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London, England, 1802-04-19 00:00:00

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ARMY OF ST. DOMINGO.
THE GENERAL IN CHIEF TO THE MINISTER OE

N/RINK.

Head-quarters. Greta Morne, Bth Ventofe, Feb. 27,
tab year of the Froch Republic.
Citizen Minilter—Agreeahly to the information
which I have already had the honour of fending
to you, I opened the campaign on the 28th tilt'.
neo (January 7,) and on that day General Drs.
runtime's divifion advanced to the Limbe ; Ge-
neral HARDY'S divifion advanced to the Great
Loucan and to the Mornets, while that of General
ROCHANSI,AU proceeded to the Tannerie and to
the Bois de l'Ame. A (mall force, compoled of
the garrifnns of the. Cape and of Fort Dauphin,
marched towards St. Susanne, Tron. and Velliere.
Thefe divifions had actions of a difficult nature to
encounter, from the local advantages poffeifed by
the Natives, inafmuch as the rebels concealed
themfelves in the underwood and impenetrable
foreils that filcher the vallies, and who poirelTed,
',lien they were repulfed, a fecure retreat in the'
Moines. The troops whom I ordered to advance,
have, notwithilanding, made themfelves wafters of
the politions which I had Oven them orders to take.
On the i Rth, General DESIOURNEAUX'S di vition I
took a polition near Plaifance ; HALDY'S divition
polled themfelves at Donlon ; and Roc ma t4lllAll'S
:it St. Raphael. Thefe three divifions dircomfited
the enemy in all direaions, with the greaten im-
rctinaity. One mull be acquainted with the
country, in order to form a competent idea of the
eiffkulties that are to be firuggled with in every
encounter. :. experienced nothing in the Alps to
be compared with them.
On the 19th, INSFOIIIIII.AUX'S divifion polled
themfelves at Plaifance, without meeting with
any ohnacle. This diltria was commanded by
J. P. Du masa e 1., a man of excellent chanter,
who took the firft opportunity Of a parley with
General DISfOURNEAUX. He had under his
command 200 cavalry and ;0o infantry,and M2lll-
- the generous reibliition of Caving his country
in fpite of the order iffued be Toossaiiir to let
every thing on fire. HARDIT;S divifion polled it-
(elf at Marmelade. Previous to its arrival they
made themfelves mailers of the Morne at Borfpen,
one of the moil formidable politions which I have
ever had occafion to attack lince I entered into
the military profeffion. This divifion entered
Marmelade with fixed bayonets, though it was a
poll defended by General CHRerror N a in perfon,
who had under his command taco men of the
line, and an equal number of common labourers.
Every thing gave way to French impetuolity.—
On the fame day General Roca an 'Leo took a
petition at St. Michael, where he met with very
little refinance. His right column, which was to
pall by Mate-ada-Roche, which was entrenched
and defended by artillery and a body of aoo men,
carried that pofition with the bayonet, without
f.ing a fingle (hot, and joined the General in the
evening at St. Raphael. I was well aware that
it was the enemy's intention to defend the Canton
of Ennery and of Gonaives, and for that rea(on I
