Star. — London, England, 1803-10-27 00:00:00

di ,pi dm ult. 1171. 1 kis * ; 11 bi Wei xigb ; 404 COM. 24Tal g gi tbs 3 his to a ,and. PRENCII 4NArr. DISPLAYID, IN •UTHEPTIC DOCUMINTS, whic4 )f the Weil k Ho *ors h and to 2U. evar, I, Mr. d my ev ious PALICE T V did OPPRESSION, CRUELTY, MAUI), AND PECULATION, WRITTEN IN ST.DOMINGO BY AN ITL-WITNESS, AND INTENDED VO IL TRANSMITTID TO VRANCE,VOR Tll INPOIMATION OF TM& AUTUOII.IIIII/LCANTILt IRIINDi AND CORIAISPONDINTS. (Continual from the STAR of Tuefday.) What tends to prolong the diforder of this country and will prevent the return of peace, no doubt, for a long time to co-me, is the getter.il uncertainty which prevails in regard to the future. The white merchants dare no longer embark in arty commercial fpecplation ; (ince there is no more cultivation, there is no longer any commerce, con itquently no longer a colony ; and there is no longer 4teed of merchants. The white proprietors wait in hopes of returning to their plantations, and are mortified to fee their hopes their ~ They cannot flatter themfelves with the esiperftation of repairing their fortunes: they dread the entitiy : they dread alto their defenders, becaure they are in,fear offered contribuiioru,arlierary cepijltionr, and arbitrary demand: even from the infe• rior authorities, app .:fee of toffy kind from the mai. taty powers in a wr?rd, of beins plundered. Their :Niter) , is at its Curnmit ; .their wants are extreme ; apa their patience Cs .exhattiled : they knew not what wits become of them: theyaccuneary and tormented. The men of colour, proprietors and tradefmen, do east know what fate is refereed foe .them they are alarmed. and in the utmoll conflernation : they fay we do not with to efponfe the caufe of the Brigands," put what 'tan we do ? If we join them, we are confi aired as traitors and criminals : if we remain with the whites, we are treated as enemies ; and among the Europeans, we are futheeted and defpifed : we are opprelfedind maltreated : we are drowned, with oat tnerey and without any trial. What can we do ? What will becthne of as The blacks are equally wretched, they fay " we are without the poielliat of the law." They know not What will be their fate; whether France will adhere to its prosnife given in feveral laws, and in the pro olantation of the ConfUls of December rsth, 1799 ; whether they are to be free & flares ; fubjelt to jun or to barbarous laws ; whether they are to belong to their old plantations as attached to the foil, or wire ther a refolutioa has been formed to exterminate them entirely, as has been imprudently declared ? Did they know their delliny, a great part of them would return and fabmit ; thole who remain enemies would then be known, whereas at prefent a:1 of them, even the moll faithful, favour in their hearts the revolt, becaufe tut y are is fear for the fafety of their per fon*. They ought to know who are defiined for debut:lion, and whether there are any intended to be ;fault if tbeet are fame who would prefer death to flavery, there am perhaps force alfo who would pre fer slavery to extermination. Is a word let every sme know what he has to de. pond on. The miferies they dread, are snore terrible than *e* which they experience, and the misfortune of Ibis reentry is, that every body is under the dagger df mmertainty. A report is *rend bore, and k is confidently al: (mud, that Toossatnr, 8411ITSOMAX. Lavawa ßi: taws and companions. &c. have been tried and eon. donned. (It is Oren faid that they had no twed of any trial.) And that they are to be fent to St. Do. Usingei to be executed. it is reported that they were brought _tn. Port au Prince in the Diligence, which arrived in the Middle df March. A place has been styled to each, T017316111T is to be eserAted at the rape. Sauvuopaz at Port au LAIIPAUZ at Port an Pais, ItiGIAVD at Aux Cayes, ire.