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KINGDOIX OF HAYTI. LIBERTY AND INDEPENDENCE! Sitting of the" General Council . of,the Nation, /Ist October, 1 . 814, - the, Eleventh Year of the In- dependence of Hayti, and the Foitrth Year of his 111djesty's Reign. The following Address having been read, it was unanimously agreed, that the sdme should be presented to his Majesty:— • ADDRESS TO THE KING. • " Sten—ln the annals of the . world no example can be found of an overture for peace, accompanied by such fright . fel and disgraceful circumstances, as that made by the French General Dauxion Lavaysse, in the name and as the agent of his Majesty Louis XVIII. Nations, Sovereigns, and even individuals, have certain rights, which are respected even by the most barbarous peo ple, and no one is permitted to violate them. But if men in • general have agreed to respect these rights, sanctioned by custom and public decorum, how much more odious it is that the Envoy of an enlightened Moriaich and nation has dared so openly to violate them ! " What the most abominable tyrants, when they wished to oppress and impose on people the yoke of tyranny, em 'pineed perfidious means, and concealed their criminal enter eeSzes by specious pretexts, because they did not dare openly to siolatt public rights ; but the Envoy of the King of the French impudently violates every right, and offers the greatest of insults to i free people, by proposing to them the alter native of slavery or death ! And to whom does this rile agent .dare to address this declaration of the atrocious intentions of leis Government ?—to your Majesty, the conqueror of the French—the defender of liberty and independence; to you, a pi Sire, who hare devoted your whole life to the maintenance and defence of the indestructible and eternal rights of man —to vane Majesty, who have always taken, as the rule of lour conduct and actions, the honour and glory of the Hay- Can people ? He dares to propose to you to descend from a tirrone where you were placed by the love and gratitude of your fellow-citizens I—Oh, extravagance of insolence and infamy ! Ile dares to suspect your great soul of such an enormous per fidy ! To whom do they dare to speak of masters and of eSeetel To us—to a free and independent peoples-to war riors covered with noble wounds received in the field of ho tiour, who have rooted up the ancient tree of prejudices and slavery—to those warriors who, in a thousand combats, have , made these barbarous colonists bite the dust. And now the remaining colonists who escaped our just vengeance, dare stilt to speak of the re-establishment of that detested reign which we have for ever castoff!—No, there shall never exist a mas ter nor a slave in Hayti ! " Could your Nlajes i ty have expected such excessive insult from a Sovereign whom fame has represented so as a wise, good, and virtuous King, instructed in the schodl of adver sity, and an enemy of illiberal prejudices ? How little truth, ' Sac, is there in fame, when we compare events with her anticipations. The first overture for peace, the first words of conciliation which are addressed to us in the name of this Prince, of whom we bad formed so pleasing an idea, are outrageous insults. It is proposed - to men who have been free for twenty-five years, who still' have arms in their .hands, to lay them down in order to take up again the fetters of ignominions and barbarous slavery ! In insinuating to us these horror., lt.iy tea th...in with the specious pretext of 'reace andfecenciliationl They envelope the poniard of trea - - son and perfidy in the honourable and seductive mantle of the liberal sentiments af justice and humanity of the French Monarch 'towards us! But on a sudden this vile agent, this authropophagous monster, changing his language, taking a tone and atrocious character adapted to his odious mission, threatens to destroy our race and substitute another. What justice! what liberality! what humanity! From this last proceeding of the French, does not every thing shewthatthe cause of the Haytians is distinct from that . of the people ? In fact, to what people—to what Sovereign—• would iany one hue dared to propose conditions so base and degrading ? They despise us; they think us so stupid as to suppose that we want the instinct which animals possess for their preservation.