Star.
London, England, 1804-10-10 00:00:00

FRANCE.

PARIS, SLP F NIBER
DFOSALINIS.—The SerlAf'•r Kt LLERMAN has re-
ceived a letter friim one of his relations, an unfortu-
nate colonic of St. Dotrinc,-, who with the greeted
difficulty 'leaped the afErtirns of the ferocious Ms-
eatiess, and who resides at prefent in the ifland of
St. Croix. This letter coutains'fome mute PArtiClll.lrS
concerning tie prefen rituationoithz pre etdid Repub-
lic of Hayti. ."I'he greatest difunion prevails among
the Chiefs of the Negro army ; and, 10 far from com-
bating together againit the French and Spaniards at
St. Domingo, they are fighting againd and cutting
the throats of each other ; each General having
made himiUf Sovereign fepat ate diarist, which
he rules and defends with his adherents, againfl all
oppofers, and where he bids defiance to DEssat.tess
and his urders. The Negroes refufe abfolutelv to
work; and when the proddlions of the latt f.e n,
the remnants of the cultivation of lag year, are con-
fumed, fataine will be added to the other curies of
that unfortunate Wand. The number of negroes

exiling there is calculated to amount to 300,000 at
the highell ; but of there, men from IS to to, the
only ones able to carry arms, or cultivate the ground,
are not proportionate with the remaining popula,rion,
but only as one to five.
es DiSSALIIi SS is not ignorant that moll of the in-
illations, as a Legion of Honour, a Senate, Prefects,
Maids of Honour, &c. dm which he has the arrelatity
' to decree for his people of Hayti, expofe him to be
laughed at by all Itrangers, and that it is extremely
ridiculous in him to pretend to condo& vagabonds,
(uc as thole of whom he is the chid, according to
a fytlem defigned after the mg bee:wild nada of Eu-
rope. But he anfwers, that he does it only to enrage
his-enemies, by imitating tome of their attar/dial& in-
Ritutions,. and that as lung as he is alive, no changes
' Ihall take place in France, without being decreed by
him at St. Domingo, being, as he has the modefty to
fibrin Bo AAAAA Tli OF TNIF NSW WORLD.
As this chief of banditti excites the public at-
tention and curiofity fur the prefent, as much as his
predeceffor TOUSSAINT did fome years ago, it can-
not be uninterelfing to give the public lime ideas of
his perfon and character. Dassaeress is about 42
years of age ; the enferoßle of his phyfiognomy of-
fers fomething fierce and favage. His features are
coarfe, and his figure difagrecable, without being un-
commonly ngly. He is about five French feet and
two inches high ; he is robutl and (quit. As to his
character, Europeans have already formed a tolera-
bly juft idea ; but the following traits will make them
Rill better acquainted with it :
" Crafty and hypocritical, as generally are all ne-
groes,he is, befides, brurith, padionate, and violent
to the highett degree. He infpires a kind of terror
in every one who approaches him, and he is with rea-
too feared, becatile he does not hefitate to do himtelt
• immediate juilice for the leaf( contradittion he cs.
periences, either with his daggers, fwords, pidols, or
by poifon. To offend him is certain &link:non, and
to *ale him is no fecurny but for the moment.
When he hates once he hates for ever, and his likings
are as changeable as the wind. His first favourite
.today is not fore but that he may be his first victim
to-morrow. Ambition is his ruling paCfion, to which
avarice is only a fecondary one, and his limiting
cruelty is the natural consequence of them both.—
,Fle is Paid to love his wife and children, but he ufes
them rather as his Paves than as his companions.—
Friends be has none. Even thole whom, from the
caprice of the moment, he overpowers with his be-
Lela/lions, &fire his deka...lion, as the only fafety
of not bting plundered tat murdered, by the caprice
of the next moment." Such are the outlines of a
moral and political portrait of the man who has been
criminal enough to ufurp the foveteignty over the
firft colony in the Weft Indies.—Le Lief dir
They write from Milan, that the 9th of Novem-
ber, or the day when their Prefident is to be crown-
ed, as an Emperor of the French, will be zelebrated
in the Italian Republic with great Col:Amity. A
Prograrnma has already been printed, and fent by the
Vice Prefident to all the depar meta. and municipa-
lities of the Republic. Every town will fend depu-
ties, and a certain number of national guards are in-
vited to be prerent. The tete, are to continue for
fix days, during which the Vice Prefident, 1515r.221,
Field MarthalosJoutuar, and the Members of the
Confulta, are, by turns, to keep open honfes, receive
affembhes, and give b.:lls. It is fu; poled that num-
bers of (bangers %ill arrive I. onn all parts of Italy.
The theatres are to be open dutingthele tie days, ~,,ra•
tit, for the
Moll of the foreign Princes at hlentz have again
eroded the Rhine. and 'coo nest to their own dorni-
mious. The foreign clipiormt, le agents !:.eve follow-
ed their example ; but both one and the uthcr, be-
fore their departure, indented long memorials to
Taeesvit sow, containing the particulars of what they
had traufadeal in their val.: audiences w;th the
Emperor, and its their confaences wi•h the Nlinifler.
It is again tacorted that the Elenor of 13.4V.1114 will
be Wine.] a King by the Emperor of the French,
and th it feveral other Elalots have obtatued territo-
rial aggrandizements.
Arm•ng the nuiherous other rejoicings at Mentz,
were :he moil briiiiant iiini.iinations, with many vet y
ingenious paintings or devices. One, particularly,
was very ap.27:1, at the Ch aliact, where Aare.' was
repret,:i.t.td holding between her hands a
where the mtm:s of NA poems and Europe were
united an.: interwoven.
The Swedifh Cliat,;e d'Affaires patted through
Nancy .•ii the :nth ilia. on his way to So CL1101M....-
Tilt arms of Ki:•g i-f wsot tout one, lii,wever,
Over the • It- zswi.di:liCiintisierci•lAget.t,which
pr is.", that t.. owl nations Welt bwe-
dril cial ones will continue.
Ai. t tic: • i.! rar y Are, theietore, v itheut
aul ri andation ; :slid di; ca:-..10t be too much
upi.n ilicir .... ir,:, in 1 ..erai.g to what diets is the
n it or Atid:lf. According to
what .1..: sr of t..c li hill. repotted in a letter
(10111 St lSioit:l II is affirmed, that no year
belore hay.: :i i 7d1.1 11.111 S visited Cetta, and
tha• the hrwedilii R•• •+els itlii ..5 revamp and
Dice; ; I.se.e wait this (tibial, !tad
t it-1 .) :.!iii (..ii gar let p• liticrans and
liockjohheis I to! in I. •!ti• 11'd upt•n
the t.a•.le Sir •k,41.1,1. de, D.f....1;
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