* Some kap* parrots (peak of certain minifters of former times, Ste. The find ditertaticau either io favour of or assault liberty, would prove nothing ; and would only give an imperial idea of the fituation of this coantry, and of public opinion on this fubjetl. Fads and tramples are more infirottive than the fine!! declamation. In the fira place, all the Whites here, old inhabi. tants, proprietors, merchants, tradeftnen Etc. all, al moll without exception, with for, and (peak of no thing bus flavery, through interea, and from a re membrance of the paR. The tradition, who com• pore the tea of the population, entertain the fame ideas.becante they are gratified by teeing below them 1 clefs of men vrhnos they can domineer over, and treat with contempt. The military in general thew an equal indifference 2n regard to Dewy and liberty. The foldiers with only to be paid, and to live. The officers are flat •trsd with the hopes of teeing the war continued, of having their emoluments doubled, and of ruling with univerfal Tway. People therefore mull render theinfelves ufefel to them, and contribute towards the tatification of all their paffions. The :astral ,a f 4. Imo is ts ronetetrate the erholepaiver am I weigh theserntry Mikis .wee lana i ' feasts hinge kith sty their *ed. _ _ The Blacks, is the towns, employed in donsellie &Tyke, or as tradefmen, übferve (juice, but in the bottom of their beans they few= the revolt. • Teisibiat. as oar Ranieri wee ►now, was got tid it le I ame Numuiry miaow. T. In regard to the armed Blacks who ate in the field, that is to fay, the Brigands, it may eafily be conceived what their fentiments are in regard to berty and (Livery. But their ideas will be better il luniated by fads and examples: A detachment which lately went out on a forag ing expedition, arrelled a negro Brigand, and con cluded him to the Cape, tied to the tail of a horfe. In the courfe of their march fame of the detachment entered into converfation with him. The fubjed of which was as follows : WHITE Maw. Why art thou a Brigand ? BLACK. Ah ! Mouche (fir), what would you have me to do am compelled to it. W. But what do you want? What do the reit mean? B. 1 do not know..-(This is an expreflion employ ed by the country negroes when they are unwilling to tell what they think.) \V. You are a negro—Was you not born to labour? B. Yes, Sir. W. Did you not labour formerly ? B. Yes, Sir. W. Why then not labour at precut ? B. If we were in the fame (late as formerly ; but that is not poffible. W. But what do you want?—What is it you with for? B. We will, Sir. that you would give us that li berty which the nation and r. .N•PARTI promifed us. We require that you would not fell us as animals, that you will not treat us with cruelty, that you will give us our fourth as promifed, we will then labour _ _ . _ —but if our demands are refuted, we will prefer death to exiftence. It was Dr. Atersr, Firfl Phyfician to the Army, who related this circumflance to me, and who had it from a perfon who was prefent. He added, that this Black was a defenctlefs man, tied to the tail of a horfe, who espeEled nothing but death, who, to fare his life, might have diffembled his fentiments, or laid, " It was not my fault, I was forced by the Brigands , to join them. You are right, Sir, I with for sfothing fo muck as to return to my labour." But he exyleaed death; be concealed nothing, and boldly hole the truth. M. Tamar, the ArchiteEl for Government, a man who Teems to elpoufe no party, and who regularly pays his workmen, told me yeflerday (April 7) the following circumllance :—A detachment of dm goons made an eeenrfion beyond the limits of the camp, towards the heights of the Cape, and being in the plain, fell in with a body of Brigands : on ap proaching them, the Brigands fainted the white men, and addreffed them to the following purport : B. Where are you going ? W. We are going to forage—and you ? B. We are taking an mullion for pleafure—will you purchafe a horfe ? . . W. No—we h..ve no oecafion for horfes—we have plenty.: a great number are brought to us every day from New England and from' France ; and we !hall foon have a great many more, as we taped cone• doable reinforcements. B. So much the better—if more forces arrive we !hall enjoy crienquillity—fo much the better if they come for the good caofe—for liberty—if not, rather than lore our liberty, we will be contented to wear for ever no other drel than a banana leaf to cover oar nudity. - TARDY affured me, that this fad was related to him ' the fame day by one of the dragoons of the detach ment. Not long ago a deputation was fent from the camp of the Brigands, in the plain, to the French camp, at the Cape, the objesl of which was to demand, that as their Chief, named Carol T, had in his hand a Randard, infcribed with the words " Li berty or Death," they wiffied to know why they bad been a&ed