National gazette. — Philadelphia [Pa.], 1793-06-12 00:00:00, page 4

French St. Domingo Affairs.
[Continued from onr lad.]
Letter written by the Municipality of
Croix-les-Bouquets,, to Santfianax,
National Civil 'Comvpjfioner, Aprils.
'' /"CITIZEN Commifiioner, you have
been informed by the citizen go
vernor general, pro tempore* of *fc-hat has
palled in our quaiter since the 20th oi
January k(l.—~An unfortunate infurrec
t ion, of which the consequences are well
known, has made its appearance in the
plain country : conCderablc bodies of the
insurgents colle&ed in force ; and we ap
plied to our brethren of Port au Prince foi
relief, who generously came to our aflill
ance, and have continued it from January
24th to this day. The services of tliofe
brave citizenshave been conllantly devoted
to us,but notwithflanding their endeavors;
notwithftandiog we have killed a greal
number of the reyolted villains in the le
vera! engagements we had witkthem ; w(
Jolt all hope of reducing them before tin
rainy season set in, unless strongly rein
force. J by our brethren of Mirebalais
L'Arcahaye, Leogsne, and Petit-Guave,
PArcahaye, Leogane, and Petit-guave,
We had already received the ftrongcil as
finances 'hat our brethren of Martbalait
would march to our al:iftancc with 20c
men ; one hundred w.ll accoutred cavalry
"were also getting ready to adill uj from 1'
Arcahai e ; and a hundred more from Leo
gane. We were making preparations tc
receive these generous friends and bre
thren, who having formed a cordial unior
.with owr brethren of Port au Prince and
ourselves, might have crufhrd the revolten
by attacking them on every quarter. Wt
■were in full hopes of completely re-e(lab
lifhing order before the rainy season, when
all on a sudden a prpc'amation, issued b)
you. was sent ir.ro the several parishes, anc
pjlfied all our (Irength. Those brave
friends and brethren of ours, who were foi
the dHe execution of the laws, found them
felvcs fettered at the moment they w««
flying to our afiiilance. and from an inci
dent, oi which we had net the moil dif
tant appreheiifion, we found ourselves in j
Ctur.tion wot ie tl.a i death. Not having
received your proclamation ofHcially, Citi
zen Coromiflioner, we only knew of its ex
iileiice by means of letters from the muni
cip-litics of M'r.-balats and Port au Prince.
We do not alk why it was not transmitted
to U3: but will you believe, that of all
the great misfortunes we have experienced
Jince the revolution, the gteateft have ori.
ginated from your proclamation ? by
means of this fatal ediA we found ourselves
3t once deprived of a powerful aid, the
only jfliftance that it was pofGble for us to
procure-,, fjnee of all the tr.»ops sent hither
from the mother coun'ry, none came
among 11s, and yet we are equally her
children, art'! it is not her intention to
abandon us. By your proclamation, Na
tional Civil Commissioner, you exposed us
to the necefilty of abandoning our pro
pe-ty,Jf brethren of Port au Prince
relinejuiflien our cause. If we are forced
to decamp, at that moment the revolt will
become general, and that part of the flat
countr, which is rtill in our pofFeffion,
will become the prey of robbers and
plunderers, and consequently the reft of
thi province also.—For two months pall
our brethren of Port au Prince have ex
posed themselves to defend our property,
an ' for the fame space of time have fur
nifr.ed v.a with all the means in their power
for fubfifiing the citizens employed in our
defence. For two months they have
granted an asylum to our women, children
and old men ; snd lastly, for two months
have they lodged and fed all fuel; of oli
unforlonate felloiv citizens, who had no
other place of refuge from the fury of the
Brigands (negro robbers) bu! the bosom
ps tliefe generous brethren. We are ig
norant of what have been the supposed
.crimes of that unhappy town: all we
know is, that it has yielded obedience to
the decree of the 4th of April, that it has
been attached to the defence of our pro
petty, and that (he furnifiied u» with im
portant means of defence. ,
What 1 eitrzen national civil commission
er, do you delay tc> march out againfl the
Brigands after the reduft on of Port-au
Prince—What! are you in hopes that the
citizens of Cul de Sac will arm againfl
their friends and brethren, againfl the ci
tizeti3 who flied their blood for them, ar.d
lastly, againfl a town from which they have
received favours without number' —
think you
national civil commissioner, we
have been deceived, and that you are ra
ther officious in adminidering justice to
viituous citizens already obedient to the
law, and who always look for a father and
a protestor in a national delegate. Citizen
commissioner, the nation sent you hither
to rertore public order and tranquility : a
civil war is upon the eve ofbuHlini* out,
hasten to receive the proofs of afFection
from the citizens of Port-au-Prince, and
you will find that they are the great sup
port of the Preach revolution in this
country. Do not dqlay to come in per
son, and be a witness of our situation, and
you will confcfs it to be ind/fpenfibly ne
cefiary to employ all the dr'ength of th<
colony in reducing the feives, and that the
had delay owl b«teeised with the moll
ferions invite the paiiflies
who are coming to onr relief, to fly and
join to our dear neighbours those forces,
which are at your difjjofal. By this means
you will become our deliverer, and gain
our entire afFeftion."
