The Sun.
London, England, 1804-09-26 00:00:00

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PROCLAMATIDN pie DESSALINES.
[FROM THE, AMLitiCAN PAFF.RS.]
Ittbabirantt Gf the Universe,
." Do not, unheard, accuse us of cruelty. Remember our
past sufferings, and you will judge less severely our present
adts of necessity —of despair.
" Quiet under the firmer paternal. Government of trance,
Traitors against it, as well as against humanity, urrive'l in
1789 among us; Uttered us a liberty which we were then not
worthy to enjoy, and preachsil equality among an enslaved
people, 1/07 possessing au acre of land, or any taint el infor-
mation.
" Their object was obvious. They 'lesirect •to 'tyrannise
over the Blacks. after, with their assistance, having butcher-
ed all persons of their own colour ; and, atter usurping their
plantations and places, to forge us pew chains, bc,th more
heavy and'more dishonourable.
". Of these Whites, whorls our vengeance lately dispatch.;
ed. few,'ilany, bad any property'fourteen sears aso. They
cattle here ruined, needy adventurers, and desperite revolu.
tionaty emissaries' It is to their intrigues, to their dupli-
city, and to their crimes, thae,wo owe :dl the horrors perpe.
trated here. It was they who sold our t 'wns, our forts, our
cities, out coast, at one time to English Invaders. and ano.
flier time to Rote A{ A R rs's- Assassins and' Freebooters—to
those vile slaves, with whose assistance .he has butchered,
plundered, or enchained the Inhabitants of France, Italy,
Germany, Switzerland, Holland, I:R% pt, and Syne ; and
whose accomplices are now hie couniellers. sup_portere'. and
executioners of his tyranny; over the European Continent.--
Such 'were the French Men from whose polluted presence
our arms have lately delivered the earth:
The Republic of I lay ti wishes to litre in peace with all
,mankind, except with the white slaves of a BO*ArAlt ;
to them they 'swear an eternal hatred, destrudion. and death,
should they ever dare to set their feet:on this Island of Li.
berty, which their baseness. wickedness, and ferocity, have-
'so eaten arid so 'terribly inundated with the blued of our un-
fortunate countrymen.
" We defy BONAPARTE'S emissaries in America. as well as
his incendiaries and panegyrisisin Europe,tocontradid this our
assertion. If any innocent persons have perished, their blood
will fall upon his head, because, had his barbarous brother-
in-law, I.s Cesit c, never landed in this Island, all the white
inhabitants would yet have been alive, 6a,000 black citizens
less murdered, and socoao of his armed Slaves would not
have breathed their last in this climate. It was his avaticei.
ambition, atrocity, and treachery, that aroused our greatly op-
pressed and injured children, and separated us for ever from
the Mother, Country. Ltt Frenchmen prove themselves
worthy of freedom, by chastising their foreign Tyrant, and by
crushing the degrading yoke he has imposed upon them, and
then; and not until then, will we treat them as one Indepen-
dent State does wi tit another equally Independents—Given et
Gonaives, May a. 1804.
(Signe4) " DESSALINES.

"B. INI E. Secretary."
(Translated from Les Nes/vales a la Main, Mepiclor the joth,
Year 12, or July 19th, t 804,) •

The attempt to poison the unfortunate KING or
TRANcr, at Warsaw, has been represented by ccr.
rain Writers, who seem resolved to believe nothing
injurious to the Corsican Usurper, as a mere fabri.
cation on the part of COULON, to relieve him in
a state of indigence. . It is even stated that Cou-
!tom has confessed that the whole story Was an ex.
pedient for that purpose: A very sensible Writer
makes the following judicious observations upon
this stibjetir If CooLoN'had wished to get money,
he 'must be as Much a fool as a knave to suppose he
:could get it from the indigent Louts XVIII. or
~that Prussia would be much inclined to pay him. .A
pretended Plot against the life of BoNAPAlitTil would
have been a much more lucrative job; and besides
'money, he would have been promoted to the highest
himours. jilt- be true, that Cout.ox has ititially
made the confession above stated, it. is far more
likely- that he may, have been operated upon since
the departure of Louts XVIII. by promises, if not
'by terrrr ; besides, it the narrative was a forgery,
he must be convinced that a diterlion of his villainy
woUld:tioco take place; and in that case, it is very
improbahle that he would remain so long as he has
done at:VVarsaw. On the suhjea being first inves.
tigated, all the faithful friends of Louts were unani-
mous in declaring, upon their hOnour and conscience,
their •Conviclicin of the truth of CoULON's deposit
'flop ; and the clsymists ;it Warsaw, after analyting
the'poisonous preparation, were decidedly of opi,
nion,'rhal it was suffiCient, to have taken away the
lives of all -the Royal Farnily.• The employers of
Cout.,,N 'were suffered to escape from Warsaw,
without even 'an attempt being made to arrest
them ; and now the poor and needy Callum,
',llo, while the •villains were still at Warsaw, wai
readvto substantiate -his charge against them,
hits been induced, either ftorn terror or from 1)(1).
raises, to come forward and declare himself a pct..'
Jared wretch! ,Is it possible to view the whole of
these circumstances' without 'discovering- in them
the st rongesr-groomis of suspicion. r •Des not the-
influence and the artifice of the Cuts:can arpctir
clearly thr, ugh; t the whole of the transattiorr?