—What madness ! What - excess of auda city, to dare to propose that we shall give ourselves up to the French, and submit to their odious dominion? Is it for the benefits we ha\'e received that sic should again take up the chains of servitude ? Is it for a Sovereign who is alto gethcr'a stranger to us, who never did any thing for us,. that we should change our Master ? Is it, in short, for the purpose of being again delivered over to tortures, and of being de voured by dogs, that we should 'renounce the fruits of 25 yeais battles? What, pen, have we now in common with that people ? Mee we not broken all the bonds that could unite Os with them ? We have changed the name, the life, the manners. We bear no resemblance to the French—these .people, who never ceased to persecute us, and whom we ab hor. Why then should we submit to the fate of being eon " elensned to groan under their tyranny and oppression ? " Barbarians !• They dare to despise us ! They think us unworthy of the blessing of liberty and independence! They think that we are not capable of sublime sentimeets, or 'of those generous impulses which form heroes, and make amen trimesters of their own destinies ! But they are deceived. Let - theta - know something of the magnani m ity, the energy, and the courage - of the people whom they dare to outrage! Our will is to be free, and we shall be so in spite of tyrants! ' ! if our cause should he separated front that of other ' ; if injustice should prevail over equity in this en . lightened age, if our tyrants should at length he able to tritlmeh over us, let the glory of the Hayti:se People at least stand unequalled in the annals of nations! Yes, we solemnly pledge ourselves that, sootier than renounce liberty and inde rsielence's our entire race shall be ex.terMinated. But before any Frenchman gains a footiog here, let Hayti become a vast desert; let our towns, our ruenufaetures, our dwellings, be .come a prey. to the tianir. Let each of us multiply his force—redouble his merry and his courage, in immoleting to over just fury thousands of those tigers who are alienated from our blood! Let Hayti present nothing but a heap o f ruins, leilerrifed countenances meet nothing but sights of death, destruction, And vengeance ! Let posterity hare to say, on beholding these ruins ' nese lived a free and ge uerous people ; tyrants wanted to strip them of their liberty, but they resol ved to perish sooner than part with it Pos terity will applaud this act of magnanimity. Oh ! wilt there he a Inman being so destitute of generosity as to refuse us his admiration,, his esteem, and his so o d wishes 'S In the political wars carried on among eirilised States, the armies fight, and the people live in evo:e. But in a war of extermination, such as that with which we lave been threatened, when everyman thinks of defending his kerne, the tumos of his parents, ,his libertc, Isis inilependcnce— what do I say ?—his very existence, and t." at of his wife and children, it is then a war of man against Man; women and boys are in a state of war: all are in arms; all the evil we can do our enemy is a sacred duty; all means of destruction are lawful for us to use. We stint' revjfe tnose dreadful examples of exaspmaticn among.. people who, terrified the earth ! Pos terity will shudder with horror ; lint far from blaming us, it will only impute these acts to the perversity of, the age; to tyrants, and to necessity ! But this will never happen—it is impossible. Hayti is invincible; and justice, as well as the cause of justice, will bear her triumphant through all ob stacles. No, never shall this execrable enterprise take place. There is Honour, there is glory among the Sovereigns and People of Europe; and GREAT BIUTAIN, that Liberator of the Iroild, will prevent such an abomination !" LAW INTELLIGENCE. SERJEANTS 7 INN-LIALL, JAN. 11. This day the Judges of the Court of King's Bench sat in Serjeants-Inn-Hall, agreeably to appointment, to hear arguments on motions for new trials. HOLMN V. WHITMORE. • In this case, which was an action upon a po licy of ittsurance-on the ship Venus, and in which a verdict was found for the plaintiff, a rule to chew cause why a new trial should not take‘place, was granted by the Court. The circumstances of t'.e case were these : The Venus sailed front this country, under a li cence