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NATIONAL REGISTER.

midst of a shower of balls, which were dying in all directions,
and giving his orders with the greatest coolness.
The second column having, in the mean time, reached the
heights, under fire of the enemy, the rebels were turned, and fled
precipitately toward the road. They were completely put to
the route, and the cavalry under Generals Pierre Toussaint and
Cottereau persuing them, they were cut to pieces, and several
hundreds made prisoners.
During the engagement, some barges were seen in the bay,
making demonstrations to approach the road. The President
re-entered the town, and ordered the General of Artillery, Am-
brosia, to make his preparations in order to receive them : but
those barges carefully kept out of the range of his guns.
The President went to the right, where Brigadier Diaquoi
Vigne commanded the troops : he ordered nn attack to be made
to dislodge the rebels from their position; but on account of
their great superiority of numbers, their resistance was very
obstinate, and their fire extremely brisk. The Seventh Batta-
lion even made a retrogade movement. The President then
ordered Colonel Richer, who had been left at St. Marc with a
battalion of reserve to move forward, and support the Seventh,
which was done, and the battle was re-established. This officer
having proceeded along the shore, turned the extremity of the
line of the rebels; and from that moment the victory was de-
cided. The horse guards came up at the same time, made a
charge, and the flight became general. The remainder of the
day was employed in searching and securing the prisoners,
who had concealed themselves in the bushes, and the underwood,
which are on both sides of the road. Several Colonels, Lieute-
nant Colonels, and other officers, with numbers of soldiers,
were made prisoners. The rebels fled from the field of battle,
which they left covered with their killed and wounded. Night
put a stop to the pursuit, and prevented their total extermination.
The actions lasted six hours each, during which the troops of
the North evinced the greatest bravery. General Diaquoi was
wounded in the arm ; Captain Le Jeune, Aid-de-Camp of the
President, had an eye shot away by a ball ; Lieutenant-Colonel
Maupoint, of the horse-guards, was wounded ; the two batta-
lions of the second regiment had made a forced march of thirty-
six leagues in three days, but their ardour, notwithstanding their
Coigne was not relaxed.
On the 26th, the Generals Pierre Touissant and Cottereau
continued the pursuit by Montrois, Les Verettes, and Les Mat-
teux. The President went to Montrouis, and ordered that pa-
trolcs should be established all along the sea shore, to interrupt
such of the fugitives who should attempt to reach the barges and
canoes were ready to facilitate their escape. They were
almost all made prisoners, perishing with hunger and thirst, and
cursing the traitor who had exposed them to their present mise-
rable situation. Colonel Chihasse, who pursued them in the
mountains, took many prisoners, and brought off their colours.
Their famous General, Senator Bonnet, maintained his cha-
racter of cowardice at the very outset of the engagement; he
withdrew to Montroius Clengues, distant from the field of battle,
and left his troops without a Commander.
No enemy being any longer to be seen, the troops of the North
were sent back to their cantonments. The battalion of the 27th
was ordered to take charge ofthe prisoners ; and after having pro-
vided the necessary succour for the wounded, the President re-
turned with his horse guards to the Cape, where he arrived on
the 7th of November, and received the felicitations of the civil and
military authorities. In the evening there was a general Monti-
The report concludes with these words :
" he friend of humanity, the man that loves his country,
who ohess the laws, asks himself what may he the object
of the rebel Petion, when he thus exposes to certain death the
iniscrible tools of his ambition ? What would have been the
foe of those unfortunate creatures, whom the chance of war
pi ut nto the hands of the President, if his clemency had not
spared them, even after they had raised their arms against his
person ? Why does the cannibal Petion cause the shedding of
eu much blood, unless it be in pursuance of a plan of destruc-
tion, artfully preconcerted with bur implacable enemy, the
of the world, for diminishing the population of Hayti ;
a design, which was always the favourite object of the French
faction, of which Petion is the secret abettor, and which never
sets any value on human blood, when shed to gratify their
execrable ambition, (Signed) " Joarrir Rxr.u.siz."

STATE TAPER..
PORTUGAL.,
ADDITIONAL EDICTAL, OR PROCLAMATION, ISSUED BY TIEZ
PRINCE REGENT, PREVIOUS TO HIS EMBARKATION.
Instructions to which tor/ Royal Decree of the 26th November,
1807, bears reference.
The Governors whom I was pleased to nominate, by my Royal
Decree of this present date, to govern these kingdoms during
my absence, will have the usual oaths administered to them by
the Cardinal Patriarch, and will attend with all solicitude,
vigilance, and activity, in the administration of justice, dis-
tributing the same impartially, and maintaining a rigorous
observance of the laws of this kingdom. They will preserve
to the natives all the privileges which had been granted to them
by me and my Royal Predecessors. The plurality of votes
will decide on the reports the respective Tribunals may lay
before them, regulating themselves according to the Laws and
Customs of the kingdom. They will direct literary professioti,
offices, of criminal and civil judicature and revenue, according
to the forms heretofore practised by me. They will protect the
persons and properties of my loyal subjects,selecting for military
occupations those who may be deemed worthy thereof. They
will endeavour to preserve to their utmost the tranquillity of
this kingdom, to provide for the troops of the Emperor of the
French and King of Italy good quarters, and to supply them
with every thing they may require, during their stay in this
kingdom, averting all and every insult that may be perpetrated,
and punishing with rigour any that may occur; rnaintaininl
always the good harmony which ought to he displaed to the
armies of nations with whom we find ourselves united un the
Continent. Should it by any occurrence happeas, that any of
the said Governors are absent, a plurality of voters will elect a
Successor. I trust to your honour and virtue, that my people
will not suffer inconveniences during my absence; and should. it
be God's will that I should shortly return to my kingdoms, that
I may meet every one contented and satisfied, reigning among
them that good order and tranquillity which should exist
among subjects who have rendered themselves so worthy of my
paternal care.
Palace of Our Lady of .Aljuda, on the 26th of November, 1807.
(Signed) Tut Raines.

IRELAND.

During the December Meeting of the Orange-men at Verner's
bridge, in the County of Armagh, an extraordinary concourse
of people assembled, which, on being dismissed, proceeded
tumultuously, in a body, and continued parading the country
the whole night, with a most dreadful noise and yelling, in
imitation of the Irish cry at funerals. This could not fail of
exciting great alarm amongst the Catholics of that neighbour-
hood, it having often hitherto been the harbinger of destruction
to many of them. happily, however, it produced no further
immediate effect, hut it certainly has left an impression on their
minds of approaching tlanger, owing to the circumstance of
some gentlemen ottospiderable property being at the head of
this party. Government ought to obviate the realization of
these apprehensions, by some positive proceeding, if the mea-
sures of terror and racking are not to become, once again, the
order and policy of the day.
A general and very widely-extended search commenced
throughout the district of Clonmenl, for concealed arms, and,
notwithstanding the most crafty precautions, which we know
are ►esorted• to by those miscreants who have lawlessly ob-
t tined them, and the number brought in has been very eon-
sidei ahlr. The range of country covered was in length
near sixty miles, and, in many places, in breadth above
twenty ; and the routes of every party were so accurately
delin.ated, that there was scarcely a part of it unvisited.
We carrot too highly applaud the judgment of General M•tien-
zie in the ttr,post;ion and arrangement of the military, nor
speak in terms too high of the zeal and alacrity with which
t.,e officers and men, employed on the service, persisted in a
very liaras,ing excursion. in most instances lasting fro:n day-
light till night-fall.