--- Page 1 --- --- Page 2 --- --- Page 3 --- dhemt Vau A PARTICULAR ACCOUNT OF THE I N S U R R E C TIO N OF THE NEGROES of St. DOM ING O, BECUN IN AUGUST, 1791: : TRANSLATED FROM THE FRENCH, THE FOURTH With NOTES and an APPENDIX EDITION: original Papers. extraéted from authentic 1792. SPEECH made to the tbe tbird of Nouember, NATIONAL ASSEMBLY, the GENERAL ASSEMBLY 1791, bytbe DEPUTIES from DOMINGO, of tbe Frencb Part St. SIR S, HE General Affembly of the French In that appointed us a deputation to addrefs you. part of St. Domingo has tachment character, of this our firft dutyis to affure you of the inviolable before we defcribe important to you the part ofthe empire to the 2tits defruction, and folicit the terrible events which are mother-countty, now fave, ifi it be yet pollible, its wretched carlieft and moft effeétual fuccour, working to will Long end bave in we forefeenthe evils which remains, not our anniltlation, if the national affiat 1tS, and which, doubtlefs, We fpeedily for our relief. juftice and power come tolay before interpofe an The imperfect idea of our difafters you fome and particulars of which yet will give but haying boen General conftituted Affembly. of the French our part fituation. of St at Lesgant, had Domingo, after A appointed to hold its fefions in in we forefeenthe evils which remains, not our anniltlation, if the national affiat 1tS, and which, doubtlefs, We fpeedily for our relief. juftice and power come tolay before interpofe an The imperfect idea of our difafters you fome and particulars of which yet will give but haying boen General conftituted Affembly. of the French our part fituation. of St at Lesgant, had Domingo, after A appointed to hold its fefions in --- Page 4 --- [ 2 J in the town of the Cape. The deputies werc there for the purpofes of their miffion. gradually aflembling Scveral of them arriving on the 16th (Auguft) at the diftriet of Limbé, diftant fix leagues from the Cape, werc there witnefles of the burning ofa trafh-houfe on Chaband's plantation. Theincendiary was a negro-driver" of Delgrieux's med with 2 cutlafs, he fled; , M. Chabaud faw, purfued, plantation. and Arhim ; they fought; the negro was wounded, taken, and put in overtook, irons. Being interrogated, be depofed, <that all. the 6 domeftics, and confidential negroes, of theneighbonring drivers, caachmer, sard adjacent diftriets, had formed: a plot to fet plantations f and to murderall the whites." Hc marked hre to the plantations veral negroes ofhis mafter's plartation, four of out, as ring-leaders, fcs Acul, three leagues from the Cape,) and the Flaville's, (fituated at Blin's plantation at Limbé.. negro Paul, driver on The municipality of Limbé proceeded to M. Chabaud's; on putting the fame queftions, received the likc anfwers from the and, incendiary negro, The municipality prefented the examination, in form of a verbalp procefs, to the Northem Provincial Affembly; and, Flavilles attorney (or manager) ofthe names of the informing were about him, advifed his fecuring and lodging them confpirators in the that. the Cape. prifon of This man, ofa mildand gentle difpofitiou, inclined more to confidence than fufpicion, aflembled the negroes under his command, and, communicating the information he had reçeived from the told them he çould not give credit to a plot fo municipality, and them his head if they defired it. With one voice attrocious, they offered the depofition of anfwered, that fwore an inviolable Defgrieus's attachment drivet. was a deteftable calumny, and ncfs to believe them, and his credulity to their has manager. He had the wcaknicipality of Limbé demanded from M. been' our ruin. The muplantation, that they might examine the Planteau, negro Paul. attorney This of Blin's flave, being < interrogated, replied, 6 That the accufation brought bim was falfe and injurious; ; that, full of gratitude to his againft E whom he was daily experiencing aéts of would mafter, from €s found concerned in plots that might be kindnefs, he never be 6 ofthe framed againft the exiftence whitesandagaint their property." In return for this perfidious declaration, and under affurance from M. Planteau that Paul deferved credit, he was releafed. In this ftate matters continged till the 21ft, when the publie force of Limbé, at the requifition of the municipality, proceeded to plantation, to take into cuftody the the negro cook, açcufed Defgrieux's a ring-leader: the negro fled; tound cut the negro. Parl, of Blin's of being tation, and, in conjunêtion with the other planfire and fword, deftined for the completionof confpirators, their horrible they prepared Int thc night, between the 22d and 23d, twelve; negroes reached deligns. the firBar-houfe gnAor'splantation at Açul, feized upon the apprentice refiaen The at work, French woidis somardeur, Signirying anegro trufted with the carc ofa fmall party ner; negro. Parl, of Blin's of being tation, and, in conjunêtion with the other planfire and fword, deftined for the completionof confpirators, their horrible they prepared Int thc night, between the 22d and 23d, twelve; negroes reached deligns. the firBar-houfe gnAor'splantation at Açul, feized upon the apprentice refiaen The at work, French woidis somardeur, Signirying anegro trufted with the carc ofa fmall party ner; --- Page 5 --- [ 3 1 him before the great! houfe, wherc hee expired under their ner; dragged out the attorney ofthe cftate, who was wounds. His cries brought two mufket-balls. The wretches laidl breathlefs on the ground the by head refiner, and affaffinated bim SARa ceeded to the apartment of fick in a neighbouring, chamber, they left bed. A man, blows lying of their cutlalles; he had frength to for dead tt the where he related EE horrors he had witcrawl Ito the next plantation, only was (pared; an exception which was neffed, and that the fuargeon in general, of whofe abilities the repeated in refpeét to the furgeons fland in necd. negroes had reckoned they might to Clement's plantation, and there killed The plunderers proceeded the proprietor and the refiner. favoured thejunétion of thei ill-difpofed, who, Dayl began to break, with and dreadful fhouts, fet fire to houfes and canes, fpreado over the plain, and maffacred the inhabitants. the revolt had broken out on the threc plantaOn that fame night At one of which, the blacks, with arms in their tions of Galifet. into the chamber of the refiner, with a defign to hands, made way but only wounded him in the arm; favoured by the affaffinate him, and ran to the great houfe. The whites, who renight, he efcaped, for their defence. M. Odeluc, a member of the Gefided there, united for the concerns of Galifet, came to the neral Afembly, and information attorney there of the infurreétion of his negroes. Capey and he reached the plantation, feized the ring-leaElcortedby Mer patrole, their head to thc town. Immediately he went ders, and returned at that he might reftorc tranquilliout again, with twenty men in arms, were all embodied, and atty and maintain order. But the negrocs tbe white infant impaled. tacked him. Theirfandard was himfelf body ofa to his coachman, whom : a pake. M. Odeluc, addrefling exclaimed, < Wretch, I have ever perceived among the foremoft, doft thou feek True," < treated thee with kindnefs, why mydesthi" and, that inhe replied, < but I bave promifed to cut him. your throat:" The majority of the ftant, a kundred weapons were upon M. Averoult alfo a member of whites perithed with him, particularly the General Affembly. (that which had fo recently At the very fame time Flayillé's armed gang themfelves, and revolted, entered fworn fidelity to the attorneyp and murdered five of them who refided the apartments of the whites, wife, on her knees, befought the on the plantation. The The attorney's inexorable negroes affailinated thehufband, life of her bufband. that fhe and her daughters were referved for their and told the wife pleafures. employed on the fame plantation, was fei- . M. Robert, a carpenter, whol bound him between two planks, and fawed zed by the negroes, him deliberately in two. wounded in two places, efcaped the fury of A youth, aged and fixtcen, it is from him we learned thefe facts. The (word the cannibals, mode of exprefing any man's happinefs-e Ma Ai,H At the Cape, it was a proverbial de Galifct," 6 He is as happr as one of Galifet's negrocs. 4 citl heureuxe comme un negre was A 2 , whol bound him between two planks, and fawed zed by the negroes, him deliberately in two. wounded in two places, efcaped the fury of A youth, aged and fixtcen, it is from him we learned thefe facts. The (word the cannibals, mode of exprefing any man's happinefs-e Ma Ai,H At the Cape, it was a proverbial de Galifct," 6 He is as happr as one of Galifet's negrocs. 