directed to her owner, and certaiti other British merchants, by which/she was allowed to sail with such a cargo as was sanctioned by law, and under any flag except the French flag, for anv port or ports situate between the Scheldt and the Texel. Tile vessel accordingly sailed, and was lost. The assured brought his action, and reco vered against t+t: defendant, who now moved for a new trial; and the only question for decision was, v'',:ether the licence. under which the Ventis sailed, was such as would protect the property of an alien ? The Court, on hearing the question argued, were unanimously of opinion that it did. Th e li cense allowed the vessel to go to certain ports in ilollaud,7which were all, at the time, in the CNC.- my's possession. Of this circumstance those who granted the license could not he ignorant, and at the time of granting it, they must have contemplated the probability of its being used to protect alien property--Rule discharged and verdict for the plain tiff confirmed. COX V. PRINT'S. This was an action by which the plaintiffs, who are dealers in silver, sought to recover from the defendant, as money had and received by him to the plaintiff's ase, the sum of 281. and a fraction, being the diffetence in value between the price paid by them to the defendant for a bar of silver purchased by the plaintiffs from the defendant, and its actual worth, as afterwards ascertained when the whole bar came to be assayed by the Assay Master. It appeared that the defendant hail received from a person of the name of Cut ton, his principal, residing at Gibraltar, a quan tity of silver, in which there was mixed a great deal of alloy, and that having agreed to sell it to the plaintiffs, it was referred to a Mr. Johnson, an Assay Master, to assay it, and ascertain the precise quantity of pure silver which it con tained. In pursuance of this object, the plain tiff's man delivered to Johnson, not the whole bar, bat only a part of it, which having assayed, he declared the proportion of pure silver to be four ounces and a few penny weights to 'a pound troy, and in this proportion the plaintiff's settled with the defendant for the price of the whole bar.— Having afterwards, discovered, however, that there was a greater proportion of a ll o y i n t h e rest of the bar, the plaintiffs had the whole of it as sayed of new, and having in that manner ascer tained that they had overpaid the defendant by the sum of 281. and a fraction, they brought their action to recover to that amount; when a verdict was found for the plaintiffs. A motion having afterwards been made to have that verdict set aside, and a nonsuit entered, Mr. TOPPING an d M r. ' C omINS argued in sup port of thh rule, contending that this case Came under the Law of Caveat Etuptor. --The plaintiffs had themselves appointed Mr. Johnson' to exer cise his judgment for them, and relying upon his judgment, they had acted upon it, and could not now complain. They were in the situation of a man, who having purchased wine, which he him self or his servant had previously tasted and ap proved of, could not afterwards be heard to bring his action, complaining that the wine wa s b a d. Mr. ATTORNEY-GENERAL, Mr. PARK, and Mr. MARRYATT , having argued the case On the other side, The Court was unanimously of opinion, that there hging here mutual innocence, mutual error, and things being in every respect entire as be tween tl►e'defendant and his principal, to whom he had not vet accounted, that the plaintiff was entitled too - a verdict.—The Rule was accordingly discharged. ,‘ OLD BAILEY. . - yestettla y the Sessions at the Uld Bailey com menced before Mr. Baron boon, Mr. Justice DALL.s.s, the ItEcortoett, &c. John Paul was indicted fur stealing two pieces of silk hatiok e r c hi e f s from the shop window of John Smith, haberdasher, in Ratcliffe highway. It was given in evid.mce, that in the month of Septem ber last, as the shopman of the pros.ectitor was standing in the shop about halt-past six in the evening, he saw the prisoner repeatedly psss the door, which exciting his snspicion i he watched him closely, and soon heard a pane of glass crack, and looking to the window lie saw the prisoner very busy taking out divers articles placed there. Witness instantly pursued him, and.prisoner oh serving he \vas detecte+l, ran olf, and threw away