The Sun.
London, England, 1807-01-01 00:00:00

I;tioct:ANIATIoN.

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" An horrible tyranny, exercised .a• long time
upon the People and the -Army, has at length ex-
1, usperated all minds, and excited them, by a move-
r went worthy the motive that produced it, .to rise
in
.a masse, in order to ..ppose a powerthi boundary
against the torrent that threatened them.
i• " A plot, framed in siletfce and refle&ion, *as ,
upon the pint of executitin—:tnen capable of t hink-
-17 ing—those men capable of making the sublinie
'.. principles of true Lilserty titicilly triumphant—men
who were even the defenders of that Libertyi.==were
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to disappear for o,•e'r. A rapid step towards its total .
.• subversion had already appalled 'the most ludic-
, feient : every thing seemed to announce, that we
were apprbaching the moment "when we were to.
see all the fotnier scenes of horror and proscription
renewed ; those duegeonS, gibbets, faggots, drown-
,' ibis, of which we werethe 'set-11)144ul and unhappy
victims, under the iniquitous Governments of Ito-
-1 CHANIHEAU, the DAllisoTs, the FEHHANii, 13C.ii-
OEtts, &c. 8:e. -
" Less affeCted by the happiness of his people
than greedy to amass riches, the Chief of the Govern-
! ment • unjuStly despoiled
.thousands of -families of
it,
c, their property; and wbo.are at this indinent redhced
• tti the utmost misy, under the apparent -pretext
that they. could not justify the titles to their pro-
,.
Perty—but in fad to ailment his own domains: Is
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•t. tt not incontesible; , atter enjoying an estate ten;
j twenty, or thitty years, that one ought to be ad-
mitted the real proprietor ? DESSALINES was not
0 ' ••-K'<• - -is
Ignorant of
.thi ; but had persuaded himself, that
even his fellow-citizens had lost their titles in the
klate disturbances. ' He wished to avail himself of -
, - this •to satisfy his cupidity. Some ;ittle farmers
- - 'were berried away from their dwellings, and sent,
Without regard to age or sox, to the plantations. to
Which they fopnerly belonged. If any • particular ,
• -situation, or any view of the-general interest, could.
` r'iuthorise that measure which appears to have been
~,: adopted by preceding Governments, at least it
i would have been but justice to have granted an
0 indemnification to those against whom it was ex-
t, ereised. • .
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" Commerce, the source of plenty and prosperity
• ' .to States, languished in an apathy under this ignorant
man, the chief causes of which were the vexations
and the horrors exercised upon strangers. Cargoes
violently seized, bargains broken as soon as they were
eontraEted, banished far from- our ports the Ships of
all countries. The assassination of THOMAS THUAT,
. an English Merchant, who had long- resided in the
Country, were he was_respeded oh account. of his
• blameless condud and his virtues; excited general
indignation—and why wag he murdered ?—Ttiostas
TutiAT was rich : this was his sole crime. The
tlaytian Merchants were not better treated. The
- ..tlvantages which it was affeeted ',to allow them,
1 , were only 'calcUlated tipon the profits which it was
expeded to extrat from them.
Always swayed by his vicious disposition, the
;:hief. of the Government, in his last tour, disorga-,
!,.‘cd the Army. His cruel avarice suggested to him
•1i,.. rdea to transfer the troops Of one corps to ano-
• - her. for the nurnost of bringingg-thew nearer to