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7,11NC0. THE following Proclamation of the independence of the Island of St. Domingo, has been published by the three principal Military Chi,:fs: PROCLAMATIO:•; OF DESSALINES, CHRIS. TOPHE, AND CLERVEAUX, CHIEFS OF ST. DOMINGO. IN THE NAME OF THE BLACK PEOPLE AND MEN OF CO- LOUR OF ST. DOMINGO. The Indpendence of St. Domingo is proclaimed. Re stored to our primitive dignity, we have proclaimed our right ; we swear never to yield them to any Power on earth . ; the frightful veil of prejudice is torn to pieces, and is so ior ever. Woe b e t o w h omsoever would dare again to put to gether its bloody tatters. 0 ! Landholders of St. Domingo, wandering in Foreign Countries, by proclaiming our Independence, we do not in tend to forbid you indiscriminately from returning to your property : far b e f rom us this unjust idea. We are not ig norant, that there are some among you that have renounced their old errors,abjured the injustice of their exorbitant preten sions, and acknowledged the lawfulness of the cause for which we have been spilling our blood these twelve years. Toward these men who do us justice, we will acl as brothers ; let them rely for ever on our esteem and friendship ; let them return among us. The God who protects us, the God of Freemen, bids us to stretch out towards them our conquering arms. But as for those who, intoxicated with a foolish pride, and interested slaves of a guilty pretension, are blinded so much as to thi n k t h at they are the essence of human nature, and they af&EI to believe that the he our Masters and our tyrants, let them n ever coI y are desti ne d by Heaver: to land of C near the St. Domingo ; if th ey come hither, they will only Meet with chains and deportation ; let th they are ; and tormented b em stay t h en w h ere y their wall-deserved misery and the frowns of the just men that they have at, let th em st i ll continue to move the too long moc k e d fiaudy, pity and concern of We have sworn not to listen to clemency towards all those who would d are to speak to us of slaver}, ; we shall b in exorable, p er h aps even cruel towards all the troops who, n t themsekes forge tt i ng the objet.} for whit fmchrotha)' have Europe, too ceased fi ghting since tyg o, s h ould come y carry among us d eath and servitude. Nothing e is too de ar , and every means are l awful, to men from whom it is wished to tear t h e f i rst of all blessings. Were they to cause riversma.nta.n and torrents of blood t o run ; were they, i n or d er to their lib eny, to confiagrate seven-eigh t h s o f the g lobe,; i they _ not ar e innoc ent b enire the tribunal of Providence, that has t creat e d men to see them groaning under a harsh and shameful servitude. It in the various ins urre6tions that took place, some inha bitants bitants of against whom we had not t o complain, have been ims the cruelty of a few soldiers or c ultivators, too much blinded by the remembrance of their past sufferings to be able to distingui s h the good and humane La nd -owners from those that were unfeling and cruel ; we lament with all fcel: ing souls so deplorable an end, and declare to the world' whatever may be said to the contrary by wicked people, that the murders Were cernMitted contrary .1) to the wishes of our hearts. It was impossible, especially in the crisis in which the Colony was, to be able to prevent or stop these horrors. They vlllO are in the least acquainted with history, all know that 4 people , when assailed by civil dissentious, though th e) . may be the most polished on earth, give themselves up to all kinds of excess, and the authority of the Chiefs; always but poorly consolidated in a time of revolution, can_ it ot r . u n al 1 those that' -a.e e guilty, .without always meet ing with new difficulties. But now -a-days the Aurora of peace lets. us have the glimpse of a less stormy time, pow that the cal m of vid.qty has succeeded to the troubles of a dreadful war, every thing in St. Domingo ought to assume a new face and its Government henceforward to be that of justice. Doneat the Head-quarters, Fort Dauphin, Nov. 29, 1803. (Signed) DESSALINES, C HRISOPIIE, ( CLERV EAUX. True Copy) B. Am E, Sec. Lord %.