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'ro6ps threw themse.
entered by the embrasures.
" At Foit Liberty and the neighbourhood; we
found tedi pieces of cannon. We .found areeng the
papers of the Corrimandant of the place, an order of
ToutssAtelie to sink the Vessels which approach
ed, and to hold out to the last eXtrernity. The
sth Light Infantry maintained its former reputa-
tion. Generals ROCHAMBEAU and BRUNET, and
Captain MACEY, greatly distinguished themselves.
Citizen LACHATIE, Aid-de-Camp to General Ro-
tHAMBEAU, a Captain of Cdrabinters, and 12 Sol-
diers were killed; and 4o wounded. ,
"I have requested Admiral VILLARET to make
Captain Mi,GEN a Rear-Admiral.
" On the ad I arrived with the Admiral and the
main body of the Army before Fort Piccolet, I
conform&l myself to the general plan of the Expe-
dition. Two Frigates carried the Proclamation of
the First Consul. A Cutter approached the Battery
of P;ecolet, made its way through the fire, and an-
chored in the Road, although the buoys had been
taken up.
" At three o'clock, LANCES, a Man of Ctilour,
who acted as Captain of the Port at the Cape; Caine
on board the Admiral. He' told us that General
CHRISTOPHE had sent a Courier to TOUSSAINT, to
request orders, and that till the arrival of an an-
swer, he would meet the Squadron with cannon,
burn the City, and massacre the Whites;
" I replied to General CHRlsecienE, and Citizen
LEBRUN, Aid-de-Camp to Adtisiral Vietkite-1e
carried my Letter. A Deputation of the Munici-
pality of the Cape arrived during these transactions;
conjuring me to take pity on the unfortunate situ..
ation of the Inhabitants. I could cagily perceive.,
from what they told me, that the lot of these wretched
people was decided ; that they wished to gain time,
but that the affair could only be determined by the
sword. In this cruel alternative there remained
with me only; one plan to be pursued ; which was,
to disembark ac some leagues from the Cape, and
to march to the Heights behind the Cape, while
General ROCHAMBEAU gained the Heights of St.
Sauzanne, Do:dog,. and Grande-Riviere. I was
certain by this measure to save the beautiful Plan-
tations which surround the Cape, and I had even
hopes of saving that beautiful and important city.
" A calm retatded the course of the light vessels,
on board of which I had embarked. At three
o'clock I arrived at Port Margot. The debarka-
tion was effected near that at Limbi. The Enemy
had a battery there, and received us with a dis-
charge of Artillery. -But our Soldiers rushed on
shore with so much rapidity, that they sustained no
loss. I afterwards set forward to put my designs
in execution: All the Settlements were deserted.
The Settlers had taken. to flight. They had been
made to believe the most absurd and opposite re-
ports. They had been told that the Squadron was
composed of Spaniards and English, Who had come
to conquer the island, and put them all to the sword.
" At two o'clock I arrived at Sale'e, at the
bottom of the bay of Acid, with my advanced guard.
It was not long before I learnt that General
CHRISTOPHE was posted with his troops at Mount
English, half a league from us. General HARDY
with his division marched thither; and about half
a league farther, in the dircdion of the Cape, he
met the incendiaries; who were. on their way to
burn the settlements: In the mean tune the Ge-
neral had ordered several vessels to apprcetch the
harbour, and had also landed General HUMBERT at
the head of a body of troops.
" I marched to the height of the Cape in order
pet an end to a fire kept up between out disem-
barked troops and the blacks. The Brigands had
Set fire to the Cape; by General Cnalseorna's
orders. By the united efforts of the squadron, the
fire was put a stop to.
" Since my arrival here, I hire been employed
in re.orgahiiing this City, and restoring it to order.
hiive named the brave black, Teeamacitus,
to be Mayor, He did all he could to put a stop to
the mischief. The Negroes attempted to kill him,
but our troops arrived in time to rescue him out of
1 their hands.

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i‘ The plain on the North, the quarters of Limbe
and Acul, and all between the river of Massacres
and Limbe, remain untouched. The inhabitants
carried away by CHRIStOPHE are returning.
Wherever I go through the city and its environs I
observe the people smiling, in spite of their im-
mense losses. They think these of po account,
now that they are for ever delivered from the
horrible tyranny of the ferocious Africans. Two
expeditions are on their march to occupy the Port
de Piix and the Mole. I have already embodied.
i,oao blacks.

