The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1807-01-02 00:00:00

PROCLAMATION.

" An horrible tyranny.eXerii;;Ci a long time upon
the people and the army, has. at length, exasperated
ail minds, and excited them, by a movement wor-
thy the motive that produced it, to rise in a mass,
in order to oppose a powerful boundary against the
torrent that threatened them.

" A plot, framed in silence and reflection, wag
ern the point of execution s men capable of think-
ing—those men capable of making the sublime
principles of true liberty finally triumphant—men
who were even the defenders of that liberty, were
to disappear for ever. A rapid step towards its
total subversion, had already appalled the most in-
different: every thing seemed to announce, that we
were approaching the moment when we were to see
all the former scenes of horror and proieription re-
newed; those dui.geons, gibbets, faggots, drownings,
of which we were theVntrowful and unhappy Timms
unJer the iniquitous Governments of Rocharnbeau,
the Darbois. the Ferrands, Berger, &c. de.
" Less afieded by the happiness of his people,
titan greedy to amass riches, the Chief of the Go-
vernment unjustly despoiled thousands of families of
their property, and who are at this moment reduced
t the utmost misery, under the apparent pretext
that they could not justify the titles to their pro-
perty. but. an fad, to augment his own domains. Is
it not ineontestible. after enjoying an estate ten,
twenty, or thirty years. that one ought to be admitt-
ed as the real proprietor ? Dessaliaes was not igno-
rant of this: but had persuaded himself, that even
his fellow•citizens bad lost their titles in the late dis-
turbances. He wished to avail himself of this to
satiety his cupidity. florae Mile farmers were hur-
ried away from their dwellings. and sent, without
regard to age or sex, to the plantations to which
they formerly belonged. If any particular situation,
Of Air? view of the general interest. could authorise
that ffsllloOff, which appears to have been adopted
by percesiiag Gevernmetris at least it would have
been but justice to have granted an indemnification
to those against whom it was exercised.
" Ccnaconce, the source of plenty and prospe-
rity to States. languished in an apathy under this
ignorant man, the chief causes of which were the
eszariorst and the horrors exercised upon strangers.
Cargoes violently sensed, bargains broken as soon as
shay woe sostsalted. banished far from our ports
the ships of an sammuries. The asermtination of
Thome Minot. as lagish raerchaar. who had
hoar raid is tie sessestry. shrift be was respelled
ailleallt his blameless coods.9 and his virtues.
asiord general tion ; sad why was he mot.
dwell f Thomas Moat was rich t thss was his sole
alma. The Ilaytran merchants were out better
epaaand. The advances ~ which it was arreed to
saw dough were only calcolosod open the prints
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nixed the army. His cruel avarice suggested to him
the idea to transfer the troops of one corps to ano-
ther, for the purpose of bringing them nearer to their
native place, in order that they should require no
subs'stenre, although to ex.fned from them the
most assiduous service. 'foe soldier was deprived
of his pay, of his subsistence, and appeared every
n here almost naked ; while the public treasure fur-
nished, in profusion, annual stipends of 20,003 dol-
lars to each of his irnistressti, of which he kept
twenty at least, to support their boundless extrava-
gance, which was both a disgrace to the Govern-
ment, and an insult to the general misery.
" The laws were not more reopened. A consti-
tution was framed by order of the Emperor, solely
for the advancement of his private interests, dinated
by caprice and ignorance, put into form by his Se-
cretaries, and published in the name of the Generals
of the army, who not only never approved or signed
this mishapen and ridiculous document, but never
had the least knowledge of it until it was published
and promulgated. The regulating laws, formed
without plan or combination, and rather with the in-
tention of satisfying a passion than regulating the in-
terests of the inh thitants, were always violated and
trodden under foot by the Monarch himself. No
protening statute shielded the people from the bar-
barity of the Sovereign ; his supreme pleasure sent
a citizen to death, and none of his triends or relatives
could tell why. No restraint, in fad, arrested the
ferociousness of this tyger thirsting for the blood of
his fellows; no representations had any effen upon
his savage heart, nor even the entreaties of his ami-
able wife, whose excellent qualities we all admire.
" The Ministers, whose duties were defined by
the Constitution, if that At can be so named, could
never exercise it for the happiness of the people.
Their plans and representations were always laughed
at, and iejefted with disdain. 'their zeal for the
public gold in general, and that of the army in
particular, was always, of course, rendered in-
efienual.