-Awnoß inherits from the late Mr. VAUGHAN, of Gulden Grove, that fine oM Man sion and Demesnes with Estates in South Wales to ..the amount of ts,oool. a year ; the whole adjoin lflogLord CAW ouß's Family property ; and all this ix. a A t no other known propinquity whatever. ar e a' 1 ; r n ' I v i read' fl S irtL. On ituttßart. his Lady, and Family, frotn their tirnth at his house in Gloucester-place, 4ek e w r s dSeat, the Right tiot.Toti, at Hon. Lord they have been spemndi Park ' Basingstoke, where of Fashionnatletsb Christmas Holidays with a Party The Pamphlet, intitled, " Thoughts on the Old and New Administrations," b is generally understood to be ivryitateCn o I,vil Volunteer, M. TIER NEy. The " View of the RelatiVeySituationa o f Mr. PITT arid Mr. ADDINGTON," of which We gave is now av owed eL°Pinus Extrafts a few days since, L'Y Mr. ltousicr WARD, M. P. fur Cockermouth. not w . ill venture tu affirm, that this produdion will cit injure his Politico -Literary fame. .1,,,0,,,n Saturday morning last, Dr. Cooict, of Mid escai; icrl.Basstx, experienced a most providential "wn assassination. Robert Blake, his ap. Prentice Iv ! V i , ' 1 0 had previously been guilty of many b or atrocious mi,condoEt, took the opportunity Witheing in a dark room with the Doctor, to stab him • a sivOttl Which he had secreted for this diabo. ~,IlCal Purpose. The point of the weapon most fortu. iarelY entered the side in exaft contan with the l'iP-bone, which, prevented the thrust from proving P Enraged at the disappointment, he ended. voured to complete the black deed with a poker, which was wrenched out of his hand by-the Donor, who i s a remarkably stout man. The wretch was taken before STEPHEN POYNTZ, Esc! : one of his Majesty's Justices of the Peace, and committed .to take his trial for the outrage. Baptista Bertazzi, the Italian, who stood , in the pillory some tithe hack near St. Clement's Church, in the Strand, for seffing obscene prints at board _ in the was yesterday pillared at Seven Dials, William Porter, porter at the George. and Biue lioar Inn, 1--I;;',.,rn, was Yesterday convicted at the Public Office, Bow.;;tret:r, by NicHoL. l .s BOND, E 'cl. of chargiry a Goilieman in Clement's Inn n?6'more than the rate e:;tal:•1141)ed by Act of Parlia , for i)oterage of a parch, and- fined in the mi tigated penalty of los. besiU the costs. AM AIC A. Br the lattst accounts from Jamaica, it appears that his Honour the LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR de.. livered a Message to the Assembly, accompanied by a Letter from Lord HoBART to his Honour, which had for their objea to procure a Grant from the Assembly for the maintenance of an additional Force cf 3oco Men in that Island, for its greater security and protetlion. The same proposition had been made some time ago, which was negatived. Lord HOBART states, in his Letter to the LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR, the following reason, among others, for requesting the Assembly to reconsider the prin. ciple on which the proposition was made : " If His / 11 ArEsTv's Sulkieds residing in the Island of Jamaica, did contribute their full proportion to the general expences of the Empire, there might be some grounds to support theargument that has been urgedagainst their making a separate provision for defraying the expence of the Land Force that may be‘stationed for theTirste.ction of the Island ; but as such an argument, dispassionately examined, would he found untenable, it is to be hoped that a re-consideration of the principle upon which your proposition was made to the Assembly wilt !cad to a more satistaelory result, and that the decision will rather be governed by the means of pro viding the supply, than by arguments that bespeak less li berality than might have been expected from the Island of Jamaica." His Lordship then enters at some length on the different arrangements relative to the Military Esta blishment at Jamaica, in times of danger and diffi culty, and holds out the probability of a speedy reduction of the Force in the Island, on the eva. cuation of St. Domingo by the French Troops„ which he assures his Honour would then he less expensive than the arrangement of 1798, when the Assembly agreed to the maintenance of 2000 In fantry and the zoth