4 citl heureuxe comme un negre was A 2 --- Page 6 --- [ 4 J was then exchanged for the torch; fire was fct to the canes, and the baildings foon added to the conflagration; it was the appointedfignal; revolt was the word; and, with the fpeed of lightning, it Aamed out on the neighbouring plantations; wherever there were whites, there were fo many victims flaughtered; men, women, the infant, and the aged, expired indiferiminately under the knife ofthe affailins. A colonift was murdered by the very negro whom he had moft diftinguifhed by acts of kindnefs. His wife, flretched upon his body, was forced to fatisfy the brutalityoft the murderer. from thefe horrors, M. Cagnet, inhabitant ofAcul, feeking to efcape embarked for the Cape. His domeftic négro begged permiflion to attend him. Such a mark of attachment determined his mafler to leave him as a guard upon the plantation, that he might endeavour to preferve it. But M1. Cagne: had hardly fet foot on-board, when he faw that flave, with a torch in his hand, fetting fire to his property. Expreffes being fent to the Cape, armed citizens and troops of the line wcre difpatched thence; they proceeded towards the frongeft body of mutincers, and deitroyed a part of them; but, finding the number ofrevolters inçreafing in centuple proportion to their loffes, ànd being unable to maintain their ground, they retreated in expeétation of a seinforcement, which arrived, but not before night, headed by M. de Touzard,. who took the command of the little army. M.de Touzard, perceiving that the revolters were rallying on Latour's plantation, marched thither. Their number might be from three to four thouland. The moment the artillery was readyt to play, to difperfe them, the negrocs pretended to furrender. M. de Tyzardadvançed; many of them exclaimed they would return to their duty. Hetrufted to their repentance, and retired. Humanityand thei interefts of the colony enjoined his forbearance, but it was not long before he was undeceived; the negroes feparated indeed, but only that they The right recruit their numbers with all the neighbouring gangs, an end to army returned into the town to take new fteps for putting the the diforder. The revolters profitéd by this interval to fill up meafure oftheir depredations." Our communications with the àdja- had cent diftriéts became impeded. Wev were alarmed left the diforder reached then, and our fears were foon realifed. Welearned, by means of perfons efcaped by the fea, that Limbé, Plaifance, Port Margot, misforwere a preyt to like horrors, and'every citizen, in detailing his tunes, difcovered to us new crimes. had his M. Potier, inhabitant of Port Margot, taught negro-driver to read and write. Hel lad given him his liberty, which the fellow enjoyed; he had granted him 10,000 livres, which were foon to be paid tp him : he had' alfo given to this negro's mother a piece of land, be- on which fhc cultivated coffee. The monfter feduced the gang of bis nefaétor and ofhis mother, burncd and deftroyed their poitellions, and obtained, for this action, a promotion to the rank of general. fonsi At Great River, an inhabitant, M. Cardincars b.i two in natural their childef colour,* to whom he had given their liberty, and who, * In the French colonies, the free negroes, as well 25 the mulattoes and others of the mixed racc, ase denominated peplée efe colosr. hood, uced the gang of bis nefaétor and ofhis mother, burncd and deftroyed their poitellions, and obtained, for this action, a promotion to the rank of general. fonsi At Great River, an inhabitant, M. Cardincars b.i two in natural their childef colour,* to whom he had given their liberty, and who, * In the French colonies, the free negroes, as well 25 the mulattoes and others of the mixed racc, ase denominated peplée efe colosr. hood, --- Page 7 --- M Ra t5 J of his tendereft cares. They accofted him hood, had been the objeats and demanded his money. He deliveredit; witt a piftol at his breaft, obtaineditthan they ftabbedhim to thel heart. but no fooner hadthey Chauvet die Breuily deputy to the General Affembly, At Acul, M. aged fixteen, his naturalfon, to whom he wasafiaffinatedt byar mulatto, having manumitted him from his childhood, deftined hisfortune, Great Ravine of Limbé, a colonift, father oftwo young laAt the of a band, who dies, whites; was tied down by a favage and delivered ring-leader the younger over to ravithed the eldeft in his prefence, they flaughtered both the one of his fatellites; their paffion fatisfied, Father and the daughters: with their fon-in-law and daughter, encouraM. and. Mad. Baillons their but the depredatheir negroes, remained on plantation; warned them that it was f EAROA whom they had moft trufted, confefled to her tine tofly. Thenurle cf Mod.. Baillons and the offered younger, to attend them. An there was not an inftant to be loft, their fteps. Luckily Mad. Baillon's old fervant engaged to conduct the and had obhurfe was wife of Paul Blins one of negro generals, At her intained from him fome-provifions tor her mafter's family. a catreaty, he bad even promiled to provide, at But! a diftant how barquadier, their grief at noe to carry the fugitives to the Cape. or One of them a litile without maft, or oars, ecare feeing (kiff, the boat over-fet, and his) life, with diffitried to embark in it; flimfey applied to Paxl, and his wife reproached culty, was faved: Again they He replied, cthat he only provided him with breaking his mode promife. of death to that which the revolters had < this as a preferable - - pettificd at this recital, with t prepared for the unhappy family:". fet off on foot, and after terror! defpair gave them new ftrength ; they of five leagues, being twenty-one days in performing a journey, they arrived only at Port Margot, every day encompaffed with dangers, whence they reached the Capc, on all fides. La Petite Anfe, Mean time the Aames gained ground of Morin, Limonadc; prefented only la Plaine du Nord, the diftricts beaps of afhes and ofn mangled thinks carcafes. could deepen the horrors of this recital; Nothing, one it is would marked with features of a Aill more dreadful characand yet, Sirs, that thofe flaves, who had been moft kindly treatedby ters when we fee foul of the infurreétion. It was they who theirmafters, delivered werethe very thofe humane mafters to the affaffin'sfvord; it betrayed and who feduced and firred up to rèvolt the gangs difpofed to fidewas they who maflacred' all who refufed to become their accomlity; it was they for the Amis des Noirs!* What a heart-breakplices. What a leffon colonifts themfeives, to whom futurity could fugdifcovery but to the pro(pedls of deipair, if, in the midft of fo many crimes, E nothing found flaves who gave proofs of all invincible there had not yet becn made manifeft their determination to rejeét with diffidelity, and feductions who of thofe whohave endeavoured by promifes of liberdain the them into certain dcftruction. Liberty is now theirs, but ty to enveigle Orfriends 2f the Blackts by which nameare didinguithed, in France, tho& who have feconded shie Enguth project fer abalimhing the Slave-Trnde, it A 3 , E nothing found flaves who gave proofs of all invincible there had not yet becn made manifeft their determination to rejeét with diffidelity, and feductions who of thofe whohave endeavoured by promifes of liberdain the them into certain dcftruction. Liberty is now theirs, but ty to enveigle Orfriends 2f the Blackts by which nameare didinguithed, in France, tho& who have feconded shie Enguth project fer abalimhing the Slave-Trnde, it A 3 --- Page 8 --- [ 6 J itis the gift of their mafters; the reward of their honc and it has been ratified bythe reprefentatives of the attachment, amidft tranfports of univerfal gratitude. colony, the Wer refume the. narrative of our difafters. Atthis time one thoufand negroes werei in rebellion, and all the and hundred of mcre than half the Northern province, appeared buildings plantations, confagration. The plains and the mountains were only: filled as with one general and deluged with blood. The colonifts, ftupified with carnage where tofeck refuge; one flies for fafety to' the woods; fear, is knew not ed by his negroes, and ftabbed: another confides in the there betraygang; a rebel ring-leader fteals in among them; the promifes of his the proprictor is their firft viétim. gang riles, and Scattered over an extent ef country, interfeéted by mountains deep valleys, the Aying inhabitants attempted to and to and lives dearly. The roads were blockaded; rally fell their and maffacred. they were taken prifoners They, who re-united, oppofed but a feeble bulwark the ling torrent; they were routed, taken, and expiated in againft fwelexertions for felf-prefervation. Thele horrible fcenes tortures their the very gate of the town oft the Cape. Terror and were aéting at feflion of every mind; ; yet all felt the urgency of difmay took pofcommon fafety. They affembled, acted' in concert, providing the citizens for their arms, and the General Aflembly placed the patriotic took command of the governor. troops under the The town of the Cape, with about three thoufand had to keep in check fifteen thoufand blaek inmates, men at the moft, the example of thofe without, and many ready to follow neral Affembly deliberated one entire night ill-difpefed aubites. The Gevation from internal enemies. The refult upon the means ofpreferwell-direéted and conftant watch over their was, conduet to adhere and folely to a tions. Therevolt had been too fudden and too well their dilpofia hope offtopping or of alleviating its ravages. Tbet concerted, town of to leave (that fide next the fea excepted) was defencelefs and the of Cape tification, without a delay off feveral days and immenfe incapable labour. forextremely to be feared left the revoltedniegroes fhould down Itwas the town, and, favoured and feconded by thofe pour upon maffacre of the whole race of the whites. One within, make a general remained; ; to take pofielion of the paffes ofthe refource,therefore, hills only town; to eftablifh a commanding poft, which, by the contiguous of the to the joining marfhes, might proteétit; and to defend the road heip of la adAnfe by a battery of cannon and boats lafhed Petite tion was adopted'and executed; thenceforwards together, the This refolua folid pallifade, by chevaux-de-frize, and by confiderable Capc, furrounded feel its fituation lels pofts, Ma alarming. During this interval, not a minute was loft in -by fea, to the parifhes which were yet fending and information, ting to them the proper precautions to uncontaminated, be taken. The in fuggefthoie parithes formed a league, and eftablifhed. inhabitants of fiderable: thefe were ftationeds at Trou, Valiere, camps, Great more River, orlefs conDondon, la Marmelade, Port Margot, and other places'in Moruet, The gevcltersfollowed: the fame plan; they ftationed camps in all danger. the diftriéts they ifhes which were yet fending and information, ting to them the proper precautions to uncontaminated, be taken. The in fuggefthoie parithes formed a league, and eftablifhed. inhabitants of fiderable: thefe were ftationeds at Trou, Valiere, camps, Great more River, orlefs conDondon, la Marmelade, Port Margot, and other places'in Moruet, The gevcltersfollowed: the fame plan; they ftationed camps in all danger. the diftriéts they --- Page 9 --- [7 J Great they had ravaged, Moreover, they forced the triét; the River, and killed or put to fight all the camp cfthe