The Sun.
London, England, 1804-02-04 00:00:00

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7,11NC0.

THE following Proclamation of the independence
of the Island of St. Domingo, has been published by
the three principal Military Chi,:fs:
PROCLAMATIO:•; OF DESSALINES, CHRIS.

TOPHE, AND CLERVEAUX,
CHIEFS OF ST. DOMINGO.

IN THE NAME OF THE BLACK PEOPLE AND MEN OF CO-

LOUR OF ST. DOMINGO.
The Indpendence of St. Domingo is proclaimed. Re-
stored to our primitive dignity, we have proclaimed our
right; we swear never to yield them to any Power on earth. ;
the frightful veil of prejudice is torn to pieces, and is so ior
ever. Woe be to whomsoever would dare again to put to-
gether its bloody tatters.
0 ! Landholders of St. Domingo, wandering in Foreign
Countries, by proclaiming our Independence, we do not in-
tend to forbid you indiscriminately from returning to your
property : far be from us this unjust idea. We are not ig-
norant, that there are some among you that have renounced
their old errors,abjured the injustice of their exorbitant preten-
sions, and acknowledged the lawfulness of the cause for which
we have been spilling our blood these twelve years. Toward
these men who do us justice, we will acl as brothers ; let
them rely for ever on our esteem and friendship ; let them
return among us. The God who protects us, the God of
Freemen, bids us to stretch out towards them our conquering
arms. But as for those who, intoxicated with a foolish pride,
and interested slaves of a guilty pretension, are blinded so
much as to think that they are the essence of human nature,
and they af&EI to believe that the
he our Masters and our tyrants, let them never coI y are destined by Heaver: to
land of C near the
St. Domingo ; if they come hither, they will only
Meet with chains and deportation ; let th
they are; and tormented bem stay then where
y their wall-deserved misery and
the frowns of the just men that they have at, let them still continue to move the too long mocked
fiaudy, pity and concern of

We have sworn not to listen to clemency towards all those
who would dare to speak to us of slaver}, ; we shall b in-
exorable,
perhaps even cruel towards all the troops who,
n t
themsekes forgetting the objet.} for whit fmchrotha)' have
Europe,
too
ceased fighting since tygo, should come y
carry among us death and servitude. Nothinge
is too dear,
and every means are lawful, to men from whom it is wished
to tear the first of all blessings. Were they to cause riversma.nta.n
and torrents of blood to run ;
were they, in order
to their libeny, to confiagrate seven-eighths of the g lobe,; i
they
_ not
are innocent benire the tribunal of Providence, that has
t created men to see them groaning under a harsh and shameful
servitude.
It in the various insurre6tions that took place, some inha-
bitants bitants
of against whom we had not to complain, have been
ims the cruelty of a few soldiers or cultivators, too
much blinded by the remembrance of their past sufferings to
be able to distinguish the good and humane Land-owners from
those that were unfeling and cruel ; we lament with all fcel:
ing souls so deplorable an end, and declare to the world'
whatever may be said to the contrary by wicked people, that
the murders Were cernMitted contrary .1) to the wishes of our
hearts. It was impossible, especially in the crisis in which
the Colony was, to be able to prevent or stop these horrors.
They vlllO are in the least acquainted with history, all know
that 4 people
, when assailed by civil dissentious, though
the). may be the most polished on earth, give themselves up
to all kinds of excess, and the authority of the Chiefs;
always but poorly consolidated in a time of revolution, can_ it ot r. u n al 1 those that' -a.e e guilty, .without always meet-
ing with new difficulties. But now-a-days the Aurora of
peace lets. us have the glimpse of a less stormy time, pow
that the
calm of vid.qty has succeeded to the troubles of
a dreadful war, every thing in St. Domingo ought to assume
a new face and its Government henceforward to be that of

justice.

Doneat the Head-quarters, Fort Dauphin, Nov. 29, 1803.
(Signed) DESSALINES,
CHRISOPIIE,
( CLERVEAUX.
True Copy) B. Am E, Sec.
Lord

%.-Awnoß inherits from the late Mr.
VAUGHAN, of Gulden Grove, that fine oM Man-
sion and Demesnes with Estates in South Wales to
..the amount of ts,oool. a year ; the whole adjoin-
lflogLord CAW ouß's Family property ; and all this
ix. aAt no other known propinquity whatever.
are a' 1;
rn 'I
vi read' flSirtL. On ituttßart. his Lady, and Family,
frotn their tirnth at his house in Gloucester-place,
4ekewr s
dSeat, the Right
tiot.Toti, at
Hon. Lord
they have been spemndi Park' Basingstoke, where
of Fashionnatletsb Christmas Holidays
with a Party
The Pamphlet, intitled, " Thoughts on the Old
and New Administrations," b
is generally understood to be ivryitateCn o
I,vil Volunteer,
M. TIER-
NEy. The " View of the RelatiVeySituationa of
Mr. PITT arid Mr. ADDINGTON," of which We gave
is now avowed
eL°Pinus Extrafts a few days since,
L'Y Mr. ltousicr WARD, M. P. fur Cockermouth.
not
w. ill venture tu affirm, that this produdion will
cit injure his Politico-Literary fame.
.1,,,0,,,n Saturday morning last, Dr. Cooict, of Mid-
escai; icrl.Basstx, experienced a most providential
"wn assassination. Robert Blake, his ap.
Prentice Iv!
Vi , ' 10 had previously been guilty of many
bor atrocious mi,condoEt, took the opportunity
Witheing in a dark room with the Doctor, to stab him
• a sivOttl Which he had secreted for this diabo.
~,IlCal Purpose. The point of the weapon most fortu.
iarelY entered the side in exaft contan with the
l'iP-bone, which, prevented the thrust from proving
P
Enraged at the disappointment, he ended.
voured to complete the black deed with a poker,
which was wrenched out of his hand by-the Donor,
who is a remarkably stout man. The wretch was
taken before STEPHEN POYNTZ, Esc!: one of his
Majesty's Justices of the Peace, and committed
.to
take his trial for the outrage.
Baptista Bertazzi, the Italian, who stood, in the
pillory some tithe hack near St. Clement's Church,
in the Strand, for seffing obscene prints at board_
in the
was yesterday pillared at Seven Dials,
William Porter, porter at the George. and Biue
lioar Inn, 1--I;;',.,rn, was Yesterday convicted at the
Public Office, Bow.;;tret:r, by NicHoL.l.s BOND,
E'cl. of chargiry a Goilieman in Clement's Inn-
n?6'more than the rate e:;tal:•1141)ed by Act of Parlia-
, for i)oterage of a parch, and- fined in the mi-
tigated penalty of los. besiU the costs.