Delaware gazette and peninsula advertiser. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1814-1820, 1817-05-24
From the Federal Republican and Baltimore
Telegraph.
st. Domingo.

perOr ChrisfOphe, has favored us with
the court calendar OF that monarch
it appears in a pamphlet firm, and
the various dignitaries of
his empire. In front Of all these dig
nitaries, appears the name Of his in.-
perial majesty the emperor Christopl,e
then the name Of the empress Ma
ria Louisa-then follow in succession
the princess of the blootl-then the
dukes, counts, mobiles, barons and
knights in their different grada-
items OF dignity, In short, it is in
every sense of the word "A court cal
endar, and it is a curious and interest
ing document. His majesty rules
his subjects with great severity and
rigor none Of then, ure suffered to
be absent from their dwelling after
10 O'Clock at night, although they
may belong to the highest order Of
his nobility. Strangers are allowed
this privilege notwithstanding. aud the
only way in which, the subjects Of the
emperor can evade this royal decree.
is to he found at the interdictcd hour.
in the company of a stranger. lis
deemed an high offence TO the empe-
ror's dignity, for any of the nobility.
either male or female, to be absent
from the palace Of Sans Souci, when
any iete is given by order of his ma
.jesty; the parties so offending, arc
Immediately placed under military
guard, and confined in a strong and
almost. inaccessible fortress. The en-
peror's life guards are extremely ex-
pert and dexterous in all military
revolutions. at's very formidable mi
'itary establishment it is represented
to be. The royal court and retinue
are described as uncommonly spien-
did and magnificent, and as partaking
of all the form and ceremony of Eu-
roean courts. His majcsty's printer
was anxious to exchange papers with
some printer on the continent Of Ame-
RIGA, and desired onr informant TO cx-
ert his kind Offices for this object.
Our informant ventured TO propose
an exchange with a Baltimore printer.
The idea was Immediately secuted
with discriminating less than @
printer in Philadelphia, or N. York,
would be equal in dignity 10 the prin-
ter of his imperial majesty. Parties
are formed in this government, headed
. each by one Of the princes Of the roy
lal blood, on whose succession TO tho
throne they look for their reward.
u THE various princes Of the blood ara
jail provided with private tutors, and
the rcyal pupils are represented a.
4 uncommon'y expert in learning their
lessons. His majesty enforces tho
most rigorous police throughout the
whole of his dominions crimes arc
soon detected & the criminals prompt
lily and severely punished.--Wc shall
shortly lay before eur readers SONS
i interesting information on this subject.
i This will not he done FROM motives
of idle curiosity. 1t is an important
/, fact in the eyes of the philanthropist,
!, to ascertain. whether the children of
Africa, if lett to themselves, are capa-
, HE Of exercising what are commonly
3 denominated the rights Of elf-govern.
? ment. IT has been urged as an OBJ
r|jection to the colonization of Africa,
! that these men labor under a moral,
: if not under a physical incapacity OF
: governing themselves. This argu-
: ment has been advanced by men who
. lave this fact full! before their eyes,
D Of riot and disorder, confusion and
anarchy, now assuming the shape OF
: regular government, capable per.
: haps Of maintaining The usual rela'
: tionslips of other independent powers
# Is it moi an astonishing fact, that III.
n emperor Christophe modelled his
E |eourt and all the dignitarics Of his
|empirc, exactly on the plan furnished
VI by Bcnaparte that the very emperor
n whose example he has followed, is
!, Inow solitary exile from his crown
i. land sceptrcin the desert of St. Helena
,,lwiiile his imitator is left in the full
e and entire possession of all his roya
elrights, powers and immuRities. Surely
Al then there is nothing in this spectacl,
: lcalculated to abate the confidence q
is the philanthropist, who would wish te
behold the return Of the cxiIed Afri
is cans to the country Of their ancestors
vi New York, May 10.
II From the numerous arrivals at lhi