the handkerchiefs, and on the cry of stop thief, patrole stopped t h e prisoner. —Guilty. Carl Plumberele, a Ditteh sa.ilor, was indicted for borglariouslybreaking out of the house of H. Harris, on the 26th of December, having pre* vioN4y stolen therein a gold and a silver watch. The prosecutor stated, that on the clay a4ove mentioned' the prisoner entered his. shop, which is a slop-shop,lend evilness asked hint if he wanted any c'otbes2 Ile said he - did, but could not pay for them till next day, when his Captain was to pay him 351. Prosecutor upon that asked him to stay the night in his house, and slaewed him into a comfortable apartment. In the morning, on coming down to the street-door, he found it open, and soon after missed his watches ; and, from the coldness of the bed in which the prisoner lay, it was clear he had been gone a long time. The next day prisoner was stopped at a pawnbroker's in Rat cliffe Highway, where lie had offered to exchange the watches for other articles. Ile was then se cured, and by the Magistrates.committed for trial. Guilty —Death. Anthony Millanch was charged with stealing front John Bynner, of Tothill-street, grocer, tour 1/. Bank notes, Mr. Bynner stated, that he had suspected the prisoner, who - lived with hint as porter and shop man, of robbing him. One day he saw the key in the prisoner's box, on which he opened it ; he there found eleven notes, &c. his property, tour of theta being marked and dated subsequently to the period,when he had paid him any money for wages. The notes were taken from a till ; it was always upon, and any one in the shop might go to it and take notes therefrom, if so inclined. On the part of the prisoner, Edward Rogers was called, lie had lived with Mr. B. and left him November 24, on which occasion he received Si. for wages, 3/. in notes, two of which he paid away to the prisoner, that sum being due from hint to the iaisoner's brother for clothes. Beghie, of Gloucester -street, Queen square, grocer, deposed, that the prisoner had lit - ed near five years tyith hint—that he had often. trusty!' him with considerable amounts, and that lie %you'd again take him into his service, if cleared of this charge. Others also gave the prisoner a very good cha racter, never having before heard any imputation cast on his conduct. Mr. Baron Wool) having minutely summed up •. the evidence,. the Jury, after some deliberation, retired to consider their verdict, the foreman ob serving, that some held one opinion, - and others its opposite; and in about three quarters of an hour returned a verdict of Not Guilty. ilfurray and John Keaf were capitally indicted for privately stealing four printed cotton handkerchi&fs, value 10s. the property 61 Wm. Pitt, The Jury found a verdict—Guilty of striding. JohnEggleton was capitally convicted of privately, stealing a gold ring, value 355. the property of Sarah Burrow, on the sth January. Stephen Reynolds stood indicted for privately stealing, on the 3d January, ten pair of stockings, the property of John Ride.—Guilty of stealing, but not privately, and recommend ed to mercy. John Brown was convicted of feloniously stealing one port manteau, value 10s, live towels, value ss. and twelve bottles of wine, value 31. the prope4ty of Win. Hunt, Alicklefield. Margaret M'Carthy was indicted for stealing a great-coat of the value,of 31. the property of Geo. Sebum, in the dwelling house of John Drinkald.—Guilty. James Reeves was indicted for stealing ten ounces of green tea, value 2s. the property of the East India Company.— Guilty, but recummendedto mercy.' MIDDLESEX SESSIONS, JAN. 11. CONSPIRACY.—Pat. Leeson and Richard Gardner were both indicted for conspiring together to de fraud, and with defrauding, Mr. Christopher Hawc, a publican, in Swallow -street, Piccadilly, of the sum of 601. It appeared that Leeson had signified that he had a sum of money to lodge with some person who would take care of it, and that he laid down on the table a sum of money, and the def e nd an t G ar d ner counted out one hun dred and twenty-six pounds to all appearance. The prosecutor immediately took it up in a bundle, and put it in his pocket. He never counted the notes himself, and gave the defendant Leeson a receipt for the sum. In some days after, when he had occasion to go to his bureau to take out some money, he took the