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London, England, 1814-10-07 00:00:00

KINGDOM OF HATTI.

CAPE HENRY, MARCH 22, 1814.
STORMING OF FORT SABOURIN.
We had been for several days in possession of the
intelligence of the brilliant victory g tined by the
royal army over the rebels ; but as we were still ig-
norant of the particulars, we were prevented from
sooner satisfying the impatience of our fellow-citi-
zens on the subject of this victory, which sheds new
lustre on tae valour of our armies. We feel to-day
the greatest pleasure in presenting them, in this num-
ber, with the official details which have reached us,
of the storming of Fort Sabourin, and the taking of
several chiefs of the rebels, mid a great numb:r of
prisoners, by the army under the command of the
Prince of Limbe, Minister of War and of the Marne.
REPORT OF THE PRINCE OF LINHIE TO THE KING.
Brad-quarters at Verrettes,
Feb. 26,1 til7, Year r t.
44 Szaa—l have the satisfaction to summit to your
Majesty the details of the glorious operations of the
army, and the takiag of Fort Sabourin, by assault,
from the rebels. Being informed by several reports,
that the enemy occupied in force the position of Set-
'aourin, and that he had there entrenched and forti-
fied himself by placing artillery in his fortifications;
that the rebel Colonels Jean Dugutier and Franc us
had assembled tr.::::ps there; that the runaway.
Alex;s Basin, Ex-C anmandant of the Mountain of
Arcahaye, had jtained them with his horde ; that
this pest, thus fortified and garrisoned, served As
an advanced guard for the rebels of Port-aux-Climes,
to give them the alarm and apprise them of our
movements.
‘, I resolved to attack them iii ineir lurking
place, to carry the fort by a coup-dc-main, and to con-
found their projects by overthrowing and totally de-
molishing their works.
44 I made my dispositions without delay I order-
ed the Duke of Artibonite to hold himself in readi
ness to open the campaign with his corps d'armee,
which I composed with troops stationed at the Little
River and Verrettes.
46 'lle like orders were given to the Duke of the
Great River, to hold hiniselt in readiness. to march
with the corps of reserve cantoned at St. Mark.
44 All my precautions were taken : on the 21st
I commenced my match for the Mountain of Arca-
haye, with the Duke of Artibonite, commanding the
first corps ; and I ordered the Duke of the Great
River to push rapidly by the high road, upon Arca-
haye with the second corm d'armee under his coin.
mand. The same day I halted at the camp of Va.
ladon, and at two in the morning, of the 22d con
tinued my march for the plain of Arcahaye; at ten
the army debouched in the plain and effected its
junction with the second corps : at three P. M. I
made my dispositions for attacking the enemy with
success on the 23d. I dirseted my columns accord-
ingly, ordering the Duke of Artibonite to hasten his
march to proceed during the night over the summit
of the chain of the Morne of Sabourin, and to post
himself on the road which leads from the Stinking
Spring to Cibert, to turn the enemy, and cut off his
retreat to the Port-aux-Crimes.
44 I ordered the Duke of the Great River to ma.
noeuvre on the high road, with the second corps, to
oppose any succours which the enemy' might send
from Pott-aux-Crimes.
44 I arranged the corps of cavalry on the left, to
support it on a ground adapted to a cavalry engage.
ment ; I directed the regiment of St. Mark, under
the command of Colonel Chevalier de Rene Semble,
to occupy the excellent position of the old fort of
Cabaret, and the high road leading from Prince
House, to Port-aux-Crimes.
66 By these measures, all the communications of
the rebels were entirely- cut off; and I have every.)
reason to praise the celerity and precision with which
these movements were executed.
46 On the 23d, the enemy had concentrated all his
forces at Fort Sabourin t I ordered the Duke of Ar-
tibonite to attack him, and to carry his position by
assault and by main force, with the under.menuon.
ed troops: HaANTRT.
Ist battalion of tie regiment of Arcahaye.
Cd battalion of the regiment of Artibunite.
Ist battalion of the regiment of St. Mark.
Cd battalion of the rerment el Port-de-Paht,
Ist battalion of the regiment of Gonaives.
3d battalion of the regiment of Verre tea.
2d battalai of the regiment of the Great given
ad battalion of the regiment of Trou.
Total—E.ght battalions.
CAVALRY.
One company of the Prince Koyal's Light Hone.
One cempany of the Kirg's regiment of cavalry, under as
coinruand of Sub Lieutenant Chevalier de Marc.
64 The two eorpt d'armee, and the corps of coalry,