whites at camp at Dondon thared the inhabitants of that difven hours, in which more than one hundred fame fate; after a conteft of fcfortunate people, who cfeaped on that occafion, whites fell. Thefew: unSpaniards but were driven back. foughtre refuge ainong the and MM, Gramal, Royand, and Lambert, Dondon, reached, however, the houfe a inhabitants of Great River mate friend: this worthy man, on one fide Spanilh colonift, their intiings, onl the other by the fear of being burnt urged by the (rongeft fceldeterminedt to keepthe three out by his he let thém Frenchmenl locked countrymen, tage of a ftorm. efcape at night, in the midft of deferts, upinhis and clofet, under whence advanShalli it be told you, that you duét of our neighbours muft have may feel theindignation which the conlic report ftate, that feveral inhabitants excited, of that depofitions and the pubamong the Spaniards, were driven Dondon, who took rebel negro chiefs, in confidération of beyond three the limits, and fold refuge to the of The France) per head, and that they were Portugal pieces (132livres diftriéts of Rocou, Maribaroux, le putto death. Caracole, Ouanaminthe, and Fort Terrier Rouge, oft the Northern Dauphin, forming the Jacquefis objedt province, Were ftill uninjured; their Eaitern part A ofinflant necefity." * defence was an completely camp anfwered was eftablilhed under the orders of M. de the continual the purpofe for which it was Raunrais which Whilethefe cfforts of the banditti, formed, in fpite of was refortel to alantingtranfictions by the inhabitants of were the palings the town of the Cape andet efcaping from the fword of the aflaflins. neighbouring It was then hills and plains, which, thought it prudent to march out two fmnall that M. Blanche feveral joined by M. de Rouurai, attacked and bodies of troops, La camps of the revolters, fituated on the carried, in facceflion, in each Chevalleries of which Bullet, Duplat, Charitte, Denort, plantations of and Chabanen, from them, that many female. white prifoners were Dogeuts Galifets ried their Sirs, we learnt to what an excefs fet at lilerty. ltis brutality, therevolters had carYour fenlibility, already thole horrid fcenes which thelc excited, could not endure the narrative of From the rebel women witnefled, thele banditti are at prifoners, bitter we difcovered that the different chiefs of aparty, and thefe parties are cnmity with each other; ; every forms al deftruction, The always at variance, always readyf troop for tilin. The chiefs cxercife authority they hâve eftablifhed is abfolute mutumand: the icaft unheard-of tyranny over thofe deipoed with death; andi dilobedience, litisa the Aighteft lign ofhefitation, they is comifacrificed to their own ignorant notorious truth, that more negrocs have punifh- been compelled to deftroy in our defence, rage and fulpicion than we have been themfeveral fignaladvantages. Their although acts of we have obtained over cruclty fail cven on thofe Gsternor Theie difricts Géneral, have all been Ance ravaged and defroyei, A 4 who ed with death; andi dilobedience, litisa the Aighteft lign ofhefitation, they is comifacrificed to their own ignorant notorious truth, that more negrocs have punifh- been compelled to deftroy in our defence, rage and fulpicion than we have been themfeveral fignaladvantages. Their although acts of we have obtained over cruclty fail cven on thofe Gsternor Theie difricts Géneral, have all been Ance ravaged and defroyei, A 4 who --- Page 10 --- [ 8 3 who have vo.untarily engaged in the revolt. But who der to hearin what manner they punith thofe who will not fhudfaithful to their mafters! - They feize them force determine to remain at the next fire, They have been feen, with by the cruclty and of roaft them placing, in the front ofbattle, the aged, the infants, and the cowards, and, finding them unfit for aétion, making ufe of them to women; blows. Have theyany wounded, and for want of parry our their wounds ? they confine them in a hut and furgeons fet fire cannot drefs fhort, take this for cert tain; - if the to it. In vilifed and ferocious men fhould bei realifed fanguinary in deligns of thefe uncifhould they accomplith the extermination of the relpect to the whites; Jony; ; foon would you fee St.. Europcans in the COatrocities of Africa, Domingo prefenting a picture of all the Subjedted to the moft edl by the moft bloody warsy they would render arbitrary their mafters, diftractent to their caprices; and the moderated fervitude, under prifoners fubferviheld by us, would be exchanged for a flavery, aggravated which all they are finements ofbarbarifim. by the rcIn the deplorable fituation we have deferibed, M. aéted in concurence with the General Blanchelande, who fuggeft a proclamation which might contribute Affemblys to thought it right to ters to their duty. The General bring back the revolperfeétly acquainted with the charaéter Alfembly, oft the compofed of planters him the danger of fuch a proclamation, and negroes, reprefented to fandtion. The week followingg M. Blanchelande pofitively refufed it their fal. The fame motives diétated the fame refufal. renewed He his propodetermined to iffue it in his own name, and he didit, becaufe perfifted, and ed that the negroes were willing to fubmit themfelves, he learnrion was made, and delivered by twelve What The proclama. produced by this meafure? Seven ofthem dragoons. were aflafinated in cffeét was of the rebels, and the others faved themfelves with the utmoft the camp difficulty. Ic would anfwer no end,Sirs,to defcribe to you all the horrors to our unfortunate fellow-citizens have becn a which fhocked at fo many cruelties, committed in the prey. names Pofterity of will be liberty. pbilgjopby and Yet have we only, in this relation, fketched to fome outlines of the dreadful piéture of thofe evils, which have yon vifited, fcattered bly ftill vifit, a country, but lately fo peaceful, fo fo probable to the French empire! You will better Aourifhing, valuathe loffes which the colony had judge by a iummary of experienced at the period of our departure. They reckoned, in the parifhes of Plaifance, Port Margot, Marmelade, Acul, la Plaine du Nord, la Petite Anfe, Morin, Limbé, nade, Sainte Sufanne, Moka, Cottellettes, Great River, Limoother diftriéts, more than two bendred Iagar-suerks, twelve Dondon, hundred and fte zorks, many indigo-suorks, entirely burned down; numerous pottericty cof djfilleriess many confiderable villages, public magazinet, an immenle merchandife, bodhared thejame fate. By adding to gIlan4 ebjebls, all the infruments fbajbandry, aterfils for manafatiareh, thyjeinapprehesfelelat-farniturts and/pecis; bor/et, maujes, and other cattle; ; Jame ides may Dondon, hundred and fte zorks, many indigo-suorks, entirely burned down; numerous pottericty cof djfilleriess many confiderable villages, public magazinet, an immenle merchandife, bodhared thejame fate. By adding to gIlan4 ebjebls, all the infruments fbajbandry, aterfils for manafatiareh, thyjeinapprehesfelelat-farniturts and/pecis; bor/et, maujes, and other cattle; ; Jame ides may --- Page 11 --- tis J may be formed ofthe enermity of our lofcs, aubich fix bundred millions eflivres. The: wue value at upuards g of commerce, and our induftry, affiftance of the nation, the exertions fhall dry the tears that Aow for more may, than perhaps, repair them: but what citizens flaughtered, the viétims of this cruel one thoufand of our fellowbe mute, when we refleét, that fifteen revolt ! Can fenfibility ed beforc order and thoufand negroes will be tranquillity can be deftroythey fucceed in their projedts, St,. re-ettablimhed, and that, fhould fifty thoufand Frenchmen! 1* Domingo will become the tomb of Hitherto we have only fpoken of the parts. They are not ali we have to lament, misfortunes of the Northern Weftern province; fire deftroyed feveral Blood was fpilt in the of Grandfonds, Charianiore and Fond properties there; the gangs The deteétion of a con/pimcyat Ferricr, revolted, earnage and as well Lcogane preferved that diftria from le Cul de Sac. conflagration, Jeremie as thofe Archaic, Des Vafes, and arreft of the exciters of experienced them faved forne commotions, but a timely evil. that place rom the impending The Southern parts had alfo great caufe taken there had, to the time of our ofalarm. The precautions quillity; yet the population therei is fo departure, maintained their tranare morethe proofs of timidity than the thin, that the meafures employed Thus, Sirs, you behold on fidc pledges the of fcurity. there be colonifts who are yet every to be faved colony threatened; and, if dangers, ftill will theyhaveto contend with from fo many complicated epidemical difeafes caufed by fo many treachery and famine, with ciimate, with diforders more unburied carcafes ina vexation; in a word, with acute, the effeéts of fatiguc, terror, burning and deftruétion of mankind. What every juft evil that nature engenders for the total ruin of the colony, a ruin reafon have we not to dread the ther-country! The deftruétion which of muft accelerate that of the monation of your manufactories, fucceflive our plantations will caufe the flaghankruptcies will . injure pubmate The eolony, fillowingtge rublifhed, extralts in Decenber from an suthentic account of thc calamities after his arrival at Paris from Str lafh, by Mr. a ofthis unfortu6 Several journal; have Domingo, Baillio, French gentleman, a fcw days K horrors, Iran affirm that taken the incredible General pa'ns to foften the reprefentation of this mafs of 44 cfOctober, deftruction of had, two at the clofe ofthe preceding Ailembly, whofe meetings I atrended :l the 2rft &6 hundred hundred and twenty-two fugarrefiates month, received and a particuiar account of the 66 tended itfef coteplintafcons the andit could not then be known how between cleven and twelve a commumication. French gentleman, a fcw days K horrors, Iran affirm that taken the incredible General pa'ns to foften the reprefentation of this mafs of 44 cfOctober, deftruction of had, two at the clofe ofthe preceding Ailembly, whofe meetings I atrended :l the 2rft &6 hundred hundred and twenty-two fugarrefiates month, received and a particuiar account of the 66 tended itfef coteplintafcons the andit could not then be known how between cleven and twelve a commumication. among bills, with which the town of the could far the mikhief bad exTH aumber of white Cape no longer maintain ar hadl been otherwife men, women, and children, < and not to fixl hundred burchered, by the negroes,. then whofe throats had been cut cr who 46 It would be too only, as the journals of the amounted to more than two thoufand, es ters: :-thofe irkfome a talk to enumerate the pretended acts of philanthropifts affert. < themfelves : barbarians, All the in wbofe fivour a certain fect cruelty committed by the revol. 