above-mentioned parcel for for that purpose, but to his astonishment found that it contained instead of 1261. only 661. and when Leeson next called he acquainted tint therewith : Leeson, however, persisted in de claring that the sum was 126/.. and that he ex pected Mr. HaVve would be accountable to him for it. Mr. Hawe resisted: the claim, _ and had Leeson . and Gardner apprehended upon a charge of conspiracy, and ordered to find bail for •that offence, which they forthwith did, and were discharged. Leeson then brought an action for his money, which was tried at the -Sittings after the last Term, and obtained a verdict against Mr. Hawe for the amount of his claim, together with. costs:. On this occasion the Jury _expressed them selves perfectly satisfied that there was no founda tion for the charge against the defendants, and brought in a verdict of Not Guilty. PERJURY.—Louisa Stanton . wa s indicted for wit. fill and corrupt perjury, in exhibiting articles of the peace against her husband, falsely accusing him of maltreating her. Mr. ALLEY, for the prosecution, admitted that he could not maintain this indictment, as the only evidence he had to produce was th a t o f t h e hus band, which he allowed was not legal evidence.— The defendant was therefore acquitted. The plaintiff then stated to the Court he would again indict and bring actions in the Court of Common Pleas agaiust certain branches of the POLIC IN'FELLIGENCE. BOW-STREET. Yesterday morning as Nichols was passing through Charing-cross, he observed a man with something bulky tied up in a dirty cloth; and having a suspicion that he had something stolen, followed him into Coekspur-street ; from thence he returned, a'nd entered the• Park by Spring Gardens, where he asked him wlit he. had got in his bundle? m which he replied, nothing.— Nichols insisted on searching the cloth, where he found a very handsome plate coach-glass, sup posed to hare been stohm from a Nobleman or Gentleman's coach.. He was brought to thd Of fice, and underwent an examination, when he said, the glass had been given him early yesterday morning, by a man, four miles on this side . of Croydon, .t o - ma k e a s hil ling or ,two.—lle was committed for further examination. . Mr. Bird, of Gray's Inn-lane ; was convicted for night soil haying been shot from his - cart ear ly in the wruing of the 9th December, in Park ne.—A similar offence wasvonimitted at the same time, in Grosvenor-square. QUEEN-SQUARE. Yesterdait a Mr. B. residing in the neighbour hood of Chelsea, appeared before W. FIELDING, Esq. pursuant to a charge exhibited against him by the driver and owner of the hackney-coach, No. 85.5, for detaining a numbered plate belong ing to the coach: It appeared, that the defen dant and five other young Gentlemen, sprigs of fashion,' after having sacrificed liberally at the. shrine of the Jolly God, went to the Theatre, from which they ordered the coach to Chelsea.— Determined upon what is vulgarly called a lark,, they proceeded to take off' the plated num bers ; and upon their arrival at the place of des tination, the coachman. 4tuonstrated with them on the impropriety of their conduct. They were, however, deaf to his fagumentatire elocution, and agreed not to disclose their names. The coach man.demanded Its. for his fare, and remuneratiou for the loss of his number : the latter demand they. refused to comply with, and to satisfy the . for mer, gave the coachman 7s. Gd. as his fare, - be ing 45. Gd. under the reghlar fare. Alter consi derable inquiry, the coach Man succeeded in ob taining the nainci of two of the party, who ap peffed. Air. FIELDING though/I, that as it was an act committed in frolic and high blood, they had better satisfy the coachman, which they' in stantly did, and were (Itscharged. MANSION-HOUSE. Yesterday John Carlo, a custom-house officer, underwent final examination, on a charge of s►eal ing leaf tobacco from the Custom-house Quays. It appeared that the prisoner was found with the ,tobacco concealed about hiS person, and the constable, knowing hint to belong to the cus toms, took him into custody on suspicion of felony. On this occasion a person from the Custom-house gave the prisoner an excellent character. It was stated that he displayed uncommon- activity (lur ing the late Ore at the Custom-house, and by his personal exertion,,rescucd Colonel Kelly from the flames ; also glass and other property of consi• derable value.