The Sun.
London, England, 1826-11-29 00:00:00

FRENCH REPUBLIC.

N.B. Tho following is one of the Proclamations issued by
order of the late sanguinary Victor Hughes ; the allusions in it to
England are amusingly curious.

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LIBERTY. , PROCLAMATIOS. EQUALITY.
The Delegates of the Representatives of the French Republic
to the Wind Ward Islands, to all the Inhabitante of the Island of
St. Martin. .
.
The French Republic After conquering Holland, couldthe aim
have.
blotted it out from the number' of Powers in Europe, but
of the French in 'entering armed into the interior part of those
Provincea, was only to restore the`Batana to liberty ; to deliver
them from the servitude in which their ambitious Stadtholder
held them chained, and to die from, their territories. the vile sa-
tellites of the coalized Despots, who, under the pretext of protect-
ing those rich countries, sought only to annihilate them, which they.
had the more at. heart to . Nk..e.ute,' as they could not but know,
wit tOI soon as the Dutch Patriots saw themselves eupported, they
would make the greatest attempts to be revenged on that coalition
which had forted them to take a part in a war, the prineiples,
whereof are so contrary to their 'Constitution.
, The English, that nation of mongers and robbers, whose am-
bition is as immoderate as their pride, rejoiced at having reached to
the ~nd of their wishes, when, after having exhausted the for-
tunes, and having ravaged the county of 'the timid Dutchmen,
Oily saw the French masters of the same, believing that the last
would. put. an end to their existence, by sinking, their Country
under the water.
The sordid Ministers of that mercantile nation, Albion, - had
already calculated the riches of the prizes that this
vevents wrom as going
to procure, through the great number of Dutch easel f the
East and West Indies, thateheitered in.their ports ; a truth which
has been too well realized. Private letters from Holland, make
mention of several vessels of war, and a great number of merchant-
men arrested in the different ports of those pirates.
Weighing then, the infamous conduct which the English have
held in all countries, sullied by their stay, as well in Europe as
America;---the robberies and unheard of vexations which they
have committed in the French Islands; their depravity and in-
humanity in the taking, imprisoning, and transporting the iuhabi-
tante of all seat.* and ages, the emnaUcet recital of which makes one
shudder
I declare, in consequence of the power and instructions dele-
gated to The by the Representatives of the French Republic to
the Windward Islands, that we same to this. Island to Protect
othie Iluteh inhabitants, and to fraternize with them, promising
tn the respect due to their character, and security for their
Properties.
It. /That all goods and effects whatever, belonging to English,
.eheuther residing here or not, not naturalized, or naturalised
.t;te1.7.1416:1,
ifsh)ell
_be ,esizsd and confiscated,
.to help to indemnify
-,., 4
E.,_ . i atrtots for Me dtprctligttons committed on them by
'6 'Elam* Grey and Jervis -
1..._1744t Maze who keep back,' or do not deelare what they may
7 ."1,1 Jr.know of whatever belongs to the English of the above
;.;,,,' irn‘ip,ti>,sh,ail have, their properties equally confiscated, re.
,rh ,f,v,fott of their persons. ' •
to all 4ttill,lll±4l:nittifl,italeaith
Ilia the.offeinler or aceotoplice, it is rot bill
expw.,.171 I b._ . n oth,perfs of the Island to go off, or to
‘ tizzy tkei,ple of col s r '•' '
atones ,1. 01 .of 1144 sea co age, in order to prevent
Pultilicial to the cultivation,
"" Bay, St. Magill, .5 [Aerial, 3d year Frwich Ilepuldie,
one and indivisible.
' . (Signed) . - ,LA lIIWYERE.
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