66 dered without pity, and white, and even the mulatto, children of philofsphers fo warmly interet e mothers. The moft frequently before the cyer, hayei inn many places.been muree brutal) Juft of thefe young women indced have not been or clinging to ihe bofom, of their 4 Infants impaled on favages, the and boea abufidin too thameful murdered before they have fatisfied the ( of police,) was nailed ends cf pikes have been their manner foribe to defcr ibe. dered without pity, and white, and even the mulatto, children of philofsphers fo warmly interet e mothers. The moft frequently before the cyer, hayei inn many places.been muree brutal) Juft of thefe young women indced have not been or clinging to ihe bofom, of their 4 Infants impaled on favages, the and boea abufidin too thameful murdered before they have fatisfied the ( of police,) was nailed ends cf pikes have been their manner foribe to defcr ibe. ce off: other: have beua tied to one between of the gatesofa plantation, enfigns. and The bis Sieur atm (an officer Scs 4, 5, two planksand fawed afandar." limbs, I2ot oneby de Férité. onc, cut Pa. lic --- Page 12 --- [ 10 J in Paris, will be felt by the moneyed man and the lic credit, and, even inmoft of your provinces it will check the collectradefman; ; in the decreafe of fhipping in the fea-ports will reduce to tion of taxes; the body oflabourers and offeamen: then will cries beggary anianumerable afcend from every quarter, calling upon for of rage and defpair of fo calamities; and can aTea fail ta jufticc againft the authors cunning, many by the crucl perfeverance, with be detecied, bythe perfidious been contriving a cataftrophc, now fo terribly which they have [o long confpicuous! lives in Sirs, in the midft of our flavess Wepalfed our had, tranquillity, for many yeart paft, meliorated the conA paternal governinent and we dare afhirms that millions of Europeans, dition of our negroes; fubjedt to every mifery, poffefs fewer enjoyattacked by thofe every. who want, have been reprefented to you, and to the world ments than with chains and perifhing by a dilatory death, in general; as loaded in Africa, without property, without The fituation of the negroes, continually a prey to the weak capricious political or civil exiftence, them that vaft uncivilized country, fury of tyrants, who colonies divide for among a condition of comfort and enjoyment. is changed in our for, liberty, which, it is truc, theyl have Theyare deprived of nothing; proved fertile in their nativei foil; and, not, is a plant that has never yet affert, whatever imagination may inwhatever the fpirit ofp party may not to be that the negrocs in vent, well-informed men are freedom. perfuaded The traveller," who has moft Africa have the enjoyment of almoft unknown, ofthat extenfive counrecentlyvifited a part, hitherto and interefling work, a hiftory of try, has given uS, in his long men who inhabit AryfEnia, the NLEA blood and defolation. from The the coafts of the Indian occan to the very Gallas and the Fungés feem to rival, in ferocityand barbarity, thehyenas frontiers of Egypt, which nature has there created. Slaveryi is, with them, and the tigers and lifc, in thole horrible climates, is a pofleflion a title ofhonour; laws, and held only at the will of a fanguinary unproteêted by any delpot. and information, compare the deplorable Let man, of feeling with the mild ando comfortable lot they ftate oft FNE negrocs, in let Africa, himi fet afide declamation, the piâures which enjoyin our colonies; been to delineate; (far more from a pur- I aialie philofophy has from pleafed zeal in the vindication of) hamanitys) let fuit of popularitys than which governed our negroes before they were him recal the regulations againft every. want; fupplied feduced and alienated from unknown us; provided in the greater part of the cottages had of with accommodations, of their properties; they Europe; fecure in the enjoyment nurfed, in times off ficknefs, AENS an expreperty, and it was facreds) which be fought in vain in the muchpence and an attention may refpedted, in the infirmitiee boafted hofpitals of England: proteched, children, their familics, and their efold age; at cafc in refpeét to their according to the ftrength affections; fubjeéted to a labour individuals calculated and employments were clafleds of each individual, becaufe humanity fail) enjoined an attention to thu andintereft (even fhould * Vile Bruce, ii. 216, iv.459, &c. prefervation and an attention may refpedted, in the infirmitiee boafted hofpitals of England: proteched, children, their familics, and their efold age; at cafc in refpeét to their according to the ftrength affections; fubjeéted to a labour individuals calculated and employments were clafleds of each individual, becaufe humanity fail) enjoined an attention to thu andintereft (even fhould * Vile Bruce, ii. 216, iv.459, &c. prefervation --- Page 13 --- E II ] prefervation of their numbers; enfranchifed whenever they had meritedit by important fervices.--Such was thejaft, unflattered, piéture had of the government of our negroes; and this domeftic government of been meliorated (particularly in the laft ten years) with an anxiety, which you will find no example in Europc. The fincereft attach- in the ment conneéted the mafter and his flaves. We flept in fecurity neimidft of men that were become our children, and many of us had ther locks nor bars to our houfes. that there did exifl, among Not, Sirs, that we would difguife to you, and ferocious mafters. Bux the planters, a very fmall number of hard Blafted in their fame, dewhat was the lot of thefe wicked men? diferedited in their teited by men of charaâter, outcafts of fociety, and died in and bufinefs, they lived in difgrace and difhonour, mifery in defpair. Their names arc never pronounced without indignation the colony, and the bad eftimation in which they are held ferves as a warning to thofe, who, yet unverfed in the management of their flaves, might be led, by the impetuolity of their tempers, into exceffes, proved, by experience, to be as contrary to good policy, as they are, by increale of knowledge and humanity, become infamous. Here we appeal, not to thofe who write romances to gain a name as men of fentibility, to acquire a momentary popularity, foon to be wrefted from them by general indignation, but to thofe who have vi Sited, who know, the colonies. Let them fay if the recital we have made is faithful, or if we have coloured it ta intereft you in our eaufe. We repeat it, Sirs, we paffed our lives in this flate of tranquillity and happinefs, and we returned to the mother-country, the protectrels of our properties, the entire tribute of our produce, which was applied in adding to the wealth of the metropolis, to her internal ftrength, and to her fuperiority in foreign commerce. and Meantime, Sirs, a fociety iprings up in the bofom of France,* prepares, at a diftance, tbe deftrustion and convulfions to which we are now a prey. Unoitrufive and modeft in their outfet, they profeffed only a defire to alleviate the lot of our flaves; but that alleviation, already lo far advanced in the French iflands, muft refult from means which were totally unknown to this. fociety, although they were objedts of our unceafing attention, until obliged to abandon them, ty thefe incompetent meddlers having excited, among our flaves, a fpirit of mutiny, and, among us, a fpirit of difiruft. In order to meliorate gradually the lot of the flaves, and to increafe the number of, the emancipated, there fhould certainly be a previous folicitude of attention to the perfect (afety of their maiters. But, an expedient fo wife would] have gained no applaufe in their terople of renown. Vanity cotmanded that meafures of prudence fhould be relinquifhed for ipecious declamations, that we fhould be furrounded with terror and alarm, and that calamities fhould be contrived, the fame which we have predidted fince the earlieft proccedings of the Amis des Noirs, and which have folatcly been realifed. € A1 Recieywhiahfrsignes, and bad men have inflituted for our deAruction and for the 66 Lumidinuaneffranpe." didrefe aftbe Frentb plaster: efSt.. Demirgotoriek king. On pecious declamations, that we fhould be furrounded with terror and alarm, and that calamities fhould be contrived, the fame which we have predidted fince the earlieft proccedings of the Amis des Noirs, and which have folatcly been realifed. € A1 Recieywhiahfrsignes, and bad men have inflituted for our deAruction and for the 66 Lumidinuaneffranpe." didrefe aftbe Frentb plaster: efSt.. Demirgotoriek king. On --- Page 14 --- [ 12 J fudden this focicty demands an Abolition ftbe Slave-Trade; On a which may refult from it to the French that is to fay, fhould thatthe be transferred profits, to forcigners; for, never will theirrocommerce, perfuade all the European powers, that it is incummantic philofophy the cuiture of their colonies, and to leave bent upon them to abandon to the barbarity of their native tyrants, the natives of Africa them a prey elfewhere, arid under môre humane mafters, rather than employ which, without them, muft remain uncultivated, in cultivating a foil, are, to the nation which poffeffes thems and whofe valuable productions a fertile fource of induftry and profperity. in Frances this focicty Combining itfelf next with the irrational Revolution fyftem with the plan which confounds its extravagant