the reafon of their being in arms ? The deputation then Rated, that they required the maintenance of their liberty, and the fourth of the value of their labour, which they had formerly eninyed under Toussatar t adding, that if this were granted, they would labour for the pm. prietors. Here we have an explicit declaration of the fenti. menu of the Blacks, but it produces very little ate on the minds of thole who rule in this country, where el are fa ouch ambled to &Vein :notedly adopted, and where the cry of the generals and proprietors is to ill awn all to tbe lafi wan. It is in this manner that they pretend to rellore peace in the colony. The Englilb, were they commiffioned on the part of France to undertake this bufinsfs,could not doworfel when all the nrgroes are dearoyed, if tbis b Mille, as no hands will then remain to cultivate the foil, the colony will no longer exill. I with to Goo that this fyftem may be changed, or that in confequence of the difficulties to be furmounted, it may not cal the lives of fn many brave !oldie?' ufeful to France ! At this price, and the money which mull be expended, the colony is not worth the trouble. I am well aware that it may be replied to thnfe who remark that 414,11 there are a* lover heat to nhi• oak tberf guilt k no colony, that the colony may be re peopled by purchafing naves on the cosh of Africa. But this is caller Paid than done. During the wog! Rourifhing Rate of St. Domingo (in 17118) when the annual revenue of the colony was i R 7 millions (shove 71 millions Ruling) no more than ao.ooo negroes were imported. and this is the greattft aumber ever imported in the courfe of one year. Negroes were formerly obtained, becaufe the pro prietors bad large incomes ; but at relent, fine their ir.coroes are ruhierJ. they have no money to purchafe haves. I man, however, fuppofe what is impoffible, and that ao,ooo Negroes are purchafed per annum; but•as a third of thefe will die, 14,000 only will remain, and half a century will be required before the Colony can acquire a population equal to that of 17P8. I do not take into account, in this cal culation, the deficit of ten per cent. which takes place, even in regard to feafoned Negroes. Though I cannot remove every difficulty, I mtlll here ohferve, that as the Englifh have got poffoffion of Trinidad, which they intend to people, betides large poffedions in Dwelt Guyana; as the Spaniards have extended their cultivation in the Bland of Cuba, and in Portorico ; and as the Englifit arc in poffillion of moll of the fettlements oh the coall ..f Africa, where we have only two, it will be cafy for them to procure a fupply of Negroes, while we, fo far from obtaining 20,000, will not, perhaps, be able to pro cure the half of that number. By theft: means the re-peopling of the Colony will require 90 years and more. I have faid nothing of the ware labia may gal: place in the courfe of that time, and derange all our fpecularions. To conclude, the greateft difficulty for us will al ways be the want of foods or produce, to enable us to make purchafes. APR I L 12, 1803.11 has this day been announced, and is confirmed, that there has been an anion at Petit Goave, with the men of colour and negroes, who are now in arms in the fouthern part. The General had, at firfl, tent thither a weak detachment, which fuf tained a confiderable lots: he then difpatched thither, it is laid, boo picked men of his guard of honour, — There troops, notwithflanding their well-known bravery, were repulfed, with the Ids of .too men ; but if we fuppofe the lofs to have been only one half, it is a great deal : they loft alfo their Commandant DSTERWOLD, a man of didingtahed bravery ; betides ‘ feveral Officers. This is very unfortunate, for fuels men cannot be eafily replaced.—(To k cave owel.) NAUTICAL INTELLIGENCE. MAILS THIS DAY.—Wind N. N. L AU. DUE. ARIL nog. Dublin o 1 I Hamburgh o 4 Waterford z 2 TMs morning arrived a Mail from the Leeward Mande, brought to Falmouth by the Marlborough packet, in 35 days. PORTSMOUTH, OCT. 26.—This day arrived and cams into harbour a Portuguefe fchooner, detained an .1 fent in by his Majefly's (hip DECADE, of 36 guns, Capt. RUTHERFORD. Arrived two Dutch galliots from Dantzic, laden with Raves.