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London, England, 1802-08-30 00:00:00

DOMINGO.

ORDONNANCE OF THE GENERAL IN CIIIE►, ON THE EXIST-
ING RELATIONS BETWEEN Tilt CIVIL AND MILITARY
AUTHORITY.
Head %Wen at the Cape, July 10802.
The Colony of St. Domingo is in a (tate of Siege. The
direCtion of the Police belongs to the Military.
The Adminiftration of the Colony is charged with the rail-
ing of Impoflsto provide for the fupport of the Troops in the
Colony by I.and and Sea. In this (tats of things, the Admi-
niftration will frequently find itfelf obliged to have recourfc to
thc Military Authority. In conlequence, whenever thc Colo-
nial Prefeet Thall want the intervention of the Armed Force,
he than addrefs himftif to the General in Chief, who will give
ordt rs conformable to his requeft.
Whenever a Sub-Prefeel of Department than want the in
tereention of the Armed Force, he (hall added*, himfelf to the
General Commandant of Divillon, who (hall aflift him with
all his power.
The Colonisl Prefect and the Sub-Prefer s of the Depart-
mcnt, have the right of requiring the aid of the Commandants
of the place, and the Gendarmerie, whenever they than judge
it neectfary for the execution of meafures which they may have
taken, or to enable them to exercife thofe functions which were
conferred on them by my Decree of the 20th of June.
Thc Colonial Picket and the Sub-Peeled, of the Depart-
ment, being tb Chiefs of the Adminiltration of the Colony,
and therefore alone relponfible for that Adminiftration, the
Amed Force is prohibited from intermeddling with the Ad-
rniniltration of the Colony. Neverthelef., the Generals are
bound to render an account to the General in Chief, of all the
abufes of Admiuillration which they remark within the limits
of their Command.

The prefent Ordonnance mall be printed, publiChed and
polled up.
The General in Chicf, Captain General,
LECLIERC.

By the Captain General,
The Secretary General,

teNotit%
FARIS, AUGUST is.
REFLECTIONS ON THE ENGLISH JOURNALS.

The Englith Journalifis think them felves a power
in Europe, in confequence of the privilege which
they have arrogated to themfelves of infiilting and
arm fing every government. In this fence it was
that J. J. ItrivssEau ironically laid, " a piftol is
alfn a power."
What can be the motive of fuck an excels of
audacity or infamy ? for does not an attack upon
the fupporters of civilization, the defenders of fo-
cial order, and the role political indrument of na-
tions for their common fecnrity, tend to introduce
difordcr into all regular focieties, and to deliver
mankind a prey to anarchy, and the moil dread.
ful paiTions ? Is it not to lubtlitute calumny and
ablife for a public police, and public morality ? Is
it not to annihilate all the benefits cl univerfal le-
giflation by a periodical abide of the liberty of
thinking and writing? Is it not to turn the execra•
tion of men united in fociety againit one of the
moll admirable inventions of the human mind?
Will not the preps, which teems deflined to unite
men, to coiled knowledge, and to (often the man-
ners, become, from the fatal ufe made of it by the
Englith Journalifts for fume years, the molt ac-
tive inflruments of difobedience to the laws, of
civil dillurbances, infolent defamations, and end-
revolutions ?

The Englifh Journalills have become with re.
(peel to printing what dealers in poifon are in re•
Bard to chemillry. Both have availed themfclves
of the progrefs and the difeoveries of there two
fublime arts to empoifon at once both Govern-
ments and Citizens, morally and phyfically. A
pol;tical Icourge of this deteription Ihould, for the
fake of public tranquility. be denounced by all
Europe, wife and enlightened L, long Pantry reverfis,
and by terrible experiments during twelve years.
The general uncial of nations, and the combined

force of Governments, fhould put a flop to it:, ra-
vages, or array every power in arms avinfk its
mut derous influence.

