The Statesman.
London, England, 1820-05-08 00:00:00

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No. 47 i 1

.% I'ONTR.II'TS.
CemeasisserOt Deptvimlngt. 'l'reasury Chambers.
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FROM S.ITURD.I)"3 LONDON G.4ZET

ESSAYS ex rift CAUSES OP Ts: REVOLUTION
♦moo CIVIL WARS IN ILAYTI :
FORMING A suits 0? POLITICAL ISPLZCTIOT4S ON
INILTAVT FRISCH M OKAS tuNCIMNING MATTI, ST
MONSISUR Li 5A1.01.4 Dr vAstar, &c. &c.

as his authority allowed, he had maictelned ordt r awl
regularity in administratioo, sAd discipline among the
troops. His private con is regular manners. had
brought on him the all men ; he was the
hope of the good an of families.
The Enterer Dessalines d find no remedy to
these evi He was completely ignorant of them; he
was bli his own prosperity, and by the adulatior
of the around him, who concealed from bun
the affihitfuns and miseries of his people; these vile
flatterers engaged him in a routine of frivolity, ir.
balls, parties of pleasnae, aid intrigues with females!
Soon, therefore, did these conspirators prevail on Des-
salines to neglect his duty, and commit actions which
forfeited his people's love, and enabled the traitors to
in eeeeee tate him with the nicre facility.
Pell:tit and his accomplices did not however deceive
themselves that they had great obstacles to surineara
ere t:,ey could carry their point. The Emperor
destroyed, the helm of state would return by right to
the General-in-Chief. But the accomplishment of this,
their first step, would be effecting but little; they had
every thing to fear front the people and the troops
they resolved therefore on utabing use of the nano, of
the General-in-Chit f to accomplish, with as little dan-
ger as possible, the resolution which they meditated.
They fabricated a letter in the name of the General-lc-
Chief, in which they called upon the people and the
troops to ra volt against the Emperor. In acting thus
the conspirators accomplished two ends. In case the
Emperor should escape their reteltitroione, they would
compromise hint with the General-in-Chief. Thus, in
either nay, they could not fail tat hurl the Emperor from
his throne. or the General-in-Chief front his cowman I.
The conspiracy broke out on the 10th of October,
ltto6, in the plain of ('ayes ; the partisans of the Em-
peror were sacrificed to the vengeance of the Marl{ R-
ums. The Minister of War, Geri!), who preteret:ol to
be sick at L'Anse-a-Wean, put himself at the head
of the insurrection of the South, and marched with his
troops to Port-au-Prince. Petiou, to hold the Emper,:
in treacherous security, announced to hint that an in-
surrection had manifested itself in the south, anal that
he would set out to stop its progress. The Emperur,
who placed the greatest confitl.asce In Petion, ordered
him to take such measures as might appease these
troubles. Petion accordinxly went to Port-au-Prince
with troop, to form a junction with those of the sontit.
He took with him General Germain, whose fidelity he
doubted, and gave orders, both by sea and land, that
no one should leave the city, that the Emperor might
be hindered from knowing what was passing there.
'Petion left his troops at Grand-Gnome, and then re-
paired to Gerin at Petit-G,tetre, where they shut them-
selves up mediate. The two Nu m,' tilkarPil Wing
a junction at Grand-Goave ; there 'hey arrested Gene-
ral Germain, marched to Port-an-Prince, and entered
into that city on the Igth of October, with the Ge-
nerals Vayow,.llagloirr, Un wrier, and other chief in-
struments of the conspiracy.
During this period the Emperor was at Dessalines
(so named after himself). After having given some or-
ders previous to his departure, his intimated to the
General-in-Chief the insurrection which had broken out
in the south, and that he should hold himself in readi•
nvss to march at the first notice he should receive. He
gave the command of tsessalines and of the eastern pro •
vivre to the Minister of Finance, Andrew Verart,
with orders to march successively the troops of the
east to juin him, in case he should need their assist-
ance, and be departed for Arrahetyr almost alone, fol-
lowed by some :tides-de-tamp, and a small escort of
cavalry.
'I he General-in-Chief, at the reception of the Em-
peror's letter, was penetrated with the most lively in-
quietude. lie dispatched one of his Aides-de-Camp
after the Emperor to demand of him orders to marela,
and recommended to him not to advents re bins.
without t oups, and without being well informed of
the situation of things; but, unfortunately, the Aid-
de-Camp did not overtake the Emperer. Arr:ranl at
&mice Pl•antr, about six leagues from Port-au-Prince,
he trained that the Emperorr was no more. An in
conceivable fatality had led to his death. In his route
to Arrant:ye, he wet one of Lis Aides-de-Camp, whom
he had previously sent oil a mission into the south
This officer, who had only been able to advance as far
as Mirage:tine, gave an exact account to the Emperor,
and advised hint not to enter Port-an-Prince without
troops: but the Emperor, who had a blind confidence
in Petiou, and who:. intrepid eonl was above fear, de-
spised the salutary advice which had been given him,
and dismissed from his presence the faithful Aid-de-
Camp. At Areal:nye he took for hs guard six com-
panies of the elite of the 3d reximent, and ordered
them to march under the command of Colonel Thomas,
and of Lient.-Colouel Liedeon, with injunctions to go
and wait fir him at the gates of Port-au-Prince, at a
place called the Pont Ronge. He himself stopped as
the ancient habitation of halal-re, where he retired to
rest. It was at this place that, upon oheerving
the smoke in the distant mountains of the south, he
said to those who were about him—" From the time
of day it now is, I suppose the General Petion is
amusing himself with the sports of the chase." So
great was his blindness with regard to this traitor.
The guard in question effected its march to Pont
Rouge, where it waited the arrival of the Emperor.
The greater part of the officers had seattered then--
selves among the neighbouring habitations, or had
entered into the city, believing it in peace, for none
of them entertained any doubt and inquietude on this
head. Petion being informed of the arrival of these
troops, resolved to win them over, and thereby effevt
the completion of his stratagem on the Emperor. F.,y
this purpose he sent General l'ayou, one of the blind-
est instruments in this conspiracy, who emission:Ed
by caressing the officers to corrupt them, anti to lea -
suede them to enter Port-au-Prince, that he might Joi-
e etliately replace the Emperor's guard, by one of tsar
IStb carps of the troops of the south. Petion heat
even the perfidy to place a commas lant at the head

