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ST. DOMINGO.

The intelligence of the indiscriminate massacre of
the white French inhabitants of St. Domingo is
confirmed by the arrival at this port of the schooner
Grehh.ornd, from Cape Francois. Letters an.' vet bal
accounts of the passengers who escaped, agree in
represeating it as one of the most horrid which has
occurred in modern times. It began on the 19th
April, and continued, without intermission, until
the 14th of May following. On the 28th of April,
General Wissalines issued a Proclamation, explana-
tory of his motives and of his future contrail, of
which the following is a copy :

LIBERTY OR DEATIL-PRUCLAMATION.

JaAN JACQUES DESSALINES, GOVERNOR OENAR•L,TO

THE INHABITANTS jr4 HAYTI.

Ohne:, the molt atrocious, such :is w:re tilt!' then Unheard
of, and would cause n.stora to ,hudd4r, hava area perpetrated.
The measure was overt'. sped. At lengt3 fire nour ur •ense-
anes ha; arrived, and the ituplacahle enemies or the rights of
man have suffered the punishment due to thui: crimes.

.My arm, raised over their heads, has too 13ng delayed to
strike. At that sinal, which the jostled of God has urg
your hands, Irlght,•oll6iy Wined, ;alive I,rouglit toe axe upon Lie
ancient tree of slave y and pre.; odistei. :II vain had time, and
more especially the inferna. pontos of Europeans, surrounded
it with triple brass; you have stripped it of its armour; you
have placed it upon your h art, that you may become (I.lrs
your natural vaannes) cruel aid 'omegas. Like an overflow.
trig miglay-torreut, that tear; dawn an opposition, your vt.ngis
tot fury hua c.rri 'd away every thing in its impetuous course.
Vies perish a.l tyrants over inaucaucu, all oppressors of man-
kind I

Whit then ? Bent for many ages under an iron yoke: the
spot of the passions of men, or their inuidire, and of the ca-
p:ices of fortune; mutilated ..ictims of the co,intity of white
Freitclimen; After having fattened with um toils these illeatlate
blend sutler:, With a p.neriesi and rei;gnation unexampled,
we should again liaise seat that .acrilegiou• horde make an At.
tempt upon our &ash uctsen, witrmut :tny distinction of sex ,n
age; and we, ro. a without energy, of no virtue, cf no delicate
sho.ild nut we have jilting...xi in their breast the
dagger of desperation ? ‘Yheie is that vile lla. tiau, su un-
worthy all., legenerati,m, who has ot acemeolished
the derrets of the Eternal, by externiin tt :lig !hews dond thirsty
tygeni ? If thine be one, ler hint ily ; 114t11.10 dis•
cant; him Punt our ht.soin; let him lido his shame far from
hence: the air we breath.: is nut mined to his grunt organs; it
is the pure air of liberty, augastand triumphant

Yes, we have rendered to these trua cairn bale war foe war,
crinm for crime, outrage for outrage: es, 1 have sawed my
country; 1 have avenged Ainenca. Tile avowal 1 make of it,
iu the Lace of earth and !leaven, motionit my prole and say
glory. Of what coosenrence to toe I the ovia.nst watt,* con-
temporary and future generations wit; prunuorice opal* icy
Conduct? 1 have performed oty duty; 1 enjoy my own a ~ro
bation ; fur rue that 1. sufficient bur woe& du Ivy ? Toe
pre.ervation of riv unfortunate brothers, the t mmoisy of ;try
own eniticicnev, are nut 1-37 only rec.myeres4 : 1 nave 11.11111 two
chose... Omen, burn Loch: talc, •Itecoor one arietl•er
-ort, i iced in a world,and bleoded tiger her...ay nig tier wrogeauce,
and doeuting the honour of the riot blue.

