The Sun.
London, England, 1805-01-31 00:00:00

THE EMPEROR OF HAYTI.

Tne two worlds have already re-echoed with the
a'ne and the lifts of barbarity of j. J. DitiSA.
LINE'S ; but fewpersons have learned the train of
uninterrupted crimes and atrocities of this African,
WhOse ferocity is at least equal to, if it dues not
:surpass, that of tigers.
DES*AIL N ES, transported from the coast of Gui.
nea to St.DOMingo, served as a domestic to a free
n gra proptietur, of the name of DESSALIKES,
whe6 the insurrection broke our, He was then
called jann JAcQuits, and commenced the, career of
his crimes by assassinating his master, of who;:e
name and effects he immediately, took possession.
He then joined himself to the bands of BiAssori,
who had beewproclaimed Chief of the InSurgents.
He obtained in, this body the command of a small
corps, with which, like a torrent, he over-ran the
most fertile anti populous part of the country, in
order to seek for objects on whom he might eier.
eise his cruelty. Death marched in hiS Mill, and
presented itself in the most terrific forms ; neither
sex, age, or rank, were respected ; a speedy death
WWI a faVour, in 'Comparison of the slow and dread
ful tuttures which he inflicted on a venerable old
man, on the mother of 'a family, and even ©it an
infant in the cradle. This barbarian has caned a
Police Officer, of the name of BLaw, to be nailed.
to the (loot of his own house, and ordered his limbs
to he cut off by a-katchat, one by one. Soon aftrt,
he happened to dicoVer the retreat Of a poor car.
venter : he wished hint to undergo a species of
ziaretiog einblentatical of his profession; in coo_
sequence of which, he had him fastened between
two boards, and sawed across. livassom had fixed
hit head.quarterX in a sugar plantation which ne.
cebeity alone had induced him to spare. .It was
there he deposited all the spoils Of the unhappy Co.
knists who had fallen beneatb the fury of the
Blacka.—There were seen heaped together in the

thematical Instruments, and irnn pots ; vessels or
plate and 'foul linen ;, cam-, bk.& ns of ani.
mals •' costly. tliamAnds, anti human skulls, in the
hair nf which they reMaived fastened ;superb carpets,
awl disgusting rags. On certain days these spoils
• were distributed to those who had executed the
greatest number of massacre,, tir burned the great.
est number of habitations ; and the great Chief,
alter having praised their zeal, advanced them. ac..
cordingly. •
Stimulated by tnpiditypr ambition, DEMI. INES
resolved to secure the go EIMSON by a
great aa of atrocity, One day,. when this Chiefof
the Blacks :had set out on an expedition, which,:
would keep him at a distance for some time, he
seized the opportunity of his absence to execute the
project he meditated. fie .advoced rapidly, with
a torch in his hand, towards a part of the Island
where insurrection had not yet extended its ravages.
He succeeded in taking three hundred prisoners,-
most of whom were women, children, and old men,
whom he conducted, in chains, to the camp of
BtAssoN; and, on, the vie of the day when the 1
Chief: of the Blacks :was expec:ed to return to.
quarters, he caused these three hundred viEtims to
be massacred, and their heads fixed On the spikes
which surrounded the first court of the habitation
of the Chief.

BtAisoN, on'his arrival, contemplated with a fe.
woikotts joy, this ii;ctia'cle so well worthy of such
Caidlibal. 1 ir. Coligratolattd DESiAL IN es on his
zeal, and apprinted hini to a situation in his guards.
Such was the caase of the first advancement of this.
ferocious African in the Black Army. It was at
this time that ToUIs4AINT LOUVERTURR appeared
in the Camp of BI:vsoN, .who, charmed to find a
man who could read and write, received hint, 'and
made him his Private Secretary, and. soon after
Captain of his Unards. It was then that the in-
timacy of 'IOU LISA I NT anal DDS,?kt t Nl3 -commenced.
This last continued to,enj)y the coufideitce of W-
ASSON, who charged him with the direetion 'of the
tortures infliCied on the Whites, who had been
made risoners, and this is themanner, in. which
thisibarharian ,ordered and efircded it. The day of
these horrible butcheries, all the prisoners were
ass.embled on , the spot, in a little.meadow, round
which the Blacks placed themselves, and fortned.the

inclostue destined for the execurions. , There the

unhappy Whites were concluded naked, their hands
tied behind their backs ;- -thectufferings commenced
with the old men: they were fiitgned by the chin to
pieces of iron, pointed and hooked, in which man-
ner they,w,aited sometimes more than twelve hours.
for thot death 'which terminated their torinentsi by
'an unheard-of-etueity, the iron tore, ftom, time to
'time, the wretched who Were immediately
hooked again, and foO:ed to utter the agonies of
the mo'st'luittid deaths Those. Whites of a middle

