Star. — London, England, 1803-10-25 00:00:00

MUNCH 77RANNT, • •IDISPLATIit' tOCUMENTS,' k of at kit ba az. of di. ra. : nd , led qE' re• ere of at • rA7 er. erg ITATI Of SAINT DOMINGO. on : roi it. the 1114 rick chi log th. af* up ua Lb; has s ode. etn ei ike The general mai; are in the uttnoftdifirefs. OMISSION, WELTY, FRAUD, AND PECULATION, AITT X X IX IT.DOXIXOD DT 'AN AND INTTNOBEI 46 mt TaaaSSITTTZD TO YILAaCt.IOII Tat INTollatTiot of •$ NiaICANTILa IFILIINDIAIID CORILESPO I.•Aittieably to oar prismife of yefterday, we now fay heftier our Readers a true Tranilotion of the Papers We mentioned as Containing a faithful Nor tittive of the Coadua of the remelt Army in that nufortottate Country. We at firft intended only to give enrolls, but, on pernfmg them with attention, iwe found them of fo much importance, that we think it our duty to publiih them at full length; The pic ture they give of the diabolical fyftem which the French Teem to have adopted in order to fubdue all rho oppofe them, has never been equalled flnce the period when the Spaniards purfued a firnilar fyftcm to attend their conquefts in the fame part of the world, alter the difeovety, of America. The atro. 'titles indeed which the French have committed are of as black a 'dye as thole which excited fo much the Indignation of the venerable BiAtop of CIIIAPA, and of which he 1126'10mi fo addling an aocoant in a ifork i ,well known to every one who has examined into the hiftory of the new world, This sanative proves in the mod convincing mon iker the trntit,of thole reports eirculapd fame time isko refpeaing the cruelties exereifed• again(' tlot itegrots, and even thole Europeans who had courage to exprefs their iporrence of Inch enormities, or Wealth to tempt the avarice of an unprincipled fol dicry t and may ferve to knew what will be the fate of tiny country which may fall into the hands of a French army, 7 1:tich, knowing that the prefent French Co.. yernmeht exids only by its fupport and its attachment to the perfon who now prefides at the helm, .enter- Infos no feat that ever it will .be, called to an or cotiftt for any cominft. however contrary to the dic utes of julliee and humanity. ShOtrld any minis, from the atrocity ,of the pro keeddlgs, be inclined to doubt the truth orbur nate. !sent, we have to add, for the fatisfaition uf fuel!, that they may fie the original docnaienti, by calling at our Office, in Carey-ftreet. WEMORairBVIIS Alb NOTES RISPICTfNG Till ►1111147 Germinal t, as 11. Mareb as, 1.503- . . . /t has been this day announced, that all the men • of colour 'in the fouthen: part have taken up arms. They have revoked in confequence of the various sifts of oppreilion, and the different perfecutions they bare experienced, being every moment in dread of. a/reflation, of being drowned (dada) and diprived of all hope of future tranquillity. They will, no doubt, excite all the workmen to attach them to their cattle, and the fouthera part of the Wind will perhaps be ficri6ced is the Iva tithe tolony his been. And this will be the fault'of their:at men here, who goiern us with their fine 'principliis! and particularly of the pernielOrts dub, who are around them and give them advice ! General Rocnsirseat: his kft the Cite, in =4,4 proceed to the fonthern pin. This mcitibre was deVernsined on before any intelligence had bah its- G rive;t 'of the 'intimation in the fouth. The great doers here (Ds grad: faifswrs) Aid, that 'ft w as med al:l'o:ga and peas, and bring to a' ro. per way of thin there mulattoes. (This ii a tom of reproach spigot ter the people of colour). To bring to a proper way thinking means to irer,,to mailacre, to drown, and alllck the purpofe of teach. ing them how to live ! The latter mud have been ttfortned of the plot formed againft them: they have gitbarly Mtelligrace to prevent them from tieing facrificed, and to 'enable them to avoid the fate Of the reit of their brethren. The colony is.in a date of the utmod mifery. We are prifoners in all the towns which remain in our poffeffion ; we are blockaded on all fides. The 'tollgate have burnt before our eyes the (mall plintations in the mornes, which furround the Cape. They burnt lately Delaney, Defaubry, ttc. We have no prosifions, except loch articles as we can obtain by lea. We have bread and wine, bat we want puke, vegetables, poultry, and fruits ; in Aort, every thing we procured from the plains and the znountalns. We have none of the plantations at our difpofal. _ _ _ Some