banded them in that pofition as much as was in
my power. With that view I difpatched General
Desiet.i.e to Port de Pair, at the head of a
divition, and he had inftruitions to prefs hard,
and drive back General MAURIPAS upon the
oouaives. The latter General had under him
JOOO troops of the line, and as many cultivator,
entrenched about two leagues from Port-de-Paix,
in the narrow pals of the Trois Rivieres. I thought
it of great advantage to annihilate this corps, sill°
had obtained fame advantlgwover General
1.11/12BART. I gave orders to nil BOODIT to
advance by Mirahelais, towards the Petite Riviere,
in order to cut off the enemy's retreat, whom I
bad hopes of difcomfiting at the Gonaives. Of
thefe two diritions I coldd not avail myfelf, in
order to give fuccefs to that operation. General
Dust's, who, according to my calculations,.
Humid have landed his troops at Port-de-Pail on
the 18th, could reach it only on the loth, and
that very late. The Eatlern winds, which prevail
upon the coal), having failed during the pillage
from the Cape to Port-de-Paiz.
On the tit Ventofe (February to), General De-
ULLA proceeded to attack General MAMMAS;
but a dreadful fall of rain which came on prevent.
ed the column which was intended to turn the ene-
eny's pofition from arriving in time. The columns
which attacked the front of the polition were over-
powered with fatigue and could not carry it; and
as to the column that was to turn the enemy's po-
fition, it employed twenty-four hours in executing
that manoeuvre, having been obftruited in its
march by torrents and bad roads ; it was more-
over attacked by the whole force of the rebels col-
leaed together againft it. It effe9ed, however, a
*treat in very good order. General Diem.' had
advanced to favour its motions. Bout:orris divi-
finn, on letting out from Port-au-Prince, marched
towards the Cron-de•Bouquets, to which the rebels
tit fire on feeing him approach. General DISSA-
t im a s, who commanded at this point, made a feint
to retreat to the Montagne des Grands-Bois ; but
by a rapid march, he advanced towards Leogane
after palling by the Montagne-Noire. I had left
orders for General BOUDAT to difpatch a frigate
to take poffeffion of Lcogane, but his forces were
unable to prcferve the town, which Dessau's'',
had ordered to be Pet on fire. From thence DF2-
*ALINES advanced againil Jacmel, from whence he
addreired a letter to me, figned by all the inhabi-
tants of the commune, in which there wretches ex-
prelled their regret at not being under the barba-
rous and ferocious Government of Tou ssainT.—
Never were heads cut off with more facilit7 at Con-
ltantinople, or ballonadings bellowed with more
g..nerolity than at St. Domingo under the Govern-
ment of Toussaisr and his adherents. Peneral
lloutar, who mit aware of the intent'
of Ge-
neral LA PLUMS, who fimmoned the theme,
dinria to fubmit to the French Go , 1114
not think it expedient it to depart from that .
....litt
ing quarter. He difpatched thither tgoomai On-
der the command of Adjutant Diteaois, in order
to force General DISSALIIIRS to Vitreat, and to
determine the fubmiffion of Gam* lui rLuse:

rusts retreated with his followers into the Grands
Bois, and General LA Puma fent me a certificate
of his fubmirion. Since that time I received no
communications from General BOUDIT lam
only informed, that the day before yefterday he
entered Saint Mark, which he found in part con-
fumed •by fire. On the loth February the dif-
ferent divifions remained in their refpative port-
dons. On the 19th the weather was abominable,
and continued fo till the 2oth.
On the siß,DEssoua :RAUl'sdivifionadvanced
within two leagues of Plaifance. HARDY'S divifion
took poffelfion of Ennery with the bayonet, as
ufual. This poll was alfo defended by CH R two? a,
who had under him moo troops of the line and
:too Cultivators. I learned that General CHRIS.
Top H E had retreated to the Plantation hayonnai : I
immediately ordered General HARDY to difpatch
thither the brigade of General SAP.. This bri.
gade, which had performed a very fatiguing march
on the sift, continued, neverthlefs, to march the
whole of the night, and, on break of day of the
22d, carried the pofition of CHRISTOP HR. They,
moreover, made confiderable booty, having got I
polliffion of a depot belonging to the rebels.
On the std, Romistsames divifion polled Will
at the head of the Ravine-a-Couleuvre' which
leaves theCoupe-a-Linde to theleft,andtheMornes,
where CHRISTO/Hs had entrenched himfelf, to the
right. On the fame day, General Dssrou RIM Aux
came and potted himfelf before Ennery, where Ge-
neral HARDY alto affembled his divifion.

On the 23d, DISIOURNIAUX'S divifion marched
to Coupe-a-Pintade, where they fell in with the
enemy. I had ordered that divifion to be fupport-
ed by DESPLArmyes and HARDY'S brigade. Ge-
neral DESTOURNIAUX attacked the enemy, and
drove them to Gonaives, which had been burnt
two days before. The enemy being vigoroufly
purfued could no longer make head, but retreated
towards the river Eller, leaving aoo men killed
upon the field of battle. Sm.sesbrigade, belong.
ing to HARDY'S divifion, came the fame day and
took its pofition at the Piteau, in face of La Coupe-
a-Pintadc.