SI-A:tend Yellows, whom the reined duplicity of Limpet=
ha. Or a omit tame end arroiled to divide; you, who ate
now coasolidated, and make loot One Until ; without doubt Is
was 11(..C.C4.1ry that our parti:* nomociliation Omend be sealed
with the blood or you: imiciors Steiner catansitihs have hurl
Ova your pr 'scribed li ale . a similar ardour to strike your
'Heinle. has signalised you t tire like fate i. reamed for you:
and the like interest' inns tireefure mode: you for ever one,
indiewitille and h....parable. hliaistain that precious tiotamal,
that happy barony ainoirgia yourselves: it is the pledge Si
your happiest., your salvation, and your somas s it is the se-
cret of lacmg utaonblw
Is it nets'' y, sea order to stomithen these ties, to meal to
your reetemiatatice nu:catalogue of atrocities committed against
our specter; the massacre of the entire population of this
islerd, meditated in the silence and rasp:pont of the Cabinet;
the execution of that abominable primed, to me unblushingly
ravaged, and already hags by the French, with the calmness
and sereeity Si a co.urstroance accustomed to similar crimes.
Guadaloupe, pinged and &soiled ; its ruins still reeking with
the brood of the children, women, and old men pet to the
swerd ; Pelage (himself the victim of their emftinees), after
having beady betrayed his country and his brothers; the
brave and iutruunal Lialgrisee, blowflies'° the air with the fore
which he defended, ration than accept their offered chains.
Magnanimous warrior ! that nonle death, far from enfeebling
our courage, aerate ciat:y to Pont, within us the determination
of avengrog or of fellowing thee. Shan I again recall to your
ntemoty the pints likely framed at Jereaalt the terrible ex-
plosion which waste bathe mann, netwithaa.iding the gear-
rout pardon grantedus Owe ineorrigablti beings at therapulsion
of the French army ? Theslitelora le fate of our departed bro.
than in Eurm.e and (dried nasidneer of death) the frightful
despotism exereisisl at kdarehisque ? Unfortunate people of
Martinique, could I but Byte your asantairce, and
fetters! Alas! an insurAnnetable barr separate:T.4ft
haps a spark from the same Star which entiarees us, will alight
into tour batman: perhaps, at the sound of his commotion,
soddenly, awakened from sour lathery, w.th arms in your
hands, you will reclaim your sacrail and irspetecoptible
After the terrible example which! hare just given, thatooon-
er or Later Drone Justice will utschain on earth some mighty
mita!, above the weakness of the vulva, foe the drstruittion
and terror of the wicked; tremble, tyrant', nitres, scourges
of the new world! our daggeas are sharreised; yew" punish-
ment is ready ! sixty thoosand men, equipped, tniered to war,
obedient to my radars, bum to n Ter a now naafi e loth" nano
of their aesassinated bra ;hers. 1. t rat oaten cow, who may
be mad and daring enniigh tii a•ntek me. Already at its ap-
proach, the irritated ;emits of Ilea ti, arising out of the bosom
of the ocean, appear.; his menacing riper t threes the waves
into comma:item, excite. tentiiests, and with his mighty hand
disperses shim, or dashes then its pieces; t.s his tormidable
voice the laws of nature pay oisedieiree; iilagiie, ia-
mine, conflagration, poison, are his constant attendant.. But
j why ca.cuiate Oil the assistance of the chinate and of the de-
menu / Have I forgot that I command a people of no common
cast, brought up in adversity, whose audacious abiding frowns
at obstaelas arid increases by dangers? Let them conic, Com,
these homicidal Cohorts ? I wait Mr there with firmerw and
with a steady eye. I abandon to them freely the sea shore, arid
the places where cities have eights' , but woe to those who
may appioach too nom the mountains! It were better tor
them that Cie sea received them int, its profraiiid abyss, than to
be devour: al by the eager of the elarkfters of Hayti.
sr War to D ath W Tyrants!" this is my motto; " Liberty!
Independence !" this is our rallying try.
Generals officers, soldiers, a little unlike him who has pre-
ceded nie, the ex-general Toussaint Imuvertore, I have been
faithful to the promise which I made to you warn I tank tip
arms age no tyranny, and whilst the last spark of I if, remains
in one 1 sha I keep my tiathio-" Never again shall a colonist or
an European set his foot upon this territory with the title of
mates or proprietor." This tee Aution shall henceforward haus
the fundamental basis of our constitution.