—The prisoner was discharged. WORSHIP-STREET. Yesterday, Joseph Rnton and J. Hinckley were brought up in the custody of J. Armstrong, on suspicion of committing a burglary in Turk -street, Bethnal•green, on Monday last., Mr. MOSER; the Sitting Magistrate, on account of a principal witness, was obliged to remand them both - until this day. HATTON-GARDEN. Thomas Fisher, a running dustman, WAS charg ed with representing himself as a Police Officer, exhibiting his gilt-headed staff, and clearing the street of Cow-cross of hawkers 'and dealers sin earthenware, and others Who exposed their wares for sale in the street, without his permission, in order to extort , money from them. He was re manded fora second examination. MASONRY. On the 21st inst. being the anniversary meeting - of the Mother Lodge, Kilwinning, the-foundation stone of the mew Tower was laid.. The Brethren of the Mother Lodge, attended by numerous de , putations from the Stevenston, -Keith, Irvine; and Eaglesham Lodges, and also the Archers irr their uniforms, with bows and arrows, assembled by at discharge of the artillery at Eglinton and Ardrog• san, at twelve o'clock, and proceeded from the town towards Eglinton, accompanied by two bands of music, the Eaglesham and Kilwinning, and met the Right Hon. Earl, and a Committee of the lieritors of the Parish : the procession then re turned to the spot; and the stone was laid' wit!' the usual solemnities, by Wm. Davidson, Esq. Right Worshipful Master of the Mother Kilwin ning Lodge, and Grand Maiter of the County of Ayr, in presence of the whole procession, and an immense concourse of spectators assembled on . the occasion. The Earl of Eglintou addressed the Meeting in an elegant and appropriate speech, and the whole was concluded by an excellent 1 prayer from. the Rev. Mr: Haldane, Chaplain to the Mother Lodge. By a signal given at the mo.• ment the stone was laid, another discharge of the artillery at Eglinton and AndroSsan was fired.--• The procession then conducted the Earl of Eglin ton- across the bridge, and returning , to their re.- spectiie Lodges, dined and spent the evening with much conviviality. :To add to the dinner, the Earl of Eglinton, With his'usual munificence, sent a large ox to the brethren. About sixty of the brethren of Eaglesham Lodge, including - all the office bearers, with their band of music, came from thence, a distance of twenty miles, to at tend this ceremony, in compliment to the Noble Earl, their much revered landlord. COAL MARKET, J. 11. Ships at Market. Ships sold. Price. 90-i Newcastle l4 ..385. Od. to 595. ear 7 Sunderland 2 . 47s. Gd. to 48s. 6►l. 3 Ciodcrs 3 .. 345. Od. to —s. 04' BIRTHS. On the 26th nit. at Col.Bedingfeld's, Moor-house-hall, Cum' berland, the Lady of Harry Bradburne, Esq. of Woodlands , Surrey, of a daughter. On Saturday last, at his house at Exton, the Lady of L. I" Hoskins Mawr, Esq. of a daughter. MARItIED. On the 9th inst. at St. George's Church, Liverpool, Colone l Robert Munro, of the Hon. the East India Company's SI vice, to Jane, daughter of Mrs. Dickey, of Fitzwilliam-stree t ' Dublin. Yesterday morning, at St. George's Church, Hanover-squar e Major Gore, of the Royal Dragoon Guards, to Mary Jan ..' daughter putt heiress of Owen Ormsby, Esq. of Porkingto o Shropshire. DIED. At his seat in East. Lothian, Robert Deans, Esq, of HO ington, Admiral of the White. On Saturday evening, James Bennett, Esq. of Cadb llll llonse, Somersetshire. vsl. Lately, at the Eaglet Inn, Aberystwith, Edw. Humphr e o g better known by the name of Admiral Hawke, frdmhis hav e fl evinced much gallantry in several of that renowned comman d 15 engagements, and being superlatively proud of his lauteo, lle contiaued some time in the service of his King and cop 4 try, during the present reign ; was the oldest inhabitan t : s t l burgess of At.erystwith, beinc in his 99th year ; and notl j ti, standing• his a ge , an d the.misfort nu e of havingti.)st his slot he attended, and voted at the fa s t e lectiOn for Me Boroag Cardigait. LONDON : Printed by J. B. CARSTAIRS, No. 7, Cr 3sc o o buildings; and published by W. A. SCRIPPS, of Bri X tis e' - at the SuN-Oies en, No. 112, Strand; where Ado :r d , ruents, Orders, Letters (post-paid), &c, must be addreis`