The Statesman.
London, England, 1814-12-07 00:00:00

amataianzaa .
I oat making a noble ase of the ascendency of ~n
cols- irath ~
- notified its resolution to the other State `1"1
State
I say': ;
aiptsi skt s
what, a p e concludedupeaolpl Treaties
ie men,
aa
again
f after
inrnwd :u:pcocaonl
years
lt upon
ihneg wo fht all
hoel e wh o
convicti 1 t
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Ad- after having conquered their liberty and their,
the Pendence, would consent to lay down their '
in- the purpose of
pas, the victims of their cruel oppressors? The lirt ch i_
his Haytians will yield up his last sigh sooner 444
ii,-%
'long nounce his independence.
most We will not do any Power thellaitias of • '
Port posing that it entertains the chimerical ... i
1 the , establishing its sway in Hayti by force of I '1 '
ened I The Power -that would 'undertake- sorb as e,'
isiete prize, would have to march for a long Urns'
put retire and dead bodies ; and after having* pit ""
ast it
',
and. means, if it could attain its object, what Atha eh`
,ving would it derive from the toss of so much hio;io
was , treasure? It is not presumptuous to suppose the
ayes. Majesty Louis XVIII. following the impulse
' II
un- I that philanthropic spirit that reigns in his r
after the example of his unfortunate le . 4.
Aof Louis X VI. in his political conduct tows* , -
ono- ' United States of America, will imitate that m
; he ' in acknowledging the independence of Ihyti.
sur. ! would not only be an act of justice, but a Tititi
rient ' tion of the evils which we have suffered fist gi
mere, i French Government. 1
inds 1 It is in vain that our calumniators shall dins
•
rs —1 to allege that we should not be considered's', ,
both 1 aspiring to independence, and collectively etspiki
ated 'ia the means of attainiteg it*. This absurd 4
', he: tion, invented by perfidy, wickedness, and
loud I did interests of slave traders,
deserves
of rights
ervesthe
ught roundest contempt and indignation of men et ,
ions perty in all countries. This assertion has " l'
first i dent!), falsified during 11 years of i.. . '''''
point .. .
the , and its happy results. Free inel
and i independent in fact, we will never renounce am
at of , blessings; we with never consent to behold them. ,
Vhat I straction of that edifice which we have cemented,
this 1 our blood, until we are buried under kolas.
pro-1 We offer to commercial Powers, who shill
ever into relations with us, our friendship--sennity s
their property, and our Royal protection to am
ring peaceable subjects, who shall come to our consi
1
than with the intention of carrying on their come*
urea , affairs, and who .shall conform to our laws ad
I the 1
usages.
the
The King of a free people, a soldier by habit, al
first I fear no war or enemy. We have already rigsam
His, 1 oar determination not to interfere in any way thee
a of ; internal Government of. our neighbours. We va
i to enjoy peace and tranquillity among eatielysm
such : to exert the same prerogatives which other pops
rinst ; have, of making laws for themselves. If, abet*
rid free exposition of our sentiments, and the jostles(
and oar cause, any Power should, contrary to the he
Ge- ; of nations, place a hostile force in our territory,fire
Na. I our first duty will be to repel such an act of aggroas
pro- by every means in oar power.
ode- We solemnly declare that we will never coast
to any treaty" or any condition, that shall came.
ered mise the honour, the liberty, and the independeo
kof of the Ilaytian people. Faithful to our oath w
On ; will rather bury ourselves under the ruins dee
was, country, than suffer oar political rights to mac
pie, the slightest injury.
yin Given in our Palace of Sans Souci, the liti .
ghts , • September, 1814, eleventh year of I •
Iced dence, and the fourth of our Reign.
iited (Stgued) HENRY;
By the King,
le of The Secretary of Stole, Minister for Foreign Aida
and Count de LIMONALIL.
with • See Malonet's Memoirs respectiog St. Domingo.
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our THE STATESMAN.
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t in- LONDON: •
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the WEDNESDAY) DECOIRER 7, 1814. •
orce • ~.___ •
We The chief novelty we this day present to
hic Readers is a Manifesto by the black Seters4a,
:iota that interesting colony, Hayti, or St. 0 ,
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His Haytian Majesty, HENRY CHRISTOPRE, f
Ilm
,i ag up his plans and resolutions for asserting the
om- betty and independence of the people of date
will markable and rising portion of the globe, fatearl
aof trust, to be the means of regenerating and civil-
in' the negro nations, aided, apparently, by WO
to
which put to shame the boasts of countries,hy
rte which
claim to much greater refinement, has P
the
seated us with arguments in favour of the Ili
9of timacy of Haytian independence, and the rig
do- which Goa and Nature have given to every ere
in •
being, which have all the dignity of truth and
us.
Li or quence to-support them, and will be read with
'ger deeps* interest. After taking a most rational
that ' view of the state of domestic slivery in which '
our population of Ilayti have hitherto been kept by 1,
Pi" want .of civilization and -enlighted policy is
fa.
be Governments, the Manifesto asserts the
of the present people to natural and cisiii '
the liberty, and states the unalterable determinative
our the Sovereign and the whole population of the
arri try, rather to suffer death than submit to the is
slo. doetion of say foreign authority. It is justly
:La, served that eviv Miditional argument decisive 0( '
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ion. question 'erf fillatligiancet the civil freedom, ans.
me. dependence of the individuals now claiming •to
and recognized as a free peoples is furnished by the A-
"it of the French Legislature itself. The law of t'''
_we Legislatu relin February,....017.41 proclaimed, that enthl
id) inhabitants of the Colosimo. , Were free. Every air's
(be therefore, in Hayti wit; •-from the year 179;s°
Ich, law, emancipated ; at.d every &Alan; we ma!l3l
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