and for its enfranchifement; and, profiting by the nation had conceived in the caufe of liberty; interefts - the univerfalardour of all Frenchmen of their fervitude, in its delign to put" them, from the remembrance Its blind enthufiafm, or its pervertitys an end to that of the negroes. of in what true forgets, that thole favage men are incapable with knowing and that the focial liberty confifts, or of enjoying it moderation; would be, to them rafh law, which fhould deftroy their prejudices, and to us, a fentence this of death. fociety, of at leaft fome of its members; have Thenceforwards, all means have feemed given an unbounded loofe to but their tend enterprife; toi its accomplifhment. The opela to them good, fo they might ftudied inuendo, the bafeft and moft defpicable attack, the deep and been to forward their defigns; ingenioully calumnies, have practifed the fociety, at one time, flatters us mixing cunning with fhake audacity, off the of the French merchants, affuby an invitation to will unite yoke with itfor obtaining à free com: sing us of its fupport if we it arms the mercantile body againft us,. afi merce; at another time, bankruptcy, a chimerical firming that we have in view a difgraceful of we would build up a independence, and that,in our career vanity, Thus, after having feparate power on a level with that and of the France. merchants againft each Oendeavoured to irritate the planters with the interefts ther, after having offered us principles ofits incompatible infidious counfels, we have of the mother-country, when, in fpite the fociety, of, fuch declined to adopt them, ftill are we accufed, by of thc Rights intentions, and they! lay hold of the declaration men; Ca but work, and beneficial to highly enlightened an immortal to our colonial regulations: they aplicable, and therefore dangerous, the journals in their pay, or fend it with profafion into our this colonies; declaration in the midft ofour gangs; under theirinfuence, publifh des-Noirs openly announce, that the freedom 4f the writings of the Amnis the declaration efrighs the negroes is proclained of thc 8th by of March* fecmed calculated to check thefe The decree Amis des Noirs reverence any law but defperate plots. But can the bound together, and that vow which thofc oaths by which thcy are fire and fword into our habitations? If a they, have formed to carry their thegries, they adopt, they promulgate, they law be favourable to for the moft part, under control of the colonial * A decret, which left internai regulations, legifutues. interpret, is proclained of thc 8th by of March* fecmed calculated to check thefe The decree Amis des Noirs reverence any law but defperate plots. But can the bound together, and that vow which thofc oaths by which thcy are fire and fword into our habitations? If a they, have formed to carry their thegries, they adopt, they promulgate, they law be favourable to for the moft part, under control of the colonial * A decret, which left internai regulations, legifutues. interpret, --- Page 15 --- - [ 13 J interpret, that law. If repugnant, they mifconftrue, difavow, infult, without fhame; they endeayour to degrade the authority on which it. it is founded. merchants, and men eanlightenodmnaneh not to be the dupes fheplantert, the objeéts abufe. It isnôt ef tbeir falfities, are indiferiminately themfelves the arbiters gfsbeir our property and enough that tbey bave made of NoT may we deour peace, they affune over 15 a fapremacy their blows, of defamation; without undergoing a torfand ourfeluess and/rive to parry Thus, againf us the public vent of tbeir low feurrility. prejudicing in niont, u5 the channels tbey undornine E putting upfrom sfdofonce, it with -ity the rock on tobich our pofe-ffions are placed; they furround hrarcs, and our ruin muf that falloo! had flattered themfelves with obWheni it was found they vainly the emancipation of our flaves, taining from the National Afiembly that they attempted to introduce diffention among us, the perfuading take on to difcufs the People gFCoAffembly to itfelft queftion make the laws upon lour. We had demanded that wve Ihould curfelues in their tbis fuljets wbicb require great that delicacy thofe and laws prudence fhould be juft epplica- and hution. Wehad pledged ourlelves mane. But, that boon, which, then granted by the white planters, would cxifthave cternally cernented the ties of affeétion and benevolence" ing between thofe fawoclafles of men, is prefented to them, by the Amis des Noirs, as an offering of vanity, and a means of'avoiding oquitable. Other ftipulations. meafures werc tried to gain their point : they colleêted together at Paris fome people of colour; they cxtolled their of underftandings; they invited them to unite their caufe with that the negroes. Thefe men paffed over to St Domingo, in the fort of delirium occafioncd by fuch doêtrine; they communicated to the flaves thofe hopes and with which they had been amufed; they were Joaded with libels pamphlets, which encouraged the men of colour and the flaves to a geheralinfurection, and to a general maflacre of the whites. mifOgév was the firft viétim ofthis fatal error; one ofhis brothers, led by him, declared, the gth of March, in his death-bed teftimony, of the that, had not the fwelling of the rivers prevented the junétion down confpirators, cleven thoufand rebcl negroes were ready and to to pour caufe the upon the Cape fo early as the month of February, He named the devaftation which took' place only the 23d of Auguft, and offered proof, It ring-leaders, particulars of the conipiracy, ivas the voice Sor his confcience which fpoke out at that moment, the laft that remained to him for difcovering the truth. while In the midft of this ferinentation, in tbis general delirium, the whites were agitated by diftruft and terror, and while the the negroes difwere indulging themfelyes in a theufand fatal dreams, was A cuffion of the decree of the ISth of May agitated among you.* fhoal of writings, previous and fubfequent, have been diffeminated among our gangs, There have been read, and commented upon, This decree was fermed en principles diredly oppsfite fo thofe of the decree of the 8th ef! March. thofe in tbis general delirium, the whites were agitated by diftruft and terror, and while the the negroes difwere indulging themfelyes in a theufand fatal dreams, was A cuffion of the decree of the ISth of May agitated among you.* fhoal of writings, previous and fubfequent, have been diffeminated among our gangs, There have been read, and commented upon, This decree was fermed en principles diredly oppsfite fo thofe of the decree of the 8th ef! March. thofe --- Page 16 --- [ 14 I thoic terrible werds! thofe words, the fignal of blood and gration! I confaPERISH THE COLONIES. It was then that a Minifter of the Gofpel of drefled to his brethren, the Men of Colour, Peace, in a letter, adthat foom fhould thefua) Ihine on none announced to our Alaves, Could the negroes, - affailed by Ensfreomen't fo many upon by fo many manceuvres,- ftimulated temptations, - worked racters of blood, read at evenings in their huts, by libels, in the written in chablies of their chiefs, by men breaching only diforder and midft of affemCould they Jong refift the vertigo with which they were pillage:- All memory of tbe kindneis of their mafters was erafed ftricken from : minds; a defire of novelty was all they felt; their fruments of thofe men, inveteratcly they.became the aptinicized, in the writings of the Amis des malevolent, Noirs and in who have gredily, of decrees, fuch arms as were befl fuited to lead the the interpretation to redtion. way infurIs our meafure of misfortune fificiently full, that we laft to have the truth no more dilguifed? Have may hope at the retribution of the laws, without we a valid claim to refult from the waiting thofe proofs, which mult will be tranfmitted proceedings now on-foot at St. Domingo, and to us? The fatal influence of the authors which + The words offa prove that the declaration ufed by M. of Rolertfiene, rights implied in an the National Affembly, when attempting to Lonies, c Let tbe colonies perijo," faid, he, sratber enfranchifement tban one cf all the negroes in the co. was printed; and, with many other writingsof fimilar efonr was prineiples?" His fpeech mingo, Vi-neppund(E.) tendency, diffeminated in St. DotheAmis 1This des ist the expreflion ofthe Abbé Grégoire, the moft zealous and Noirs. - M. Baillio, inL lactive of the fociety of 6 at the Capei in the light he thepamphlet before quoted, fays: c Heis) looked 4c particularly falis. "In one deferves, ofhis anditis him the refentment of the upon, €c the maritime towns, and writings he Tenut to foretel the ruin of the colonies, planterg" of 66 Unworthy mortals, exclaims manufaétories, this in confequence of an emancipation of the ec induftrious planters, ye numerous holy man," and be juft." 6e Hear negroes. in the light he thepamphlet before quoted, fays: c Heis) looked 4c particularly falis. "In one deferves, ofhis anditis him the refentment of the upon, €c the maritime towns, and writings he Tenut to foretel the ruin of the colonies, planterg" of 66 Unworthy mortals, exclaims manufaétories, this in confequence of an emancipation of the ec induftrious planters, ye numerous holy man," and be juft." 6e Hear negroes. this, xF ee facturers, four millions fcamen, inhabitants fea-ports, ERTE allye of who cultivators, manu6c by therich productions ofthe colonies Frenchmen P" direétly and indirectly live and 6 Eoire.