Alexandria advertiser and commercial intelligencer. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1800-1803, 1801-08-12

thereto, to regulate tie oroeF OF ioCiety
it diicovers 10 you, that it is with laws as
with the prohibitions OF she earth, that
each country has its peculiar manners and
Its fatutes, as it has It's peculiar produc-
tions.
{" According to theis principles, an az
eynbly of the inha oitants have received
from you the imp5rssa, talk OF laying the
contSitutional foundation of an interior
syltem for this colony, and faithful to the
mother country, the General, who has au-
,loriied this aHenbly, has proclaimed that
this fyttem mall be fubmitted to the ianc-
sicn of tke French Government.
i" ConGdering the diisance OF France,
and The wars in which he is now engas-
ed, your Representatives. ihouli no' inter
pref un:avorably her ioas ilence BAT a
iarmcd by your want Of laws in th's peri
lous N ,ln-n1, they i:,o@!a d.:!; pate every
inqniesuic, and rc-afa-e every n'nt.-
Acknowledging that tt, tafety OF the
whole i, the iprca,c law, saey have be-
leyed i, their tuty 10 invite the general
who watches over the deitin.es Of ST. DO
rningo, to carry into efiea the BATS OF le-
Citation which they nave laid. It is now
thar this fyAem is offered to yoG; your
preient and future happiness has ;ncehant-
" occupied the attention of year deputies;
they have made every eH5fs 70 render 1t
durable. May they not be d:iappoingei !
/" French colon::as and brave foldlers !
never forget, but impress il deeply on
YOUR mini,, that it is time and experience
s!orc which can coniolids,e human in!titu-
s;3u,. Rally around this family co2pact
which is prelensei to you; your deputies
depoGr it in yoa, 5oloms as the pailaii-
I'm Of YOUR civil ana political liberty, as
,be pledge Of their aH.&tion for you, and
of their devotion to the republic.
" Long live the republic, which re-
ferns aoi which protects It's colonies! ~
Citizen Bereeila then .ead another diff
courfe in the form Of an introduction to
she contribution. Although this prelirni-
nary diCcourfe appears to us infeparaole
from the contribution, of which it is only
she developement, we think it proper to
;ntert it for the ias!staaion Of our di.tant
Gubfcribers.
j." The colony of St. Domingo exited
many years without any poitive laws
For long time governed by ambitious
men, its annihilaiion would have been in
eyi,ab,e, had not ti,c jul; and equitable
mind of the general in Chief iou!ilan;
Louver,ure, by combinations the moH
iue, and plans the belt formed, and atti-
CTS the mott energetic, delivered it, near
" at the fame time, from It's interior and
sxterior enemies, and f;cccistully eXtn-
1inquiihed every f,ark Of difcord reltu-
Ell it from the bofom Of anarchy, made
abundance ilcceei 20 m;lery, and the
love of labor AID G. peace to civil war and
idleneis, iecurity 10 terror, and, in
word, injured its entire fu5mi1icn to the
French empire. The revolution had vio-
,en,lv overthrown all which contributed
she fyaem by which the iiland ofSt. Do
n,inso had been anciently administered.
C 'rhe iii.asttrent Legislative aAemblies
Of France, in lis room, had fubeicut-
ed new laws at d;ferent epochs but
as toon as reported, their incoherency
and inflh>iency were acknowledged G.
ven BY thofe who hal formed them
and the u,ancsr in which they were
executed by fat,ious and dforderly men,
who interpreted them as bea fuited
their interetfs, contributed rather to pro-
duce than to prevent diforder.--The
natural consequences of this order Of
things hes been, to make thofe laws
which ought to have been received only
with fentiments OF gelPets, regarded as OBJ
;cAs either OF alarm Or contempt. The
wife men who had co-operated in the for
.nasion of the conht;tasion OF the year S,
have without doubt felt the neceiIty of
forming new iyfem for the di:tant colo
MES, aud in its formation. OF confulting
y,