Americans bring us from the diftance of on leagues on the Continent, hogs, poultry, onions. beans, &c. But this aid only ferves to exhauft us, and kill us by piece meal. As no barter takes place, as there are roe iNNOWS lag iind or may vitro; as no thing can be fold or exported, they take from us our laill penny, and if this kind of life continue we mull perifh of hanger. It is therefore evident, that we mull give np the caulk. We pay here for clayed (agar to put into oar cof fee nine livres ten fous per pound, (about Si. Berlin), a fowl is worth v 9 francs ( rss.), an egg 15 fous, (about 7d.), and fo on in propartion for other arti cles. You may then judge of our fituation I It is dillreffing, but this Ratement is true—ln France the truth is neither known nor fpoken--Here it is at your fer vice. We have no longer any agriculture. and conk. quently no commerce. What can the merchants d• when we hare no produce How can the habitants make any puhltafes, fince they have no longer any revenue ? People eat only to live. and live only to die. None but the Chiefs, the Generals, and Officers of Rank, the Commifaries of War, and other perfons in office, are in a comfortable lunation ; they live in abundance, in opulence amidit an overflow of every thing. They infult the public mifery in a manner really fcandalous and diftrelfing. Moll of the military and civil officers of rank, pol ies the different plantations for their own account alone. , Thofe neareft to the Cape, they caufe to be cultivated for their own profit by the blacks, whom they lay under requifitien at pleafure ; they fell the produce of them, and go rich without 'giving them felves much trouble. It mayreadily be conceived, that thee. people are very little interefted in the reflora tion of tranquillity, and that every one fliculd refume the place which belongs to him. The plantations whick remained aronnd the towns have only changed their Mailers. They have paired from the hands of the armed blacks into thole of white military men. The Proprietors are ill equally unfortunate ; they have gained nothing, and the cafe is the fame with Government. NOTES COICAUNICATED IT A SPICTATOR (C drrwieur), wilco NAB ♦N OPPORTUNITY OT MINN TUINCIS CLOSELY, AND wvo WOULD NOT WRITS TIEN DOWN WWI ■lf OWN ■AND, TOR VILAILOY •LING DROWKID (le feu "etre ary)). AP the spen,in place vote here according to their interefft. efpecially in affairs relating to the Admini- Aration. RocuAMalAu and de Rama have not the right of voting, but their opinions, and their principles do more.hurt, than if they had ten tboufand votes each. Bills of exchange are drawn here as affignats were ifued formerly in France. All perfons in office here plunder and ruin the Government. All robberies, and even of the molt petty kind, are tolerated, provided the Chiefs are al• lowed to participate in them. Not long ago, one of rbe Chiefs, a man of the firft rank, accepted a Blare of fire calks os wine-which had been plundered. There is here an hog of CommaAt les and other of ficers, who occafion an immenfe expellee. In the army the names of foldiers who have been dead a long time, are kept in the books, as if the perfons were alive. The names of the lick are often entered at the hofpitals, a fortnight before they are fent thither, And are kept in the regillers a fortnight after they are dead. A charge is even maee for their funeral expences, though they are interred "naked— after they have bear coffered to die of hunger. All this foriss fo much pin, which thole concern eu divide among ( ! them : there people, therefore, are all averfe to , putting an end to the war—they do not • conceal it. The Officers, Commiffaries, Contriaors, aid particularly the Secretaries and Clerks, who (warm here like ants, are not allsamed to declare, that they have no interefl in peacethat they Gould be lorry to fee it concluded. Their easel and in sertions are evident : their on/)- defire is to prolong Ilse war, that they may get rich amidß diforder.