Star.
London, England, 1803-11-08 00:00:00

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[What mull alto have created new alarms was the.
choice made of chiefs, officers and tubelteres, who
were all men known to be the moil implacable and
moil inveterate enemies of the blacks and men of
icolour.--:The office of commandant of the national
guard was conferred on Tots zard, fo well known by
having been one of the authors of and agents in the
iiturrettion of 1791, when perfidious intriguers, to
favour their own projeas, excited the blacks to revolt
and put arms into their hands ; and thole appointed as
Touzard's affieants were all men of his party, or
perfona known to hire been in the pay of the Eng-
Lila government.l .
.. . .
Should it be laid, that the national guard Is not
cosi:poled eicinfively of white men, I (hail obferve in
anfwer, that the whites. are formed into feparate
companies 1 that fince their fire formation indeed,
Tome free compaiies of blacks and men of colour
have been added-but they form difiinft corps ;1
defpifeci and hareted, in whom no confidence is
placed ; bat none of them have been fufikied to be
fub.lieutenatts, or are indulged with the hope of ever
to
anffic—erisngmrght perhaps
trank.ie excu To
ft, but theyought
them
from
bring
not to have been exprefsly excluded. The sth article
Ws; C, The companies flail be commanded by white
officers," &c. This mode& could not fail ant more
to irritate the lain& of the blicks. which 'eight re-
they; to have been contiliated. ‘ .
Aiother bad, or at lead very imprudent murk*
which could not fail of exciting new diforderl, was
the deetee which revoked all the lutes of Me farms
for whatever period granted, without ordering reins.
barfetnent for the bsoney laid out of them by the
farmers. .. . • ....
This deerie eoirld not fail to produce general
alarm. It was dated 16 Frpaidor (Sept. 3), and it
bad been 'ended at Pali& More than a month be-
fore. It arei*d it Seim Domingo about the end of
Illeadentiaire (fisiddie of Ottolser), ind Mall have
greetet contributed to the &tertian of the ehiefe, who
were arlieft all farnieri.al-7e' and whore friends
alma} all planters,
and bad, either alone or in
eoitipmaitts, laid out large Gialski of am* no the im-
provement of their plantadoes.
It is Pointe that they were mice al4tit'll to find
that they Were going to be entirely •itri3sped of their
property. 'melee is a peened motive ti'ation, aid'
Vas prodiced more than one revolt.
At the tame period that the decree for annuilrig ail
testes was palled. another was ?fined, tutpending the
payment of ail the old dehtifor five years ; and which
bid, 44 the ereditori of the planterb of St. Domingo,
incept in the cafes hereafter fisecifief, cannot pride-
ente to obtain payment of debts that oho property
fitnated in the coloiy." The planter's who had boat
mills and bodes, cone:rutted enrriagesi, purcitated
bulks, ice. had Tilton to think that this &mood
tuned theft, Ann no eipulation was made tot their
Ceitiburtement.
It is afterwards !aid, " it 41011 he laWful to give
to the new renters an eiciefive right to the income
of the plantation, Sec." Here then is a priiiiege
granted to the new planters, and none for the reim- '
hurfernent of the former occupiers.
At the tame time intelligence was brought to St
Domingo, of a decree which ensiled, that none but
Europeans lbould be yea as managers in the
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plantations I and w '4, neatly excluded from
Leash:ling managers, b 'eke or meit of colour,L-
This could not fail of exciting ditcontent. Thefe
people anti now have P:en. that they were no longer
capable of any thing. or fit to be acherittnd into any
office, even though they &riffled to have confidence in
them. The letters of .procuration which had been
granted to tome of them, were even rev:Acct.
Government, if neeefary, ought to have given
them proper advice, but not to have excluded them
Cron places of true in to public a manner, as it had
the appearance of degrading and intuiting thelm-;
Degradation is never forgiven, and much leflt to,
when to this is added the powerful motiveofintereft.
It was known at the fame tithe, that all the young
Blacks and perfons of Colour had been expelled froth
the College belonging to the kejfitstiow do admits
(Cssevaux had &fon in that eflablifhment). that by
a particular decree, all the Blacks and tam of Co-
lour had been baniesed from the French territories
es the Continent ; and that they had been conveyed
as prifoners to two glands in the neighbourhood of
Rochelle.
It was known alto, that by another decree, every
Black or man of Colour, was forbidden to enter
France, under pain of being erred and cesplard, till
an opportunity Mould occur of tralOareac them-4
The Blacks and men or Colour in Saint Domingo
then taw that a fyfiem of perfetutlon againft them
had been generally adopted.
The French Journals, the editors of which were
very imprudent, muff elk have done a great deal of

hurt, for as they fpolce 6.perly again& the Blacks,
evil minded perfons by fhewing them to them, might
excite and encourage them to revolt.
There appeared in the Paris Journals of the 4th
Meffidor (July 14th), a proclamation of the confuls,
in which it was Paid, „At prefent there is no Freneh w-
kly which is not fajta to the law, witbout whi,h, colo-
nies cannot ex "
General Ls ctER c no doubt found at St. Domingo,
that this expreffion was impolitic, and might produce
dangerous and fatal effeds. In the Gazette of the
Ifland of Saint Domingo, therefore, of the 7th Ven
demiaire, year tt, (Sept. 30, 1802), in which the
proclamation of the confuls was inferted, he canfed
that pallage to he 'sordid, to prevent the blacks from
having any knowledge of it. But other Journals
brought from France were circulated; theta contained
the whole proclamation, and by giving a literal copy
of the phrafe intended to be fuppreffed, declared the
whole truth.
HOW CONNIUNICATID EY 101 IT! WITNESS, WHO
bill THINGS CLOSELY, BUT WOULD NOT WILITS