Star.
London, England, 1802-02-10 00:00:00

INSURRECTIONIN SAINT DOMINGO.

The Monsieur, of the sth inf. contains a long
narrative of the events which took place in Saint
Domingo between the 2 1 ft of 041ober and the 4th
of November, 18ot. It is figned by TooSSAINT
Loovsaroar, who Rates himfelf Goveroor of St.
Domingo, and is raid to have been received at
New-York in a printed paper, from which it ap-
pears to have been copied into one of the Ameri-
can Journals: _ _

TOUSSAINT begins by Rating, that, after having
caufed the conltitution to be proclaimed, and the
laws which are to ferve as a rule for all the public
funitionaries, civil and military, &c. to be pro-
mulgated, he let out from the Cape on the :ft of
Oaober, to inftall the Tribunals of Appeal and
Caffation. After 'tithing different quarters of the
ifland which lay in his way, without obferving any
fymptnm of sliforder, he repaired to St. Marc on
the 6th, to inflalt the Tribunal of Appeal, and
immediately after proceeded to Port Republicain,
to inftall the Tribunal of Cafration. When this
bufineft was finifhed, he vilited the quarter of Leo-
gane, where he had the fatisfaCtion of obferving a
very fenfible progrefs in the hate of the cultivation,
and returned to St. Marc, to be prefent at the wed-
ding of General DESSALIN as and feveral other
Military Officers. Os the sad of Odtober he let
out with General DESSALINES, to affift at the be-
nedidtion of the parifh church of Verretcs ; after
which ceremony he was preparing to proceed to
St. Marc, Port Republican, and St. Domingo,
when General DESSALINES communicated to him
a letter he had received from Gonaives, containing
intelligence of an infurreCtion in the North. On
their arrival at Gonaives, which they reached on
the 24'h of o,:lober, they learned that Chef de
Brigade VERNET had fet out for Plaifance with a
battalion of the 7th Demi-Brigade, and a detach-
ment of the battalion of Gonaives, with a number
of Volunteers, and tome Members of the Civil Au-
thority: on the approach of Commandant Vassar
the infurgents took to flight, after coin/Tilting
many alts of atrocity in the town of Plaifance, and
having afraffinated a great number of the citizens.
While they fled, they cried out—" General Morse
is for us—General MOYSE is for us. He is our
Chief—it is he who fupports us."
After difperfing tome more of the infurgents,
Toussaisr had an interview, on the 26th, with
General MOYSE, who had been at a place called
Dondon: " I afked him," Paid TOUSSAINT, "how
many men he had punned at Dondon ?. he re-
plied, none--how many he had arrefted ?—none.—
What, cried I, you have the command of the
Northern Department ; you come from a quarter
where horrid affinations have been committed, and
you have punifhed no one ? Fkre are your orders,
return to Dondon, arreft all the guilty, and fend
them to me under a flrong guard, that I may ex-
amine them. RefleCting afterwards, in confequence
of the Strong fufpicions which I entertained, that
I ought not to leave him any opportunity of in-
terpreting my intentions, though what I had pre-
feribed to him was politive, I fent after him a
new order, in which I enjoined him to bring to
me alive all thofe he arrefted, not within;; that
one of them Should be fhot. But inftead of con-
forming to my orders, he caufed thirteen to be
fhot, and tent me only eleven.
" Hitherto," continues Toussaircr, " I had
received only imperfed information refpelling the
origin of this revolt. The focus of which was in
the Cape Town, and which burg forth on the
night between the aoth and a aft of Oltober."
In the evening of the soth, General of Brigade
HENRY CHRISTOTNE, being informed by Tome
reports, and by a letter from the Commandant of
the National Guard, at the Cape, of tome fymp.

tom:, which ftemed to threaten the on!,Fr tr:n.
(004, mounted his horle, accompaniA by l is
guides. and proceeded to a place called la C.l enage,
where he had learned that form infiirg=4 were
affembled. He found there, indeed, a gicat num.
ber of men and women colleted, and whom he
endeavoured to difperfe ; one of them feemix:g
more iniblent than the reft, he rufbed towards
him, puttied him againft the wall, by means of his
horfc, and threw him down. He then drew Li.
fabre, and immediately ordered hi 3 guides to arreft.
him. He enured him to be inflantly concluded
to the arfenal, and recommended him to the care el
the Chef de Battaillon AURANGE. The latter feitt
him to prifon, and Brigadier-General CHRISror H E
returned to la Carenage to watch and difperie the
infurgents. On returning to the arfenal, be
learned that the man who had been arrefled was
named Trois Banes, and that he was known to
be one of the molt audacious difturbers of
the public tranquillity at the Cape. On being
interrogated he difclofed, without compultion,
the whole plot—mentioned the names of the con-
fpirators, and, in particular one Saintonge, who,
he Paid, was the chief of the revolt at die Cape,
who ought to be immediately fecured, othervofe,
he laid, the plot would be (till carried into erecu.
tion. He mentioned alto as chiefs John Baptift
Lebon and Bonhomme.