—Sailed his Majef. ty's (hip Tatsums, of 36 guns, Capt. Minty, on a cruise; Swan cutter, with the following copper. bottomed tranfports, for Plymouth, to take in troops for Cork : Capt. WATSON, of the Royal Navy, Agent, accompanies them—Melpomene, Minorca, Canada, and Aurora.—Sailed alto the Britannia and Sir Ed ward Hughes, for India. Vent out of harbour the Pandora (tore (hip. The Cecilia,Cmtaosz,for Bengal, remains.—Yellerday arrived the Corw.andel, Ro sman, bound to Butaay Bay ; and Euphrates, Cilium', to the South Seas. Datz, OCT. a6.—Arrived the Ezrzostom bomb, ' I from the eaftvrard, and failed for Margate. i Gaaaaoca, Ocrossa 21.—Yellerday arrived the Liberty, Captain Lam woz, a running (hip. She fail ' ed from Jamaica on the 9th Auguft, in company with the armed (hip Portland, of aid for London, from the Bay of Honduras, which the fell in with off Cape Antonio, and parted with her on the Bth init. in lat. 50. 15. long. 36. 543. then all well. Spoke the following weals on the pairage, viz. on the 18th ult. the American (tip Augufla packet, from Liver pool for Baltimore, out•;6 days—on the .th init. in lat. 46. 17. long. 41. 40. the (hip Liverpool packet, Wvar, of and for New York, from`-'Liverpool, out 22 days—on the 13th init. in lat. 54. 59. long. 25. 50- the American brig Echo, of and for Salem, for St. Peter(burgh ; on the Bth init. in kit. 52. io, long. 36. the American (hip Mary Ann, from St. PeterC burgh for Baltimore. Captain Lamm: alto (poke fevers! Mermen on the banks of Newfoundland, who infornazd him, that there had been a very fuceefsful filling. Arrived alto yeller:lay morning, the Ame rican chip Mary, SH I e Lr, from Virginia; failed thence in company with the Achille, Douozas, of this port. Loc ma raw, Ocr. 18.—Since mylaß, there has been a number of wails forced in here by firong gales from the W. to N. W. among which are the following : Alfred of Pool, from Liverpool ; Marina of and from Greenock, both from Newfoundland; pot back the Harmony, Saavica, from Salteoats for New York. Dandh (Lips the Friendfhip, and Galliot, from Dublin to Gottenburgh ; Pasuct Wiz•tale HIM IT, revenue cutter, from Plymouth; ASNISLT ditto, from a cruise; Hors, tender, Lieut. WILT son, from Derry. Came in yenerday, the Ainfley, privateer, Captain Gast, of Liverpool, from off a cruize, with the lots of bowfprit and fore.top.mall. She captured and fent for Liverpool during her cruise, two prizes, one of which from the Inc of France, is valued at tao,oool. the other was from Newfound. land. Upwards of ao fan of coallers wally for Irelind, from different ports; they have failed this day, the wind having fuddenly (billed to the S. W. from the blowing weather of yefierday ; their names 1 have not been able to get.—Reitain Alfred, Ma rina. Harmony. ikc. Ainfiey privateer, all the otitis welds uc failed.—Wind 5. 5. W. ardcrite wrath:i• FROM LLOYD'S T.TRT. CIAVL Sb lin, OCT. Sfi..-4 1 1116 . ..1 i.y. the WIS. Dent. MINI; Europa, I.or.drut, Krir, dud 1.i.. -t l'adrnhcart, mm fa• main; ,lon Car,4l.t r fro's' Oportt.; Two lam.. &TAR • •ad Vol:.. Lowd,.ll. from Air (Lash.—s .t drh /id • rat N !relit for .'npr•,h.tguw. ri . • Maria. --., uhr stratfa 4; and Drie C •rt o. for Fin:mien. Anal •I.o—hl Stragor k Ruf. Paean. frail Aguil -I..rt. At 1.:44, Lord Wuoc.n pw•ott. fr. en A rear iitt At L Ir.Jultry, Wimd t (EA JomAa: Winton, -wan front Nrw York; Clermant.Do novae.. for ki wagtail ; am/ Harriet Pearce, fmat Baldwin , At Viq,inta Litt! William. HAM!. an..i Amy Curliffe, fr.m Liverpml A. 1)CINI. N. S. &I Catalan, from LOllllOll. DIE rRIBUTION OF PR IZE WONKY. To la Pnompte, few Ott c.rptuse o h- alt errs and rEmell the Sorb of April at No. j, f.alteta lilt et art, l'annon•Rr et To the Atalakt.t. foe the capture 04 a foluis log a Eel, e.tpeured cween the sift of rl•trtnber and bith of January. stoW parthfg at No. 53, Teviltoek 4 lece, Rultell-lquare CAP! UR OF Tfili DUQIIFSNL (Front a P. S to the !Colgan:l Roy.ii Gal tte.) KINGSTON. JULY 30. l'hc. Vasc.unvo,..l74.guss, JAMES \VALK E K. Elq. continai,der, arrived yelietday at Port Royal, accompanied by the French fillip Diivetne, of 74 Guns, taken off St. Domingo, con the zsth inflant, after a chace of 24 hours. Lt the aEtion one (cameo was killed, and one wounded on board the VANGUARD. We are alfo forty to Rate, that in hoifling oat the boats to take pa/einem. • Lieutenant, a promifing young man, was unfortu. nately drowned. This Ihip, company with the Du Guay Trouin. alto of 74 puns, came out of