Shout !other chiefs, after ase, by punning a conduet frams
trically oppo.ite hi mine, dig their own graves and those of
their own species, yeu will have to accuse only the law of des-
tine, which shah hate tak.ni me away from the happiness arid
welfare of my fallow citians. May my SUCCOSII..O the
;Kith I shall have traced out Lir them ! It a the system be-t
pted for censol,-1 ding their pew?r; it is tits bights.' hit.
wage they Go to ray incieury.
Aa it re &regal,. v to easnict• .r Andre, dignity to punidi
the innocent for t! • of its. IF littw , a handful of whites,
comnesiiii bie es I. in they ,ie e 1111./Ayll ,/(40111.411, 111.4
WWI have heqrtie. tai • . • oath 1 ..i•.; .nits ri in the wends,
have e I •ir.lar dist the sword re
spree them, 3.11 Wt.,
I r-cohnieoil as n • “s ire well of d-rart
mots, Sc. w g.,aset . . prutesetunt,

to an sauna! and friendly nathot*, who :tiny with to establid,
coninsefeisi Mattis°, is this Mina.

Heed•Quuhrs at the Cape, tsth April, 11104, first year of
independence•

The.Governet-Geseral,
(Signed) DESSN,LINES.
A true Copy. The Foicretary-Cleees4,
JUSTE CHANLATTE.

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This Proclamation had the effect which was in-
tended ; it nerved the arm of the already too onset).
guinzd negro, and extinguished in his bosom the
last spark of humanity. The work of death was ac-
celerated ; and en the 14th of May, when the Grer.
bound left the Caps, the infuriated soldiery had sa-
crificed to their unrelenting policy not less than
'2.500 human beings. The work of destruction then
ce.t,ed from necessity, for no more victims remained.
The details we have received of these transactions
are shocking to the ear. Indeed, no language of
which we are capable, can describe with accuracy
the horrors of the carnage, which bad no respect to
the infirmity of age, or the innocence of childhood ;
but involved in one common ruin, and frequently
with the same sword, the infant sucking at the
breast, and the unoffending mother from whom it
derived its nouishment.

On the 14th of May, Dessalines left the Cape by
way of Port-de.Paix and Gonaives, for the purpose
of enforcing the terms of the f.dlowing Proclama-
ti-n, which he had caused to be issued in that part
of the Island of St. Domingo inhabited by the Spa
niards. He also ordered that the occupiers of
houses should remove, with all possible speed, to a
Ditch at the side of the mountain, the dead bodies of
the murdered which remained in the streets, that
they might not be either ch;voured by the dugs, or be
suffered to ptotiuce a pestilence.

LIBERTY OR DEATH -PROCLAMATION.

JEAN JACQEM, DASSALINES, GOVERNOR GENERAL, TO

THIS INHABITANTS OP Till SPANISH PAMT.

Scarce had the French army been expelled, when you
hastened to acknowled.e my authority ; by a free and spon-
taneous movement of Our heart, you ranged yourselves under
my subjection. Mme careful of the prosperdy than the ruin
of that part which you inhabit, 1 gave to this homage a fa-
vourable reception. From that nionient I haw a in-idered
you as my children, and my fidelity to you retains undimi-
nished. As a proof of my paternal solicitude, within the
places which have submitted to my power, I have proposed
far Chris none but men chosen from amongst your-
selves. Jealous of counting you in the rank of my friends,
that I might give you all the time is for retort...buil,
and that 1 engin assure motel of your fi del it", I have hitherto
restrained the burning Inkier of my soldiers. Already I con-
gratulated myself on the seem* of my solicitude, which had
for its Moja" to prevent the infusion of blood ; but at this time
a fanatic pr est had not kindled us your breasts the rage which
predominates therein: the inclined Fernand had not yet Op:tilled
into you teas pones of falsehood and calumny. Writings,
originating in donna and weakness, have been c•reulated ; and
hninedietely mine amongst you, seemed by perfidious ;111.1110a-
ti•as, wakened the friendship and proortftion of the French ;
thew dared to outrage my kindlier, by coalescing with my
cruel enemies. Spaniards, reflect! On the brink of the pre-
elide* which k dug underyotar feet, will that diabolical mini.
dor save you, whets with Sr. end sword I shall have pursued
you to your last esitnrichnsents ?

