ft, but theyought them from bring not to have been exprefsly excluded. The sth article Ws; C , The companies flail be commanded by white officers," &c. This mode& could not fail ant more to irritate the lain& of the blicks. which 'eight re they; to have been contiliated. ‘ . Aiother bad , or at lead very imprudent murk* which could not fail of exciting new diforderl, was the deetee which revoked all the lutes of Me farms for whatever period granted, without ordering reins. barfetnent for the bsoney laid out of them by the farmers. .. . • .... This deerie eoirld not fail to produce general alarm. It was dated 16 Frpaidor (Sept. 3), and it bad been 'ended at Pali& More than a month be fore. It arei*d it Seim Domingo about the end of Illeadentiaire (fisiddie of Ottolser), ind Mall have greetet contributed to the &tertian of the ehiefe, who were arlieft all farnieri .al - 7 e ' and whore friends alma} all planters, and bad, either alone or in eoitipmaitts, laid out large Gia l ski of am* no the im provement of their plantadoes. It is Pointe that they were mice al4tit'll to find that they Were going to be entirely •itri3sped of their property. 'melee is a peened motive ti'ation, aid' Vas prodiced more than one revolt. At the tame period that the decree for annuilrig ail testes was palled. another was ?fined, tutpending the payment of ail the old dehtifor five years ; and which bid, 44 the ereditori of the planterb of St. Domingo, incept in the cafes hereafter fisecifief, cannot pride ente to obtain payment of debts that oho property fitnated in the coloiy." The planter's who had boat mills and bodes, cone:rutted enrriagesi, purcitated bulks, ice. had Tilton to think that this &mood tuned theft, Ann no eipulation was made tot their Ceitiburtement. It is afterwards !aid, " it 41011 he laWful to give to the new renters an eiciefive right to the income of the plantation, Sec." Here then is a priiiiege granted to the new planters, and none for the reim- ' hurfernent of the former occupiers. At the tame time intelligence was brought to St Domingo, of a decree which ensiled, that none but Europeans lbould be yea as managers in the 4: 61 plantations I and w '4 , neatly excluded from Leash:ling managers, b 'eke or meit of colour,L- This could not fail of exciting ditcontent. Thefe people anti now have P:en. that they were no longer capable of any thing. or fit to be acherittnd into any office, even though they &riffled to have confidence in them. The letters of .procuration which had been granted to tome of them, were even rev : Acct. Government, if neeefary, ought to have given them proper advice, but not to have excluded them Cron places of true in to public a manner, as it had the appearance of degrading and intuiting thelm-; Degradation is never forgiven, and much leflt to, when to this is added the powerful motiveofintereft. It was known at the fame tithe, that all the young Blacks and perfons of Colour had been expelled froth the College belonging to the ke j fitstiow do admits (Cssevaux had &fon in that eflablifhment). that by a particular decree, all the Blacks and tam of Co lour had been baniesed from the French territories es the Continent ; and that they had been conveyed as prifoners to two glands in the neighbourhood of Rochelle. It was known alto, that by another decree, every Black or man of Colour, was forbidden to enter France, under pain of being erred and cesplard, till an opportunity Mould occur of tralOareac them-4 The Blacks and men or Colour in Saint Domingo then taw that a fyfiem of perfetutlon againft them had been generally adopted. The French Journals, the editors of which were ver y imprudent, muff elk have done a great deal of hurt, for as they fpolce 6 . perly again& the Blacks, evil minded perfons by fhewing them to them, mig h t excite and encourage them to revolt. There appeared in the Paris Journals of the 4th Meffidor (July 14th), a proclamation of the confuls, in which it was Paid, „ At prefent there is no Freneh