On the fame day the divifion of ROCN•ISSEAU
entered the Ravine at Couleuvre. It was there that
General TOIYSSAINT, with his Guards, forming
a body of t goo Grenadiers, drawn from different
demi-brigades, and about 1200 men, chofen from
the heft battalions of his army, together with
400 dragoons, expcfted to be able to defend him-
felf. The Ravine at Couleuvre is enclofed on an
fides in an extraordinary manner. It is flanked
by mountains, the tops of which are covered with
woods, in which were placed more than 2000
armed cultivators in addition to the troaps al-
ready enumerated. The rebels had collated a
number of materials for the purpofe of obartiaing
the pafage, and were poffeffed of the entrenched
pofitions which commanded the Ravine. A poll.
tion to uncommonly thong as this would have de.
terred Amon any other man but General Roca* se-
BLAU he,however,made his difpofitions with the
rapidity of lightning, and attacked the entrench.
ments of the enemy. A combat of man to man
commenced ; the troops of Toussaint fought with
great courage and obllinacy ; but every , thing
yielded to French intrepidity. Ton s s AIN? evacuat-
ed his pofition, and retired in diforder to Petite
Riviere, !caving 800 of his troops dead on the
field of battle. On the sth I arrived at Gonaive.
I was extremely anxious about the fate of Generals
MULLS and Bounty, of whom I had received
no intelligence.
On the 24th I difcovered by means of my fpies
that Genera! Mutts had not fucceeded in repul-
ling General MAMMAS. I gave orders to the
divifion under General DESIOURNIAUX to march
to Gros Monte on the road to Port de Paix, and
to General RocNAMasau to advance to the bridge
of Eller, and to pufh forward on the right and
left, for the purpofe of gaining intelligence of Ge-
neral Bomar, and the retreat of the enemy.
On the 25th I gained intelligence that General
Bouosr had made himfelf mailer of St. Marc.—
I law in this quarter no other enemy but Maitre.
pas to encounter; I gave orders to General Hearty
to march to Gros Morne with five companies of
Grenadiers and 800 men drawn from his divifion.
I added to this body a company of my Guards,
confining of too men. I marched in perfon with
this body, and on the evening of the 7th took up
a pofition within two leagues of Gros Morne. 'My
intention was to march with the divifion of Ds s.
FOURVIZAUI, and tsoo men of HARDY'S divifion,
for the purpofe of taking up a pofition on the 27th
two leagues further in the rear of General May-
az pas, with a view of attacking him at break of
day on the 28th, in concert with General Ds es Lt.,:
whom 4 had apprized of this movement. But Ge-
neral MAUR a PA:, who had no means of retreat left,
had previoufly fent deputies to General Dsastta,
whom my letters had not then reached, offer-
ing to furrender on the terms fpecified in my
proclamation, in which I offer to continue thole
Officers who (ball fulmit in their refpeaive ranks.
To this propofal General Daiwa affented, and
notwithnanding the excellence of my pofition I
though it my duty to confirm what General
Dxsitt.a had done, and gave orders to General
MAPILIPAS to join the army at Gros Moyne, where
I was waiting his arrival. I have fent back the
body dram from the divifion of therm to Golui-
yes, to which place I (hall march for the parpofe of
recommencing to-morrowthe purfuit pfToussatwr.
Since the affair of the 334 the inhabitants confider
TouIll•INT as loft ; the cultivators return to their
habitations, the foldiers defert his ltandards, apd
already it is the opinion of all that we are matters
of the colony. General Ds:ironer/taus bellows
particular praife on GRANDST, Chief of Brigade;
General Hazor gives great credit to the exertions
of DY arta,' op s s, Adjutant Commandant, whom I
haieappointed General of Brigade ; General S4t.st
is aline highly fpoken of. ; hare appointed Goo-
osAlf p Chief of Battalion, formerly a Chief of
Brishe in the s ith Light, on the field of battle.
This entire Olfrer is Grace dead of the wounds
which prOcured for him this acccifion of rank.
General 4444,432*u (peaks in high terms of the
services of Baunrr, General of Breade ; of La,
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tuts of tAliZee MT. Utter or 1110anithie sth
Light. Citizen LACHATRF, one of this General's
Aid-de-Camps, was killed in forming Fort Dail.
phin. I have every reafon to be fatisfied with the
exertions of BRUYERI. my Aide-de-Camp Chef
d'Efeadron, and of Bittcoutz holding the fame
rank, who is attached to the General Staff. The
exertions of the whole army dcferve my particular
acknonledgments ; the sth, tith, and 17th Light,
and the 3t ft and 68th of the line, have particular-
ly difinguifhed themfelves. General Bpurnyr is
liberal in his commendation of PAIMIILS LA-
CROIX and DAUM*' Adjutant Commandants.
As Coon as the returns from the different corps than
reach the Chief of the Staff, a detailed account on
this point will be tranfmitted to you. He will fend
you a lift of thofe brave individuals to whom I
have judged it proper to affign rewards. I have
to beg Of you to require a confirmation of them
' from the CHIP? CONSUL.
Thus has the Army of St. Domingo, in the
!pace of a campaign of fifteen days, dilperfed the
principal bodies of the Rebels, got poffellion of a
great part of their baggage, and a contiderable
portion of their artillery. Among the number of
Officers who have fubmitted arc CLERVAuK, LA
PLUME and MAUREPAS ; a number of other Ne-
gro Chiefs or Men of Colour, have alto fubmitted
to our arms. The whole Plantations on the South
are preferved. The whole of the Spanilh part of
the Maud is in our hands. Health and refpeet...