-- *ere Permineneorder ellablifhed, they would have nothing to, gain, they therefore fay, that they Mud till all (ro'i/fdae mot tatrjeqs'eu denier), which will sespire time. It AssecefrarY, therefore, that we Gould have here boned isen 7 -nees really attached to their duty, and - devoted to their country, who might command re. !Pie by their virtues, and Cream the public effects by their *Sky and by their a:Rion:. As an It:fiance of the peaulition pradifed here, Mall Mention the following circomflance:—A perfoa 'named VASSIRUI, Who had arrived here in the qua lity of a pe.ty clerk, having (tamely enough where with to maintain himfelf, became, after four months felvice a contraftor. He died two months ago, liar . usg 'behind 'him property to a confiderable amount, betides valuable jewels, and 15p,000 livres (62g01. Reding) in ca(h, bills, &c. This faa is well authen ticated. A general corruption prevail, here, and it is evi dent and welrknown, that the greater part of the infurreftions, which take place in the peaceable quar. ters, have been excited on purpofe, that the military, wider yreterue of pair to pill tiro, way have a Fame aye for /doing as the whale properly f the quarter, at h r(fla of coop/0, and of then felling it for their own benefit. Generous Officers of rank and Commiffaries atWar, every body underilands this fyflem of marauding Veffels, are kept in readinefs, the plundered property is fent to a place of fafety, or it is fold, and the amount divided among thole concerned ; or to avoid complaints and difputes among the robbers (eclairs), refpetting the partition, they have a confidential perfon, partied of ready money, who has a wail at his command, and ready near the fpot, to which they fend the plundered coffee and other (Etas. They deliver to this perfon fo many hundred weight of coffee, &c. at a Rated price (often a very low one), and they receive in ready money the amount, which is immediately divided among them. This prevents all difputes among the robbers ; each has his (hare, is folly fatisfied, and prepares to commence new sas of plunder. The cafe is the faint in regard to 'wrest/ au. This is a swess hind feviaZuw, she ins...ties .f cilia Al ploys peg hermit,. The military publicly announce, that a certain place, Fort Dauphin, Part de Pair, or Port Margot, Ike. is no longer tenable and orders are given tor eracnatiag ir, or they fall back saw pretence of having been attttked in the night-time by (uperior fol - ces. Some days after they return in farce to attack the Brigands as they pretend, r.hd reize on every thing in the quarter ky tAe r;711 of co?tquyi. The different Proprietori of there quarters arc obliged to fly in the utmoll hafle, at the moment of evacuation, or for want of teals, boats, or canoes,; or in confequence of the roach being intercepted, have not been able to fly, and confequently have been; obliged to remain. When the military recent, they enter the quarter as they would the country of an enemy. They treat the inhabitants as they would the conquered. They feise every thing belonging to them as Irgal boo ; firfl their proviffnas, coffee, or other articles ; then their cattle, furniture, and other el: Peas ; and very often their wives and daughters. If they remonftrate, no anfwer is given to them ; if they complain openly, they are ill ufed, and thrown into prilon: Nothing is, known here but pillage; it would appear as if the troops came to Saint Domingo for no other purpofe—and all means are thought equally good.— A hundred inflances might be mentioned, but I !hall quote only one : There was here a perfon named Wilton nr Witon, a quadron, that is to fay, as white as an European, but defcended from what is called people of colour, fin he was the fon of a white man and a Mulatto woman. He was the fon of M. Belin, a rich pro ' prism. of Limbe, a gentleman of great refpellability by his fortune, and on account of his knowledge in the colonial agriculture. M. Belin's affairs have long been in a ruinous Rate ; he had educated young Witon in France, and infpircd by benevolence and humanity, had bellowed on him all the cares of a good father. Wm,* had made a proper return to the kindnefs of his benefaftor, and turned to the belt account the education he had received. He had always behaved well in France, where he had refided from his infancy. He had only been in Saint Domingo a fhort time, and had taken no part whatever in the revolution. He had become commandant at la Petite Anfe, where he lived in a Rate of affluence. M. Blida, his father, was at the Cape ; he was about fixty years of age. and for fifteen years had been blind. Without Wirow he would have been in the greateft difirefs : Wrrom procured for him a lodging, placed him in a comfortable fitnation, pro. vided for all his wants, and, in a word, rn-Cle him happy. liE thanked Nov:Discs that he had had it in bis power to do good to a grateful being, who antici pated all his willies, and he no longer remembered that he bad loft his