Star.
London, England, 1803-01-07 00:00:00

DJUSS.iIiVT TO BON41?,11:TEJ

r:The fon:min has bs,u commul icate,l to us as the An.wer or
the Ll.tcl. Cnie: t4tne LRnr uc t`.tr FIX ST CO:: al' I .requiring
hia uticunktit.on it:SmAdion to the ?Mother K.:!.pubhc.
carrot you, .1 .f it: autatiticity, Lhoubh the teatontng of it
asTealsli,rieztlf jult.j

SOLI SISAiNT LOUVERTURE TO GENERAL BONAPARTE,

FIRST CONSUL 01 THE FRENCH REPUBLIC.

"CITIZEN C../ NEI' T.

Nur. IS, 18,:a.

4' Pout letter of the 2 7th Brumaire, has been
tr infrnitted to me by Citizen LECLE R C, your bro.
titer-iialaw, whom you have appointed Captain-
Gmeral ~f this ifland, a title not recornized by the
Comlitution of St. Domingo. 'lle fame meffeng,er
has rettored two innocent children to the fond em-
braces of a clouting father. \Vhat a noble itiilance
of European humanity! But, dear as thrae
piedges are to me, and painful as ow reparation
i-, I dill owe no obligations to my enerni•:l., and I
th..-refore town them to the cuitody oftheir ga9!-rt.
•• The forces necefrat y to make the Covereiglity
of the Ftenett people rcfpeeled, have effeaed a
1411(1111g aifo, and tiler are Ipreading flanglitcr and
si,fulation atinnia them. Why is it thus ? For
what crimes, and by what authority, arc a rude,
but inotientive people to be coufumed by fire and
by the lwoi d We have dated, it kerns, to form a
Conilitution adapted to our circumilances ; con-
t lining, as yrat admit, many good things, but con-
taining others, forfooth, derogatory from the fo.
veieignty of the French people. \Vhat is the fo-
ve:cignty of the French People ? In whom does
it refide, and how tar is it to extend? Is it to be
beyond contruul, without !mature, and without
bounds?

" Sr. Domingo, a colony forming an integral
part of the French Republic, aims at independence,
it is laid. Why Ihould it not? The United States
of America did the fame, and with the alliflance
of Monarchical France they fucceeded and eitab-
lifhed it. But there are &fiat as well as prefump-
tion in our Conflitution. I know there are. What
human inftitution is without them? Yet I will
challenge that fyltem you have impofed upon the
Republic you govern, to (hew a greater regard to
perfonal or political liberty, to the freedom of
fpeech, cr the freedom of man. The high fitua•
ion I fill is nut of my own choofing ; it has been
forced upon me by Imperious circumflances. I
have not overturned a Conflitution I had fworn to
maintain. I few this wretched Ifle a prey to fran-
tic and contending faBions. My charaCter, my
complexion, gave me Tome influence with the peo-
ple who inhabit it, and I was alma by their una-
nimous voice called to authority. I crufhed fedi-
rvin ; I pot down rebellion ; I reftored tranquil-
lity ; 1 eftablifhed order in the place of anarchy ;
I gave them peace, and I gave them a Conflitu-
tiou. Have you, Citizen Conful, another or a
better title to the commanding.fituation you oc-
cupy ? If they enjoy not under it as great a por-
tion of liberty as is to be found under other Go-
vernments, the caufe is in their habits of life, and
in the ignorance and barbarity infeparable from
a (late of Lavery. I eftablifhed for an unfortunate
race of beings, that were jolt loofened from the
yoke, the only fyftern of rule that was fuitcd to
their conditions or capacities. That it leaves room,
in many inftances, for coercion and defpotifm,
cannot be denied; but is the Conflitution of the
Repuldic of France—the molt enlightened part of
enlightened Europe—quite free from them ? If
thirty millions of Frenchmen find their happinefs
and fecurity, as I am told, in the Revolution of
the 18th Brumaire, furely I Ihould rot be envied
the love and confidence of the poor Blacks, my
Countrymen. It will be for poflerity to decide
whedva we have ruled through affeftion, or through
apathy and fear.
" You offer freedom to the Black., and fay,
• that in all the countries you have been in, you
have given it to the people who had it not.' lam
not perfeCtly acquainted with the eireumflances
that have recently happened in Europe, but the
reports that have reached me do not accord with
ibis affection. In faa, it is of little confequence.
The liberty that is to be found in France, or Bel-
gium, or Helvetia, or in the Republics, Batavian,
Ligurian, or Cifalpine, would never be cordially
received, or chearfully acquiefced in by the people
of S,. Domingo. Such changes, or fuch freedom,
are far, very tar, from being defired even by us.
You afk me, • do I defire confideration, ho-
nours, and fortune ?' Molt certainly I do, but not
of thy giving. My confideration is placed in the
refpeet of my Countrymen, my honours in their
attachment, my I.irtune in their difintercfted fide-
lity. Has this mean idea of perfanal aggrandize-
ment been held out, in the hope that I would be
induced thereby to betray the carafe I have under-
taken ? You Ihould learn to eflimate the moral
principle in other men by your own. If the per-
ion who claims a right to that throne on which
you ate feared, were to call on you to descend
from ic, what would be your onfleer ? The power
I vacs has been as Isitinustely acquired as your
own, and nought but the decided voice of the
people of St. Domingo !hall compel MC to re-
it.
•• It is not cemented by blond, or maintained
by the artifices of European policy. • The fern.
dons men whole perfecutions I put a (lop to,'
have confeffed my ciemency, and I have pardoned
the wretch wl.ole daper has been aimed at my
life. If I have rerun% ed from this ifland certain
tut bulent fpirits, tan Grove to feed the flames of
civil war, their guilt has been fit ft eflablifhed be.
fore a competent tribunal, and finally confefred by
thcmfclves. Is tivlrc rine of them tvha can lay
that he has been condemned ualm.Pl or un:r;al
And yet theft monfiers arc to be brought back
once more, and, aid:d by the blond hounds of
Cuba, are to he irneoupled and hallooed to hunt
us dun and devour us; and this by men who
clar... to call theinfelves Chrifliant. Why flould it
excite your praife and furptife that I have upheld
• t!.e religion and wurloi of Con, from whom all
tuill7s cu , ps at all bounteous Being,
whole k•el-1.• 44 •_,•• ately found favourin
7r..r A oh, r: been honoured and
Elora'.l, I have fought for
',)l r*. gers Ansi ditficul-
: IF-14 4.
t.