-Foulon, the deteftable wished Eat alfo grefs!" that KSo pious Abbe K Foulon, the er Asy.and thercfore was his hideous head borne a Paris migbt live upon 6t PTPS hashitherto onlye emblematically overtaken The jufice of the colonifts €4 poft-office at the d was hanged in effigy, before the € Many ofthe Cape mulattoeshad Frangois, cftablifheda in July laf." Baillio, Mot de Véité, 8, 9, from fomeof whom, particularly the Albé oendeskrsfonod-camned Grigeirts letters of a perfons TE Franceg were received and difributed tbrenpb tbe In one of thefe very extraordinary tendency tection and fapport, declares, that dettérs, after prorsiling pro- 1 ac upon free onjy." foalier Tbe beams SPa. tbe day zwill Fom corRe wben tbe Jun Pailiine 6 ligbt" to ETE Feneriof Jauery." Thele f and fimilar sorning, expreffions fays he, were sfbail no longer point: tbatthe King badgruen freedons to all tbe faves in cxaggerated into z3 wubele good effices tbis benevokence was was Si.Damingas andthe as AECrigere, alltbe mulattoes and negroes in tbe ifand: wonder, imediately therefore, confidered tbe patrox of mafters that, FETA unjnftly to withhold from them thofe which confidering their them in Francc, determined to do juftice to privileges themfelves they believed were granted The above conjedture L confirmed by the by mundering their oppreflorsi er In the fiftof:he engagements, one ofthechiefso following circumftance: of therebels about his neck a medalofSan Gregorio, a Saint in the Romith being killed, and there was found evidence that this medal was worh bgt the negro as the portrait of calendar; his it appcaredi in Emilarity of the name giving countenance to the conceit. Francc, determined to do juftice to privileges themfelves they believed were granted The above conjedture L confirmed by the by mundering their oppreflorsi er In the fiftof:he engagements, one ofthechiefso following circumftance: of therebels about his neck a medalofSan Gregorio, a Saint in the Romith being killed, and there was found evidence that this medal was worh bgt the negro as the portrait of calendar; his it appcaredi in Emilarity of the name giving countenance to the conceit. An patren, the abbé; tle now in the poffeffion of B. E. Efe. It has this defcription: SAN GREGORIO impreflion of this medalis P.M." Particulars of tbe infurreétion in St.. Deaings printed i* tbe MAGNO, far obvicus riajimipperfudin tharijlend, Jenaiancurpepoy but many 63: --- Page 17 --- L 15 J the whole of calamities, - is it not already evidenty proved Can it by be doubted, at many and by:their criminal writings? ftill reftrain their tranfadions ruin is their work? And Thall France this time, that our due to the guilt of our enemies? find confolathe cry ofindignation, with hopes that misfortunes like ours would our in Flattered --that, on arrival tion in the bofom of the mother-country" to the' hearts of our the capital, where we have at leaft a claim pity, we find ourfelves icllow-citizens would be open to our complaints, made of our properties preceded by calumny! They, who have of light our bitter reproaches, and our blood, reckoned upon being them. objeéts Skilled in the arts of defaand have endeavoured to anticipate after having rendered us the vicmation, which are habitual to it them, remained to caft upon us the reproach tims of their machinations, equalled only by their difregard for and the fhame. With a cruelty, and to report, that our conftiprobability, they have darcd to contrivers fabricate of their own afilictions! thcy tuents were themfclves that the the abfurd: and barbarous projeét of effesting have dared to affirm, the to which they have facrificed a Counter-Revolution was their objeôt, lives! They, have dared to fay their properties, their families, ourfelves to Great-Britin' that we wifhed to offer of Sirs, with the boldne(s of Freemen In return, we will, afk (for, you, after all, we too are Frenchmen and and of French will Citizens, afk of you, whether it be permitted to any fet of Citizens,) we earth, to infult, with fuch effrontery, thofe men, of any nation whom they have our We Ruet What! IHe place fre and fwordi in thel hands of negroes! the the torch that has deftroyed our plantations ! IVe tharpen We light our bretbren and our friends! diggers that bave affafinated of which our females have been the haplefs prompt the brutal paffions the volcano which has already coviélims! IVel kindic in our country will reduce it to nothing! vered it with afhes, and which themfelves perhaps patriots, accufe us of having Thefe defolators, calling They are then uninformed, that, from plotted a counter-revalation. it has had our veneration; and thc carlieft days of the Revolution, to oppreffion, that, as being more expofed under a defpotic towards government liberty. Our moft rewe have, with greater ardour, fprung favour. Is it the act of a counter-recent tranfaétions teftify in our our Affembly, that cfp volutionift to have declared, in conftituting the laav and of public opinions the would proteit, with all the power of Is it the act of a recovery ef the debts due to the matber-country? that to the National. Alkemcounter-reveltionitt to have there recorded, and commercial regulabiy belongs the right of inftituting our palitical tions? to have written to the repreIsit the aét of a counter-rewolutionift was beneath our fect, fentatives oft the nation, while the grave be opening our country?* thateurlgffigh and our lajt wow Boxkt for bas our calamities: aphelaficimniy to We qvill not inform yov which subat' you canfe will learn preduced from us: is, that, Ta muft pe:ilh, our e atquainted quitb turned it. That towards trance- -ourlaft withes fhall be for her." laft eyes Furf thall Aldrefs, be to tbe National Afimbly, by tbe. members efthe P.DE General ÇADUSCH, AfEmbly prehdont. efthe Frencb partef St. Demingo, Had calamities: aphelaficimniy to We qvill not inform yov which subat' you canfe will learn preduced from us: is, that, Ta muft pe:ilh, our e atquainted quitb turned it. That towards trance- -ourlaft withes fhall be for her." laft eyes Furf thall Aldrefs, be to tbe National Afimbly, by tbe. members efthe P.DE General ÇADUSCH, AfEmbly prehdont. efthe Frencb partef St. Demingo, Had --- Page 18 --- [ 16 J Had we been counterorevolutionifis is it to the we fhould have addrefled fuch fentiments ? National Affembly It is afferted, it is printed and publifhed, that Wc eurfclves fo Great Britain. Our reply to this wifhed to offer ple, itis written in every page of our verbal fallehood is very fimnmanifefted our principles, and, we can procefs. There we have. mance of our duty. fafely afhirm, the full perforBut we will yet farther: permit us an tion, fingular E the records ofhiftory, hypothefis, which our fituaAt the moment of the infurreétion authorifes us to flate. of thc town ef the Cape were anxious breaking to out, all the inhabitants fo horrible. difcover the caufe of an event Aj journalift had printed the decrees of the and taft, with the fpeech of. M. Momneren, the 15th of May Tbe firft deputy Ifle of : tended depofitions flated, that thefe papers, with all thofe of tbe France. philanthropifts, were read and commented prelatto upon Normand's plantation, in the upon, by a muthe negro-drivers met, who are now the nodturnal affemblies of where Wc.learnt that the town of the Cape was ring-leaders to be included in the rebels. Aagration, and that within that town were the conto fct iton fire and maflacre allits inhabitants. lurking thofe who were rage and defpair arofe on all fides. The Immediatcly a cry of were accufed of this dreadful plot: diftraction philanthropifts, and France itfelf, on every countenance; every heart was in fury were impreffed maced a horrible butchery, a general confufion. agitation; every thing meof mufquets was heard! Negroes and Already the report at the very door of the General Aflembly. mulattoesreccived Some their. contents cockade, fomeloudlycaled, for the protedtion ofthe affumed a white med a black cockade. Thofe words, The Englifh, fome affuKings difappeared from the hall which Nation, tbe Lowy and the I Allembly; a hand, bewildered,by was preparing for the General tions were heard, that the rage, obliterated them. Exclamamurderer's fword, to the torch- government of incendiaries! at home had yiclded us to the had delivered us over to every human crime in one that, in fhort, they bethe laft ofthe colony! Furiousvoicesb day, belicved to to. whom they were indebted-not for blafphemed their againit a country, death! protection - but their. In the midft of this frenzy, of, which no Srft effufion, the General power could reprefs the fecurity. The moments Alfembly was yet attentive to meafures of forbidding, under pain of were precious. A proclamation was iffued, Fouroft the members made death, it any one to take away another's life. commiffioners carried it from public place even to whilft it was writing. Thefe mobs, and fhouts, and even infults; but place; and met, in every place, mulattoes, who, being accufed, would otherwie they fucceeded in faving the and. their care and their intreaties fiufpended the have of becn maflacred; fury the pcoplc, [The remaining part in ournext, The original Frenich may be bad atthe Ewrapean Magazine Warcboufes, No. Cornbill; and intergfing Tradl on tbis jubjet, intitled 43P1 les Troublesdes another Funique Mosendafiurerla la Clonies, et CES Dipendances de Tranguillité, Profpiriti, et la Fidélité, de des P'Empires e72 Réfiutation des deux de Brifit Ier et 3me. Disenbre, 1791, par M. Dumanier.] Dijcours M, rapean Magazine Warcboufes, No. Cornbill; and intergfing Tradl on tbis jubjet, intitled 43P1 les Troublesdes another Funique Mosendafiurerla la Clonies, et CES Dipendances de Tranguillité, Profpiriti, et la Fidélité, de des P'Empires e72 Réfiutation des deux de Brifit Ier et 3me. Disenbre, 1791, par M. Dumanier.] Dijcours M, --- Page 19 --- [ 17 1 [Concludedfrom our lof.] The General Affembly was accufed A néw alarm was fuggefted. of the people of colour, and was threatof participating in the crime unabated. The mulattoes offered to tened.. Its courage remained defepce, and to leave as hoftages their arm themfeives forthe common ventured to arm thems and; uniwives and children. The Aflembly ofthe Cape, thus convertting them with the foldiers of the been regiment nearly facrificed as enemies. ed into defenders thofe who had betokened a fubverfion' of all thingss At this violent ccilis, which to infpire teiror, we had if, giving way to impreflions fo thofe calculated who furrounded and threatened us experienced its effcôls; if, like our no other light than as at that moment, we had regarded if we countryin: had called in a forcign power the caufe of our