" Cultivation, that first branch of public and pri-
vate wealth, WAS not encouraged, and the orders of
the Chief only tended to diminish the number of un-
happy planters. 'Was it wise, in fad, to snatch from
cultivation the hands which promoted it, for the pur-
pose of utrnece.sarily augmenting the number of
troops, who were neither paid, clothed, nor sub-
sisted, while the army was before on a respeßable
footing ?
" Such crimes, such enormities, such vexations,
could no longer remain unpunished. The people and
the army, tired of the ediuus yoke which he imposed
up-n them, have re-assumed their courage and their
energy, and, by one great spontaneous effort, have
broken it Yes, we have burst one chains. Soldiers,
you will be paid and clothed. Labourers, you witl
he proteCted. Proprietors, you will be secured in the
possession of your estates. A wise Constitution will
shortly fix the rights and duties of all.
" Un it the rooment shall arrive when we shall
be able to establisit it, we declare, that concord,
brotherhood, and friendly intercourse, being the
foundations of our union, we will never lay down
eur arms helot e we shall have struck down the tree
of our slaver y and debasement, and placed at the
head of the Government a man whose courage and
virtues we have long respelled, and who, like us,
has been the objea of the insults of the tyrant. The
people and the army, whose voice we speak, pro-
claim General Henry Christophe Provisional Chief
of Government of Hayti. until the Constitution
shall have definitively conferred on him that august
title.

" Signed b' GERM, PETION, &c. &c."

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

PONTSMOUTH, DEC. 31.

This morning, at ten o'clock, the wind became
fair, and Admiral Murray's squadron, consisting of
six sail, sailed from St. Helen's, viz.—Polyp/mars,
ti 4 (flarship), dffrire, 64, Camel, 44, Comoro f, and
Fly,ng Fish sloop, and the o.:yurpia cutter. He is
got quite away.
Sailed the Powtotre frigate, and the Athicore sloop,
on a cruise.

Arrived the Dryad frigate, from Cork.
All the convoys, so long detained by contrary
winds, Are preparing to sail.

FALMOCTH. DEC. 241.
Yesterday morning arrived His Majesty's ship
Mcrrlk, to give instruetions to the outward-bound
vessels, waiting convoy for the Mediterranean ; the
Bacchus cutter, Lieutenant Wennick, from Ply-
mouth ; and, this Jay, the ship afildletun, Captain
Garbout, from Gibraltar, in 34 days.
Sailed His Majesty's ship Fortune, 44 guns, and
Nimrod cutter, with the Savage and Rapid gun-
brigs, on a cruise.
Remain y contrary winds the following pickets
with Mails Prince of Wales and Tinenshend, for Lis-
bon; Dale Ithalrose, for New York ; Dub cf.
Keel, for Leeward Islands ; and Blonde frigate, and
Cecilia tender, with a tint for the West Indies.

DEAL, DEC. 31.

This morning, sailed from the Downs, His Ma-.
jetty's ships Assura.tb. and Frey, with the Britaania.
. Reireat, Scaist4 Galt, Test list.., and
the Alfi,d, East Indiamen. The transports having
on hoard the 9th, 14th, tiOth, and Mit regiments,
bound to Ireland, and a very large fleet of other
outward-bound vessels, coasters, and colliers, under
convoy, for Portsmouth. Number armed ship,
with a convoy for Portsmouth and Falmouth ;
now, frigate, and several other cruisers, for the
French coast.

Arrived the Firm and Rioter gun brigs, from a
cruise, aad remain so the Downs with the rest of the
ships as per last.
Came down from the River, and sailed through
the Downs, to the Westward, the Noittnsh re, East
Indianian, and several other outward•bound vessels.

P.S. The outwat d-bound vessels, &c. horn Rams.
Rate harbour. are just sailed through the Downs,
under convoy of a sloop of war, for Portsmouth.
CORR. TUC. 13.

Anieed the Sisairmsa, of Maryport. Harris. frees
Linsei.tli, with holey. Ice. s also His Majesty's ship
/).ssii. Captain Dram:bowl. from a assn.—Wind
N. W.