Ah! without doubt, hie prayers, his grisnacas, his relics,
would be no impediment to my career. Vain at powerless,
can he preserve you from tr., lust anger, after I shall have ho.
tied him, and the collenion of brigands h- commands, undet
the ruins of your capital ! kit them bath recollect that dit
betbre my intrepid phalanxes that 15 the resnufee4 and the
slain of Europeans hate proved inetteclual e and that ire(' my
en:Whim's bonds the dee iwy of the captain-general Koch...ni-
b-54.i has been surrend !rsd. To lure the Sep.:limits to their
pairy, they propagate the report that vowel. laden wth tryur.
have athved at Sante Domingo. Why is it na• tit, tr.ith
They little imagine that, in d layiugto attack them until this
time, my principal object has beam to in/kr them to increase
the Mils of our resources, and the number of our victims.
To spread distrust and terror, they incessantly dwell upon the
fate which the French have just experineed r but have I
had raison to treat them In? The wrongs of the French, do
they apperain to Spaniards and must I visit nn the tatter the
crimes which the former have conceived, ordered, and execu-
ted upon our S te4? They have the effiiintery to my, that,
reduced to seek safety in Bight, I ant gone to cuiic:al 1.1.1 ti defeat
ill the southern part of the island. Well then ! Let them
learn that I am ready; that the thunderbolt is going to (all on
their heads. Let them know that my soldiers are impatiently
wassieg for the slim! to go and re-conquer the boundaries which
n0t,,,. andthe elements hate assigned to us. A few moments
mere, and I shall crush the remnant of the French under the
weight of mighty pewee.

Spaniards! you, to whom I address myself, solely because I
wish to save you; you who, fur having been guilty of evasion,
shall speedily preserve your existeriee only so far as my cle-
mency may deign to spere you; it is yet time; abjure an error
which mar be fatal to yon; and break off all connections iv ill
my enemy, if you wish your blond may not be confoui.dA
with his. Name to me, without delay, that part of your sena-
tor, on %hien my first blow is to be struck, or inform me whe-
ther I must strike en all points without discriminatiln. I give
you &teen days, from the date of this notificatioo, to forward
your tam Intentions, and to rally under my banners. You are
nut liniment that all the mod* of St. Domingo in every direc-
tion are familiar to es; that more than once wd My* seen your
dispersed bands Ry berme us. In a word, you know what lean
do, and what I dare; think of your preservation.
Receive here the sacred promise which I make, not to do
any thing @pion your pen 'nal safety or your interest, if you
mire upon this occasion to skew yourselves worthy of being
admitted amongst the children of Hayti.

Head Qtrarters, at the Cape, Mar etb, 1904, first year of
Independence. The Governor General,

(S geed) I)iSSALINES.
A true Copy. The Secretz:y Ceneral,

JilSlk_ CtiANLATTE.

The quantity of silver plate, jewellery, rid ar-
ticles, &e. plundered from the de td, and brought in
by the negroes, was immense, and frequently offered
for sale, at half its value.

On the Vld April, Fort Danphin was pilttged, a
part of the town destroyed, Al.! the white, mas-
sacred to the number of from 85 to 90.

A few LLys afterwards, the Frenchin habitants of
st. Jago, and other parti rf dr interior, were es.
coned to the Cape, ucder a stror.g guard, and there
butchered.