remained in observation in their respective positions,'
ready to repel the enemy on whatever side he might
presen( himself.
46 The Duke of Artibonite, after making his dis-
positions for the attack, ordered the fort to be car-
ried at the point of the bayonet : in vain the enemy.
made a most vigorous resistance, keeping up an in-
cessant fire of artillery and musketry • nothing could
withstand the exalted valour of your Majesty's troops.
All obstacles, the ditches, and the redoubts which
defended the fort, were surmounted with intrepidity,
and carried by assault ; those who escaped the bayo-
nets of the infantry, fell under the sabre of the ca-
valry, by whom they were cut in pieces.
44 The victory was complete ; the artillery, arms,
baggage, and ammunition, fell into our power : a
great number of rebels bit the dust ; the fort and its
environs were strewed with their carcasses, among
which were recognized the bodies of Francois, Colo-
nel of the Sd Regiment of the Rebels, and severJl
other officers of distinction, who atoned with their
lives for their detestable rebellion. _ _

" We have taken a great number of prisoners;
Jean Dugotier, their Colonel Commanlint, and
Alexis Baxin, Ex-Commandant of the Mountain of
Arcahaye, are among the number. Out of the whole
band, which amounted to not less than from twelve
to fifteen hundred men, officers and soldiers, accord-
ing to the returns found among their papers, not one
has escaped ; they have all fallen into our power, or
have expiated with their lives the horrid crime of
daring to fight against their country, their King, and
their fellow-citizens.

" Permit me, Sire, to represent to your Majesty,
the great and important obligations which I owe to
the Duke of Artibonite, and to the Duke of the
Great River, for the invaluable assistance which
they afforded me on that day, with all the zeal and
entire devotion which they feel for your Majesty's
service.

46 I also beg your Majesty to permit me to make
mention of the good conduct, intelligence, and intre-
pidity of Lieutenant-Colonel Chevalier de Diaceue,
Aide-de-camp of the Duke of the Great River, and
of Captain Edward, Aide-de-camp of the Duke of
Artibonite; but I have particularly remarked Lieu-
tenant-Colonel Jean Jacques Adonis, of the Ist bat-
tilion of the regiment of Saint Mark, the Captains
of Grenadiers Henry and Diane, and Captain Adju-
tant Maj,,r Jean Louis Belantrier, of the same regi-
ment. The Commandant Aiigustin, guide to the
army, also distinguished himself.
" These Officers covered themselves with glory,
by being the first to leap upon the ramparts of the
enemy.
" Lieutenant-Colonel Andre Zele, of the regiment
cif Arcahaye, died gloriously on the field of honour.
Our loss was only 16 killed and 4.0 wounde.t.
44 The troops engaged in the assault displayed the
greatest valour ; denerals, Officers, and sildiers, all
did their duty ; the excellent spirit, discipline and
ardour which prevailed, will ever be to the army a
sure pledge of victory.
66 The rebels of Port-aux-Crimes miy be said to
have been quiet spectators of the destructii.n of Fort
Sabourin and its garrison; they might have sent
succours, which world have reached it in less than
tone hours, but they prudently kept within their
wells. I deeply regret, and the army shares th;s fed.
ifiF, that they durst not venture to shsv themselves;
can assure your Majesty, it they had, we should
have given a account of them.
, SUNO.nerl"slubrnit to your Majesty a statement
of the Artillery, arms, and amimmition, taken by us
frim the rebels, and the corm spondence of their
' Chiets, which likewise fill into our 114nds.
" I have the honour to be, with the most profound
respect, Sire, your Royal Majesty's most obedient
servant and faithful subject,
(Signed) 44 Prince of Limit"

In reading the Report of the I'rince of Limbe to
the King, we cannot help admiring the judgment
with which this military operation was planned and
executed, and to offering a few reflections, suggested
by this glorious victory.
The promptitude of the preparations, the celerity'
of the march, the judicious manceuvres of the army
to encompass the enemy, to cut him off from all hope
of relief and the means of effecting his retreat, re.
fle.t great honour on the genius and military talents
of the Generals of the army ; and nothing short of
the valour and intrepidity of the troops could have
carried. by a cows-de-main, a fort entrenched, fortified,
and detended by 1500 men, who conceived them-
selves impregnable.
This severe lesson given to the rebels, within eight
leagues Purt-aux•Crimes, must have produced a
poweifill impression upon the rebels, and filled them
with consternAtion.