(Signed) " LECLERC."
ADMIRAL TILLAILET JOYIVIE TO THE MINISTER OF

TN MARINE AND THE COLONIES.

On board the jemappe. Cape Francois Road,
13th Ventofe (March 4), year to.
Omni Minisrsa—Since my laft difpatches,
dated February 19, feveral events have taken place
in the molt important parts cf St. Domingo, which
teem to me to fecure the conquelt of the Wand te.
the arms of the Republic. Every thing forebodes
that our troops, inllead of ftruggling to fupprefs a
and organifed rebellion, will only have to
deflroyera a partial fyftem of plunder, exercifed by
wandering hordes, under Chiefs without authority,
without afylum, and without deign. I cannot
feparate thefe events from the account it is my
duty to give you of the operations of the naval
army, fince onr only obje& has beep to prepare or
to confirm the fuccefs of the land army. I begin,
then,with the details which have reached me from
St. Domingo. Capt. BERNARD, commander of
the frigates la Fraternite and la Precienfe, having
on board a body of troops under the orders of Ge-
neral KERTERSEAUX, on the 2d February, pre-
tented himfelf before the ancient capital of the Spa-
nith part. PAUL. LOU•ENTURF, brother of Toys-
SAINT, commanded in this place, and in all the
Department of Ozama. To the fummons com-
manding him to deliver up the city to the troops
of the Republic, he replied agreeably to the fyilem
of delay and diffimulation which had been pre-
fcribed to him that he waited for orders from the
Governor Get;CrAl. You will learn, Citizen Mi-
nifter, without afloniffiment, that he waited
for thefe orders on the 14th February, the date of
the laft difpatches of Capt. BSRWARIN The force
of General KIERTSIISSAUX did not permit him to
attack the place, and it was neceffary patiently to
cape& the refult of the known difpofitions of the
inhabitants In the night of Feb. 9, thole to whom
the yoke of TOUSSAINT was the molt intolerable,
took one of the forts fword in hand, and opened
to us the gates of the city. But this effort of cou-
rage was utiles, from the difficulty of combining.,
it with the operations which ought to have fupport-
ed it. The greateft exertions were made to difem-
bark the troops upon a rocky flare, which no
where prefented the leaf filcher. The boats were
upfet and filled with water, without a tingle man
being able to get to land. Happily no lives
were loft, and the brave infurgents, teeing the
whole garrifon marching down upon them, eva-
cuated the city and the fort without lots, and dd.
petted themfelves over the country, which had al-
ready rifen again(' the tyranny of the Blacks.—
They returned to the charge on the r ith, and took
one of the outpofts. On the isth all hopes of en-
forcing fubmiffion having vanithed, the frigates
quitted the road, which was commanded by the
fons,.and have fince clofely blockaded the mouth
of the Ozama, where they have flopped two Ame-
rican Blips loaded with provifions.
However, the reft of the ci-devast Swills part
is brought under fubjellion to the Republic. The
natives are in arms, and the General in Chief has
fupponed them by a body of troops, which are to
join General KSAVIIIISSAUX, to enable him to re-
duce the only place which rethains in the power of
the rebels. I have every reafon to believe that it
is now reduced, and that the adherents of Too s-
satin. do not poffefs an inch of ground in the two
!raft departments to the call of the Ifland. (I learn
this inftant that General Kw av RSLAUX entered St.
Domingo on the 3d Ventofe (Feb. zn ), without
any of fion of blood. He had kept the place for
a confiderable while hefieged by lea and land. It
appears that the fubmiffion•ef Ci.savaux, and the
reft of the Spanith part' was the immediate caufe
of the fall of St. Domingo.)
The Department of the South, where the Black
General LA PLUS'S commanded, tubmitted with-
out ftriking a blow. The (hips Punion,
mince, and le Dugatrouin, detached from the
fquadron of Rear- Admiral LATOUCHE, have high-
ly contributed to the maintenance of order and
fithordiainion in this quarter, both by tranfport-
ing the thither, which General BOUDST
judged nectrottry to be fent, and.by mounting the
flag of the Republic at alithe pofts where private
commanders might have thought of refilling.
Thus from Petit Goave as far as Jeered, making
the circumference of the Southern Peninfula, ail
is prererved. The rich plain Des Cayes, and the
beautiful diftri& of Saramin, will offer valuable
refourece to the national commerce. It is not
owing to TOUSSAINT and DIIISALMIS that they
were unr entirely deftroyed. Their intercepted
correfpondencel 'which is corroborated' by the
Fide;-cle-Camp taken prangs, proves that the
general and abfolute orders of diefe fanguinary
Chiefs were to maffacre the Whites, and to.fet fire
to all the flaptations, upon*, appearance of
Vrc4o Nipickon• •

tne retreat at Desirtitill;"the Aver
saute reduced the fort of Leogane ; and the com-
manding Adjutant DAR 8013 having diftmbarked.
at this point, defiroyed a body of soon Blacks,
entrenched among the neighbouring hills. '11:,
Eagle and fome light veffels carried 9ca men to
Arcahaye. General BOUDET, hxvinrl fecurcd the
tranquility of the Department of the South and
Port Republicane, difembarked himfelf at Mont
Roui with the reft of his troops, to march againft
St. Mark ; and the Hero, together with feveral
other Sips of war, have been cruising off Go-
naives, to furnith fupplies to our army, and to in-
tercept all communication between the different
; bodies of the Blacks. _ _ . _