Cape Francois in the afternoon of the z4th inflant, in a heavy fquall, the hopes of efcaping to France ; but, on the weather clearing up, they were luckily dilcovered by our Icpsa dron, and brought to aelion. When the N'avc ears left the fleet, the ELEPHANT was engaged with the Du Guay Trouin, and from our fupet loth). of force we entertain no doubts that we than alto have the pleafure of feeing her enter Port Royal. Captain WALKER has politely favoured us with the following extra& from the log.lsook of the 'VANGUARD. " On Sunday evening the 24. th of July, at so mi nutes pall five, the Commodore made the fignal frie a general chace ; abler ved two French hoe of battle asps landing out of the hat hour of Cape Francois. At day light faw one of them a-head to the weaward: the TARTAR exchanged fevetal (hot with bee. when the enemy hoifted her colours. Obferved a National fchooner (l'Oifeau) to be captured by the TARTAR. At 4o minutes pall five in the morning obfer ved two (hips afters engaging. At so minutes pail fix the firing afters continued very brilkly the enemy ahead firing her Bern chaeers at intervals at the VANCU•ta. The weal' received and returned the fire of a Bri gand fart (between the ifiand of Tortadas and the main land) as fhe pared ; (till in chace. At t o mi. antes pall twelve we came up fall with the enemy ; at a quarter before three the enemy fired her (tern chafers at us, returned by our bow guns. At thirty minutes pall three the TARTAR fired her bow guns at the enemy. At thirty five minutes pail three the enemy (hot away our foretop gallant.yard, quid un. fortunately killed one Iceman, and wounded soother. At forty minutes pail three they silo (hot away the fore-top mall flayfail, Muck the fore and maintop. Sail.yards, and th.tt away the mizen.top faiLyerd ; ,the enemy firing her Bern guns brifkly,.returned by our bow guns, with occafiona' (hot from the Tatra e. At ten minutes fall four the enemy hauled athwart us, and fired a broadfide, which we returned ; the then ftruck, and proved to be le Duquefne, of y. guns, Commodore KIRANGAL. The B &&&&& croon, THESEUS, and T .in company. The Eta. PHANT engaging . aftern " ROCl4Allscav as determined to keephis polka! the left blood-hound is eaten. There are about soots troops in the Cape, and about tyoo barrels of tint. The inhabitants are in a wretc hed condition, and would rejoice much at the Britilh taking poisawg 14 the place. Multitudes of lick are in the halpitals o and many of them dying daily, owing to the son, of care and attention. The following is a lift of the French floadros tMfi were at Francois on s t ‘ he . SIIIIPS CUSS oe u = a . y,. Le Du 'Duty Trouts 74 AL Le Devalue 74 COCIIIIIIIII6I 2nt La Sarailasta -----.4lllriL• • • j- La °maim 411 CapL,lireisSis.lll ‘• • I La Owls& So asseet • -Ittt tc 57 La Vats 40 Le a lp as) 14 err. Isar filsonsp, at 24 awl aliporiamb. WNW* so pun assn. ? • .1p The French &homer DazAatisarrived i4;4;grii morning at Port Royal, vsth a flag of trractfrons Port an Prince. A deputation from the pelpcipal planters and merchants of that place anived.set her, for the purpofe of waiting on his honour the Lisle. tenant Governor, to repro:fent their miterab}e Mitig ation to him, and :o requei that be would eithes take meafures to poifefs hinsfelfd that place. or permit the wretched inhabitants to leek an sfyium here, be im in a Bate of abfolute narration. and feemingly i&edooed to their fate by their mother country. The following is a cnrreil ikomment of our Naval Force in the Well Indies s j•marca STATION. nips. 73sea. Coannandeen Ant Ad. SIT T. Weir Owes Lliercele • • 74 Bast R . &mai Ballareobee • .7s Capt. R. D Louse Canibertmed • • 74 147 sTs• Illepient • • ea Damn*, •• Them -7s Baser Illartar4 . —... wamaink Illomeke • • . 36 -- Meow LA n e i g h . . 3 4 Rees Tamar • 311 Steles • • 3s leans Oatlend • • as ---- Seas Lt. Hester - .tt —lsaiasuae Pen Makes NIMILLS Kama , • • 0 AilleaTT Suet GeV? Snake - • it Ito 111 ars Stark st Magian 044 . . se Lamm y o b - L/llsa LLIWARD t LAUDS Tail. st . )ess• & Hoes 74 /4..4 L. *Zs .1.1. • • 34 0 aims 44 - • Al • ........Cosionswe • as .m 4 si 44 Le' ID • .aeemin as ta , e.se • .-11feesposSOMMI. alk SIIIIIPILST . 14 •••••• lumina 0 ••••• Mewl • ...14irautat Caesar - Blenthiph Clicked • • Ulyffes • • Emmald • • Kamm • . Agitate,/ . • Cleat . Afprty • - Drabs • - II ii