-rn :,nfly"

ties, then encompaired by treachery and trearom
and I was never difappointed. ' Before Him and
You I am,' as you fay, ' to be the perfon princi-
pally refpontible :or the maffacres and murders that
are perpetrating .n this devoted die. Be it fn. In
His all-jtitt alid dread iiirpafal be the dine of this
eo,ted. Let Him decide between mikand my ene.
mits; between thofe who have violated his pre-
ccpts, abjured his Holy Name, and one who has
never ceafed to acknowledge and adore him.
(.signed) 46 TOUSSAINT LOU IMILTUILE."

FRANCE.

PARIS, JANUARY r.

The Deputies of the Eighteen SwiCs Cantons
met on the t I th of December 'aft, when C. BAR..
THELEMY communicated to them the letter of the
Fotsr Covsui. as follows
Saint Cloud, December so, 18os.
BONAPARTF, FIRST CONSUL or THE REPUBLIC AND
PRESIDENT, TO THE DFPUTIES OF THE EIGHTEEN
CANTONS OF THE HELVETIC REPUBLIC.

" CITIZENS DEPUTIES OF THE EIGHTEEN CAN.
TONS OF THE HELVETIC REPUBLIC.—YOUT Country
IS in a critical fituation ; it can be laved only by
modera:ion, prudence, and a facrifice of your pall
(ions. I have entered into an engagement in the
face of all Europe, to render my mediation effec-
tual. I than dilcharge all the duties impofed on
me by this angult function, but what would be a
tall; of difficulty without your fupport, will become
cafy by your Alliance and influence.
" Swizerland bears no refemblance to any other
State, either on account of the events which have
luccalively taken place in it for feveral centuries,
of its geographical and topographical fituation, or
of the different languages, different religions, and
that extreme difference of manners which prevail
in its different parts.
" Nature has made your Rate federative ; to
(hive to fubveet that cannot be the part of a wife
man : circumflances, and the fpirit of pall centu-
ries, had eflabliflied among you fovereign and
fubjea people ; new circumftances, and the im-
proved fpirit of a new century, more continent
with reafon, have re-eftablifhed equality of rights
between all the portions of your territory. Several
of your States have followed, during centuries, the
laws of the moll ablolute democracy ; others have
teen fume families arrogate power to themfelves,
and in thefe you have had fubjeas and fovereigns.
The influence and prevailing fpirit of Italy, of
Savoy, of France, and of Alface, by which you
were bounded, hid effentially contributed to ella-
blifh this order of things in the latter cantons.—
The fpirit of their teveral countries has changed ;
the renunciation of all privileges is your first want,
and your firft right.
" What is at the fame time the defire and the
intereft of our nation, and of the vaft Rates that
furround you, is, therefore, t ft, Equality of rights
between the eighteen Cantons ; ad, A fincere and
voluntary renunciation of all privileges on the part
of patrician families ; 3d, A federative organiza-
tion, by which each Canton (hall be organifed ac-
cording to its language, its religion, its manners,
its intereft, and its opinion.
" The moll important thing is to fix the orga-
nization of your eighteen Cantons. The organ'.
Cation of the eighteen Cantons once decreed, it
will remain to determine the relations they fhould
have with each other: and then your central or-
ganifation, which is much lefs important, in rea-
lity, than your cantonal organifation. Finances,
armies, adminiftration, nothing can be uniform
among you. You have never maintained troops
under pay; you cannot have confiderable finan-
ccs; you have not even had diplomatic agents con.
dandy at the Courts of the different Powers. Si-
tuated on the fummit of the chains of mountains
