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i , PARIS, MARCH 14^. IXTRACT FROM 'THE OFfICtAL JOURNAL. Fox the last ten days all the English Journals e:Claim like madmen for War. Some speakers in the Parliament, are nut less disguised in their sen timents. Their hearts are full of gall. The First Consul is not desirous of Peace ! ! Those pacific Ministers to whom Eur Ope and man_ kind owe so much-.-Mr. AD4INGTON and Lord I lAwitEszußY, &c. are cajoled ! ! Nevertheless, if we may believe persons worthy of credit, all the Articles hirie been agreed upon at Amiens, within the lest fortnight, even the forms of Adjustment have been terminated, acid if the Treaty be not signed; it is because another, and the last Courier is expeded from London. What mean therefore the language of these tur bulent Scribblers ! Are not the advantages which Great Britain derives from the Preliminaries suffi ciently great ! ! Thi"Continental power of France must be circumscribed! Why then have . the King and the unanimous voieo, of the People ratified the Preliminaries ? APa if it were necessary to impose fresh Continental sacrifice s on •France, why, Lord GItENVI,LLE) did you not treat while you had Allies—when their Army was / encamped on the Alps—wh en the Russian Ay hesitated to make its retrogrede march, and *hen La Fordie, smoking with ruins, gave occupation to a part of the French Troops ? And as yoU did not then think that Franc e a, was sufficiently enfeebled for you to o btai n your o bj e and you thought it best to continue the War, Mr. WifIDHP.M should have conduEted it better. It was necessary that the 25,000 men vho were sailing up and down the shores of the Ocean and bef3re Cadiz, should enter Genev,i an ihe san,. day as MELAS; it was necessary not to give the World the frigliiful spefficle, almost with_ but example, of bombarding the subjeas of a King your Ally, even in his capital, without a declare_ it2sof W ar , an d even without having sent back Ambassador. hCtV What do y ou now expect The revival of a COalition ? The cannon of Copenhagen have ex;i_nguished it for fifty years. ,What then would you have ? - Overthrow the ister whose able hand has healed a part of the units which srour em bi tion you ha ve caus ed ? B ut if to grat ify $ you should Country int o regret succeed in drawing your dn the an • f Lon4f." abyss of evils, it will, ere long, gretted Ar in i kas it has re_ stice of El Ariicm, When ,hl, the details of. the Congress of iNirns .o.l,;hi:l.Are been publi s h e a , t h e Lnglish Nation, 7,.."11.e11h01dt a rank so distinguished in the World, for its just and profound good sense, and the liberali ; of its ide as, s h all entertain for the First Consul of e rae i a new senti ment o f este e m an d regar d, he re it will perceive that it was not his fault t h at Your tPe at:e Was nut p rompt , honourable, and eternal. 'ow and h ate f u l pasltitis shall be exposed, and 4 " will ndt be able long to govern a Nation which, ,sPoetarteously uniting its voice *ith that of the role olt Worlds will declare 'you to be the enemies tace. MINISTRY OF MARINE. ittßtlAptiTC DIOATCH MARCA the Tiit First Consul has desired to know from Maritime Prefect} of Brest, intelligetke isti Of the health of. the Army of St. Doiningo.--iti Of that or the general In Chief.--=3d.' Of Madame LE CLERc.-4. If the e9ndod of TovssAtsr was good, bad, or doubtful ? On the same day the following 'Answers were received': That in the voyage either the Army nor die Squatiron had Idst a single man. . That the General i n Chid was well,- and with the Advallcea Guard Was at eeveral leagues . frein the Cape when the dispatLli set off. • • That the Sister of 'the Firat Conseil had bdine the fatigues of the passtlge extrethely well ; without being sick. That the eenduft of ToussfitNi• ti.as• still i;louhtful. MARCH IS. ItiIiNISTP,Y OF MARINE; COLONY or ST. nostxNoo. ri:E TO THE MINIETILi or THE MARINE., Head. Quarters at the ape " I le ave to Admiral Vli , F. 9 . the details ofour pasage. We LAfiET to give you made Cap e F ran _ drops from B ecis on the z 9 rett th of January, and the diff erent Squa , L'Ori entj an d Rochefort, were here united. The Siren Frigat e , w hi c h t h e Ad ral had sent to Guadatoripe, came to inform us of the Insurre&ional Movements which had taken place i n that Colony. O the 3oth, General 11:ERiPR.SEAU wail de tached with a large Squadron to Santo-Doming , ChOn the pit, the Admiral sent for Pilots to Monte_ risti, These Pil ots assured us, that TonssAtNT disposed to receive us in a friendly manner. " Feb. 1, Rear-Admiral LArtatrcne having on hoard his Squadron a Division of the Army under The orders of General Botroirr., steered for