...-..- -
44 In the North, the march of the General in
Chief, combined with the movements of General
BOUDIT will, no doubt, put a fpeedy period to
the bloody devallations which have ruined the Ic.
partment of the Well. The army left the Cape
on the 29th Pluviofe (i Bth Feb.), and on the fame
day forced the polls of Dondon and St. Raphael.
Toossaiet and CHRISTOPHE were not able to
maintain thefe formidable politions agai.i.t the
Divifion of General ROCHAMDEAU, WhiC4 likewile
drove them from St. Michael de l'Attalave. At
the fame time General HARDY got poifetlion of
Marmalade and Eanery—the head-quarters of the
rebels; and General Dv s mufti( Eit u x penetrated
to thefe places by the way of Plaifance. There
three Divifions were, on the azd February, at the
diflance of nine leagues from Gonaives, which was
to be attacked on the 24th or 25th. The rebels will
then be confined to the heights or to the plain of
Artibonite, between the army of the General in,
Chief, and she corps led by General Botmtr. I
expert to hear decisive news of their fate before
the doting of thefe difpatchcs.
General Leczsac, Ner to gain, the grand ob.
jell of his expedition, vtz... the complete deßrue-
nob of the two brigands, whom by his proclamai
tion of the 27th February he had put out of the
lootedion of the law, in his rapid march, bad over.
oked Come (mall bodies of rebel negroest who
might Wall his rear, and who daily fit Ere to the
houfes in the neighbourhood of the Cape ; Gen.,
Boyce, who commands in this city, ordered them
to be attacked by acro men in the poet of St. Su-
zanne, and the fort of k See. They were driven
out at the point of the bayonet, the works being
firft blown up, the cannon rolled to the bottom a
the hill, and the ammunition, gun carriages, dm
burned. They left behind them 29 killed. and go
wounded. On his part Rear-Admiral MARcom
Advanced from Fort Liberte to Caracole, at the
head of a (mall detachment. Being attacked by the
rebels he killed 6t, and made ag prifoners, among.
whom was the head of this divifion of the rebels.
He was inflantly shot. Thae two expeditions fe,
cure the tranquillity of the neighbouring ditlri.ls,
facilitate convoys and communications, and pre,
ferve buildings which are the hope of commerce,
and the pledge of future profperity.
It remains to me, Citizen Miniller, to fay a few
words of Port.cle-Paix, where the navy, sharing in
all the dangers of the land forces, rivalled them in
courage, and fignalized its devotion with equal
fplendour and ufefulnefs. On the t gth February t
difpatched from Port-de-Paix the Jean Bart with a
reinforcement of aoo men, which allowed the Fit-
rieufe frigate to come to the Mole, and to fecure
this important poi/. A hundred marine artillery
men were fufEcient to occupy Jean Rahel, where
too Blacks, who had for three years wandered in
. the woods under the command of a perfon of the
name of GOLARD, that they might efcape front
the yoke of TOUSSAINT, came to join us. At the
mole the Captain of the Furieufe was received as A
deliverer,with falutes of artillery from the city and
all the fortifications, and goo men who have beese
fent thither fince, now ficure the place from infuh.
Letters were found from Toussare r to the Com-
mander, in which he earneftly requells the print-
ing prefs, all the threes and pillols in the magazine,
four 24-pounders, and two mortars.
On the 16th Feb. General Li etzsg, defiling
to•go up the country, judged it proper to difpatch
:goo men to Port de Paix, with an ulterior deli-
nation confided to General DEBELL E. Rear Ad,
miral LINOIS had the charge of this expedition,
with the Chip l'lntrepide, and the frigates which
were in the roads. In all the different occafions
where they have had an opportunity to ael, the
Marines and Naval Cadets have merited the
warmest praife from the land Officers.
You will fee with me, Citizen Minlfter, how jug
it is to encourage the zeal and emulation of Ode
young men who conftitute the faireft hopes of the
Navy by the promotion they have fo well deferved.
iI have no doubt that you will confirm all the pro-
motions I have made.

MAURIPAS, the Black General, who had made
head againn General Dianct apprized of the
vietonous march of the Commander in Chief, and
of his arrival in hilvear, as well as of the precis
pitate flight of TOUSSAINT, did not judge it pru-
dent to run the rifk of farther refinance, and en-
tered into a capitulation. On the 27th Feb. after
difcharging 8000 negro cultivators ferving under
his command, he entered Port de Nix with 2000
regular troops and 17 pieces of cannon, which he
placed at the difpofal of the Generals of the Re-
public. A few hours after he fet nut with Gene-
ral Dsseccs to join the Commander in Chief,
and the divifion of 'Rear-Admiral Liao' s arrived
on the 28th in the road of the Cape, leaving at
Port de Paix only the frigate la Muiron. Appritesi
of thefe decifive events I have difpatchcd the cor•
vette is Mignone to joitil2 Cigogne in the Bay of
Acul, where this hail sad lay, with 70,000 ra-
tioni of bifcuit, ready to be placed at the difpoial
of the Commander in Chief. They are to be con-
veyed to Gonaives. I have fent off the Arnbtifcade
,to Rear Admiral Larouctss,,and I have aationed
the cutter l'Aiquille to cruife on the neighbouring
emits for the puspofe of intercepting the commn-
pications of the Rebel Negroes who are difpethd
over various points, and who form bodies of an in-
confsderithle number. Such is, Citizen Minii4r,
a faithful piEture of our operations, and of the
event; which have occurred up to this day.
(Signed) pccas ET.
P. B. This difpatch was intended to have bun
fent of in two days with the divilion of AdmirJ