" I have riot yet received the details of the ex.
pedition to port Republicain. I only know by re-
port, that our troops have entered that town.
" I have,learnt nothing whatever of the expedi-
tion to Saito Domingo and Des Cayes..
" In spite of the atrocity of ToUssAINT'S con.
Flu; I did not wish to deparit from the general in.
strations of the First Consul. I have •sent
him his children, with a letter from the First.
Magistrate of the French Republic. I have given
him to understand that will take upon myself
to receive his submission. On the 4.th I shall
march to Gonaives, to form a junction with the di.
vision (iiembarked at Port Republicain.
" I cannot enough commend the conduti of Ad-
miral VILLARET. Ills experience has enabled us
to att in aft most difficult circumstances.. His only
aim is the success of the expedition, to rescue from
the ferocious Africans this colony, the fruit of 200
years of labour and prosperity, and which will be a
lasting. monument of the danger of abstraft notions
and vain theories in matters of government. The
Spanish squadron has assisted us in such a manner,
as to call for a special acknowledgment ro Admiral
GRAVINA from the First Consul. I have to com-
plain bitterly of the want of engineers : I have not

one superior officer, The Minister at War had
ordered the Generals of Brigade, CARNOT, as well as
QUENTIN, BEAUVERT, CALONNE, and POLIGNE,
to repair hither ; but none of them have come. Are
not the Officers of Engineers bound, as well as
others, to march where honour calls them ? I beg
.you will request Government to ser4 me, withou t
delay, two Chiefs of Brigade, and two Chiefs of
Battalion of that corr."

tRt dorgRAL TO MiNisTrft OF

MAINE.

" Feb. 9.
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CCI have fOund in the cape a qwmtity of pro_.
visions, a' great citianeity of cannon; and ammunition
of all kinds. The fusils, cannOn; and poWder have
been furnished by the United Bt4t6s..
" Although we are much incommoded by the
great quantities of rain which have fallen, in five
days we shall pursue TOussi'ktN-r. lam uncertain
whither he Will betake himself; and what he will
do. lam infornied that one part of his treasures is
at Contrive's. If this be true, the war will soon be
finished, as I Shall be there by the r.i.th. The
whites, the people of colour, and the old free_
blacks; begin to return to their habitations. His
troops are even beginning to abandon ToussAt NT.
The GOVerade/II May rest assured that the army
will never repose till all be completed. The Black
Genetals make the cultivators of their own colour
work more severely than the whiteS do.
" A Letter from a ecretary of ToussAt rues,
who has cone to Port Liberte, assures Me; that for
a month past he has been making the greatest pre-
parations to oppose out landing ; that his real
force consists of to Derrii-brigacles, each of r r or
ioo men, and a body of Cavalry, amounting to
from is to 13do horse. He adds, that TOUSSAINT
did not exped our Squadron for three months; and
that our sudden arrival hM disconcerted his plans
completely,
" I have also in my hands a Treasurer of Tolls.
SAINT'S; who is immensely rich. I have caused a
loaded vessel to be seized, which was on its way to
the United Stares.

" The Merchants may rest assured they may
now trAde, in the fullest security; to the
Ports of the COlony ; and that they need be afraid
neither of requisitions nor any arbitrary measures."

PROCLANIATION.

THE FIRST CONSULS TO THE INHABITANTS OF

ST. DOMiNGO.

Pals, Nov. 8, 1801.

" INHABITANTS OF ST. DOMINGO,

." Whatever may be your origin and colour,
you ftfe all Frenchmen, all free, all, equal before
God, and the Republic.
France like St. Domingo, has been the prey of
Faaions, and torn by Civil and Foreign War. But
now all is changed. All Nations have embraced the
French, and sworn to them PeaLe and Friendship.
All the French are likewise reconciled to one ano-
ther) and have sworn to he friends and brothers.
Come you also to embrace the French, and to gra-
tify yourselves with a sight of your friends and
brethren of Europe.
" Government sends you Captain-General LE-
; he leads with him great forces to proted
you against your Enemies, and against the Enemies
of the Republic.
"If it be said to you, These forces are des-
tired to deprive jou of your -Liberty,' do you reply
The Relublic will not stiffer it to be taken jrom
us.'

