The Sun.
London, England, 1804-08-04 00:00:00

GUI LDFOR 11.--THU R SPAY, AUG. 2.

Lesir night Mr. Bar In IIoTtIANt and Setjeant
RUN NI NGTuN opened the Commission tut this
County ; ar.d tl.iy morning, at 'wave Let:lo.k, pro.
ceedel to the trial of causes.

The calendar of Prisunrrs is not numerous, nor
contains any very attociuus off nevi. The tnqi !or
the murder of the Dulwich Hermit is nut in the

list.

O. the Civil Fide there nre 2,0 causes, of which,
six are Special Juries. Six Cry/ninon Jury causes
were tried this morning, 01, which ~nly one was re,:
mark.ible, and that chtefiy From the adhere! t of
the Jory to their °wit Opinion against that c,f_
Court. It was the Ca 3C of •

44. The' beneficial effeels• to he expeße.l from
amity and commeree with the people of S!. Do-
Mingo, 'are not only the acquisition of a valuable
branch of trade, but a great diminution of the dan„
yrs to which Jamaica and our other sugar colonies
will he in future exposed from the power of these
formidable neighbours. Now both these advantages
will be proportionate in their extent, to the degree
in which agriculture shall be re-established and
hereafter maintained in St. Domingo.
That this is true in respell of the commercial
benefits, is sufficiently obvious ; anti it is fairly pre-
sumable,' that as the mutual advantages of the in.
tercourse shall increase, so also will the mutual
amity anti confidence which they naturally tend to
the more, amply these new ettatomers are
• able to deal with us in the sale of their sugar .and
coffee, and in the purchase of out toanufattures, the
more they will find their comforts, their enjoyments,
and growing prosperity, dependent upon English
commerce; and the more carefully will they ob.
iiery that pacific and amicable condo& towards our
• colonies, a violation of which would interrupt and
diminish those blessings.
44 But some negative effetis of their agricultural
pursuits will he not less important to ourfuture ad.
vantage and security ; for that military spirit which
their` late successes, and long exercise in war, .must
have strongly tended to inspire, will obviously be
less general and lilt dangerous, in proportion as
the cultivators arc drawn back to their peaceful
employments, and the rising generation trained,
though ..the excitement of commerce, to the cul.
ture of the soil. The more of their youth they em-
ploy in the cane pieces, and the fewer they send to
the drill, the less danger will there be that their
digenous military strength will soon 'ae engaged in
annoying their impotent neighbours.
" But any great increase in agricultural industry,
or ahatemement of military preparation, is not to
be expetied from them at this critical period, unless
we determine to form with them more than cum.
mercial engagements.
44 There' is now, let it be well consider:a, an ob.
jell infinitely more interesting' and important than
agriculture or commerce to engage their ariXiOUS
tention ; for after the dreadful experience they have
had, they cannot safely conclude that the French
Government is even yet disposed to leave them in
the undisturbed possession of their liberty.
" The present maritime war gives them indeed a
momentary security against Invasion by the Ene.
'• Mies of Great Britain ; but if left to expel that
upon the termination of our quarrel withthe Re.
public, they shall have again to struggle tingly
against•that despotic and merciless Power, against
all the ruffians of France, and all the bloodhounds
of Cuba, not only for independence, but Itir free.
dom, and for life itself, the great and almost ex.
elusive objell of their present endeavours will na.
turally be to prepare the means of war.
" In the contemplation of ' that horrible yoke
which threatens them,' to use the words of the
lia,trinus Toussa t NT, all' minor considerations will
be sunk. InStead of ilinting the sugarcane, the
ootton.bush, and the:coffee-tree, they will cilia.
vote chiefly those provisions of which they may
form plantations or lay up magazines in the interior,
and thereby enlargeathe means of subsistence in a
new defensive war. Instead of re-building sugar.
mills and boiling-houses, they will tied forts and
taist up enttenchments. Instead of the manuktures
of Birmingham br Manchester, they will import
scarcely any thing but ammunition and arms. Of
the rising generation, which we know from the
beat authority to be very numerous, ~the males,
when of an age to he trained to labour, will be sent,
not to the cane-piece, but to the drill ;. and a people,

'64 The blacltcolonists, let it be remembered, had.
at that time no, apparent grounds of uneasiness in
regard to the intentions of the mother country ;
and naturally relied far the security pi their free.-
dom, not only 'upon the assurances of the Govern..
ment, but upon the then unviolated law of the Re.
public, by which their title to all the rights of
French citizens was solemnly declared. It is no'
impeachment of . the discernment of Toussm.NT to
say, that he seems to have had no jealousy oil
.this
point ; since even the interest of the
Republic, if rightly onderstood, would have been a
pledge for her good fOll towardS those' loyal and
useful citizens; and that the famous BUNAIIARTZ
Would be such a driveller as to of upon the preju.
diced views of his wife's West Indian cabinet, and
to, imbibe their foolish' antipathies to a black skin,
at the expence, not only of the colonial importance
of liratice, but of his power' of annoying, this
country, was an event too improbable to be ho.
lieved antecedently to experience. It was nat till
after his preliminary . treaty. with England, .that
some broad indicatintis •-of thin extreme folly, fur
the first time, appeared in hicpublic language and
condutt. _ , • .
- •
" Certain however it is, that the AfricaniChief
was deceived ; and, down to the Moment. of I:ra..
CLIIIIOI invasion, reposed with implicit confidence
on the treacherous assutances of the'Government.
Hence • that great man 'felt himself at liberty, ,af.
ter his convention with 'General MAITLAND, to

A few days ago a family in the neighbourhood •
of Kithymoorside, havidg been using borne oil or.
vitriol, a cup of it was left standing
_upon a table, •
which a child of about three years of age took
drank the contents, and died ire 24 hours,

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