Light Dragoons. His Lord. ship concludes his Letter to the Governor by say ing-- " Under a full persuasion, that the concurrence of the Assembly will be obtained to the extent of the Contributions now proposed, you are authorized to aLeede to their wishes upon the subject of the zd West India Regiment ; but if, contrary to the reasonable expectation of His MAJEsry's Government, the Assembly should not concur even to that extent, the intention of removing the Black Troops must be laid aside." The Assembly, after mature deliberation, nega tived the Proposition hem. eon. and stated their reasons for so doing at lull length; one of the pin. cilia' was, their inability, from the trade of the Island having been diverted to other channels. ZINGSTON, DF.C. 26. The Sophia Cutter, of London, from the River Gambia, with bees' wax, taken by the Egyptientre French Privateer, is recaptured by the Revolution aire Frigate ; and a French Privateer, of four four_ . pounders, and 66 men, from St. Domingo, out 20 'days, and carried into Jamaica. Saturday morning His Majesty's Packet the Gibes. telfield, sailed from Port Royal, with a mail for Great Britain. The Desiree sailed the same morn ing as her Convoy to a certain latitude. The same morning arrived at Port Royal, the Earl of Lei. tester Packet, in z 8 days from Falmouth. It appears from the Jamaica Papers, that General RocitAms EAU , did not surrender the French Stria.- dron till he had first attempted to mike his escape with them. The Blanche Frigate, Capt.l\7uDGE, ar. rived hereon Sunday 11%411 Care Frai . c'ls, with the following information : :!;e z0:11 G:-r. RocHAmBEAu having entered into terms with the Black General DESSALINEs, was allowed ten ti's to retire with his Troops, consisting of ab , ut 3000, from Cape Francois; and at the expiNii io n iif that period embarked with his Forces on board the Fri gates and Merchant Vessels layitig in the Harbour, and attempted to quit the Prirt, when they were captured by our Squadron cruizing off that place. Monday evening arrived the Bellerophon and Ele phant, of 74.. guns each, from Cape Francois, with the French Frigate La Surveil/ante, of 44 guns, Commodore BARRE, having Gen. ROCHIMBEAU on board. The following French Vessels arrived at Port Royal, on Tuesday morning from Cape Francois : La l 7 ertu Frigate, of 44. guns, Capt. MoNTAL z N ; La Decouverte Corvette; the ships Havre-de-Grace, En. dymion, Louise Marie, jerernie, Bonne Mere, Nouvelle Sophie, Retinair, and Auguste, and the Brig St. Nieho. las, with troops ; and a 'small Schooner, laden with sundries. The Danish Brig Diana, with troops, and the American Ship Two Sisters, and Brig Ad venture, with passengers, detained by the Squa. dron, also arrived the same day from the Cape. The French Ship Tess* son, from the Cape, with Troops, arrived on Tuesday. evening, Prize to the Squadron : also the French Schooner La Couverte, cut out off Curracoa Roads by the Boats of the Ele phant and Bellerophon; also the 'French Schooner La Maria, a prize. The Tartar Frigate had her Second Lieutenant killed in cutting a Felucca out of one of the St. Domingo Ports, hat succeeded. On Thursday arrived three French Ships with Troops, prizes to the Squadron. La Pique' Frigate, Capt. CUMBERLAND, arrived on Thursday evening, with the following vessels, her prizes :—The American Schooners Adivr, and Sally, \V ANE ; and the French Schooner La Bella Lcuisa, having 530 French Troops on board of the garrison of Cape Nicholas Mole, which place sur rendered on the sth. ult. BAT)/ Anaav A Ls.—Lord and Lady Sunderland, Lady and Miss A'Court, Lady Teresa Deancr, Lady Willes, Sir Francis Baring, Cen. Horlock, Col. and Mrs. Rumley, Lieut.-Col and Mrs. Power, Lieut.-Col. Disney, Lieuol. Snell, Lieutenant Colonel Meyrick, Major and Mrs. Plunkett, Dr. Short, tee. A considerable failure has taken place on the Stock Exchange, accompanied by circumstances of peculiar hardship to the sufferers. A person who has long praaised in the House as Broker, with unblemished charaaer, had deficiences to pay to a large amount in April and May last, to pay which he borrowed different sums from his friends both in and out of the House, and for these sums he gave bills which are now become due. He also, it seems, bought, on Saturday last, 26001. 