%.0 s nut/ our too

. day addrettecl to me (owe difpitches, with a re-
esucft to forward them without delay by the fvriftelt
failing vdfel of the fquadron, I have feleaed le
Cifalpitie for this fervice. The General in Chief,
r ct.zac, expreffing at the time his defire that his
dTpatches fhould be entru(led to an attire, intelli•
gent officer, capable of accompanying the difpatches
of which he is the bearer, with fuch details as may
hare escaped us, I have chofen Citizen Jaitores
BONAPARTE, whom I have thought proper to raife
to the rank of Enfign, in confequence of the thew
of talent which he has difplayed fine he has been
u,:.i my infpeetion. (Signed) v—.

PARIS, ss GERMINAL, APRIL is.

There was yefterday, being Palm Sunday, an
amazing concourfe at the Church of Notre Dame,
where the Cardinal CATRARA induEted the new
Archbifhop of Paris, (M. de BILLLOY,) with a de-
gree of pomp and ceremony which the Catholic
Church would not have difowned even in its proud-
ett s. The Cardinal alfo, by his fpecial au-
thority from the Pope, confecrated an Archbifhop
and two Bi(hops. The firft was M. CAMBACEILS3,
brother of the fecond Conful, who is named Arch.
bithop of Rouen. The others are, PANCIMENT,
Bifhop of Vannes, and BIRK!' a, Bifhop of Orleans.
The Miniftcr cot. the Interior, KCHAPTAL, affifted
at this ceremonial. The Cardinal was efcorted,
as ufual, by a detachment of the ConfularGuards.

23 OIRRIIIIAI. •FRIL 13.
A (port difpatch. from VICTOR Hooting, dated
Cayenne, 29 Pluviofe, 18th February, Rates, that
his Colony is very trawled.
Another of the Lime date we itanflate almoft
entire, to thew the Colonial fpirit which aauates
the French Government.
Citizen Minißer—l have the honour to fend
you copies of the proclamations add other pro-
ccedirzs of the foi-eifont Government of Guade-
loupe, with which I refufe to correfpond. The
perufal of thefe performances, equally foolifh and
inflammatory, will thew you that it is in vain to
attempt to change the human heart, particularly
in the Colonies ; that the molt difficult talk which
the Adminifirations fent from France have to per-
form is to refrain men's paffions ; and that they
can never fucceed but by a continual vigilance,
and an unfhaken firmnefs. If the feeble Govern-
ment which eziftedprevious to the 18th Brumaire,
had ezercifed fevergy. againft the firft of its agents
in the Colonies, who allowed the authority of the
nation to be degraded and defpifed in his perfon,
we fhould not have feen fuck inflames of mutiny
and rebellion renewed five times in the courfe of a
year. I ought to inform you, that the men who
have got polleffion of power at Guadeloupe are
the fame who for eight years have diflinguifhed
themfelves as the enemies of the Mother Country,
and thesuiftigitors of every difturbance." Vicroa
HUGURS then goes on to partkularife the proceed-
ings of thefe men, to whom he afcnibes the fur-
render of the place to the Englifh. He concludes
with !'aging—" There men will never pardon me
for having always (hewn the greateft reluaance to
raife to military or civil rank, the Negroesf or Men
of Colour. Twenty-two years refidence in the
Colonies had taught me to know the dangers of
this nteafure ; and though invefted in my million
to Guadaloupe, with as much power as any agent
ever had, I always guarded againft thefe innova-
tions in the Colonial fyftem, and my correfpond.
ence at that time with the Government thews,
that I conftantly Rruggled, refpeafully, yet cou-
rageoufly, againit the fatal fentiment which pro-
moted the Blacks and Men of Colour, to the ruin
and degradation of the Whites ; none of thefe,
though I employed them more than any other,
Ices ever raifed by me to the rank of Chef de
Battalion. And if this fyftem had been adopted
by the agents of Government in the Colonies, the
wounds with which they have been covered would
have been lets deep, and would not now have been
found fo difficult to heal. Health and refpea,
(Signed) " VICTOR HUGUIS."

