Star.
London, England, 1818-09-09 00:00:00

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SANS.SOUCI. SUNS at..
Whilst our august Sovereign is on.his tourin tke
kingdom, and occupied in improving" our interior
situation, an unexpected event arrests our attention.
Petion, the only author of the Civil war, is no
'more. A few days after his decease; we were per.'
fectly instructed of the circomstances of his sickness
and death, by'direct and certain news from P.ort-aaV
Prince ; but we forbore to mention them, becattst
we-
wished first to know what had been his last testa-
mentary. dispositions.
Man, during his life, is flattered with the chimeras
of hope ; his passions render him blind to his wrongs
and his injustice ; but *hen his last moments ap-
proaCh, the veil of passion is rent away, and truth
appears in-all its nakedness.
According to the ordinary course of human things
we have zoom to hope that General Petion, when
drawing near his last hour, and about to appear at
the tribunal of the ETERNAL, wished to render to
Cesar the thhtgs which were Came:. That, touched
by the misfortunes that he had drawn upon his coun-
try, he would fain have obliterated, by one good and
glorious action, all the stains of his past life. Vain
hope!—there are, then, hearts that nothing can
change! Instead of persisting, as he still did. in the
doctrine of life and death, and departing from the
ways of reason, of justice, and humanity, why'was
not his heart softened ? Would to GOD he had
hearkened to the wise counsels, and accepted the
paternal offers, of our August Sovereign He would
then have acquired his dove, and merited the grati-
tude of the nation ; but he has suffered himself to be
drawn on by the illusions of ambition ; he has mis-
taken his true interest, and wandered from the path
of honour and duty. He was to be pitied, and we
pitied him.
In • a Government where nothing is stable, but
where all is ephemeral, among so many Candidates
having a right to the Presidency, it was impossible
for us to foresee into what hands the helm of State
would pass. Among the Generals of colour, Baze-
lais is the most ancient of this party ; he was elected
Brigadier-General by the late Emperor in 1803:—
after him came the Generals Borgella, Francisque,
Bergerac, Trichet, Lys, Brunz, Le Blanc, and Boyer.
Among the black Generals, Valvat, the most ancient,
was elected Brigadier-General in 1804; then came
Gideon and Fredetic. Amon!, so many candidates,
we say it was not possible to t.!11 on which the choice,
would fall; but were not long in uncertainty. Some
time after the death of General Petion, we learnt that
he had named for his successor in the Presidency,
General John Peter Boyer, who has recently entered
the military career, and whom we know under this
point of view but imperfectly ; he was but the Secre-
tary of General Petion in 1807. He then manifested
honourable and distinguished sentiments • he Fub-
licly blamed the boundless ambition of Gen. Petion,
who," said he, it was born to cause the unhappiness
of his countiy."
We have now reason to believe that General Boyer
will add example to precept, and that he will walk
exactly opposite to the ways of his predecessor; for
• he, doubtless, would not himself be guilty of the
, faults lie had condemned in another.
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• A new era is then going to rise over Hayti. The
time is a: last cr,lne when thoughtful and good men,
fathers of families, and those who aspire only to
enjoy tranquillity and security, can declare them-
selves, and labour for the re union of the Haytians,
and assist us in creating a new order of things, and
a stable and happy futurity.
The Sovereign, the most ancient existing chief of
the army, the most meritorious and distinguished
among the Haytians ; he who has rendered the great-
est and longest services t, his country ; lie who, by
his noble and generous character, is most capable of
directing our military career, he has jast made us
hear his paternal voice.
0, Haytians, of the west and south ! you will not
be deaf to the cries of riur country, which calls you
to her bcsom, to form but one family, and to unite
your arms against the common enemy.
All your misfortunes and our's are about to die
awaye; what then. do you await, to fly to onr arms,
and declare yourselves for the re-union? What have
you then to fear ? There are no enemies nor guilty
ones among-the Haytians; the King knows none;—
this Chief whom you have been the first to acknow-
ledge and proclaim, extends to you his paternal arms.
He knows you have been led on by the horrors of
civil war ; he knows that you are perfectly innocent;
he knows who has been the author of all our troubles
and disasters ; but he is no more ! All, then, is
marked out by the hand of I)iviNE PROVIDLNCE,
who seems willing to put a period to the dissentions
and misfortunes of the Haytian people.
Can you, 0 my fellow-countrymen! can you re-
fuse to listen to the voice of wisdom and of reason,
when you have no longer any motive whatever to
remain disunited ; but when, on the contrary, all
calls and counsels you to ally yourselves in the most
intimate manner? Must you not be insensible, the
enemies of yourselves, unjust and inhuman, to wish
to persist, without any reason, in continuing the civil
ivar, in rending the bosom of your country, and spil-
tng the blood of your brothers and countrymenl—
No, we cannot believe that there are such men exist-
itt among you—no, there are not such men among
you; for if there are beings so sanguinary, and hos-
tile to their country, and their true interest. es to
wish to continue the civil war, they are not Haytians
but Frenchmen, Of their secret partisans.
Haytians ! when our King is the first to give you
the example of wisdom, moderation, and generosity ;
when he speaks to you in the language oireason, of
justice, and humanity ; can you hesitate to follow his
noble and generous example? Can you maireosht
you to have say other opinion than his, or follow any
other impulse than that which he gives you in the
moment when be it acting for your happiness, and
the welfare of the country ? Think, then, that the
whole world is witness of the generosity and magna-
nimity of the King. Think of the goodness, the jus-
tice, and legitimacy of his cause ; and if, after his
paternal proclamation, you persist in departing from
him, think that you will be responsible for all the
calamities that shall afflict anew our country. Think
that you will be unpardonable in the eyes of your
contemporaries and of posterity, who will judge you
with all the severity and impartiality which you have
merited by your hardness of heart.
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We insert an a Order of the Day." issued on the

29th June, by President Boyer. The appointment
of the 16th July for the review of his army appears
to be singularly opportune, as his opponent Chris-1
Wylie by accqunts recently received, was in the
neighbourhood of Port-au-Prince on the 15th, with
a consider-Able force. We may expect, therefore, by
r the next arrivals from St. Domingo, to hear that the
rival Chieftains have come to blows.
PORT-AU-PRINCE, JUNE 29.

ORDER 07 THE DAY.

The Presidenvof Hayti expresses his satisfaction with the zeal
and spirk with which the troops of the Republic are animated;
by than &Ant justice to their patriotism, he is pleased In think.
in that they will continue to merit equal compliments.
The General commanding the frontiers of Trianon, and the
Chide, and the soldiers of that line, have acquired in particular,
by their exactness to the service, and by their attachment to the
Republic, incontestable rights to the public acknowledgment—,
The General and Chiefs of the corps will continue by their ex-
ample tb strengthen their inferiors in the love of order, and In
the obedience which the public good prescribes.
The 16th July neat, the army will be reviewed to receive a
month's payment. The military actively employed in the corps,
and In the different Etat-Majors only will have a right to this
payment. No person will'be allowed to claim this money, who,
on that day, shall be absent from his colours. BOYER.
13th Year of Independence.

THE EVENING STAR,

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