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NATTCASTI E. Die. 3D.
On itursday last, the wind blew a perfeet hum.
cane from the west. In this town several cliimaies
were !Aiwa down, some houses partly unroofed, and
two or three persons severely hurt by the falling of
bricks, 8:c. The butchers' stalls in the Flesh.
market were blown about in every dirrnion, and the
wood-work of that well-known eration, the Vicar.
age•pump, in Westgate street, was torn away.
In the neighbourhood, several out-houses, cottages,
And trees, ton numerous to mention, were le.
welled with the ground. The great circular west
window in the tower of North Shields church was
hlcwn in, during the time of admini.tering the holy
sacrament, to the no small terror of several of the
communicants. The urgan stands near the window,
and was in imminent danger of being overturned
and dashed to piece ; but immediate assistance be.
ing had, prevented that die& Many houses ir;
Dockwray•sgnare were damaged in their roofs, and
one man was nearly killed on the old church steps,
leading out of North Shields, by the falling of a stack
of chimnies. One of his shoulders was wounded,_
At aawick, the storm was squally dreadful, and
did much damage in that neighbourhood. On*
sloop was seen to sink in the Fair Way, and another
to drift off to sea dismasted, which afterwards four.
dered on the Staples, where it is feated all hands
have perished.

MEETINGS OF CREDITORS AT GUI LDIIALL.
Te-MOllllOll/. M. w,
David Stevenson, Strand, boot and slice-maker . 11
Mark Anthony Whitcomb, Gosport, Hampshire, corn.
non-brewer 3 1
James Cherub:Alin, Prince's-place, Lambeth. Surrey,
dealer and chapinan 3 X
John Greatrix Smyth, late of Dyer's-court, Alderman•
hurt', London, insurance bmker 3 11
Henry Lee, Holywell-itreet, Shoreditch, silversmith Sl5
Jelin Percival, New London-street, Loudon, merchant 3 11
Benjamin Baddeley, Whitezhapal, Middlesex, grocer 310
Richard Francis Saunders, Euneld-chase, filiclitesex,
grazier 3 11
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Wi.iiara Thompson, now or late of Woodford, Essex,
apothecary 2 10
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Robert Mason, late of Porleigh, Eat X. dealer in cattle *lO
Janus Burt, late of New Lisle street, Leicester-fields,
Mid..lesex, sir rw arid chip hat-insenta.rturer . 1 10
John Spearing, Brighthelmstone, Sussex, cahrnct.maker 2 It
John Fletcher Curtis, Miriaries, I.mrden, Irnen-draper 11 II
Alszander M'Craith, Lower Brook street, Grosvenor-
square, Middies, a, wine-merchant . 1 1
Clement Stephan Richardson, Cambridze, linen draper I it
George Oxlade, Hoddesdan, Hertimd-hire, wooer- I
scr.vener 2 11
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James Smith and Edward Meredith, Blacknemestreet,
near Driry.lane, Middlesex, linen-drapers . 1 111
Alexander M'Craith and John Marshall, late of Lower
Brool:•rdrect, Middlesex, re ite.ruer :hams 1 1
DIVIDENDS.
?grow Stockley, Strand, %liriA ' max, grocer 10
Wi i•se Wrvglit, 1 sitchurcis..trmt, La idols, wine and
brandy-merchant . 4 II
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Edward Hammond, Tottenham-cow weed, painter mid
Ogler II
. . . .
Pierre Louis Timor, late of 04 Compton•street, Soho,
M iddlesex, carver and grids, W
George Eatterhy, Canada. wharf, Rotherhithe. Surrey,
merchant 11
. . . William Btxon, Cmport, Sr. •harept,m, hawker . ita
Richard Termer, Burninglifina, ~ !are re'csnue, upholder le
John Richardson, Strand, Middlesex, haberdasher . I r
Frederick Judin, otherwise Fedor lwanuff Judin, late
of Angel.cmirt, Throgiricatunastreet, London, acid
afterwards of Harton-garden, Middle.e., merchant II
F ranee Lord, late of Skitiner's.street, SOLUdell. torn, St.
Parterre. Middlesex, tallow.ehandler 13
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Joseph Sergeant, la; of Russo-court, Milketreet,
Lemke, warithmamm an It
• Georg,. Smith, Upper Harleyetreet. MirWlesex, bet late
of Madras, East Indies, merchant 11
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