Alexandria advertiser and commercial intelligencer. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1800-1803, 1802-04-16

cIared its dependence on France, tfey
could no, retuie to receive its ENJOYS !:
s,hly, They endeavoured 10 operate
on his feelings by prefen,ing the diff1ei.
iing picture of all the horrors with which
The Cape would be afflicted, ifhe psrG!tsd
in his retulal. I!
18th Pluyiofe. The project Of the Pc
tition, founded on thefe principles, having
been read and adopted, tie municipality,
attended by great number Of citizens,
Immediately waited on Chrifcphe tit was
then midnight) and laid before him the
fears and prayers Of the inhabitants.
Inienible to the expreficns Of acknow-
Judgments, Of reipea ard attachment con-
tanned in this petition, deaf to the true
fentiments of honcr and OF duty, Chrilto-
phe declared that he was folder, that he
knew only one CHEZ, TouHaini Loa.er-
ture, to whom he owed executive obedi.
eoce: That the proclamation had been "a
bricared On board tina. they ought.to
have tent advice, sc. and he concluded by
faying, that if the captain general per-
fitted in entering, The eavb IsouM b@rn
6cfars The Jquodruu .NouI a1t5or in IKE
Rad.
Allthc wife and deliberate realons which
were advanced, as wellby the citizen Te-
lemafue, mayor, as by our citizen Dele
grade, commiilary of the government at
the tribunal of the Cape, ard under this
title exerci;ing the fame function a, the
municipality, who fpoke to him with the
grea:ett force and mof isnpretIve energy,
could not open lhis eyes to The dangers Of
his obainacy, not fotlen his heart.
The municipality having retired, returr-
ed to the commune hail, and decreed their
fitting permanent.
Through the friends of Chriaophe,
they folicited him anew, but without iuc-
ceEs.
Then they delibera'ed that a deru,ati-
on Mould be fent on board Of The Ocean,
to gen. lie Cle.c, captain general Of the
colony, to inform him of the per'inacy ct
Chrifophe, to invite him to fIfpend the
entry of the lquadrcn fer twenty four
hours, and to allure him that they would
Immediately inform Touaaint Louverture
of the arrival of the representatives OF
France, and thar they ihould lolicit new
orders, revoking the former. They ap-
pointed the members Of the deputation,
which was competed of citizens, the may
or, the eommiaary Of government, Cor.
nellie, minilter of The catholic worlhip, ard
Cheveau, merchant. Mr.. Tobias Lear,
coniul of the u States, who had taken
part in the deliberations Of tie nunicipa-
!i.y, joined the derutation, after b>:ng in
vited.
The deputies Of the commune embark
el Immediately in b, ATTN which were al.
ready the admiral's aid camp and eiti-
zen Granier, 4vh, kzdxs. til KEN been a.
bic TO 60 an bard.
The depula'ion having prefen:ed them
felves before general lie C!erc, and hay.
ing explained rhe objea Of the milton, the
general anfwered--Thas France, over.
flowing with affection tor the colony, had
made every difpofition for its hapPinefs !;
he acquainted the deputies with the pro-
clamation of the French government,
as we'll as the one he had himfalf pu5liih-
ed he retraced in few words the great
favors which France intended for Touhaint
to whom lhe returned his children, after
having educated them with the grea,elt
care; he announced that the mother coun.
try iens to Chrihcphe testimonies OF public
acknowledgements, and ohfesved what
monarous ingratiiuIe theie two chiefs
wefc guilty Of towa:ds her.
He afterwards obitrved to the deputa,i-
on, tina, the conduit OF Chrii}orhe excited
approximations that he would only emPloy
the delay demanded, to ieeure by thejjunc-
ton OF his forces, the fucccis OF the reiiit.
ance which he meditated, he could not de-
lay the entry of the fquadron, and that be
was making the necelIary difpoGtions for
that purpole, to take place within half an
hour after the retarn Of the deputies to the
Cape, faficiens time fox Chriitophe to
repair by prompt iubmifiion, the fame of
his revolt asaina the only authority he
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