To Mien to thefe flanderous Jour:lA(ls, you
would fuppofe them the avengers of public liber-
ty, while they are merely the degraded organs of
fome rich faitions, or fome difcontented parties.
To fee their extreme irritability when their in-
velives and their defamatory flyle is complained
of, you would take them to be the arbiters of
public opinion, while they are but the vile mini-
Eters of certain pallions, prodigal of money and
fpleen.
To fee the favage ferocity with which they make
their daily attacks,by means of fiaitious anecdotes,
and fails generated from the mof infipid calumny,
you might be apt to regard them as the generous
defenders of the liberty of the prefs, while they are
only awkward confpirators again!" this facred
right of civilized nations ; from their mifchievous
and feditious produitions one might infer that they
have formed a coalition to excite hatred againft,
and to provoke refiraints upon, the facred right
of exprelling one's opinion. It is not bold and
energetic writers, not courageous philofophers,
who have made Governments dread the unlimited
liberty of the prefs. It is calumniating and defa-
matory Journalifts who have fuggeftcd the idea
of reltraining, fubjeaing to cenforthip, and fuper.
intending the miftakes, the abufes, and the ex-
ceffes committed under the facred name of this
general liberty.
The mifchievous intentions, the hottile views,
and the fecret projeas of the Englith Journalilts
are well known :

One dais of them are the inaruments of an Ex-
Minillerial party, who have a predileaion for a
war of extermination, and who are inceff.intly, by
their willies, their intrigues, and their patilons,
preparing materials for this eternal war. This
party lea ft.metimes in the troubles of European
Turkey, and at others in the defenfive fyflem of
our Welt India Colonies, for pretexts to excite the
feat s and fulpicions of the Cabinet of St. James's,
or to low the feeds of divifion between the Govern-
ment of France and the other States of the Con-
tinent.

The others are the oracles of a fanatical, reft-
left, and turbulent party, which inceffantly la-
bours under cover to inoculate France with the
blind furor of democracy. This party has in a
manner conflituted itfelf the guardian and protec-
tor of a democracy always difcontented with the
liberty eflablifhed in the other countries of Europe,
but who• are very careful not to make praelical
application of their principles in their own country.
Both are alike the enemies of France, alike dif-
pofed to exaggerate liberty and flavery, alike dif-
poled to fan the flame of civil difcord in France,
to cry down all its forms of government, and to
afperfe all its gpvernors. Thefe two dales of
Journalifts, whether Whig: or Tories, have con-
Rantly indulged in abufive harangues againft the
LA King of France, againft the Conflituent Af.
fembly, the Legiflative Afrembly, the Convention,
the two Councils, the Executive DireCtory, and the
Confular Government.

No Conftitution of Frenchmen has given them
fatisfaetion, neither that of Monarchy, nor that of
the Republic. It is probable that the only plan
with which they would have been better pleated, is.
the organifation of the war of La Vendee.
No diplomatic propofal of the French obtains
I their affent. Is the Confular Government anxious
to confolidaie the general peace, by accelerating the
adjuftment of the indemnities in Germany ? the
Englifh Journalifts exclaim that it is an excels of
power and influence.—Does the Confular Govern-
ment with to re-eftablifh the defenfive fyflem of
our colonies ? the Englifh Journalifts infinuate
that the Fir(' Conful is purfuing views of ambi-
tion in the Weft Indies. Are the revolts of the
Pachas multiplied in European Turkey? the Eng-
lifh Journalills fabricate a plan of partition which
they attribute to that Government, whole pacific
influence is an objed of hatred to their turbulent
venality.
No internal organization of France meets the
approbation of there Journalifts. From the man-
ner in which they decide, and in which they judge
of the French laws, one would fuppofe that they
think themfelves exclufively inverted with the Con-
fituent power of France, and even of all Europe.
We than loon examine, in a fucceeding number,
the tendency of this fadious, acrimonious, partial,
and inflammatory centorrhip, which the Journals
exercife without power, without million, without
juftice, and without shame.
Anourr the xzth of Meffidor haft
( July 1), an Englifh flip, the Majefty, Capt.
Not.nimos, having on board a detachment of 3so
troops, was driven by a form on the coaft of
Port Bail, in the department of la Manche. As
the darknefs of the night and the violence of the
form prevented the velrel from being obferved,
guns were fired as a fignal of diftrefs. Citizen
CrIRMAIN GODEREL, cannoneer of Port-Bail, hear-
ing this noire, threw himfelf into the water,reached
the velfel by fwimming, and being hoilled on
board by means of a rope, encouraged the crew,
and informed them they were on the coat of
France : he then threw Mental again into the lea,
and having fwam back to the Ihore, returned Tome
time after with pilots. The prefervation of an
Englith wird and her crew, together with a con.
fiderable detachment of troops, was owing to the
courage and humanity of a French foldier.
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