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

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Fox TIE National INrELLlGfScFR,
F,am tie Bulletin 05FlieI Ae Saiut Dom;a-
gae.
pkoMu LGATfoN OF THE COLONIAL
CONSTITUTION.
Cabe- Francois, '5aJ S.
THE government announced fome days
fince, in a hand bill difribnted through
the II. an, that the central aasrnbly had
fixed en- he 9TH Of this rnornh as the day
on which the Colonial Contribution ihould
he promulgated and to render this cere-
mony as fplendid as it is impreGve, the
General hinfelf had fettled the details.
In confequence Of his orders the generate
was beat yeaerday, at 3 O'Clock in the
morning, through all the ieetions Of the
town, and bands Of muGc, intermixed with
drums, alternately mingled their melodi-
US fom,ds with thofe intruments that war
has adopted to proclaim its terrors. At
s O'Clock, the troops of the line and of
the national guard met at the Place
d. 14,me,, where they appeared in good
order and made handiome dilplay.
Az the civil and military authorities,
in their appropriate dreAes, attended at
the government houie on leaving it,they
obGeryed the arrangements prefcribed in
the and-hill. and marched IN the follow
ing order to the Place d. Armes.
The comminion of Commerce,
The administration of the Marine,
The Municipality.
The tribunal of Commerce,
The tribunal of Peace,
The civil Tribunal,
The central Aaembly.
The general in chief, accompanied by
two generals, and all the military officers
who we ATTACHED to no particular corps,
bat were out of fervice.
Arrived at the Pkarr d'Armrs, the ci-
vii and military authorities formed cir
Gle round a tribune, which had been
raiied, in order to give dignity to the
fcene, and that the PRONUNCIATION of the
contribution lhould be !olennly and diC-
tin6ly made.
The concourie was immen!e. The mott
profound iilence reigned, ard each one
awaited with impatience, the reading Of
a work, which was to fix the defines Of
St. Domingo.
At this moment Citizeu Borgelle, Pre-
iident Of the central AGembly, appeared
in the tribune and prefaced the annuncia-
tion of the Contribution by an elegan: diE-
eourfe.
We areafraid of impairing the interea
it excited by an abridgment, and there.
fore prefsnt i, as it was delivered.
French Celsn;fs, and t,avr /oldiers!
sc 1t is long Gnce St. Domingo afpired
to the inappreciable happinels Of having
local contribution.
"The factions which have fucceeded
each other in the government of France
in propagating their anarchical princi-
pies in this difant IGand, had fienced
the ju.s complaints Of its unfortunate IN
habitants, had degraded them from the
dignity of freemen, had robbed them e.
ven Of ,hofe precious emotions, infpired
by fentiments (which elevate and ennoble
the foul and had forced them to receive
laws which they had neither made, OF con-
tented TO.
i" TheFrench colonies, faid tfecontiitu.
,ion of the year 3, TART. 81 are internal
parts Of the republic and are fdhjea to
the fame conRitutional laws.
" Thus by the mott terrible fatality the
deainies Of ST. Domingo have been afIo-
-eistsd with shsae eSFrsnee. II Is thus