241311LN11114AL, AP&IL 14.
The Minitler of the Marine has received by the
Bred Telegraph, dated z3d Germinal, (April 13,)
a second ddpatch as follows :

REAR-ADMIRALCANTHEAUME TO THE MINISTER OE
THE MARINE AND e3LONIIIIS.

‘. ftinadron under my command has arrived
liGni St. Domingo, without any accident, after a
patTage of 36 days. There are no other news
than what have been brought by the Cifalpine."
The Government is malting arrangements for
coaveying Bout(lean: two thoufand- inhabitants
of the Well Indies, who are anxious to return to
their hcrnes.

M. de SANDOs•ROLLtx, formerly Arnbafrador
fs-Att the Prof Gan Court to Paris, has obtained
have to mire with a penfion of 4000 crowns. lie
is fettled at Neufchatel, his native place. M. dc
Loccnestuz is to remain Ambaff.sdor.

M. de Boisomm, formerly Archbifli op of Air,
but now Archbilhop of Tours, who gave fo many
Proofs of extraordinary talents during the time he
was a Member of the Conffituent Adembly, is to
p7eaz!t at Notre Dame on Taller Sunday.
It is reported that the Abbe Vi xxearr, Grand
Vicar of Rhodes, is appointed Bithop of Amiens.
The nomination of the Archbifhop of Paris is the
only one that has been as yet officially announced.
A quantity of church ornaments were yeflerday
expofid for fate in the Palace of the Tribunate (for-
merly the Palais Royal).
M. de RooNsLatiaa, formerly ni (hop of Senlis,
is appointed Archbilhop of Malines
M. &MIR is Bifhop of Orleans, and not of Ver.
Gilles, as we lately mentioned.
All the Members of the Council of State paid
:heir perfonal refpeas to the Cardinal Legate.
The following nominations, befides thofe al-
ready announced, have taken Place :—M. DIHuR.
RAL, formerly Bilhop of Troyes, to the bithopric of
Angers; d'Osstomn' formerly Whop of Commin-
set, to the bilhopric of Nancy; de LORRY, formerly
L'hop of Angers, to the bilhopric of Rochelle; de
itItCY, formerly Bilbop of Lugon,. to the arch.
hifbnpric of Bourses; PILIMAT, BilhOp of Lyons,
to the archbilhopne of Thouloufe ;Ps a t a, Bithop
of Clermont, to the bithopric of Avignon ; ANDRE,
Canon of Troyes, to the bilhopric oQsimper.

Twaar, APRIL 2.—On the 31(1 of March the
Prete& oldie Department of the two Nethes, Ci-
tizen HzazovviLLE, lent a letter to the Mayor of
Antwerp, Citizen Wrass.oucz, in which he lays
that the merchants of Antwerp, having too eafily
given credit to falfe reports of the Shutting of the
Scheldt, he affures then, they have done an aft of
injuflice to the Government, and invites them to
make atonement by a voluntary pecuniary facri-
fice, and to raife alum to be expended in procuring
a large allego leaf piaure to b! pail tel 1 of the open-
ing and freedom of the Scheldt,which (bill be hang
up in the Hall in which the Municipal Council
holds its fittings.
Bausszi.s, APRIL 3.—The direa communica-
tion between Oftend and Margate will be opened
immediately after the exchange of the ratifications.