3 per Cents from a brother Broker, and for which he gave hi s d raft in payment. Th e stock was transferred to his princi. pal ; but when the draft was presented at the clear.. ing house, it was not honoured, and on Wednesday he disappeared. In consequence of this failure, the House was kept open on Thursday, though a holi day, in order to investigate the amount of his defi ciencies. They have already discovered losses to the amount of 27,0001. L REFO, COURT OF ktNG's BENCH, Fee. 3, MR. ERSKINE moved for a Rule to shew cause why au Attorney should not answer the Matters of an Affidavit, and also why he should not deliver up certain deeds which were in his hands, and also pay over certain sums of money which he had received for a Gentleman who had employed him to let cer tain growl:is on a certain ground-renr, on which building leases had been granted. The Affidavit stated that this. Attorney had been recommended to the Gentleman for whom this application was made; that these houses had been agreed to be let, and that the Attorney was to manage the business for this Gentleman ; that to accomplish this business the title-deeds were put into the Attorney's hands, who kept them for some time, and on being asked why the business was not completed, made some excuses why the conveyances had not been made. After wards it appeared, on inquiry, that the Attorney had received the rents of the estate for a year and a quarter ; but on application, refused to account with his client for the money, or to deliver up the Deeds. There was no A6tion before the Court, nor were there any law transaaions between this Attorney and his Client, and therefore Mr. ER_ SR INE said he was aware that the Court would not gra ntthe latter parr of his motion, nor order the Bill to be taxed, because there was no business done but that of Conveyancing, the Bill for which was not the subjeft of taxation ; but his purpose might be an swered by having the first part of the Motion grant ed, namely that of calling upon this Attorney to an swer the matters of the Affidavit, for then the Court might consider whether such a person was an orna ment to the Roll of Attornies ; he Was apptehen. sive that this would supersede the necessity of bring ► - ing any Adion of Troyer,• or otherwise taking any course against this Gentleman .; he had no doubt that although the business done in this case was only that of ConVeyancing, yet that the original em ployment of this person was in the charaßer of an Attorney, and as such he was amenable to the Court. The Cut n 7 jusrtca'observed, there was delin quency sufficient stated in this Affidavit to induce the Court to entertain this Motion, and to call on the Attorney for an answer to the matters of the Affi davit; hut it would be as well that the Rule should be drawn up in such a way as that the delinquency should be stated to him at once, that he might know what he was to meet on the face of the Rule, as soon as lie should be served with it. Rule to shew cause granted. HABEAS CORPUS Mr. JARV Is moved that an Habeas Corpus, com mantling the Captain of a Ship of War to bring up the body of an impressed man, which had been serv ed on the Captain, and returned by him, miglit be filed, and that, on the undertaking of the Solicitor for the Admiralty, the man should be discharged, if, upon hearing of the case, the Court should de termine that he was entitled to his discharge, his personal appearance should be dispensed with at the tune of shewiiig cause against this application. • CHIEF JusTic E-" Have you any precedent for this application ? I dare not make a precedent of this kind; and I should see a great number of pre cederns before I should follow them, in order to take the undertaking of any body to do any thing, without producing in this Court the body of the person on whose behalf this Writ has issued." Mr. JARvis quoted a case, which he said was in all its circumstances precisely similar to this, in which, after a full hearing by the Court, the man was remanded to the service, the Court being of opinion that he was not entitled to his discharge. There was no doubt that the man was a Sailor, and it was stated, that he was not entitled to any of the exemptions .pointed out by the law against the Impress Service. The CHIEF JUST IC E.