misfortunes; their butchers, to fave their properties, to fnatch the colonifts from Where is that man, to preferve the very credit of the nuetrupolis:- have dared to condémn us? 1 Yet having a confcience, who would fhall we, after this, be reduced to were we fiil Frenchmen! - And ourfelves from the reproach of having the abjeét neceflity ofj juftifying Le: them exàmine all our acts: if there be a aimed at independeuce: us from thofe indifloluble, ties which fingle one that tends to loofen our heads are here to fuffer the punifhment attach us to the empire; We know that fomne captains of fhips, whofe due to fuch perfidy. becaufe their inhumanity was made publics vanity has been wounded the Aiis dés Noirs in finding us guilty; but have been ready to join feoling for our calamities and for the groans of dejected commerce, them their error; and that, fhould they their confequences, iball teach their calumnics, they will themfucceed in rendering us odious by felves haves ere longs to lament their fuccefs. afked, (for, it was the True, we have afked, we glory in having affiftance duty of men invefted with a truft by their fellow-citizens,) in concert from all who furrounded' us! That afliftance we Frenchmen implored and as men, with thc Governor-General, and therefore, as at the faine time to three and fince, without diftination, we applied proved that our folicitations, the different nations, we have fufficiently inimical to the motherdidlates-of misfortune, could cover, no project tor having had recourfe country.. Who, indeed, will dare accufe National us A fembly then intormto the Englith. of Jamaica, fince the only by imperfect reports) ed of our calamities and of our dangers national to that generous thoughtfit, of itfelf, to exprefs the gratitude people!* had we called in the Englifh, not to lend us afif But even, Sirs, whom ought the guilt tO be impured? tance but to govern us, to that department of the kingdom Place, for a moment, in our fituation, the molt proud of the which you believe to be the muft patriotic, that the fowers of fedition had appellation of Frenchmen; 1 fiuppole mafters - banditti againit ftirred up, in its bofom, fervants hundred agaiaft times the peaceable inhabipofleffors of propertys that a fuch praflices with no return but consants had remonftrated againit Vide agpendix(C.) B tempt; that department of the kingdom Place, for a moment, in our fituation, the molt proud of the which you believe to be the muft patriotic, that the fowers of fedition had appellation of Frenchmen; 1 fiuppole mafters - banditti againit ftirred up, in its bofom, fervants hundred agaiaft times the peaceable inhabipofleffors of propertys that a fuch praflices with no return but consants had remonftrated againit Vide agpendix(C.) B tempt; --- Page 20 --- [ 18 3 tempt;- all that - that, fofarf from fuccour from iffued from its bofom receiving the volt;- -thatalready the houfes and feemed to teem with mother-country, the feeds of rehad fallen a prey to the properties of a multitude of abominable murders committed difturbances; - that they had feen the citizens moft hopelefs of under their eyes; that ed, thefe haplefs protedion; citizens if, at fuch a time, fo deftitute and they were' conneétions and of fhould bave indulged an idea of abandonwhom think imploring the afliftance of another forming new bewildered by you, defpair? Sirs, ought the reproach to be made country: : To - To or to the wretches, wearing out their patience, and in mifereants, who took pleafure in moft facred ties by an excefs of breaking afunder the deareft and We know our duty, Sirs, and mifery? we love claim our rights, lVe it; but we know to0 and the entire produce of OuT dedicate, labours. to the profperity ef the boldly forces Phe owes NS the She owes ZS proteétion matber-countrj, againg plots ofthe turbulent. Jecurity, %f our properties and peace againf foraien the the Itis colonies.* now proved that the influence of the Amis des hide Let them wéave what Nairs is fatal to the evidence of our calamities. There fophifms is they plcafe, they cannot exifting who can doubty that their not an unprejudiced man writings, theirinfamous labours, tbeir declamations, their caufe, which, for two emiffaries, have been the active, which at length has fucceeded. years paft, has paved the way for our perfevering, ruin, and France owes us protection; but her give us confidence, while fhe fuffers the ftrength will be infufficient to maffacres to lurk in her bofom. contrivers of our revolts and if She fuch owes us protedtion; but in vain would fhe attempts are ta semain render it effeftive, grace our enemies, affords them unpunifhed; matter of thaty which ought to difShe owes us protection; but to triumph and exultation. if fhe permit that feditious what end her fleets and her armies, houfes the feeds of every trouble! writings if fhe fhould inceflantly fcatter in our to the earth with humiliations! andi ift to permit us to bc preffed down with blood become, in the eyes of the encompafs us with murder and. ourfelves, the road to glory and to fame! ! country to whom we facrifice fomented The the fociety troubles of the Amis des Noirs has been colonifts, as difaffeéted in to St. the Domingo: to fay veryanxious nothing of to their parryt abfurd thé accufation of having the expence of every thing, which, new confitution, under and as baving plotted. a crimination of the fervation, icl has been f could counter-revolation be at of colour has been the indufitiouly fole caufe efthis fpread TAZARE chat SCEE injuftice of the whites worthy to their the prs various contradictory decrees, fomc infurrecion. Doubtlefs tho ill blood men colour, has hadi its thare in this exciting, fome reprefling, the expe@tations of occafioned the by owing that tte National. and as baving plotted. a crimination of the fervation, icl has been f could counter-revolation be at of colour has been the indufitiouly fole caufe efthis fpread TAZARE chat SCEE injuftice of the whites worthy to their the prs various contradictory decrees, fomc infurrecion. Doubtlefs tho ill blood men colour, has hadi its thare in this exciting, fome reprefling, the expe@tations of occafioned the by owing that tte National. bringing calamitous bufine6s to a' crifis." But men of framing their own Affembly took at time from the Colonial to whom is it lent of the Amis interalrepulationst des Noirs. ? To fpeeches and reprefentations Alemblimetherighr of denly elevated to an By whom have the pretenfions of the men of of tbe mof viothe harmony of the colony? extravagant By heighe, the Amis fubverfive des of all ancient ufages, colour becn fude in his famous circular letters. a' crifis." But men of framing their own Affembly took at time from the Colonial to whom is it lent of the Amis interalrepulationst des Noirs. ? To fpeeches and reprefentations Alemblimetherighr of denly elevated to an By whom have the pretenfions of the men of of tbe mof viothe harmony of the colony? extravagant By heighe, the Amis fubverfive des of all ancient ufages, colour becn fude in his famous circular letters. And, Noirs, and principally by the prejudices, and of which the- writings of the Amnis des ina word, to what could thcte Abbé Grégoire frft to fet thewhites and the men of colour Noirs h-veindutriouly diffeminatedi leveling in the doctrines tend, zncats of an infurrection of the Aaves? Sce byt the cars, and then to make thele laft colonies, the inftru- bat appendix(A.) (B.)(D.)and (E.). Forgive, --- Page 21 --- [ 19 J Forgive, Sirs; the warmth of our lauguage. So many calamitie have given us a privilege to fpeak out. Griel, bitter is hearts! A hundred times have we forctold the' evils of grief, which at.our the viétims - - a hindred times have vie imprecated thé we are geance on the hateful manoéuvres of thofe men, who convulfe public our vena try under the mafk of humanity: - - We have obtained no redrefs! counOh! may the dreadful cataftrophe, of which we have fketched the picture, ferve as a leffon for futurity, and preferve, from like calami- to you ties, all thofe of our fellow-citizens to whole lot they have not fallen! yet Itist toyour fteadinefs, in punithing the authors ofour difafters, and in checking their new efforts, that the Weftern and Southern vinces have to look for their fecurity: proAs for the Northern province, its loffés are irreparable. Immenfé capitals are funk; the reftoratien of its indufty requires fuch an vance of funds as the merchants and proprietors cannot ad. complifh. We fpeak not to you of individuals; but you will wholly acSirs, what, on your part; is required by the intereft of the examine, that of the nation. colony and REPRESENTATIYES OF THE PEOPLE JF FRANCE, have heard a recital of the greateft calamity that has vifited the human you racei in courfe of the eighteeuth century. A the You have heàrd the complaint of the firft colony in the world; of a colony necellfary to the exiftence of that nation whofe concerns placed in your hands. * That colony wifhes to intereft are its feelings and its fufferings! you only by It demands, from you, JUSTICE, SAFETY, Succour! Signed, J. B: MILLET. COUGNACQ MION. SAINTE-JAMES. CHENEAU DE LA MEGRIERE, LA-GOURGUE: LE BUCQUET, REPLY ef the PRESIDENT Tol love our country is a fource ofh héart-felt fatisfaction! it in time of diftrefs is the firft of civic virtues, and it is yours! Toferve calamities of the"colony are dreadful! The National The them with horror, with indignation, with grief! You Affembly alk its views TICE; that is due from it to all the citizens of the empire. Its JusTECTION; that is due to your courage, your patriotifm, PRotunes! Its Succour; that it is already in your misforwill give your application its moft ferious occupied providing. It to the henours of the feffion. attention, and invites you € Ste appendix (D.) and (E-) B 2 REPLY the"colony are dreadful! The National The them with horror, with indignation, with grief! You Affembly alk its views TICE; that is due from it to all the citizens of the empire. Its JusTECTION; that is due to your courage, your patriotifm, PRotunes! Its Succour; that it is already in