Port epublicain, in order to occupy the Southern quar ter. • " 2 d, Captain IVfAcE N hiving on board of his bivision General ROCHANIBE4u, with a body of Troops, steered for Fort Liberty ; but the calm t)revented him from entering the port. " 3d, A t seven o'clock in the morning, he ef reEled his disembarkation at Mancenille; 600 Men ILtd just Idniled, and - put themselves in order of t '"ltie, when a cloud ofßlacks poured down upon theol, calling ont, " No Whi tes ! No Whites !" ln . . a i n did (pir :nen make signs of Fraternity to t hem ; it was nee,.,ary to attack them. They were soon rooted and dispersed. _ v , 1 ! General •Ilttutqs. - r, ..lit) commanded t he . ad anced Guard, entered with the Fugitives info the t, arts -)f Alice and Bouve, and took them hand 'to h and, alter a desperate resistance. At the same instant, Captain MAC u was r E'S _ented, the Rinds, . "I'd. eceived by cannot-shot f rom t h e Fort. The Blacks, howeVer, wee soon coran , .!lled to fiy, and ves into t] 'ro6ps threw themse. entered by the embrasures. " At Foit Liberty and the neighbourhood; we found tedi pieces of cannon. We .found areeng the papers of the Corrimandant of the place, an order of ToutssAtelie to sink the Vessels which approach ed, and to hold out to the last eXtrernity. The sth Light Infantry maintained its former reputa tion. Generals ROCHAMBEAU and BRUNET, and Captain MACEY, greatly distinguished themselves. Citizen LACHATIE, Aid-de-Camp to General Ro tHAMBEAU, a Captain of Cdrabinters, and 12 Sol diers were killed ; and 4o wounded. , "I have requested Admiral VILLARET to make Captain Mi,GEN a Rear-Admiral. " On the ad I arrived with the Admiral and the main body of the Army before Fort Piccolet, I conform&l myself to the general plan of the Expe dition. Two Frigates carried the Proclamation of the First Consul. A Cutter approached the Battery of P;ecolet, made its way through the fire, and an chored in the Road, although the buoys had been taken up. " At three o'clock, LANCES, a Man of Ctilour, who acted as Captain of the Port at the Cape; Caine on board the Admiral. He' told us that General CHRISTOPHE had sent a Courier to TOUSSAINT, to request orders, and that till the arrival of an an swer, he would meet the Squadron with cannon, burn the City, and massacre the Whites; " I replied to General CHRlsecienE, and Citizen LEBRUN, Aid-de-Camp to Adtisiral Vietkite - 1e carried my Letter. A Deputation of the Munici pality of the Cape arrived during these transactions; conjuring me to take pity on the unfortunate situ.. ation of the Inhabitants. I could cagily perceive . , from what they told me, that the lot of these wretched people was decided ; that they wished to gain time, but that the affair could only be determined by the sword. In this cruel alternative there remained with me only; one plan to be pursued ; which was, to disembark ac some leagues from the Cape, and to march to the Heights behind the Cape, while General ROCHAMBEAU gained the Heights of St. Sauzanne, Do:dog,. and Grande-Riviere. I was certain by this measure to save the beautiful Plan tations which surround the Cape, and I had even hopes of saving that beautiful and important city. " A calm retatded the course of the light vessels, on board of which I had embarked. At three o'clock I arrived at Port Margot. The debarka tion was effected near that at Limbi. The Enemy had a battery there, and received us with a dis charge of Artillery. -But our Soldiers rushed on shore with so much rapidity, that they sustained no loss. I afterwards set forward to put my designs in execution: All the Settlements were deserted. The Settlers had taken. to flight. They had been made to believe the most absurd and opposite re ports. They had been told that the Squadron was composed of Spaniards and English, Who had come to conquer the island, and put them all to the sword. " At two o'clock I arrived at Sale'e, at the bottom of the bay of Acid, with my advanced guard. It was not long before I learnt that General CHRISTOPHE was posted with his troops at Mount English, half a league from us. General HARDY with his division marched thither; and about half a league farther, in the dircdion of the Cape, he met the incendiaries; who were. on th eir way to burn the settlements: In the mean tune the Ge neral had ordered several vessels to apprcetch the harbour, and had also landed General HUMBERT at the head of a body of troops. " I marched to the height of the Cape in order pet an end to a fire kept up between out disem barked troops and the blacks. The Brigands had Set fire to the Cape; by General Cnalseorna's orders. By the united efforts of the squadron, the fire was put a stop to. " Since my