-" In the case you have quoted, the Writ was complied with, for the body of the man was brought into Court, and he was afterwards disposed of in due course of law; but I dare not cre a te a p rece d ent to dispense with per sonal appearance of a man ordered to be brought in to this Court upo n H a b eas C orpus. " Mr. Justice LAW R ENCE.—" Probably, all that will be done when the man is brought up, will be to be remanded, as was done in the case which you have quoted, for he may be continued in the service notwithstanding he is brought before this Court by Habeas,Corpus," The CHIEF JusTic R.—" The Writ of Habeas Corpus is too sacred a writ to allow of its execution being qualified in any manner whatever." Mr. JAR , / is asked, if the Court would have the goodness to allow until the last day of the Term for making the return ? The CHIEF JusTtcr.—" That is too long.-- Where is the man ?" Mr. JARv is said he eras in the North Seas. • The CHIEF JUSTICE.- " We shall allow a shorter time than that ; if you cannot bring up the man, we may enlarge the time again. I have no idea that the Writ will be eluded, but it is a sacred Writ, and must be obeyed." Mr. JAR vis said, that the Writ was served upon my Lord Keith. His Lordship had not then the man on board, and could not immediately bring him up. Mr. Justice LAWRENCE.—" The Return is, that he is a Seaman, that you impressed him, awl that he is not entitled to any exemptions." JARVIS.-" Yes, my Lord; but I hope we shall have time to bring him up." The CHIEF . JUSTICE.-" Take 'until this day se'nnight." Mr. DAMrIER moved for an information in the nature of Quo Warrant°, calling on Wm. Harper, Esq. to shew by what authority he claims to be Mayor of the Town of Liverpool, on the ground that he had been sworn into that Office in a manner that was inconsistent with the Char ter of that Town. He tnade the same Motion against two of the Bailiffs upon the same ground. Rule to shew cause granted. Mr. GARROW moved for leave to fi'e a Criminal Information against a Gentleman of the Lame of Clerk, fclr sending a letter full of irritating Litz guage to a Gentleman of the name of Churchill: who was a manufaeturer of hosiery, and who the honour of commanding a Volunteer Corp. :rt the country. Mr. Clerk purchased hosiery of Mr. Churchill to the amount of r 431. for which lie gave a Bill of Exchange, which Mr. Churchill paid att , l , in the usual course of business. When it was due the person holding it presented it for payment. Mr, Clerk proposed to give a check upon his Banker for it. The person who presented the Bill, said, thdt if Mr. Clerk chose to make it payable at his Banker's, he would take it there, but it was out of the course of . business to rake a cheque for an ac ceptance of a Bill, and he would not take it ; he went away—the bill was afterwards noted, but the money was paid immediately. Some time after.. wards Mr. Clerk wrote a letter to 11 , 1 r. Churchill, calling this transaftion '' Jewish," and using son hard epithets, threatening to expose Mr. Churchi:l, The CHIEF JUSTICE said, that this was a fitter case for an indiament than fur an Information. Rule refused. IRISH COURT OF EXCHEQUER, TANOARY 23. CARMICHAE L V. MAGEE. Tuts was an anion of trespass laid by the Plain,' tiff to obtain damages, which in the declaration were laid at eoool. from the Defendant for criminal conversation with the Plaintiff's wife, The SOLICITOR GENERAL, for the Plaintiff, stated, that his client was a man who, though removed from an elevated, sphere of life, still obtained credit and estimation for superior integrity, good conduit, and industry among the most useful, and perhaps in trinsically, the most respectable class of the commu nity, that is, the trading world.