,1 Rally around your Captain-General. He
brings ycli abundance and peace—rally around him.
He who dares to separate himself from the Captain-
Gt.:ter:4l, is a traitor to his country, and the wrath
of the Republic shall devour him, as the tire de-
vours your dry canes.
(Signed)
" BONAPARTE, First Constil.
" H. B. MARETy Sec. of State."

to CITIZEN ToITSSAII'ZT LOUVERTURE, GENERAL

IN CHIEF OF THE ARMY OF ST. DOMINGO.

CITIZFN GENERAL,

" Peace with England and the other Powers of
Europe, which has raised the Republic to the first
degree of power and grandeur, has also induced the
Republic to take-possession of St. Domingo. We
have sent thither Citizen LECLERC, our brother-
in-law, with the rank of Captain_General, as First
Magistrate of the Colony. He is attended by a
force such as is proper to make the sovereignty of
the people respetted.
" In these circumstances we flatter ourselves
that you will prove to.us, and France in geoeral,
the sincerity of the sentiments which you have
constantly expressed in the different letters which
you have written us. We have conceived an es-
teem for you, and we feel a pleasure in acknow-
ledging and proclaiming the great services which
you have rendered to the French people. If its
colours wave in St. Domingo, it is owing to you
and your brave blacks.,
" Called by your talents and the force of cir-
cumstances;to the chief command, you have exrin-
guished civil war, imposed a restraint on the, per-
secution of some ferocious men, restored to its pro_
. per rank, religion, and the worship of a God from
whom all things emanate. The Constitution you
have made, includes many good things, but contains
also others contrary to the dignity and sovereignty
of the French people, of which St, Domingo is only
a portion.
" The circumstances in which you have been
placed, surrounded by enemies, without being able
to derive any assistance from the Mother • Coun-
try, have legitimated the 'articles of this Consti-
tution, which olterwise would be improper. But
now that things have happily changed their appear-
ance, you will no doubt be the first to pay homage
to the Sovereignty of the nation, which numbers you
among its most illustrious citizens, by the services
which you have rendered to it, both by the talents and
intrepid charaer with which Nature has endowed
you. A contrary line of conduCt will not be recon-
cileable to the sentiment we entertain of you. It
will make you forfeit your numerous claims to the
'gratitude and •to the rewards of the Republic, and
will open a gulph for yourself, which tiny also
contribute to the misery of those generousblacks,
whose e.turage we admire, and whose rebellion with
pain we should be obliged to punish.
" We have made known to your children and to
their tutor, the sentiments by which we • are go-
verned. We return them to you.
" Assist the Captain_General with your advice,
your influence, and your talents. Do you wish, for
the freedom of thee-glacks ? You know well, that in
every country, where we have been, we have con.

it On those people who before wcre not
vssession of it. D, you, wish,for
and For6ine ? After the services you have:endere,,-
. and which it is now in your power, :the present
conjundure to effeet, and with the. personal estima,
tion which we.. entertain for you, you need not
doubt of the consideration, the fortune, and the ho-
flours which attend you.
" Let the people of St. Domingo know; that the
solicitude which France, has ever felt for their hi.
i piness, has often been nefficient, from the imperious
circumstances of the War ; that the men who have
arrived from the continent to agitate the colony, and:
foment divisions, were the spawn of futtions which
were tearing in pieces the Mother Country her-
self but now; that Peace and the power of the
Government. secure their pro,:perity and freedom,
tell them that if Liberty be their chief good, they-
cannot enjoy it but with the tide of French Citi-
zens, and that every affirm contrar,,, to the interests
of the Country, to the obedience which they owe to
the Government and to the Commander in Chief
who is the depositary of ir, will .he a crime against
the National Sovereignty, which will eclipse their
services; and render St. Domingo the theatre of an
unhappy war, in which fathers and children will
niutiially destroy each other.
" And you; General ! relied-, that ifyou are the
first of your colour who have arrived to so high a
degree of power, and who have been so greatly.dis.,
tioguished by valour and military talents, you are
also to God and use the principal responsible agent
for your own condud.
" If there be any evil designing persons who
say to those who have taken the lead in the troubles
of St. Domingo, that we come to investigate what
they have been doing during the days of anarchy,
assure them that we shall look only to their present
condud, that we shall make no inquiries into the
past, except to learn those exploits by which they
hare distinguished themselves in the war which
they sustained againSt the Spaniards and English,
then our enemies.