fortune. I was never acquainted with Wyrou. I think I once faw him when a child in his father's houfe at Paris. lam totally unconnefted with Lim. 1 never law him at St. Domingo. I am only his hiftorian. It appears that Wiros potreffcd many amiable qualities and virtues. In confequence of his noble and generous ‘ondult towards his bensf.saor, he was thrown into prifon ; but We role was rich, and this or itfelf was a fufficient crime. Wtrow, though a white man, was confidered by prejudice as a perfon of colour, charges of a confpi racy were forged again( him, which in this country is not difficult. In !bort, he wal arrelled, and fent on board a fhip, his property was feized, and in par ticular a chef of piste, which he had ordered to be fent after him. A fearch was then made after his money, whict, together with every thing he poffeffed, was feized without any formality or trial, and the asfor tames man sum preeOteied nrte the deep evithese Nemo. Bit WITON had Rill Tome property remaining, confißed of honks with an elegant matinee in the place d'armes, occupied by an apothecary. But l a dexterous general officer was foon found to be his fucceffor. A general de Vaux, an intriguer of the fir( rank, pretended to be his heir, on what foun dation no one knows. No one dared to difpute his right—he had on his fide force and prejudice. He feized on all WITON'S property, and took immediate polTetfion. Such is the public report, but the general is in poffeffion, this is tae fa& In this manner every thing is done for the bra, ibet Verde/roe. The military here do not abflain from the moR open aas of violeste. Not long ago (about the isth or ttfah of March) Boyer, Chief of the Staff, having put in requifition all the carriages at the Cape, a planter named Bourdarie or Bournicq, waited on the general to remonarate on the fubjett, and to beg that he would take into eon& lideratioo the Rate of the colony, relax the feverity of his order, and allow him to retain at lean one of his carts to procure provender for his mules. General Boric fell into a violent paifion, caned the unfortu nate planter, and ordered him to be (hut up in a dungeon. It was the fame General Boyer who eaufed his cook to be devoured by dogs, becaufe be had committed foam petty theist. Such is the jollies obtained in this country 1 • Onr itadoto will ha be the haul of this mins aweitive. tart Awe Maid execution woe called by way of acrifion,,Goihe bffliw# ol4o . T. t A foll soma d tbh fadowoos atrocity will be given We. often a. _ _ _ (T.-') The Prince(' Elisabeth packet, Captain Kim, bad arrived at New York, aid the Primer' Amelia had arrived at Halifax. and failed for New York, prtsi• le to *s Thread packet leaviai that place. IXILIND. CARltgettlaCtri t OCT. 14.....4This day the Special Commiffion, which was opened on Thurfday, was proceeded on, purfnant to adjournment, the Hon. Judge OSBORRII, one of the Judges of his Majefty's Court of Kihg's Bench, preiLleg, when the Grand Jury of the Copnty Antrim were (worn. After the Jury had taken the oaths, the Host. Judge Ossoarts a.ldrefred them in a very approprtste Speech. _ _ Several bills of indictment Were fent up to the Grand Jury. who retired with them into their Jury Room; and after (pending nearly two hours in ma ture invefligaticn into the merits of theft indidrnents, returned into Court, and brought in trite bilk few High Treafon againd 'farm Hunter, john Ives, David Porter, .74,1 Gwen, t nd fofejM I bompfoa:. t hefe perfons were teverally put to the bar, and were each revved with copies of their indictments... At the particular req.:‘ll of the above rifoners, Mr. Jos - and Mr. BE LL were appclnted act) Connftd. Hunter, Porter, and *Owe.), chat Mr. Rawswv as their Agent ; Owen, Mr. SrEtcr: ; and Jotpkt Thompfon, Mr. CA ti E M T. as his Agent. The Court was pleafed to order that the coned and law agents thontd have aecefa to tte prifoners in Carlicktergns gaol at all reafonable hours; and dire Red that each of the prifentrs lbould have pen. ink, and paper, and all necerfary accommodation, to enable them to prepare for their defence. The Court adjourned to Monday, the z4th day of October inftant, at 9 o'cloet in the morning. Mt Duke and Duellers of BFDTORD arriired in t)Vln yeitertlay fv.m Lord BRADFORD'S fear, Mostiolk. The Ditchers of DiVONSHIRg had Lift nights Card Party and a Petit ,t ou p er . Yellerday morning the Royal Wetiminfler, the Ldyal City of Weaminfier, and the St. George's Hanover-equate Volunteers, marched front their dif ferent parades to Hyde Park, it here they arrived about ten o'clock. The three regiments were exer cifed together. They formed in the Deer Park, next Kenfington Gardens, and went thrcnAh tilde feveral evolutions in a moil foldier-like manner.