arrival here, I hire been employed in re.orgahiiing this City, and restoring it to order. hiive named the brave black, Teeamacitus, to be Mayor, He did all he could to put a stop to the mischief. The Negroes attempted to kill him, but our troops arrived in time to rescue him out of 1 their hands. he C 6, anoet; ani i‘ The plain on the North, the quarters of Limbe and Acul, and all between the river of Massacres and Limbe, remain untouched. The inhabitants carried away by CHRIStOPHE are returning. Wherever I go through the city and its environs I observe the people smiling, in spite of their im mense losses. They think these of po account, now that they are for ever delivered from the horrible tyranny of the ferocious Africans. Two expeditions are on their march to occupy the Port de Piix and the Mole. I have already embodied. i,oao blacks. " I have riot yet received the details of the ex. pedition to port Republicain. I only know by re port, that our troops have entered that town. " I have,learnt nothing whatever of the expedi tion to Saito Domingo and Des Cayes.. " In spite of the atrocity of ToUssAINT'S con. Flu; I did not wish to deparit from the general in. strations of the First Consul. I have •sent him his children, with a letter from the First . Magistrate of the French Republic. I have given him to understand that will take upon myself to receive his submission. On the 4.th I shall march to Gonaives, to form a junction with the di. vision (iiembarked at Port Republicain. " I cannot enough commend the conduti of Ad miral VILLARET. Ills experience has enabled us to att in aft most difficult circumstances.. His only aim is the success of the expedition, to rescue from the ferocious Africans this colony, the fruit of 200 years of labour and prosperity, and which will be a lasting. monument of the danger of abstraft notions and vain theories in matters of government. The Spanish squadron has assisted us in such a manner, as to call for a special acknowledgment ro Admiral GRAVINA from the First Consul. I have to com plain bitterly of the want of engineers : I have not one superior officer, The Minister at War had ordered the Generals of Brigade, CARNOT, as well as QUENTIN, BEAUVERT, CALONNE, and POLIGNE, to repair hither ; but none of them have come. Are not the Officers of Engineers bound, as well as others, to march where honour calls them ? I beg .you will request Government to ser4 me, withou t delay, two Chiefs of Brigade, and two Chiefs of Battalion of that corr." tRt dorgRAL TO MiNisTrft OF MAINE. " Feb. 9. . • . CCI have fOund in the cape a qwmtity of pro_ . visions, a' great citianeity of cannon; and ammunition of all kinds. The fusils, cannOn; and poWder have been furnished by the United Bt4t6s.. " Although we are much incommoded by the great quantities of rain which have fallen, in five days we shall pursue TOussi'ktN-r. lam uncertain whither he Will betake himself; and what he will do. lam infornied that one part of his treasures is at Contrive's. If this be true, the war will soon be finished, as I Shall be there by the r.i.th. The whites, the people of colour, and the old free_ blacks; begin to return to their habitations. His troops are even beginning to abandon ToussAt NT. The GOVerade/II May rest assured that the army will never repose till all be completed. The Black Genetals make the cultivators of their own colour work more severely than the whiteS do. " A Letter from a ecretary of ToussAt rues, who has cone to Port Liberte, assures Me; that for a month past he has been making the greatest pre parations to oppose out landing ; that his real force consists of to Derrii-brigacles, each of r r or ioo men, and a body of Cavalry, amounting to from is to 13do horse. He adds, that TOUSSAINT did not exped our Squadron for three months; and that our sudden arrival hM disconcerted his plans completely, " I have also in my hands a Treasurer of Tolls. SAINT'S; who is immensely rich. I have caused a loaded vessel to be seized, which was on its way to the United Stares. " The Merchants may rest assured they may now trAde, in the fullest security; to the Ports of the COlony ; and that they need be afraid neither of requisitions nor any arbitrary measures." PROCLANIATION. THE FIRST CONSULS TO THE INHABITANTS OF ST. DOMiNGO. Pals, Nov. 8, 1801. " INHABITANTS OF ST. DOMINGO, ." Whatever may be your origin and colour, you ftfe all Frenchmen, all free, all, equal before God, and the Republic. France like St. Domingo, has been the prey of Faaions, and torn by Civil and Foreign War. But now all is changed. All Nations have embraced the French, and sworn to them PeaLe and Friendship. All the French are likewise reconciled to one