This lesson, I say, is not the first, neither will it be
the last they will receive from the brave royal army-
We are thoroughly convinced, that, whenever they
shall mature their strength with the rebels, the lat-
ter, whether in the open field, in pitched battle, of
shut up within their walls, will be invariably con-
quered. as they have been in all the actions fought
since the vimmencement of their revolt.

We buldly affirm, and we boast in the declaration,
that if this sanguinary and unhappy contest had been
to be decided by arms and bravery alone, there mould
long since have ceased to be either rebels or rebellion
in Hayti ; but infamous, odious treason, that favou-
rite engine of traitors and cowards, has been the
cause of some ephemeral successes, and the impure
food which has nourished rebellion up to the present
day. It was but natural that guilt should ally itself
to guilt, and that treason should afford assistance to
traitors— but right, virtue, and justice, must uveo-
tually triumph ; guilt never goes unpunished—they
have, therefore, only deferred for a time their vi-
table downfall, and deepened the abyss vshich will
finally ingult them.

Tremble. perfidious wretches ! your hopes are now
extinguished—traitors and cowards no longer exist
among us. Our ranks are purified, composed of
brave men; faithful to honour, to their King, to their
country, they burn with ardour to meet you, to van-
quish you: or to hi ing you back into the paths of ho-
nour, which ye have basely abandoned.

Directed as we are by a Sovereign, great by his
character, illustrious by his military career, beloved
and revered by his people, for his virues, with our
sublime institutions to pr serve, our country to rege-
nerate, our political existence and independence to
consolidate, with that inasculim: attitude, with a cause

'so sacred, so sublime, which we have sworn to 40.
lend at the price of cur blood—how durst you appear
before us to combat us—you, who had renounced,
betrayed, trodden under foot, all that is dearest and
most sacred among men—you who had no country,
'since you had turned against it your parricide arms,
and lacerated it with your own bands!—yon who
no longer had a Sovereign, since you had basely as.
sassinated lion—and while yet. polleted with this
crime, durst reject the true and lawful Successor in
the Government—yon, genuine apostles of falsehood,
wha lived like Bedouins of the desart, without tae.
without police, and without laws, and who had
erected vice into virtue—thirst you meet us ?—tio
I see your impious and sacrilegious weapons fall from
your trembling hands, either from shame or terror I
see you Bee before us.
We cannot, however, help lamenting the deplore.
ble infatuation of the Haytians id' this part of the
island. From the letters which have fallen into OUT
hinds in the affair of Sibourin, and from the report
of the prisoners, we are convinced that there arena
suggestions too perverse, no means too vile to be
employed by the factious, in order to delude and mie.
lead the people.
With what artifices and with what impudence the
demagogues who govern acquired popularity, byau.
thorising all sorts of licentiousness, in order to main-
tain theirsystem of domination, which saunas possibly
be lasting !
What insipidity in the style of their letters to Jean
Dugotier and others l What base adulations they re•
sort to, to ensnare suffrages
Thus every thing tends to the demoralization, t•
the dissolution, and overthrow of this part of the na.
tion into an abyss of evils. And what could be ex-
pected from this creation of demagogue, What
equld be hoped from a Government, fnunded on
error and imposture It carries with it the seeds of
its destruction.
SANSSOU'Ci, MARCH 19.

A great number of the prisoners taken from the
rebels, in the storming of Fort Sabonrirt, arrived this
morning in this city. They were escorted by a strong
detachment of trchips, and conducted to the presence
of his Majesty—among them were distinguished Jean
Dugotier and Alexis Blain, their ciiiefs, and other
officers of rank—disgrace was impressed upon their
brows; humbled to the ground, they durst not raise
their guilty eyes to their august Sovereign, to the
tender lather, whom they had cruelly outraged and
offended.