w kly which is not fajta to the law, witbout whi,h, colo nies cannot ex " General Ls ctER c no doubt found at St. Domingo, that this expreffion was impolitic, and might produce dangerous and fatal effeds. In the Gazette of the Ifland of Saint Domingo, therefore, of the 7th Ven demiaire, year tt, (Sept. 30, 1802), in which the proclamation of the confuls was inferted, he canfed that pallage to he 'sordid, to prevent the blacks from having any knowledge of it. But other Journals brought from France were circulated; theta contained the whole proclamation, and by giving a literal copy of the phrafe intended to be fuppreffed, declared the whole truth. HOW CONNIUNICATID EY 101 IT! WITNESS, WHO bill THINGS CLOSELY, BUT WOULD NOT WILITS THEM DOWN FOIL FILAR OF IIIIN G DROWNED. Thefe are great evils, no doubt, and many im prudent things have been done ; but thefe are not all ; many horrid deeds remain to be unveiled—The multiplied arras, executions, by hanging andpchUe, gas of vengeance which have been exercife4 munberlefs perfecutions, repeated drownings(swjadir) by hundreds, fometimes a or soo at a time, have , filled up the meafure of our evils, have'difgufted all' goad men, have alarmed them for their own fifer'', have excited fear of the faml effeasof thefe atroci. ties, and given reafon to apprehend a cruel tetaliation on the put of the enemy, driven to deipair, Wholhave to avenge themfelves, not only for the prefent,' but for ages of mifery and torment which their race have , (offered. Leci.aec was not a man ea cruel difpofition. It was the bad meallises purfued in France which made him fail in his deigns, and the French government was deceived by the difaltrous influence of intriguers. It was after LacLeac's death in particular,•thst this ferocious fyaem of general deftruaion was (up• ported, and made alarming progrefs. • At to the prefea Daure exeicifed per iateril*dos dice of Captain General. He is a man interelled its all bargains, who hobs oaly to enrich hinsfelf, who tans thane with every body, who vials.' to makel many pattlaunit, and for that reafon is exceedingly complaifent; and courts every Body. He has there.; fore &feted every thin to be dose, and Weed all his orders agreeably to the wines of the faaions file feet froth France and the agents of England. It iris durinithe time that the Freed Dauer* eiallialidit thief .PO interim , es, the death 4, Locum, that &Litho of Aliesty whiab eosin Air Ckamp de Mari, was tat down. itoceassasio *Mild from Port an Prince t rake the command- He kia canted the tree otablity t. be reamed ; another Was ended in its place- lie teemed as if deferent Of tonduaing himfelf with pro deuce and moderation, of conciliating the minds of the blacks; be even canted all the prifoners who were crowded together in' he . thips of war,„to be fet at li berty. But be *as Loon fUrrotiaded by the Engfith Whom. aid the cunning and addrefs ants peridrtous saints triomphed: all his patrons and weakneires went Battered, aid they Coon got hint entirely fubjedt to their influence. . . They made him efpoufe and participate in digit& aces of cruelty, and when once become their accom plice, they brought him completely under the yokr, and Rill keep him enchained. At the cadet a fortnight they revelled coition to Hine in oral. for fending back to prifon all *ors Wham he had fet at liberty, and they were ackord ingly carried to the (hips from which they had bed beleafed ; sad it i•• w. itiosie fir iriat pole& OCRAWIIIIIC is a MILO always [sr:Wogsdad by hdr own creatures, who yields only to the Whim:Sof It. bcritiites and proftientes ; he is it party num a tool and fer•ile agent of the royatift and colonial Mica, Vatnitanc and odters l be retains hawed in lithium is viodiftive to excefs, and paellas no generous fee. tiznents, as deba*bees and thole addllbed to their bottle generally do. This is his particular &moles .