,voncE hereby girrn to all l'ersons desirous
q/ Cosireetiag fs apply tkc ;Maxine Articles, Jiw
Mr we of lAr Army, ri:.
AREA:),

Tn his Vaje..ty's Lind Forces in eintonnbents, Quitters,
iad P: !MCI,. In the under-mentioned Counties and J.

TVS ►HM THU ORIGINAL lIRRNCII, ►o TIM PAPRR
lIIICLUAIS ALT.
Rs ALEXANDER JAMIESON, Esq.

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Northampton.

41iirmsov,
Crniberiaisd,
GLetoory.
FREAH TIFEP.
T !::, its 's tssul VOrres in (autoarnee,„ Quarters, and
liarrseks, in site under-mentiuned Island
Thiertscy, Guernsey, J••rsey.
OATS.
l.:s Nisjestv's Curtin, In Cantonments. end Quarters. is
the onsieratifteutioned Counties :-
4:luster. Mouroatts. ?Wells and South Wnles.
4.4 14. ibusbmerstubro So roommate, imam/ for the VIM
lug June tell; that Proposals in Writing. sected
and mantel. ** render for Army Supplies." will be re-
,.,etwd at this Offeee, on or before Tuesday, the 31101 Lay
qpict7 wit t bat none will be remised alter Peeler
**etc..; on /nal day) ; and ij sent by Post, the postage ntust
ne paid.
Proposals start Fe made separately for eaeh County and
Island. art cgd for the Coanties roanprising North and South
Wales. all of which most be included in one Tender, as also
was: dee sleep& of Meat lathe Islands of te reensey, Jersey.
and A:aceaff.ated (ark Proposal must hare the Letter which
somes.red !oleic Trader properly jilted np, by Two Persons
of knows property engaging to Weenie bound with the
Part# tenders's,. is the amount stated in the printed
Paratentars.for tke &se swrjormanee of the Contract ; and
o Proposal ?rill be noticed unless made on a printed Tea.
Gar. and the Prices e.rpressed in words at length • and
.amid it so happen. that. during the continuance ;t1 the
Contract. no 'I roe,. should be supplied by virtue of the
same. the amount of the Stamps en late Contract and Bond.
"aid is the fret instance by the Contractor, shall be sc-
rawled to him.
Partiesdars of the Contracts stay be had was applies-
ass at these Chambers. between the hours of Ten and
Am.; and of the Barrack- Wasters in the Islands.
P.S. hoon!stee of the Dread and Meal May be seen at this
*NS between the Mars t4/* /Metre dad Tee.