— The coneourfe of fpeetators was very numerous. The three regiments having u been exercifed together. caufed leveret to think that they were b-iigtded ; the St. George's, the Loyal City of Wefiminlter, and the Gloucefter Volunteers, being already btigaded. The Q2een's. the Royal Weftminfler, the . St. aal St. George, Bloomfbury, are to be brigaded next week. Yellerday evening, after coming from Hyde Park. the Royal Weilminiter Volunteers received enders to provide themfclves with great coats. Lord HARZ I NGTON as Mena in Hyde Park yer terday. at the marking of the ground for the Review, and during the exertifing of the Volumes's. at which he teemed very much pleated ; and it. will be bat lat tice to add, that he expreffed himfelf in the bigbaft terms of approbation, particularly with refpea t. the Ileadineli and truly military fiat of watch* of the Royal Weaminfier Volunteers. whoa they paired him in Review. He was accompanied by ha - Aides-de-Camp. The Life Guards kept the gmaili The Weßnsialler Cavalry appeared yeaerday morning in Hyde Park, in full marching aesmotr•- ments. They are ordered out to-morrow to keep Om ground, when his htli MITT reviews tbe Voloreteree, and are to be affiged by two mope of Life Gargis and the Surrey Yeomen. • The. Borough Loyal Volunteers Will be brigaded with the Somerfet Houk Volunteer, in the tour* of a few days, being under the command of Mr. Tru sty, who ads as Colonel of both Regiments. A corps has been formed, confiaing of the Cloths and perfons employed in the Excite Office. Lord Geosca Sir mou a, one of the Commilfioaers, is ap pointed Colonel. About eight o'clock on Wednefday night, a dread ful fire broke out in the farm yard of Mr. Itichmel Curtis, in NorthbrookAreet, l3afirigftoke, and raged with alarming fury for many hours, invoking is complete ruin a malt.houfe, two barns, and other buildings, full of threflied and nnthrelleed what and bailey ; a large peafe flack, and other property to a confiderable amount.—The flames commu nicated to the malt hook and fuel heck of Mr. James, fituated at Come daunt, whisk were alto burnt to the ground, and the dwalliatisoufe was with great difficulty Caved. Mr. Caries. May's houfe efcaped merely from the Incurable coot& of the wind, and the feafonable sad walldirelled fupply of water from the neighbouring brook. The ears of the windows was for the moll part broken. and the frames and door cafe were muck bliftermi. The railing alto in front of the houfe was (torched to a cinder. Nothing but a very prompt and .well judged feparation of the aak.houfe in a part oar the kiln (communicating alto with the dwelling.hoafe of Mr. Hasell) could have arrelled the flames is that direction ; nor would it have been polfible to have fared the dwellingloufe of Mr. James, nor probably that of Mr. May (fo extreme was the beat arifing from inch a male of combellible matter ea fire, and that within a few yards of*, hook), had the exertions of the people been Ws firemen or ja. dicioufly applied—exertions that received additional Rrength and good effeit by the kind and vigilant at tention of Lord Bos. :or, who, with aU his femme. came ;namely so the (pot. and contributed; till four o'clock in the morning, bot't by his advice and encouragement to the people, to check, in a very dhotis! degree. the progrea of the flame", The Redwood engine, as well as that of the Vine, which Mr. Chute was fo good as to feed on the fire moment of alarm, and to attend alto himfelf and es• cite the ezertiocs of the people. were partieularl, urea', and more feafonably fo on account of aa ao cident having befallen both the sown engines. It would be uniuß not to take particular notice of the very Olive perfonal fervices of tick of Col. Lefevre's Volunteers as were quartered and then in the town,er indeed of the united efforts of all ranks of the inba. bitents, both of Bef.,igßoke and the neighbouring villages. The whole damage cannot be etiolated at a Ws Cum than !cool. very - little of which is infored. It is a matter of krioos reflation to add. that this melancholy event arofe from the too frequent. bet imprudent prance of throwing fquibs, a prettier. amine buildings efpecially, that came be too meth reprobated and dircottraged.