which feparate France, Germany, and Italy, you
participate of the (pink of thole different nations.
The neutrality of your country, the profpnity of
your commerce, and a family adminiltration, are
the only things that can fuit your people, and fup-
port you.—This has been my language to your
Deputies whenever they confulted me refpeding
your affairs. It appeared to have its foundation lo
grounded in reafon, that, even without any extra-
ordinary interpofition, the very nature of things
ought unavoidably to lead you to adopt the fyflem
which it dcfcribes. But, they who Teemed the
molt fenfibly to difcern its truth, were, by intereft,
the moll attached to the fyftem of privileges and
family fitperiorities. Their wifhes, their perfonal
aid, their icrvice in arms, had been with the ene-
mies of France. They inclined, thetefore, to look
elfcwhere than to France for fuppoit to themfelves
and to their country.

" No Conflitution to Government which might
have been allablithed among you, in oppofition to
I the wilhes and Usterelis of France, could ever have
been for7our good.
" I have fpuken as a Citizen of Switzerland.—
I mutt now (peak as the supreme ma;.;iftrate of two
other great countries. And I mull explicitly in•
form you that France and the Italian Republic
will never permit among yo❑ any eltablithment
which might prove of advantage to their enemies.
" The quiet and tranquillity of forty millions
of men, your immediate neighbours, indepen-
dently of whom you cannot lubfill either as indi-
viduals, or even as a political community, are of
great confequence in the fcale of general junice.
Nothing amonglt you mutt have an hoflile afpeft
towards them. You moil be in all things, in
perk° hal ninny with them. As it was in part
times, you mull Hill make it your interelt, your
policy, your duty, paramount to all other coat-
tierations, to permit nothing, to (*tiler no aft, to
allow no intromiffion upon your territories, by
o,e or the hot.rur of France may be
direttly or inditealy affected.
" Had not your own interest, and the need:My
there w•as to terminate your interline ditkntions,
been ftiffizient to call forth my interpolition ; yet
the ;nitre!' t.f the Allied Repub:ic mutt even
alone have procured it. The infurgents among
you have been gt:idcd by men who had made war
on France. Their firs of is went to restore the
privileges of p irticular Lon;liec, so abolifh ro•ta-
lity, to offer a e:::eCt to ;Lc I much

N Not any one of your parties mull triumph
over the Fell, kali of all that which has been van-
quilled. There mull not be a counter-revolution.
I have a pleafure in thus c )mmunicating with
you, I (hall often repeat the fame ideas, till they
reach the conviaion of your fellow-citizens. I can-
not expel you to come to that unanimity of opi-
nions in which alone you can be happy.
" The policy of Switzerland has been ever confi-
dered throughout Europe, as infeparably conneaed
with that of France, Savoy, and the Milanefe ;
becaufe the particular condition of Switzerland
muff ever-have an intimate relation to the fafety
of thole (fates. _ _ _ .

The firft, the molt effential duty of the French
Government will ever be, to take care that no
fyftem hoilile to her, may be introduced among
you ; and that none who are in the interea of her
enemies may ever acquire influence in your govern-
ment. France mutt never have reafon for uneafi-
nefs in regard to that portion of her frontier which
is open, except as covered by you. We mutt be
be affured, that, were you ever conflrained to
neutrality, you would rather, from gobd fenfe,
and national affeEtion, take part with France than
with her enemies.