—He served with singular fidelity in the business of Mr. Weldon, a silk-mercer, in College. Green, where he first saw the Defendant, who was an apprentice there. The philanthropy of the Plaintiff's disposition induced him to take notice of a youth, who for a time dis played in his conduft all the promising advantages of a permanent good clno after. His marks of friend ship for this young man were numerous, he assidu ously attended to his instruction as a man of busi ness—his advice to him was cordial, afreftionate and endearing, and every proof of zealous regard for him which he could with propriety shew, he never in that situation shrunk from. The Plaintiff at length obtained the benefit of the flittering repura_ lion he had established for himself, and, in conse quence, was removed from his employment as . a Clerk, to a situation approaching nearer to indc. pendence.. He became Agent and Manager at the Irish Silk Warehouse, in Parliament -street, and took up his residence with a wife and four children - there. A removal from the daily conversation of his bosom friend,- the Defendant, did not estrange his attach ment to him, and he willingly conceded to the earnest solicitations of the Defendant to take bi:o i t vo his house as an inmate, to diet and lodge. Fne Defendant had nor been long in this situation, when an imprudent, if not a cu.pable change in his gene ral conduCt and deportment occurred. Jr was at first evinced by late hours and frequent intoxlemio rn The Plaintiff, from repeated instances of this de scription, at length remonstrated as the unceasing friend on the injury he was doing himself, and the irreparable stab he was about to give his own cha r:atter, at the commencement of his career through , life. These kind admonitions, however, proved unavailing, while riot and disorder, superadded to drunkenness in the Plaintiff's family, at length coal. pelled him' to expel a guest so troublesome from his house ; shortly after his expulsion in the month of August last, the Defendant found means to accom. plish an elopement with the Plaintiff's wife to Wales, for which .place he had sufficient address to procure a passport for loth under f&gned charaderi. They had not remained long together at the other side of the Channel, when the Defendant, as if to triumph over and insult the miseries he alone had infliaed on his client, came hack again with this polluted partner of his bed, and took lodgings at Clontarf, under a false name, where they passed for man and wife. In this retreat, after a week's co habitation, they were at length discovered by the distrafted husband, who, in consequence, marked a fiat against the Defendant ; on which he was taken and committer'. to gaol. Even in this situation, the Defendant's depravity sstis found to inertase, and procuring leave of admittance for die unhappy oh: jet of his seduaion, their guilty commerce was r,!- peated. The Defendair, howev,ef, obtained a tern. porary liberty, on giving in bail of 70001. to the fiat, an irrefragable argument against any attempt which the ingenuity of the Defendant's Counsel might urge, to arrest the sympathy or commihera. tion of the jury on the alledged poverty of their client, Mr. PLUNKRT, in his statement, expatiated with much energy and elocution on the excess of cmno.. bial felicity which his client enjoyed with a wife whom he loved with•an uncommon ardour of affee. tion. He was also peculiarly impressive and edify ing in those moral inktenccs he drew from a situa tion'of that description, and th(! immense weir ht of turpitude and atrocity attached to those crimes by which domestic happiness must fur ever be sub. verred. The circumstances of a marriage between the Plaintiff and his wife, solemnized by a Cur:J.te r the Established Church, and the uncot n afieo: which for years subsisted between there • .on rally proved. • John Murray proved, that he gave a certificate to the Defendant, while speaking of a Lady, his -- *S••.' cousin_german, whose delicate state of health obfl'red .her to go to Wales, that they !night obtain a pass port from the Superintendant Magistrate, which they in consequence got for themselves and : a child. The cohabitation of the parties at a lodging-house at Clontarf, in the month of Anzust last, under the feigned names of Mr. and Mrs. Dempsey, was proved by Christopher Mangno-and his wife, who let thern the lodgings. A Lady who lodged at .the same house, gave testimony in orrob(,ration. Mrs. Mangan deposed to the circumstance of the parties I aving been deteded at the end of eig:t tlqs their lodgings by the .eiaint.LT's lir.ther and she Lades .tunt, and that the pkintiff arrived there, who, on suing his wife, drYpped littiess