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were extended so as to e—nefoie what is called the
New Town towards the North, and they were built
of fine hewn stone, and beautifully adorned.' The
City then contained about too,ooo inhabitants:
This was the period of its meridional glory. The
persecutions raised in Germany on account of Re-
ligion in the reign of the Emperor CEIARLES V.
in France, under HENRY H.; and in. England under
Queen MARY, forced numbers of persons to settle
at Antwerp, where a vast -concourse from all Euro-
pean Nations was to be seen, it being then the most
celebrated magazine of Commerce in all Eurppe, if
rot of the whole World. It was a common thing to
See zsoo Ships in the Scheldt, laden with 'all sorts of
Merchandiie ; and in one word, Antwerp was then
almost what Amsterdam lately was, the general store-
house of the world. (See, on this 'subject, Hitet
Memoires Sur le Commerce Holland.) _

_ .
But the Nigorons Edia which the Emperor Charles
V. fulminated against the rrotestants of the Ne-
therlands, and the establishment of the
paved the way for the destrualon of Commerce,
by sp:eading terror and despair amongst' the Manu-
faauters and Merchants of. Antwerp.

,•
At this epoch, it may not be amiss to particula_•
rize the immense Commerce, with. all Nations,
which was carried on at Antwerp, previous to the
decline Of that•illustrions city.

(To he Contjme

The following Proclamation, issued by General
LECLEItC, on the 24. th of April, and transmitted
by the last
_Jamaica Mail, appears to be judiciously
calculated to re-establish ordeis- and tianquillity,
throughout the island of St. Domingo. It is cer-
tainly 'formed upon principles that must give general
satisfa6lion.
LIBERTY. EQUALITY.
• In the Name of the French Government: •
A PROCLAMATION.

THE GENERAL IN CHIEF TO THE INHABITANTS OF ST.

DOBtINOO.

CITIZENS,
The time is arrived, when.order will succeed to that chaos
which has been the necessary consequence of the opposition
made by the rebellious to the landing of the Army at St. Do-
mingo.
The . rapid operations and progress of the Army, and the
necessity of providing for its subsistence andits establishment,
have, hitherto, prevented my attending to the definitive or-'
ganization of the Colony. I could not, moreover, have.any.
fixed or ce,ytain ideas of a Country with which I was totally
unacquainted, and consequently could not, without mature
deliberation, form an opinion of a people who have been, for
tehrears, a prey to Revolutions:
The basis of the Provisionary Organization which I shall
give the Colony, but which shall not be definitive till ap-
proved of by the French Government, is Liberty and Equa-
litv to all the inhabitants of St. Domingo, without regard to
colour. —This Organization comprises,
I. The Administration of 'justice.
z. The Interior Administration of the Colony combined
with those measures which its interior and exterior defence
require.
3. The imposition of Duties—the means of raising them
and their application: •
4. The Regulations and Ordinances relative to Agriculture'.
S. The Regulations and Ordinances.relative to Commerce.
6. The Administration of the National Domains, and the
means of making them most beneficial to the State, so as to
be less hurthensome to Agriculture and Commerce.
As it is of infinite interest to you, Citizens, that,every in-
stitution should, in an equal degree, protet Agriculture and
Commerce, I have not determined- upon this important
work, 'without having first had recourse to, and consulted
with. the most distinguished and enlightened Citizens of the
Colony.
I have in consequence, given orders to the Generalsbf the
South•antl West divisions to select for each of these Depart-
ments, seen Citizens, Proprietors and Merchants lvvitnout
regard to colour) who, with eight more which I shall myself
choose for the Department of the North, are to assemble at
the Cape in the course of
,the present month, to impart their
observations to me on the plans i shall then submit to their
consideration.
It is not a Deliberative Assembly I establish. lam suffi..
cientl y acquainted with the evils whicii Meetings of this na-
ture have brought upon the Colony, to have that idea. The,
Citizens who are thus chosen, being honest and enlightened
men, to them will I communicate lily views l • they will make
their observations upon thein, anti will be able to impress on
the minds of their Fellow-Citizens, the liberal ideas with
which Government is animated. _

Let those, then, who are thus to be called together, consi-
der this appointment as a flattering proof of my consideration
for them. Let them consider that,for want of their counsels
arid advice, I might pursue measures disastrous to the Co-
lony, which would ultimately fall upon themselves. Let
them consider this, and they will find no difficulty in leaving,
fur some time, their private avocations.
Done at Head-Quarters at the Cape, sth Floreal, Year
so of the French Republic.
The General in Chief,
(Signed) , LECLERC.
(A true Copy).
The Deputy Adjutant:General,
(Signed) D'AOUST.