-he is ohilluate to foUn lad atvir *Madam a bat baeafure. AU that can be faid in his fa oar is, that be is not a ribber e be however emits money RI a very impe rious manner for the wants of the ferviee. *ideal re plate lay prim, saw y is a Vespared amary, ibijag so military kap. In a word, he is defpotic and cruel, both by prin ciple and Oa:atter; he is only a ferocious (oldies; brave as a grenadier, and that is all ; proper far advancing, but in no manner sued for a Commander in Chief: without dignity, and without llytnnef• tie is merely a loldier, and abfolutely incapable of governing: be is pad only at,adies If ma. There two Chiefs, who have fucceeded General !Artier, (offered themfelees to be circumvented by all the pardoned emigrants come from France, who pretended to be patriots, while they were only cm cealed enemies. Thefe atrocious men, by whom they were, and Bill are ihrrounded, have indoced, and *ill induce thins, to commit daily, or to rater to be committed before their eyes, the molt horrid atrocities. There Chiefs, therefore, have beets, and medium to be the intrisic's,' of the caprice raffions, hatred, . . . . , All thefe men of blood, all thefe malef.dtors, are affilled in their perfidious manoeuvres by the protec tion of LA Touc H E, the naval Commander, cs•ho fup ports them with all his influence and all his power, participating either through indolence or weaknefs in all thefir principles and opin(ons. He is an old liber tine, who jives here in a very indecent punnet, whis thinks of nothing but bit plearsires, who has the meas. nefs to be the obfequious tool of the companions of his debauchery ; and of thole who furround his mit treffes : he covers them sbith his egis. Every day new con . fpiracics are fabricated or (up. pofed at the Cape, and in the different "parts of dill Colony, in order that there May be a pretence for biszg or drowning. It is faid, and daily repeated before the Blacks, that they mull be maffacred to the laR man. It is in this manner that onr rulers wilh to prolong the war 'of extermination between the two Colours. The dr`ownings (noyadu) did not take place merely after the death of General LECLERC : ant: that time they have been continued, repeated, and mul•iplied. It is often fuppokd, that all the perfons detained on. robs, board a Chip are about to proceed to France, but on king tarried out a atilt way to fed, the voyage it endei! ! ! 4~asertd, very few precautions pre taken : awn do not give themfeins the ' trouble to fwgi a 'prettnee : they coafult only the gratification of their hatrid, revenge, and pride, or the defire of getting:o4 it ..• ,creditor, or of fcizing on the pro pos/ of stnother, without the leaft form of trial, without easainiklll, without sur l y formality, without * leaft appearance of any regular proceeding; men ot colour an& even gasket, old men or children and even women, are crowded together on board Come regal or Orip'of war, and. witboht much inquiry the whole are confounded, tad fat-rifted evitheut arrey.- 1 They ark thiown overboard or put into Wan:, and., Iliot being tied to their feet, 'they are carried to' the extremity of the harbour and precipitated aim into the waves. The Mans lowever.often refute to receive them. and throw back the. bodies into the harbour as if to actufe their wiwesotioefei'e and'give evi dence of their crimes. The bpdies of many white men have been in this manner drives back to the Awn • Such is the plaice of this country, and there ,are conildered as fuperb fpettacin. Every thing is right and proper, provided they can get rid of an enemy. Such is the rdigion of Saint Domingo.