The National Register.
London, England, 1811-04-28 00:00:00

COOKE, THE ACTOR.

The sixteen nights of Cooke 's engagement at New York prod
duced the Manager a profit of upwards of 20,000 dollars. OS
his return from Boston he found that the House had been losing
in consecwence of the distresses of the commercial world, in the
interval of his absence, and he lent his support to retriev e the
h he did to a considerable extent, although t lie novel-
ty had been worn of On the last night of this his second en-
gagement (the 11th of March,) he was to play Richard ; but,
for the first time since his arrival, indulged in his characteristic
eccentricity, and about an hour before the rising of the curtain
sent word he would not play. The Manager wit.; in distress,
f,r he 'louse promised to be the fullest since his return, and
hundreds had gone away in conietpience of the disappointnem.
He was very penitent the next day, sent a message to Mr. Price,
the Manager, and a reconciliation took place The day after
f• he 12th of March) he ova s to set off tor Phihulelphia, but tak-
ing
1/4.
a parting glass on the preceding evening with some friends,
he Fot gloriously drunk, and remained confined to his bad
on the Rich, the date of our correventient's letter.

Covent-Garden Theatre, it is said, will not close this year
before th... Prince P.egent's birth-it:ly of August.)—
I'llii regulation will fling the benefits, in all probability, into the
months of June and July. to I layinarket 'Theatre will cont-
inence at the usual tinge, with an entire new set of Dra:mitic.
Labourers, with the exception of LiQtyn and his cara sposa.

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PROCLAMATION.

ALEXANDER PETTON, PRESIDENT OF HAYTI, TO
THE PEOPLE OF THE ARMY.

I have thought it necessary to declare to my fellow-citizens
anti the army, the motives of my ceuduct during the events
which have lately made so much noise in the Department the
South. My wish in thus delaying any declaration was,
.tht,it_
flight be able to bring to a sense of moderation and justice
who have been misled. The basis of my conduct has
ever been to spare the effusion of bland, and to endeavour, by
mild measures, to quiet perturbed spirits. Such motive, so
',owe' rot in regulating my conduct, have withheld me from co 4
ercive measures.
In the midst of surrounding agitations, occupied with the ex-
vfditionary Army of the North, under the command of the
ilrave La Marre, disturbed by the movement of Goman in the
South, having to renei-.=r ourselves secure against the threatenA
invasion of Christophe, often tr,,ubied with factions created by
those of turhulext and unquiet minds—l Nave Inui the happiness
conduct the vessel of the State free from violent disaiters.—
To pr•vide tor the great expenses such a state of thinss must
re-.:es,urity occasion, I have made the Government respected, at
the head of which I was placed by the-eontidence of the prude,
without however having ever solicited the appointment.
General Rigaud'sar.ival in the land of his nativity,was hailed
With all those demonstrations of joy which could he inspired
reflect!ug on the• unhappiness from which he had esca ed,
aA well as from the prospect of having amongst us another de.
Lnder of our rights. I welcomed him earnestly, and in giving
him the command as General of Division aeainst the insurg,nts
of Grand Anse, I depended on his zeal to bring them to sub-
_

Trarquillized in the South, I employed all my means to place
the caphal of the Republic out of all danger, should Christophe
ram ure any attack.
All the citizens of the Republic have equally shared my most
l;vely solicitede—my endeavaura have always been to render
them happy, to disti:iguish and recompence merit.
The /army has always been considered as one, has been
equally employed, paid, and clothed, bath in the South and
the West—no severe duties have been imposed on those in
the Sou: h than on others.
The laltabitants of the Sou h have enjoyed, under the civil
adiainistration of their affairs, every facility consonant with
their interests; and their situation, as raore distant from the
actual theatre of warfare, has been particularly advantageous
to them. They have necessarily contributed to the ea:poxes
of the State, and it was but just that they should cohperate
with the Government, and be regulated by the progress of
tat nts.
Under such circumstances, and at the moment of the fall of
the Mole which was a crisis which ought to have milted all
rt.e ar Li to defend the connnan cause, a few persons of the town
of Aux Cayes were labou; lug to change the form of tin. Go-
vernment, by establishing a tumultuous assrmUy. the result of
'which has been to turn out of their situations several public
functionaries, and a declaration of scission from the actual
Government.
The principal object of my attention has been the declared
enemy Christophe—l was mr.viliing to employ force against
the authors of this first movement; I expected that the pre-
sance of General Rigaud would tranquillize it. I was by other
sources informed that the Department of Nippe; did Lot par-
ticipate in the measure.
It was after being fully assured that this ecission began to
oratnize, and se,ine, Generals Barret and Lys abanduu their
posts to-go to Aux Cayes, that I thought it necessary to march
some troor. to the Bridge of Miriterane, to succour and pre-
serve the Department of Nipi:ts, and to pravent any injurious
front a rendezvous which was making at Aquin, I con
tented to send a deputation of respeatahle and noted citizens
of
Port-au-Prince, who preceded the arms', to remonstrate with
the Chiat's ot the disaffected party, and to thew them into what
au abyss they were about to preciritate us, if they persisted in
itch improper and inconsiderate assures. '1 he conduct ot this
a.-any, under Generals of Brigaddlielva and Gudeon, merit the
greatest praise for the otder racy presarved,aed the respect they
paid to tae inhabitants, though they had so riaav Plivations to
e: dare—not even the habitation of an individual was entered;
a c,):lduct very different front that ascribed to this army by the
inhabitants of Aux Cayes, who aceusad it of having a lust for
plunder.
General Rigaod, wha was at Aquin, in a written answer to
the deputation thora Port-au-Prince, acknowledged my autho-
rity as President of Hayti, and he persuaded General belva to
withdraw his army trout that department. 1 deternnued, in
coitsiaraeaae, to go to the iirhige of Mitagrane, to confer with
Cslieral Rigiud. Tins haul-view twos place the 124 of De:cm-

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