ano ther) and have sworn to he friends and brothers. Come you also to embrace the French, and to gra tify yourselves with a sight of your friends and brethren of Europe. " Government sends you Captain-General LE ; he leads with him great forces to proted you against your Enemies, and against the Enemies of the Republic. "If it be said to you, These forces are des tired to deprive jou of your - Liberty,' do you reply The Relublic will not stiffer it to be taken jrom us.' ,1 Rally around your Captain-General. He brings ycli abundance and peace—rally around him. He who dares to separate himself from the Captain- Gt.:ter:4l, is a traitor to his country, and the wrath of the Republic shall devour him, as the tire de vours your dry canes. (Signed) " BONAPARTE, First Constil. " H. B. MARETy Sec. of State." to CITIZEN ToITSSAII'ZT LOUVERTURE, GENERAL IN CHIEF OF THE ARMY OF ST. DOMINGO. CITIZFN GENERAL, " Peace with England and the other Powers of Europe, which has raised the Republic to the first degree of power and grandeur, has also induced the Republic to take - possession of St. Domingo. We have sent thither Citizen LECLERC, our brother in-law, with the rank of Captain_General, as First Magistrate of the Colony. He is attended by a force such as is proper to make the sovereignty of the people respetted. " In these circumstances we flatter ourselves that you will prove to.us, and France in geoeral, the sincerity of the sentiments which you have constantly expressed in the different letters which you have written us. We have conceived an es teem for you, and we feel a pleasure in acknow ledging and proclaiming the great services which you have rendered to the French people. If its colours wave in St. Domingo, it is owing to you and your brave blacks., " Called by your talents and the force of cir cumstances;to the chief command, you have exrin guished civil war, imposed a restraint on the, per secution of some ferocious men, restored to its pro_ . per rank, religion, and the worship of a God from whom all things emanate. The Constitution you have made, includes many good things, but contains also others contrary to the dignity and sovereignty of the French people, of which St, Domingo is only a portion. " The circumstances in which you have been placed, surrounded by enemies, without being able to derive any assistance from the Mother • Coun try, have legitimated the 'articles of this Consti tution, which olterwise would be improper. But now that things have happily changed their appear ance, you will no doubt be the first to pay homage to the Sovereignty of the nation, which numbers you among its most illustrious citizens, by the services which you have rendered to it, both by the talents and intrepid charaer with which Nature has endowed you. A contrary line of conduCt will not be recon cileable to the sentiment we entertain of you. It will make you forfeit your numerous claims to the 'gratitude and •to the rewards of the Republic, and will open a gulph for yourself, which tiny also contribute to the misery of those generousblacks, whose e.turage we admire, and whose rebellion with pain we should be obliged to punish. " We have made known to your children and to their tutor, the sentiments by which we • are go verned. We return them to you. " Assist the Captain_General with your advice, your influence, and your talents. Do you wish, for the freedom of thee-glacks ? You know well, that in every country, where we have been, we have con. it On those people who before wcre not vssession of it. D, you, wish,for and For6ine ? After the services you have:endere,,- . and which it is now in your power, :the present conjundure to effeet, and with the. personal estima, tion which we . . entertain for you, you need not doubt of the consideration, the fortune, and the ho flours which attend you. " Let the people of St. Domingo know; that the solicitude which France, has ever felt for their hi. i piness, has often been nefficient, from the imperious circumstances of the War ; that the men who have arrived from the continent to agitate the colony, and: foment divisions, were the spawn of futtions which were tearing in pieces the Mother Country her self but now; that Peace and the power of the Government . secure their pro , :perity and freedom, tell them that if Liberty be their chief good, they cannot enjoy it but with the tide of French Citi zens, and that every affirm contrar , , , to the interests of the Country, to the obedience which they owe to the Government and to the Commander in Chief who is the depositary of ir, will .he a crime against the National Sovereignty, which will eclipse their services; and render St. Domingo the theatre of