General CHRISTOPHE immechately haftcned to
head quarters, and difpatched twelve parroles of
the troops of the line to watch the movements in
the town ; and, with the Commandant of the na-
tional guard, went to the habitation of Saintonge.
Lebon, and Bonhomme, whom he arrefted, and
thefe four chiefs having named their accomplices,
they were alfo arrefted ; that night more ttan
thirty were feized.
" About midnight General CHRTSTOPH.T, with
the Commandant of the National Guard, patroling
at the head of his guides, fell in with an afremblage
of forty men, and orders having been given to
arreft thole who were armed, fuch of them as had
arms were feized, and conveyed to the guard
houfe. The reft were difperfed. General CHRIS.
roe Ha had fcarcelLP returned home, when he wlte
alarmed by the firing of mufkets : he again
mounted his bode, and proceeded towards the
place where the firing was beard. By the way he
met C. GABART, Commandant c f the Gendarme-
rie, who informed him, that he had been fired at.
and that one of his men had been killed. The
General then made difpofitions for blockading the
area where this event had taken place ; but on
approaching it, the infurgents haying heard the
noife, efcaped to the Mornes, throwing away their
arms : one of them was killed with the bayonet ;
another, after being wounded in the face with a
fibre, was concluded to the military hofpital.
The difpofitions made daring the night were
executed with fo much precifion, order, and pru-
dence, that next morning, the 22d of O!tober, s
great number of the inhabitants were ignorant of
what bad taken place, and the fibres were open as
ufual.

During the whole of the :2d every thing was
tranquil at the Cape and in the neighbourhood.
Ater force far:her details of little importance,
TOUSSAINT lays," the unanimous reports of the Ge-
nerals, Military Commanders, the cries of the infur-
gents, and the interrogatories
. of the arrefted, all
agreeing to mark out General CH RISTOP HE as the
author of this confpiracy, I ordered him to re-
pair to me, and after having caufed thefe declara-
tion to be read to him, I ordered him to be arreff-
ed on the 28th of Odlober. On the tft of Novem-
ber he was fent off for Port-de-Pais, under the
refponfibility of General de brigade, CL ERVAU X, E 0
be detained in the Fort till be fhould be brought
to trial.

Being informed that good order was relic:red in
every quarter, and that the planters had returned
to their labour, that they had eftablithed the molt
active vigilance, an being defirous to infpire the
inhabitants of the Cape with confidence, I enter-
ed that town on the 4th of November, and caufed
40 prifoners to be brought before me.
After having ordered General CHM:toyer to
airemble the whole of the armed force in the
Place d'Armes, t 3 of the Chiefs of the Revolt
were brought out and punifhed with death : a
great many more are now in prifon waiting for
their fentence.

" This cunfpiracy, fet on foot by the molt pro-
found perverlity, teems to have been direded
againft the Government and the Whites in the
northern part of the ifland. The infin gents have
fufliciently pointed out the author of it. To in•
cite them to. thefe atrocities, they were made to
believe that I had fold the Blacks to the Whites,
and that General Morse alone had refufed to fign
this pretended contrad, but that Generals D esSA.
LINES and CHRISTOPHE had agreed to fubfcribe to
it. At Limbe the authors of this infamous re-
port had caufed chains to be forged, to thew them
on the day of the revolt to the Blacks, as a proof
of this abfurd projed of felling them.
" The evil has been great no doubt ; the re-
membrance of it will never be effaced from mr
memory—my heart is torn with grief ; but if the
hand of the Derry had not checked the rage of
thefe mongers, who wifhed to difgonour us, we
should have been in a Efate hill more lamentable.
The blood of the innocent will be avenged, and
juflice will be done in fuch a manner as thall inti.
midate the molt daring villains. It pleafed Pao-
VIDENCE that there lhould be only one •innocent
viaim in the town ; in other refpects, the leaft dif-
order was not committed, nor was any pillage e'er-
cured. It was the focus of the revolt—it was Paved
by the prudence of General Oral srorn fecond-
ed by the zeal of the military chiefs under his com-
mand.

4, Tranquillity is now every where reftored.—
The ItriEleft orders have been given that the agri-
cultural labours, now refumed, Mall be carried on
with the utmott diligence—that the flighteit com-
motion !hall be rigoroufly fuppreffed ; that nei-
ther perfons nor property Ball be expofed to the
least danger, and all my care and vigilance Mall
be employed to present this fatal event from de-
flroyi rag public confidence.
Done at Cape Francois, Nov. 7, tilot, the tot!' mt. of the
Fre telt Republic, one and indiviAble.