,age•were faStened two and two; between planks, ,
strongly tied together,' and delivered to sawyers,.
who Cut them asunder. The youngest had first
their eyes torn out with- a cork screw, and were
then cuts in pieces-by
.sabres. The tortures of the
women were varied accOrding to the. inhuman
caprice of the butchers, who ofico tore from the
palpitating entrails of the mothers the fiuits of
their union,: which' they cut in pieces, and forced
the wreteittAt ouirqers to eat this revolting food,
which they thrtist with violence down their throats.
The children were plunged alive in
to large sugar
cauldrons of boiling water, and st fetched on gridrons
over a hot fire. BlAssorsr was not less terrific than
DRSSALINES ; this last, and Tootssm NT LOUVER.
TORE, leagued therm Ives with a Chief of the Army,
named JEAN FRANCOIS, and resolved to depose Bt.
ASSON, whom they sent prisoner to St. Augustine,
where he died in despair. TOUISSAINT LOUVER.:
TURIt soon became the only Chief of the Colony ;
but a deep laid scheme of DESSALINES, and a man
of the name of Cit a lITOPIie, overturned the pro..
jells of TOUISSAINT Lolly ERTL/ R Witt) was at.
rested and sent to France. riEhSALINES, by slow'
degrees, shook offal! authority ; he formed for hini;
self a Guard and a Staff, with whichhe took posses-
sion'of the. Head-quarters of the Insurgents, corn.
mantled the incendiaries, and presided at their mas.,,
sacres. We already knoW. his horrid Proclamations,
anil the foregoing details give a precise idea of his
eharader. Since he became Governor General of
the Island he afTer.'sti a magnificence as expensive as
Capricious. His Andy is reduced to 20,d0ct.. men,
amongst whom there are hardly Sboo fit to carry:
arms ; but, in case of a new enterprize' by the,
French, he., has adopted a system of defence which,
must ultimately end in the ruin and de.,tration of al-
most all the Cirieti which yet exist in the Colony.*

* This account is translated from the Fra r of
Dec. 26. I 1 is no doubt overcoloured, to gratitv rti envy of
Dessalines's European.itival in Barbarity, di CorNic.an Em
peror,. who mardcred' the Dukeof Eughicti, at midnight,
m • a ditch in the Wood of Vim:cows:

LORD VALINT;A.--We.are happy in being able
to throw some light upon the situation'ollhis
able.•Nobleman,whom public report statedonme time
since, to have been lost in his passage home from the
elk of Good Hope. A Letter from a Gentleman
relates as rultows :----:" In Mitch, 1 so 4, Lord VA-
LaNTIA arrived from Seringapatam, at Cannanore.,
The Marquis of Wei.LEst.ry had ordered .a Com-
pany's Cruizot to be got teady to carry him to the
Red Sea. Ws Lordship departed, and proceeded
to flussoraltand judda x butt owing to Wine Miitin-
derktanding. the Captain did not comply with the
orders he had received from the Ma'rquis of VtraL
LESLEY ; in,consequence of which his Lordship was
left at toe of the ',hove plkceM, where His Msjesty's
Ship F. WaS at that orris lying Mfr. Haying
no other alternatiVe., I understood from his Lord-
ship that he meant ro,reruni to Bombay again, ID
lay a complaint before Marv', NV rt,Lt. MET against
the. Captain, Hi., Lordship was in.perfed health."
Firs MAI EsTr, when list at Ltd-RivErts's seat
Dorsetshlie, saW kit cat pottniit of GAtutrcx,
which he admired extremely,saying, 46 it watt' the
best likeness of his late old friend..that he had ever
beheld." Lori RIYER's the next morning sent it to
Gloucester Lodge, requesting that !Its 11,1,01sTY
would graciousiy liont=or him by his acceptance of
The KING thapked his iid,hip for the pre-
sent next tidy i. but at tJu same time told him,
'' rho he did w roil; tit ra",t,ig with so valuable a
pidure .to any titan 1, 'tog it this pieture be real.
yso great a Itlzettepi ot great Englii,h Mtur,