" I (hall take into ferious confederation, all fuch
plans and obfervations as the Deputation !hall
communicate to me. BARTHELEMY, FOUCHI,
ROEDERFR, and Dissisuassa, Senators, whom I
have directed to hear your opinions, will commu-
nicate them to me, either of themfelves, or is
your papers. Given, at St. Cloud, Dec. so.
(Sined) "
By the Fir!! Conful, (Signed) "H. 3. MARET."
Citizens BARTHELEMY, FOUCHI, Dismsussica,
and ROSDERER, prefented, on Sunday the szth of
December, a Deputation confining of Citizens
ROTTMAN, D'ATTILY, RHEINHARD, KUHN, &C.
to the Fitsr Cousus., who converted with them
more than two hours. He took a view of the dif-
ferent periods of their hinory ; the various Revo-
lutions and ancient Conflitutions of the Thirteen
Cantons. Every thing be raid expreffed a nrong de-
fire to put an end to the Revolution.—Mswiteur.

FROM THE PARIS PAPERS.
VIIINNA, Dec. ig.—His Serene hlighnefs the
Prince of LICHTINITIIN, Colonel of the Hulans
of the Archduke CHARIAS, fet out yefterday for
Paris, with difpatches of the utmolt importance.
According to fume perfons General Macs is ap-
pointed a Member of the Council of War : others
aifert that he will attend his Royal Highnefs the
Archduke Am-rainier, who is going to Venice, as
Captain General of that province.

LONDON.

FRIDAY, JANUARY 7.

PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK t

3 per Cent. Rol. 711 7s-3 per Cent. Conf. 721 73
Omni= 31i dif..—Ccolois for opi. 7311.

There is no doubt that St. Domingo is ina ftate
of the utmoa danger and difquietud: from the force
and aaivity of the Infurgent Blacks. A pollfcript
of a letter from !Port Republicain, late Port-au-
Prince, dated Oftober 13, and communicated to
us by a Gentleman on whofe authority we can de-
pend, flues, " I am lorry to fay that we are in
the moil alarming fituation, conftantly under arms
to protea our property and lives. The Englith and
Americans here have formed a company which I
command, and hope to good purpofe."
We have received Come important intelligence
from our valuable.correfpondeot at Gibraltar, of Co
late a date as the 16th December. The accounts
now received, confirm what we llated Come months
ago, refpeaing the probability of orders having
been fent out to our troops at Malta, not to eva-
cuate that Wand, fo fpeedily as was at firft intend-
ed. The natives are all rejoiced at the eircum.
(lance ; and the belief at Malta, is, that the Nea-
politan troops will be fent back again. From the
change however that teems to have taken place in
the political horizon, it is now as probable, that
fubfequent orders may have been fent out, for
thefe troops to remain where they are, till the fate
of Malta be decided.

It appears from our letters, that tranfports have
allually ailed from Malta to bring away our
troops from Alexandria. A little time will Phew
whether a change has taken place in this refolution.

Thofe who are interellei in the Mediterranean
Trade will rejoice to hear that proper explanations
have been made at Algiers refpetking the Pains,
fo that this pretext for interrupting our Commerce
is now done away.
In oppofition to the accounts that have been
circulated, (and on high authority too) of the
French force on the coatis of the Mediterranean
being trifling, and unworthy of any ferious notice,
we have to affert, on the authority of our Corref-
pondent, and we know its value well, that the pro-
ceedings of the French in that quarter, ought to
be well looked after by our Government—and we
are confident they will.
Our Readers will fee by our Port letters, that
the 'loop Bourn arrived at Portfmouth, and
which failed from Gibraltar the day before our
letters were fent off, has brought accounts of a
mutiny having taken place on board one of our
Chips in the Mediterranean. From our Correfpon-
dent not mentioning the circurnflanee, we are
inclined to believe it is an old affair, mentioned in
our Gibraltar letters force time ago; and we are
tilt more confirmed in this from the eircumlianee
c.f the Algerines having agreed to give up three
oat. to France, being brought forward as new,

though we Rated the fad fu far back as the t
of Oftober, on the authority of a letter from Gib-
raltar, of the t 7th of September, an authority
which Tome of our contemporaries affedted at that
time to difcrcdit !