The National Register.
London, England, 1815-01-15 00:00:00

ST. DOMINco.

From the spirit which atrial:l(es the Governments established
lit St. Domingo, it is evident that there is little chance of this
island returning to the dominion of the French : this is what
no One will regret; for if the dominion of that colony is not ob-
tained by France, thc temptation to the continuance of the hor-
rid traffic i e human beings from Africa will be much diminish.
ed. We noticed iu our last the letters, which an Agent of the
French Gote-rnment, named Lavaysse, presented to Chris-
t yl.e and Points, in which he had the audacity to represent
this Government as allied with France for the subjugation of
St. Domingo; an Address to King Ch istophe, fiorn the
Council GCneral of Hayti, on that c-rrespondence, &dal,
ing their determiration never to st bmit to France. has since
been received. The Address, which is full of energy, doses
with the following passages:—" Let each of us multi, ly his
forre-4-redonble his energy and his courage, in immolating
to c urjust fury thousands of those tigers, who are alienated
trot our blood! Let Hayti present nothing but a heap of
ruins—let terrified countenances meet nothing but sights of
death, destruction, and vengeance! Let posterity have to
say, on beholding these ruins, • Here lived a free and gene-
rous people; tyrants wished to strin them of their liberty,
but they resolved to perish sooner ;han to part with it!' Po-
sterity will applaud this act of magnanimity. Oh ! will
there be a human being so destitute of generosity as to refuse
his admiration, his esteem, and his good wishes? In the po-
litical wars cart led on!among civilised.States, the armies fight,
and the people live in peace. But in a war of extermination,
such as that with whi, h we have been threatened, when every
man thinks of defending his home, the tombs of his parents,
his liberty, his independence,—what dot say ?—his very ex-
istence, and that of his wife and children, it is then a war of
man against man ; women and boys are in a state of war; all
are in arms; all the evil we can do our enemy is a sacred
duty; all means of destruction arc lawful for us to use. We
shall revive those dreadful examples of exasperation among
people which terrified the earth I Posterity will shudder wilt
horror; but far float blaming us, it will only impute these
acts to the perversity of the age, to tyrants, and to necessity !
;but this will never happen--it is impossible. Hayti is in-
vincible ; and justice. as well as the cause of justice, will bear
her triontphant through all obstacles. No, never sb4ll this
execrable enterprise take place. There is honour, there is
glory 'among the Sovereigns. of Europe, and Great Britain,
Oat Liberator of the World, will prevent such an abotniva-
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RUSSIA.

From this country we learn nothing beneficial. The
Times las given the public a version of a story, of. Lord
astiercagh's having been induced, to act in such a way by
Talleyranct, as to make Alexander very indisposed to a cor-
dial ui dcrstanding wish us. And, in order to soot!) any
feelings of an unpleasant nature, the Times enters into a corn-
ison of his acts and those of Petion The mention-
of mute leads again to the Nycstvisid.