— This is the juftice.of casaibalsseilir.b excites horror, 001100 ch is an intuit to the French Govertuiseer:-n lladi executions are eallodifo wogs a Pyle is joir4 a ioyage to the Wind at tie bottom of the tea : a/kr a ~.i tdsr perks. to go to the pearl•fithery. Many other 7. are gisien by way of ridicule to tbefe horrid pogises. They tall them alto Belie Is liftr. to tea s, and they pee a draught of eels kind to the Abbe Laren, a celebrited Natural, and 'Member of (*Tend Academies, aid to many others I 'oci. Not long ago, before the departure of Roc eau stab Mon the Cape fck Port-au-Prince, about the s6tb of Ventofe !,March :7), the e'were drowned in this manner, withootemansination, without trialemd . without mercy, few fay too, others yo men of colour of blacks, who were on board the Duqoefne /hip of the line irk the harbour of the Cape, no doubt for, the &pore of making 'ram for cubes. I grieve Maintain 'leak efts of inhumanity. They .611 sue with horror. I never (peak of thefe public misfortnots, which are here coldklaid as gimlets aeries% and excite general •" t bat a few days ago, being on a nut ko frtadiams, •• • pt or k t " of a foga work, who iiieselly oldie in Francs, befig married to sbt obi ltagilham 'of heardares.4 /be told me before reveal perces, with the indigna tion of as hostel egunsa who potelfed a humane' • beam that sio oleo of colour or blacks had been drowsed oa board the Daquefne. A perfaa is com pany levies Abed whether thit was certain 6e re plied, it was fo certain, that as Officer of the Lbip t woos came the mentioned, " the young Ow, donna who wet bee yeltuday," declared that Übe had hoes charged with the execeloa, be would have refufed. and would have tipSed shai k oak iota* issksw. This reload* Li* added, that aims theft unhappy victims them was a yospg bum of ty or s 6 years of age. named Pact, who had bees the ftbeolifellow of her fon, sod 'educated with him at the College de Liancourt. I bad Isolate beard at the horde of this Lady, that a naval Officer whom i have fometimes feu, sod who belonged to the Degas; Tronia, reefed Is take charge of theft executions in foot boats lent tint free th a t (hip, flying, k was eel aa szonolostr, 11411 not tasskieak the dial q —. Townso n. was awshered is as Americus islp a this was SIVA s bat ir trier wet &mei Rather than kill and drown without iLsyaloft. why dot enchain the guilty whoa proved to lief° ? A dead man is of no life I a man ia chains may be of great de is Sr. Damian by his labeler. That, drowainp (..pair) fo okra repeated. and fo foment% were fucceeded by ads of &rocky of a new kind. Blood-boeuds were brought Iron iaand aft Cubs. or hoe the Continent of America. sad the(' dogs, which fecund to be refereed for war. far the' porpofe of ambukades. or for felf-prefeevatios, were Mimed through a relhararent of croaky, under the authority sad approbation of the principal chiefs. to ism r di &At ;lima To mix tb;s ana node: then forocioos e they yore fed on the lictit of the Ingram To try them, a bLlcit was taken from prifori; atri being carrried into the Court.YArd, or Garden behind the Government Houk, the dog& were ler look upon him,and by e way encouragement made todevourhien. Anwher was Carried to a place called le );taut du Cep, at the diflance of a league, where the dogs ynqe let loofe, and the black •expofed 'to be detoured - by* them. , -t • The dogs at firk made whine attatk, and At !in-' fortis tote wretch only. received a feW bites intiace rations. .This was not, enough, nothing lei's than death would faddy his tormentors. The victim was . then railed up and 'ordered to run, as it was hoped that the dogs would then double their fury, aad pec toral Osq ferrite required of them.. They %Cereals* let ionfe, but not.being tufficiently cruel sad yorwa-4 ous, they only repeated their former laceratiaelisMlL. would not devour the unfortunate vi dim, fo wasfoultdomeitary to pet an end to his tortattrbi l • t- • • - &Opt; mar. Perfoos who call therafelves men were pretest at. this fpedtacie t it is even (aid, that there were women's; but I willdot Venture to dirt; I &ode rather to" (10,6 . 