Virginia Argus. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1796-1816, 1802-07-17
BALTIM0RE, juiy'.
Translated for the .4n,srican.
LIBERTY. EouALITY.
FRENCH REPUBLIC.
ApMY OF ST. DoNiNeo.
PROCLAM.ATIOE.
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Hea9-Quartcrs ct the Gaze, 22d i'-rzi-
rial, (JtoIe lo) ioM gear
The general IN chief Of the colony Of ST.
Domingo, to its inhabitants.
Citizens,
Toussaint was conspirator; this YOU
viii be Judge of by the inclosed letter di-
re6ted TO citizen Eontaine. Thought it
my duty not to endaiser tie tranquility
oil the colony. Icaused hirn 70 be arrested
and embarked, and send him to France,
where ne is TO account for his conducl 10
the French government. In another letter
directed to citizen Fontaine. he discharges
heavy invcctives against ger. Christophe,
and he complains that general Dessalines
has abandoned him.
He forbids Sylla to lay down his arms,
and the cultivators 70 work on any planta-
ton, bat those intended for provisions.
He sent one ofhis accomplices 70 general
Dessalines, to induce him rot TO Submit
with good faith.
he depends much o. Massinet, in ST.
Mark; he is arrested.
have Unlisted punishment up6n that
miscreant; and ] order all the generals
of division of the army to compel al the
cultivators who are still in arms, in she
mountains, to retire to their duty.
The .cgltivators are not the rncst guilty
lit is those that misled thernIin conse-
quence. of which every commandment Of
the national guard, every officer, overseer
or planter who shall be found in an armed
meeting, shall Immediately be shot.
rs to the Inhabitants of Emery, order
that they shall be Immediately disgrnsd,
for having been so tardy in submission.
General Brunei shall cause this order to
be executed. !.
The chief ofthe general staff shall cause
the present order, together with general
Toussaints letter to be printed, published
and posted; and he viii, with ali speed pos
sible, send it to the whole army through
out the colony!
(Signed) LECLERC.
Cotiy qfEr General 7dusszi,tt's Letter.
To Citizen Fonaiae.
You give me no news. You endeayor
10 stay at the Cape as long as you can.
1t is said that general LIE Clerc is in .
state Of bad health at Tortuga, this YOU
''AN'e ~ 'S'y PStACuAaL doOul litOTllllnS
me OF.
You must see ------, for arms from Anne
RIGA C.Vowvile.") As to the flour, FOR we
are in want of some of the last kind, it
ought not TO be sent without passing thro'
Savna, that we may know the depot where
il might be placed with safety,
If you see the general in chief, tell him
positively, that the oultivators won't obey
me. They want TO make them work at
Hiricourt but the overseer ought not to do
it.
ask you if we, can bribe some of the
, attendants of the general in chief, that we
might free D., I he would be very
useful to US, through his credit both in
America and some 7gherc else.
Inform Gengembre that he must not
leave the Borgne, where il is necessary
that the cultivators should lot work.
Write to me at the plantation Naiar.
(Sigred)
TOUSSAINT LOUVERTURE.
! 7rtie ecfly from the original.
/ The general of division, chief Of the ge-
neral staff Of the army.
DUGUA.
> Il Is Understood Ly e .N5trmie," the u
ni'ed STATES.
! + Sutfoscd 70 Diea,, DeVelcouri, oae 81
Ioussaiet's G;1-de-can7fs.