an unhappy war, in which fathers and children will niutiially destroy each other. " And you; General ! relied - , that ifyou are the first of your colour who have arrived to so high a degree of power, and who have been so greatly.dis., tioguished by valour and military talents, you are also to God and us e the principal responsible agent for your own condud. " If there be any evil designing persons who say to those who have taken the lead in the troubles of St. Domingo, that we come to investigate what they have been doing during the days of anarchy, assure them that we shall look only to their present condud, that we shall make no inquiries into the past, except to learn those exploits by which they hare distinguished themselves in the war which they sustained againSt the Spaniards and English, then our enemies. " Rely .upon our esteem, and condu& yourself as becomes one of the Principal Citizens of the greatest nation in the world. " The First Consul, BONAPARTE. " Paris, Nov. sB, i Sol." COPY OF A LETTER TO GENERAL CHRISTUFHE, FROM THE COMMANDER IN CHIEr. " On lward the Ocean. " I learn with indignation, Citizen General, that you refuse to receive the French Squadron and Army which I comMand, under the pretence that you have received no orders from the Governor General. " France has made peace with England, and the Government has sent to St. Domingo a three suff— ciently strong to crush rebels, if there be anv found there. With respeft to yourself, Citizen General, I-confess to you, that it will be painful to me to consider you among the number of rebels. " I give you notice, that if you do not this day deliver into my possession the Forts Piceolet and Belair, and all the Batteries on the coast, ro-moi. row at day break, t 5,000 men shall IA disetn. barked. Four thousand men are now disembarking at Fort-Liberte ; SOOO at Fort-Republicain. " Annexed to this Letter, you will ti9d my Pro. clamation ; it expresses the intention of the French Government. But, remember, that whatever personal good opinion I may entertain of your conduct in the. Colony, I consider 'Tim as responsible for whatever may happen. - • " LECLERC." ADMIRAL VILLAtET TO THE MINISTER OF Mai.. RINE AND THE COLONIES. " On board the Ocean, in tlx R:,ad ../Cape Frin_ccit, `• Feb, to, 1802. " CITIZEN MINISTER, " I hasten to give you an account of the opera tions of the Fleet of the Republic, since its depar ture from Brest to the present day, and 1, request you will submit this Letter to the First Consul. " You know that winds direly adverse detained the Squadron till the / 4.th of December. On the morning of the 17th, I rallied close by Belle-Isle the Division from L'Orient, and not perceiving, at this redezvous, the Division from Rochefort, I stretched as far as Isle-Dieu, in hopes of finding it. I thus literally fulfilled your instructions, and as the weather did not permit me to prolong this danger ous cruiie, I made sail for Cape Finisterre.— Violent winds, an extremely rough sea, and con tinuai fogs, separated, during this passage, several. Ships of the Squadron, and damaged considerably several Vessels. " On the sth Nivose, the Arept:ine, commanded by General GR AV INA, left the Squadron to be re. paired at Ferrol. " On the 28th December, I was obliged to per mit the ship Duquesne, to nut in at the first Port, and to order the Co-/2,4;a to accompany her.— [These two vessels have not vet rejoined us, al. though I expressly ordered the Frigate not to delay more than 24. hours in the Port where she might anchor:] " I entertained a feeble hope of finding Rear Admiral LATOUCHE at the Canary Islands. I have le a rnt that this Officer had steered there dire# from Rochefort, and had, waited there four days in ex. P• etta-ion of our Fleet. I made the Isle of Palma on the sth of January, without meeting any vessel, and I proceeded without delay to conduel. the Army to its destination. ' " The contrary winds, which defeat alike our power and our prudence, did not, however, pre.. tent the arrival of the Army at Cape Santana, the 29th of January in the morning, forty-six days after its departure from Brest. On the same morning I met again with Admicai GRAY INA, the Squadron from Rochefort, and, all the Spanish and French. , VesselS which lud parted from the Fleet, with the exception of thc. Duquesne, the Cornelia, the Rbinc ceras, and the two Packets, which were obliged to anchor, the one at Corogne, and the other at Sr. Ander. ,‘ On tl►e 3otli January, the Syrene Frigate, which I had dispatched to Guadakmpe, brought me the details of the events which had occurred in that Colony• This intelligence, and some indireE formation respefiting the Ingverne,fits which have bur "t