" Rely .upon our esteem, and condu& yourself
as becomes one of the Principal Citizens of the
greatest nation in the world.
" The First Consul, BONAPARTE.
" Paris, Nov. sB, i Sol."

COPY OF A LETTER TO GENERAL CHRISTUFHE,

FROM THE COMMANDER IN CHIEr.

" On lward the Ocean.

" I learn with indignation, Citizen General, that
you refuse to receive the French Squadron and Army
which I comMand, under the pretence that you have
received no orders from the Governor General.

" France has made peace with England, and the
Government has sent to St. Domingo a three suff—
ciently strong to crush rebels, if there be anv found
there. With respeft to yourself, Citizen General,
I-confess to you, that it will be painful to me to
consider you among the number of rebels.
" I give you notice, that if you do not this day
deliver into my possession the Forts Piceolet and
Belair, and all the Batteries on the coast, ro-moi.
row at day break, t 5,000 men shall IA disetn.
barked. Four thousand men are now disembarking
at Fort-Liberte ; SOOO at Fort-Republicain.
" Annexed to this Letter, you will ti9d my Pro.
clamation ; it expresses the intention of the French
Government. But, remember, that whatever personal
good opinion I may entertain of your conduct in the.
Colony, I consider 'Tim as responsible for whatever
may happen. - •

" LECLERC."

ADMIRAL VILLAtET TO THE MINISTER OF Mai..
RINE AND THE COLONIES.

" On board the Ocean, in tlx R:,ad ../Cape Frin_ccit,
`• Feb, to, 1802.

" CITIZEN MINISTER,

" I hasten to give you an account of the opera-
tions of the Fleet of the Republic, since its depar-
ture from Brest to the present day, and 1, request
you will submit this Letter to the First Consul.
" You know that winds direly adverse detained
the Squadron till the / 4.th of December. On the
morning of the 17th, I rallied close by Belle-Isle
the Division from L'Orient, and not perceiving, at
this redezvous, the Division from Rochefort, I
stretched as far as Isle-Dieu, in hopes of finding it.
I thus literally fulfilled your instructions, and as the
weather did not permit me to prolong this danger-
ous cruiie, I made sail for Cape Finisterre.—
Violent winds, an extremely rough sea, and con-
tinuai fogs, separated, during this passage, several.
Ships of the Squadron, and damaged considerably
several Vessels.

" On the sth Nivose, the Arept:ine, commanded
by General GR AV INA, left the Squadron to be re.
paired at Ferrol.
" On the 28th December, I was obliged to per-
mit the ship Duquesne, to nut in at the first Port,
and to order the Co-/2,4;a to accompany her.—
[These two vessels have not vet rejoined us, al.
though I expressly ordered the Frigate not to delay
more than 24. hours in the Port where she might
anchor:]

" I entertained a feeble hope of finding Rear
Admiral LATOUCHE at the Canary Islands. I have
learnt that this Officer had steered there dire# from
Rochefort, and had, waited there four days in ex.
P•
etta-ion of our Fleet. I made the Isle of Palma on
the sth of January, without meeting any vessel,
and I proceeded without delay to conduel. the Army
to its destination. '

" The contrary winds, which defeat alike our
power and our prudence, did not, however, pre..
tent the arrival of the Army at Cape Santana, the
29th of January in the morning, forty-six days after
its departure from Brest. On the same morning I
met again with Admicai GRAY INA, the Squadron
from Rochefort, and, all the Spanish and French. ,
VesselS which lud parted from the Fleet, with the
exception of thc. Duquesne, the Cornelia, the Rbinc-
ceras, and the two Packets, which were obliged to
anchor, the one at Corogne, and the other at Sr.
Ander.

,‘ On tl►e 3otli January, the Syrene Frigate,
which I had dispatched to Guadakmpe, brought me
the details of the events which had occurred in that
Colony• This intelligence, and some indireE
formation respefiting the Ingverne,fits which have

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