\_From the General Advertiser..]
THE great even:s which hare of la:c si;
rapidly succeeded each other in Europe,
astonish the observer and have baffltd ali
expectation and calculation. Dumourier,
not Io»g since the object of our warmefl
praises, now deserves with more justice,
our fevered execrations. The belt friends
of the French cause have been heard more
than once, while he was at the zenith cl
his glory, to lament that a man of his more
than doubtful principles (hould ast so im
portant a part in their armies. His mili
tary /kill is acknowledged on all hands ;
but his employers, it >vell ascertained,
especially of late, much doubted the since.
rityofhis political principles, and enter
tained- serious fears from the well known
vsifatility whi h formed a principal fea
ture of his character, and his popularity
with his army alone, determined his sup
porter» in the National Convention from
abandoning a man fit for the base in
trigues of a corrupt con t, and not for a
soldier in the cause of equality.
His defection in the ifl'ue is nothing (hort
of a victory over the arts of despotism and
the m, chinatious of traitors. His pre
emption persuaded him, that the cause
relted on his flloulders, that in his-army he
was all powerful, and that if his army wil
led a king the nation mull have a kin-g.
The Austrian commander Cobourg ap
pears o have entertained the fame senti
ments ; but both were egregioufly deceiv
ed, because neither had calculated the en
ergy of a whole people, ftruggiing to pre
fcrve that freedom, they had risen to aflert :
and had tailed tho' imperfectly.
That Dumourierendeavoured to reflore
a limited monarchy and to prevail on his
army to f- pport him in tile attempt, is as
certained beyond a doubt l that he proved
totally unfuccefsful, and was obliged to fly
to the Audrians with a few of his crea
tures, is equally Accounts diffei
as to the number of his followers; bul
none exceed a few hundred, and mod agre;
that he escaped the just resentment, if hi<
patriotic army narrowly indeed.
It is worthy of remark, (and theobfer
vation will put the charafterof traitors and
tyrants in their true light) that bot|i Du
mourier and Cobourg's manifedoes contain
the mod palpable absurdities. Dumourier
after fighting like a lion in the cause ol
repuUicanifm declares, that France can be
happy under monarchy only, and Cobourg
as the organ of the confederacy declares,
that the former French conditution is what
France should have, though that very con
st l ution was the pretext with Audiia and
/russia to commence hostilities against the
nation—When the paths of reaion and ol
right are abandoned, it is not possible tc
ast confidently.
Time alone can discover what Dumou
r,er's v:cws were, when he espoused
the cause of liberty with such apparent
warmth ; it is surmised he was wholly im
pelled by views of felfilh ambition. Time
will also determine whether his treachery
was not also occasioned by another eccen
trie flight of that wild passion : Be it as it
may ; his charafler is now marked with
its real damp, and the doom of a traitor
awaits him.
The mind turns with pleasure from a
view of the b?fe conduct of a man whose
talents might have dtferved him immor
tality, to the contemplation of a great na
tion druggling under accumulated difficul
ties. We find her representatives calm in
rnidit of tTie florm, and deliberating
with firninefa and precision. From their
courage .'nd perfcv ranee, from the justice
tht which is that of humanity,
we anticip. hat the republic will rife
superior to every difficulty, secure by hei
success, h.r liberties., and emancipate the
world.
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IHave claims to about two h-undred an J 1
| fifty thousand acres of LAND in the state of .
Kentuckey, in different parts ef that country,
lome of which 1 know to be equal to • al t
ofwhchl am inclined to dispose of, ei'th'er by
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HENRYS AN K S.
Richmond March 20, 1793. 2a wtf
TO BE RENTED,
Anu poffefficn given io July next.
A Merchant MIL L,
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0/ burr stones, double geai'd, a rolling fcreene and
lann that cleans wheat inta both hoppers, two
fcolu ( cheas, and a machine for holding' that goes
by water. This mill manufaflures principally
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hiladelphia Fcr terms apply to Robert Lewis
and Co. merchants in Philadelphia, or the fob
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