His Majesty, so far from being exasperated against
these guilty men, donsidered them only as victims
of error, and instruments of the factious, Anti ordered
them to be sent to different quarters of the interior.
In the afternoon of the same day arrived Messrs.
Lieutenant-C•.lonel Chevalier Diacouf, Aid.de.camp
t his Grace M inieigneur the Duke of the Great
River; and Lieutenant• Colonel J. Ad. ass, of the re-
giment of St. Mark; Captain &lows*, ttiJ•de•eamp
f his Grace Monseigneur the Duke of Artibonie ;
Me►srs. Diane, and Cairtain Adjutant-M rjnr J. L.
Belantrier, of the reg ment of St.. Mark ; and M. the
Commandant Augustin; Captain Henry having been
detained by his wounds.
His Majesty having desired to see those brave sol-
diers, to reward them for their good conduct and the
brilliant valour which they displayed in the assault of
Fort Sabourin, sent for them to Court, where they
had the honour of being presented to his Majesty by
the Grand Master of the Ceremonies.

His Majesty having promoted those brave officers
to the rank of Chevaliers, we
.here give our Readers
the speech addressed to them by his Majesty when
conferring that order:
" GENTLEMEN-1 have seen from the report made
to me by my Minister of War. the Prince of .Limbe,
the distinguished manner in which you behaved in
ttie glorious assault of Fort Sabourin, taken by main
force, through the bravery of my troops, from the
rebel hordes.

" You have been particularly mentioned, Gentle-
men, among the brave men who shared with you the
perils and the glory of that day. You have fought
valiantly—you have boldly confronted the enemy—
you were the first to throw yourselves with intrepi.
dity into. his ramp irts ; every thing yielded—every
thing gave way to your noble and generous efforts—
artillery, arms, baggage, and Ammunition, tell into
the power of the army. The numerous prisoners
taken from the enemy. the interior of the tort, its
entrenchments and its environs, strewed with carcases
of the revolters, who have bitten the dust—the many
trophies of that battle attest your courage and the
triumph of the army.
" You have rendered yourselves worthy of the
praises of your Sovereign, and atsacted the notice
of your Generals and of your brave companions in
arms, who witnessed your valour : be proud and ela-
ted with having deserved well of your country, your
King, and your fellow-citizens !
44 Ever attentive to reward merit, zeal, fidelity,
and bravery, I can appreciate your extraordinary ea.
lour; and to give you a proof of my entire satisfac-
tion, 1 create you Knights of my Royal and Military
Order of St. Henry. In raising you to that dignity,
in conferring on you the reward of military valour, I
have in view not only to recompense the briliiant ac-
tions which cover you with glory, but also to foster
the germ of martial virtues.
" I am convinced that you will always be worthy
of the glorious distinction which I now bestow on
you : glory, honour, fidelity, bravery, conduct with-
out stain and with Jut reproach. Such is the noble
career upon which you enter—the career which it
oprn to all the brave men of my Armies who shall
sOralize themselves like you in battle, by splendid
a:Lions and heroic behaviour."

We what sublime sentiments these valiant Knights
must have been animated while listening to the noble
and flattering expressions contained in this speech of
the King. SUCiI eulogiums, such glorious rewards,
are well calculated to excite the noblest emulation I
every bosom.

What soldier will henceforth be air:lU to eneoun•
ter the haz.irds and perils of battle, when honour,
glory, and the favour of the Sovereign are the tewad
that awaits him

His Majesty has just oriered the issue of a consi•
derable sum from the Royal Treasury to the Trea•
surer of the Royal and Military Order of st. Hew,
for the payment of the pensions of the Grand Crosses,
Commanders, and Knights, agreeable to the edict of
creation of the said Order.

WINCH PAPERS.

ROME, SEPTEMBER 17.

The Rev. Jesuits Robert St. Leger, Charles Ayl-
mer. Paul Ferley, Bartholomew Esmonde, and James
Butler, on Thursday last lett Rome for Ireland, their
naivo country. These Monks performed their novi.
cute at Palermo.