A Danish schooner, lying at the Cape, with pas-
sengers from St. Thomas, WAS seized, and every sai-
lor and passenger on board massacred.
Of the white persons who escaped from the island,
almost by miracle, several have arrived at this port.
in the Grevitosed; nine in the Ahltj, which s..;l=
for New-York, six days before the Greylammd, viz.
Came and Daughter. Heil% Wife, and Son, d'Al-
bre, Aussie, Gabareau anti Wife ; and in the Nancy,
for Charleston, Heists. Oliver and Groebon.

The heavy filing heard at Brighton, proves to
have proceeded from an engagement off Beachy
Head. between a French lugger aad a small Eng-
lish cutter. The comment continued for some
time; but it dropping cairn. the lugger put out bar
oars and rowed on board the cutter, overpowering
her by the superior number of her men, and carry-
ing her away fora French port.

mum Mg .

The 14th.of July having been fixed es, by public
report, as the "WA of a new insurreetiest. as the-day
approached the alarms of the timid proportionably
increased, and a circumstance occurred is the early
part of the w_tek, which gave some mom for appre-
hension. In the demesnes of Lord Charlemont at
Marino, and of Mr. Vernon, at Cloatarfi a numb; r
of young nab trees were cat. of a growth and slur
fit for pike handles. From variaaa parts of the
country too information was received. certainly of •
vague and nncircumstantial nature, but not any
to establish the fad that a ruing was intended.
Under these circumstances the Governmen: thought
it right to adopt such precautionary measures as
nii3ht ensure the public tranquillity. Strom,. Parties
of horse and foot paraded the streets, during the
night, but nothing took place, whence it *mild be
inferred that any violation of it was in vonteasola-
tion. A gentleman who arrived yesterday evening
from Achy tells me that nothing can be mom quiet
than this part of the country, once nearly the centre
of rebellion.

BROADSTAIRS, JULY le.

Charles Anderson, an Jinglish prisoOer, eonfined
in the town of Givat, on the frontiers of Brabant.
made his escape on the 7th inst. about ten o'clock ttr
night: he was accompanied by three ether prisoners. .
bat on the appearance of sons, French snldiers, they
separated. He gives the following Rev-tent: that
at the time he effetcted hk escape, there were I,eoo
Englishmen confined there; that some time since,
they died very fast, and complaints were made, that
the sick were not properly attended to; since that.
every care has been take's, and the mortality does
not exceed what might be expetged, from the con-
finement of such a number. The prison would hold
4,000, if properly arranged. He met with kind-
ness every where on his journey, and for nine days,
the period of his travelling, he never wanted bread
nor meat; and at the last house, his host gave
him twelve sous, and told him he was a friend zo
the English. This was in the north of Flanders,
at a small town or village, where he procured
a small bo.tt, about tat feet hug. The first vessel he
perceived, WAS nn the 1 ith last. about six in the
evening, which he hailed, and got 'on board. Tba
allowance of the Fren h Government is one pound
and a half of bread. very good—and half a pound
of beef.

SITE...CT OF • LETTER ItROM iii•liciustrut, DATED

JULY 18.

" As I was walking at six o'clock this evening,
my curiosity was excited by a crowd of people, as.
sembled at the uoor of a handsome hense in Gra..
vel-lane, Saif.od. Upon enquiry, I WAS informed,
that the mistress, on retiring from the window at
wh:ch she had been looking out, to the t-a-table, to
drink tea, suddenly dropped down, and instar.ly
expired. She was the wife of Mr. Pau. nen, a
brewer of very great respectability, who 1-ft
this place at an early hour this morning, with two
other gentlemen in a postchaite, for Preston.rar,s,
about thirty miles distant. A servant has this 'mo-
ment set out on horseback, express for Preston, with
the dismal tidings. Mrs. PAULDEN has I. ft four
children. Her death has produced a great smation
here, as she was a Lady on; vernally esteemed."