4. pride and the obilinaey of prejudice incite to the commilEon of fo horrid cruelties 1 • On tic nth or.2Bth Ventofe (18th or 19th March), Oen. Baal* Chief of the Stall; a very young emaii whieh is a Sante to humanity, and ticket alionioi meniahlinintirdele. srfe. nfieumplaint again ft his cook: who had robbed bins nist few few. Premix& when hie went to market, engird hiss to be retried out into. the court or gareell - Aeltitid the ClAnstnent•botti, arbetVa cfaiiiereeltifl oiler to the fury of theft: hkm4irawfL It is tddad. but I Will not venture to, aim it, that Gcieral. Itacisamiams was remit* that the Week went and threw himfelf itt his feet, to , implo'r'e hie them . land prim; but that he pedietti hint Voclely kom With on *hick ie was I:dared dedive• : • Ail aria Mies gime in the town, with the ham& le* and Wei is eyes of the Wicks, who are me tigt , aolmilie ferrite. or in Meths ersOrese bile . : not Joinid di• iiiJllii meth*** pitetintid to their knits, whein,liellia." and. what obltyliveleew ie• will eitleulated-an thqs;Wisit a daiire to join the brigands, tallithim/ thefr igirliffr t " T AilW 4 ll.l .o4 . 3po wFWidn ial epropeo liklirlilence. amoi;nr l : • t wtta ' **Mk 1 40 00 414 !MR"- the *dal - 47 . • tiff" awn mi. erisZaist rot orgef il is i rsoita ft t , at : 11 , 411 1 16 0. 11116 .10 1 Pialk 40/4 • • • % kfisphoint444firiftir 2. • ••••• 11;011t0 Ike POWQ %lab tragabeeliht hapadjahall ' jafties the sidead kepdJwertwdid 4 awhile M Sitig!lith_ ~idifl~ t o k bee hod to be dhows bed si fah — . : • (• • There Maud baud Were midget hpahelagaiehrgeld; !dr, Olt leaded is the fastedbed. tided der r or Ude flasis,to eddsttiilwidie gslertgemeilmilleds 0 11 par hodete," hY• 004 • gleseld wide Se shisheted • sedge le Whereto ad iodise se the Ilpalede, who plied so heeimets et liesseka s Ism; sr 'dales, id Wed ebbs bees calf hr the Ildredheadiddied. Ts 111 gp dig medics theif relty. - they hell, die bre dee dai ear Ma. dm lie talk*. Ileidiet de hair isteded 17 the loss silk to dish they were wWaft ezashi, fade; dog seiderg/ es leldwpwle. Ides der hoed his Areggagi; the Smirk hole a he mess .eerier., le seeders a Ws drat bah. ter site Atedied."-40 Mahe die Icwast ai A. I4Weerkg yet hs NOitreshalsie dor Av this OssilsamMe,Rdrl).4ll. de IN C#e• is. r , a air.. As.. z6yi. p. Vass% NEWCASTLE, NOV. 6. 1 • ..1; It is with the deeps* regret we be& girl ear abi. Wary of this week. •A fever is new nips ia this Rowe, which has, vAdda a few days. Glared al! w 'aualwr . of irerflas Various are the twin to wink ae r o e f Ade malady is at s that vas& . sedleed is. that it was breaths hese by the Bapplesaastary Militia, who Imola (mod of their assa, sad who haven rasa a ries number lick The &Corder hes yarrasled use* is the low= of the tows, cad pellerday she wat the Ire enema; far *e perpoie M l ing eN4Lez! lass cad alley as the eresy Edecoat** Ws hope this fabstary aseafare will lelp to pregame the costerie !ma fliftedies, amid &Sit is the sella ratios d ands We in gemmed to hes. tiss Issesalloss beet ' received is toss, which moil% am Week has suit its appearaoes at risp The fallotriag is as emus of a ktsa; 8, *Yids cemossitetes fame particelars telisealst this unfortunate !peat is A calamity had befallen tts here, from which won ferious couliquesces are appritheaded. &meat welds lately arrived is den pen fres New Ifork.aad other parts of America, ban cosumaiessed as se that fatal diforder, the yellow fever. is deitosilive the Amaiesees. Soese of the inhabitance in the tows gad hint e die daily s all the crews la the harbour are more or left Aided with it. C.iptaha a swede, whom you blow, sad will regret, died lait eight, halides three of his crew. ' His weird pelf es. tend the port three days before. All emmesica. dos between the tows, the harbour, aad the side, is codorkl, which prevent se from learelog the true lase of thole on board of doe Miami hip ; but we fear the wore. At pretest the weeds are relkilled hoe all iorercaerfe with tads other, wwwitheaadime fusetimes the goo* organ calls of befusdi. The Ea 4141 Cseverwoost well, so doubt. fess be so . qoanntd with our fituatioo. and wal take amalimos sccor diegly, to amid a (Miler midgets's ranee aft your cowry. by preveatior the hoodattaa 0f.., nick into the d 6 that hen lastly ems from this Tauter, soa7 they have pariemed gm.