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not lay down their arms ; they will remain united, in
-rder to finish their mat work. • 7

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" If you doubt this truth, General, your Excel-
Itltcy has only to consult, by means of your 3 ger.ts,
t .• dispositions of England,late the enemy of France,
. now her rpost fi:ithful Ally, and they will attest the
truth..of what I have now said. .
. 66 general. if 13onaparte.with a great part of the
forcecof Plante .sunk under the niass r f the forces
' oE,the Awn, who now can resist France united to
all -,,Eutope,—France become the ally of England !
And who doubts that Bonaparte must have rapidly
consummated the infernal wock of destruction which
'he began in 1802, if in lOUS England had not de-
, i. elated war. against Prance, and thus .broken, by. its
immense fleets, the conmUnicatipa kilted France
and St. Domingo t . .
16 Every thuig,has been fOrefeen iP.the Treaty of
Peace between .tie SOvereigni of Eurone. Mot aware
of the- pindencir in,da.the principles `of your Aicel.
lency, it was suppord ,t :it-You might" hesitate as to
the course whiCk yttii`o ' 'Et to' pursue; thitlie: was
Awed, that in `.order ' rplaer the ppptilation2 of
Hayti, which, in such eVent, would he totally Ina:
bilatedby the rnasiei iff 'bide brought aguinst. ii,' it
Was necessary that' Platteesihould continue' for Seve-
ral years the African Slave Trade, trith the doable
view of replacing . the hinds employed in cultiva-
ticia; and forming shldierS, in imitationof the Englislt.
66 It would irtitAtlitt'be 'useltss to enter into de.
tails with a man of so duperior Ito understanding as
your Excellency.; but it is proper, perhips, that those
great considerations should be presented •to the per-
sons whom your Excellency honours with your toms:

. . dence. • s
66 If the alliance ofibe Powers of Europe has
had for its object the eestottation •of order, .and the
fall of the Usurper who incessantly disturbed it, the
august Monarchs,. who are parties to that alliance,
did not on that ground display less esteem, for the
meritorious supporters of the glory and independence
ef France; 14,r those illustrious warriors who, during
twenty-five years of calamities,- never deserted the
post of danger, and who saved their country both
from the ho;rors of civil. war, and the disgrace of
dimemberm.t.'lle most wise and generous •of
Kings, the virtuous Louis XVIII. has felt
.more sen-
siely than any of his great Allies the claims which
these brave men hsel to the royal munificence, as
well as to the gratitude : they are now loaded
with honours ; titey enjey immense fortunes, and they
bless the events which have given to their superb es-
tablishmsnt s that stability which an usurper could
never have conferred.
64 Follow their example,. General ; proclaim Louis.
in Hayti, as they have proclaimed him in
France, and not only honour and reward awaits you,
but those whom you designate shall receive •mirks of
the satisfaction of our S.overeign, and of the grati.
tulle of our country ; and the empire of prejudices,
which is destroyed with the late regime, shall prove no
obstacle to these .rewards being made equal to the
greatness of the services performed to the King.'
" Doubtless, if Bonaparte, from the height of the •
French throne, addressed to you the words of which
I am now the barer, I should lament your confiding•
in them. His success in policy was due to his des
ceitful arts, his perfidy equalled the power of his arms,
and General Toussaint was not the only one who
loend out this by cruel and fatal experience: but tl.e
legitimate King of France, the august successor of
so many illustrious sovereigns, the deseendint of kit.
Louis and Henry IV. has doubtless no need of the
vile tesorts of an Usurper; his royal word is as sa-
cred as his race is ancient and venerable ; and Louis
XVIII. has said, like one of his magnanimous an-
cestors, that if good faith was banished the earth,.
it should still be found in the hearts of Kings.'
• 64 Thus,. then, what be promises you, General,
will be firm and stable,—you canna doubt it. •
66 But perhaps there are among your Generals per-
ions who fear less the chit fs sent by the King, for.
getieg the instructions which they shall have re-
ceived, and permitting themselves to be influenced by
Creoles end Emigrants, may re-establish gradually
the regime of prejudices.. But believe me, General,
t reign of prejudices is terminated forever. It will
as little revive to the French colonies. as in•Frence
and who can suppeseehat they still exist iu the latter
country, when, by the side of the Moatmoreucys, the
Rohans, the Perigords, &c. are seated the Soults, the
Suchets, the Dessolles, &c:—when men of such diffe.
rent origin, though equally illustrious, the one class
for their own high exploits, and the other for those of
their ancestors, sit as ecpiels in the Chamber of Peers,
and equally participate in the high dignities of the
Stated The King, who wishes that benefits be every
where equally dispensed, will doubtless act in this in-
stance like the Monarchs of Spain and Portugal,-who,
by letters of white, give an individual, whatever be
his colour, the privileges of a white. His royal power,
which -has equalized the Neys. the &milts, the Suchets,
with the Motemorencys, and the Bohan:, by an act
of munificence . and equity which all . France ap-
plauded, can in like nianner make a negro or a mu-
latto equal befoie he Throne and the law, and in the
intercourse of social life, to the fairest man in Pi.
tardy. You will not force us, General, to convert
into soldiers the negtoes whom we are at this moment
purchasing on the coast of Africa ; you will riot force
us to employ all possible means of destruction ; you
• will not expose yourselves to witness the desertion of
your battenons, who wiii won be. informed that the
French disciplioe, the most perfect in the world, does
not entorce that excessive severity which you have so,
often exercised :,we know all your means of defence.
64 When I say you I mean the persons who are un-
der your orders ; for I believe you have too sound e
head, too enlightened and noble an understanding.
not to be satisfied with becoming a great lord or a
general othcer, under that ancient dynasty of the
Bourbons, which PfIuVIDENCE, in despite of all hu-
man calculations, seems to take a pleasure in perpe-
tuating on the throne of our dear France ; you will
prefer becoming an illustrious servant of the great so
vereign of the French, to the fate, MOM than preca
?Mats, of a chief of revolted slaves. And if tient
pies are necessary to lead you to imitation, behold the
Generals Murat and Bernadotte, who had been tot
several years chiefs or kings of nationic whom thee
arms have illustrated, nobly descending from set
thrones to which the effects of the French revolution
had raised them. Behold them, I say, nobly alio
Voluntarily descending from these thrones, in male,
ti, become great and illustrioueLords, and preferring