litiSA Y VIII.

The want of reflection. or, more properly, the spirit
of custom, had given to the General-k•C'hief of the
native armies the title of Goreraor-Geteetal ; the spirit
of imitation suggested that of Etrip roe. Bonaparte,
the Fir,: Consul in Prance, had caused himself to
be hanohrrd with this title; and the (lovernor-Veneral
of'Hs,tl was equally worthy of the same denontina-
quo. Thu" we passed front one exerts to another;
for if the title of tiovern•w-lieneral suited not an inde-
pendent nation, because it implied a secondary power
to one MOTE elevated, the fi-titious title of Emperor
was no better, because it supposed that he possessed
territorial property, a population, &c. &c.—ln the
wording of the act of nomination of the Emperor, it
was said, eat the apprente authority could not Ge di-
tided f the Enspei or was named
.p,r life, with the right
,y* chitisiake• his str,ressor, kr. The constitution was
confurpsable to the tenor of this art ; the three Powers
of Sole—Legialatire, Exertatire, and Judicial', were
waited in the sane hands: it had well been named a
Coaaeil of State. The Emperor had two Ministers, one
of the Finances and the Interior, the other of War and
Marisa, and Secretary of State. Such a constitution
Was a political monster. The empire was an elective
'republic, Atli the constitution was consecrated to
principles diametrically opposite to a republic, and
which could never square with it, though they were
vastly in unison with a government purely despotic ;
and on the other hand, by a strange confusion of ideas,
the constitution consecrated principles the most demo-
cratic. But the Emperor Desaahttes, with the best
intentions, wanted talents to govern ; and among our
first misfortunes was that of his !mint surrounded by
tiututoral and corrupt men, sold to Frame, and who
aught his destruction with as much seal as the ex-
: colonists had achieved that of the brave Toussaint.

EAST INDIA HOUSE. April M.
THE ro,,r! of Direetorofy the United Company
.Ifrrehosin nJ England, trading to the East Indies,
ds horst" yore Notice.
Inds QL VITESI.II" GENERAL COURT of the said
Cawley will be hel.l at their House. in Leadeaball-street,
on WIT4E.D4Y. the of Jun* nest, at Eleven o'clock in
the F-,enanil, for the pgrpose of declaring a Dividend from
I Irina.* le-t to feinpoonsor next.
Thai 'tie Tranvitc?Doglis of the said ('ompany's Stock
will be nun on Tuesdigatte Nth of June nest. at Three
oclock, sad opened aglW on Tuesday, Ike Itilh of July
fallow:no.
And that the Dividend Wairentv on the said Compitay's
Stork. doe on the Stli of Jule, will be ready to be densored
us Thursday, the des of JO!) next.
JOSEPH DART, lietrelary.

By an ordinance of July the 2Gth, 1'413, and the
second of our independence, the Emperor named the
Oeniral of Division, Henry Uhristophe, General-in-
thief of the Army of Hayti ; Andrew Vernet, Minister
of Finance and the Interior ; and Stephen Elias tierin,
Minkter of War and of Marine. The tienerals ur
colour, Petion, Oeffrard, and Gabart, were continued
commands.
had Tohtnparily banished than-
, now sought to return into
intry to stir up new troubles.
their importunities, permitted
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