your misforwill give your application its moft ferious occupied providing. It to the henours of the feffion. attention, and invites you € Ste appendix (D.) and (E-) B 2 REPLY --- Page 22 --- 20 J REPLY OF THE DEPUTIES OF ST. DOMINGO TO THE CHARGES OF M. BRISSOT. Aadrefeds on the sthe 9 December, to tbe Prefident ofthe National Afemibly, MR. PRESIDENT, AT the bar of the National Affembly We have pointed out the fociety of the. Amnis des Noirs as the inftigators of the troubles in St. Domingo. No candid and well-informed man can doubt the fact. Yet M. Brifst, one of the members of that fociety which has beeninceffantly bufied in the ruin ofthe colonies, dares accufe us ourfelves excited the infurreélion of our flaves, that we might ofhaving call in a foreign power to our aid and protection : and, as ifthetreafon exifted and was proved, he two days ago moved that the General of St. Domingo fhould be fummoned before the Supreme National Affembly Court. Incumbered by the weight of thofe evils which he has brought bis country, he feeks to divert the public attention from him(elf; upon would intereft the reprefentatives ( fthe Nationin his perfonal defence; he he hepes to miflead the juftice of tne National Afiembly, thar he f. fhelter himfelf from its decrees. Wechallenge him, Mr. Prefident, may te exbibit bis proofs. We intreat the National Mlembly to require tbem. Arids as for 1t5, intrufed by a great colony with the duty its vengeance, w0e will bring farward, upon the quefion, frich s prefecuting an accumulation ef evidence as Mall leave neitber to tbe public epinion nor to tha fentence 9f the lasu ary roam to hefitate in diflinguifbing tbe guilty. Weare, refpedtfully, Mr.PRESIDENT, Your, &c. Signed, J.B. MILLET, COUGNACQ MION, SAINTE-JAMES. CHENAU DE LA MEGRIERE, LA-GOURGUE. LE BUCQUET. This letterwas, onthemorning of the sth ofi Decemher, delivered to the Prefident; ; the fecretary, who had his orders to lay itibeforethe bytwo of the deputies pet to defer its reading tot he nextday. aliembly, thought proAPPEN- . Weare, refpedtfully, Mr.PRESIDENT, Your, &c. Signed, J.B. MILLET, COUGNACQ MION, SAINTE-JAMES. CHENAU DE LA MEGRIERE, LA-GOURGUE. LE BUCQUET. This letterwas, onthemorning of the sth ofi Decemher, delivered to the Prefident; ; the fecretary, who had his orders to lay itibeforethe bytwo of the deputies pet to defer its reading tot he nextday. aliembly, thought proAPPEN- --- Page 23 --- aI I APPEN DIX. (A.) Extrasts from the Addvefs tbe St. Damingo Planters, efembled at Paris, to 4 Kings Dec. I1, 1791. ON the frft report of our 4 calamities, France has feen thofe men, whofe philofophy is a dagger and whaie virtue is a Aaming torch, fetting their writers and their clubs to work to counteraét that impreffion of pity which our fituation was calculated to infpire; and, cc Perifh at the very moment of the accomplifhment of their prophetic vow, in the Colonies ra:her than our Principles!" M. Condoiect publithed, bis Journal, < that the accounts suere fabricated, and bad no the other'cbjedt in < than to create, to the Aingo of the French, an empire beyond feas; K wbich there pouldbe muflers and in which there peuid be Raves. the feaWhen the news was confirmed, when the manufacturers, kingdom, difmen, thip-owners, and the whole commercial bady ofthe Mr. covered their alarm, the anti-focizl feet (through its organ, Briffot) habiexclaimed, that the blood of our brethren, and the alhcs of our tations, covered 2 crime of high treafon; and this friend of humanity propoled to fummon, before the High National Court, whatever remnant of the planters fhould be left unmurdered by the negroes. in National Thefe horrid propcfals werc agitated, difcuffeds, the Affembly. Perhaps it waS the firit time that a civilized people have fuffered, in a legal form; the impious aflault of guiit againtt misfortune. The contempt, confequent on fuch charges, obliged them to fhift their ground.- The colonial regulations arc inimical to their levelling fyttem. Sworn enemies arc they to all great property: for, thej fpurn, they perfecute, they would annihilate, all wealth and all authorityi in which they cannot participatc. Their hypocrify would pre- the ferve facred the rights only of that mulitude of which they are for defpots. Therefore the people of colour, in the, colonics, were, them, ft inftruments, into whofe hands they muft put arms, and they have Such, fucceeded! Sire, is the origin of our calamities. It is rendered obvious by fucceffive facts, from the.firft infurrection of-the mulatto Ogé, ta the devaftation of the plain of the Cape. ploted by the" accomplices of Ogé. B 3. (3.) the rights only of that mulitude of which they are for defpots. Therefore the people of colour, in the, colonics, were, them, ft inftruments, into whofe hands they muft put arms, and they have Such, fucceeded! Sire, is the origin of our calamities. It is rendered obvious by fucceffive facts, from the.firft infurrection of-the mulatto Ogé, ta the devaftation of the plain of the Cape. ploted by the" accomplices of Ogé. B 3. (3.) --- Page 24 --- 22 3 (B.) Extrait from an darefief the Jame Planters to the National Afembly. IT is abfurd to believe, that thofe, who have tried abolifh flavery and the flave-trade, have a fingle meafure every to means to friendlyin its nature, to thoic veryc çolonies which propofe, out flavery and the flave-trade, cannotfubfift withiti is abfurd to believe, that thofe, who declare oft the white planters becaufe they have negro-flaves, themfelves fhould enemies up the caufe of the people of colour, who alfo have have taken any other purpofe than that of fetting the whites and the negro-flaves, for lour together by. the cars, of making them cut one people of coin order to fecure the freedom of the who enother's throats, inalters of the territory, - Thefe are negroes, the beneficent would remain fole friends of humanity! projects of thefc (C.) Extrea from tbe Tournal ef the Colonial Alfembly 9 the French Partef Hlipanidle, Sepi. 26, 1791. THE committee, appointed to repair on-board the reparted, 's That Commodorc Afileck, and Englifh frigate, $ member of thc Jamaica Affembly; àttended Bryan to Edwards, Efg. were accordingly admitted, in company with the be prefented;" who whercupon the Prefident addrcffed them as Govermar-General; ( We were not miftaken, follows: C fidence in your generofity; Genflemen, but' we could when we placed our concc that, befidcs fending us hzrdly entertain the hopesi / < us confolation. You have juccours, you would come in perfon to give cc ful enjoyment of happinefs at quitted, without reluétance, the peaces Cc misfortunes and blend your tears home, with to come and participate in our S contemplation of which, to thofe,who ours. are Scenes' of mifery (thé Gs tuné, is commonly have unaccuftomed to misforC You have been willing difgufting) to not fuppreffed yaur feelings. <t and to alcertain the full extent of our pour into our wounds the falutary balin of dittreticss c and compafion. your fenfibility c The picture which I have drawn of our calamities is ftill S of the truth, far (hort ec $ That verdure, with which our fields were lately arrayed, is no longer vifible; difcoloured by the < devaftations of war, our"coafts exhibit Aames, no arid laid walle the profpect but that S horK ror. to alcertain the full extent of our pour into our wounds the falutary balin of dittreticss c and compafion. your fenfibility c The picture which I have drawn of our calamities is ftill S of the truth, far (hort ec $ That verdure, with which our fields were lately arrayed, is no longer vifible; difcoloured by the < devaftations of war, our"coafts exhibit Aames, no arid laid walle the profpect but that S horK ror. --- Page 25 --- [ 23 J K The emblems which we wear on our perfons * are the tokens ror. our who were furprifed, and < of our grief for the lofs of brethren, < bafely aflafinated, by the revolters. that furround < Itis by the light of thefe conflagrations, every to armed and c we are compelled arz us, that we now deliberate; to the enemy from our fanétu- < watchful, through the night, bofoms keep have been depreffed for- < ary. For a long time pait our firft the fwect by emo- < row; they experience this day, for the time, K tions of pleafure, in beholding you among us. on your < Generous iflanders! humanity has operated powerfully <6 hearts; you have yielded to the firft emotion of your generofity, late it is too 46 in the hopes of fnatching us from death; for, already conduct.. < to fave us from mifery. What a côntraft ourfelves between bene- & that of other nations ! We will avail your Fets < and volence: but the days preferve to us will not be fufficient to ma- < nifeft our gratitude: : TENP children fhall keep it in remembrance, bec Regenerated France, unapprifed that fuch calamities might effeêts: < fal us, has taken no meafures to protedt us againit their affitance, $ with what admiration will the learn, that, without your < we fhoule no longer exift as a dependency to ifland arly nation. of has 6 The Commiflioner, deputed by us to the Jamaica, the s informed us of your exertions to ferve UIS. 1 Receive affurance < of our attachment and fenfibility. fentiments perfectly < The Governor-general of this ifland, whofe the inte- & accord with our own, and who is ftrongly attached to feel < refts of this country, participates equally in the joy we at your the affiftance have brought 6 prefence and in our gratitude for you * us," (D.) Extra from the Aidrefs the Merchants and Traders of Amiens to the AA3hS Alembly, Dec. 1O, 1791. THE freedom ofthe negroes in the Welt-Indies, fo eagerly defired by the fociety of the Amis des Noirs, has fubmitted, to public enquiry, with a queftion of too much importance, at this time, to be regarded indifference, This queftion, fo clofely, connedted with the commercial interefts of Europe, has divided opinions and formed parties. In the eye of reafon, both experience and policy unite in dictating, if it thac be we fhould abide by the cuftomary regulations; meliorating, yet poffible, the lot of the negroes. The Affembly appeared in white dreffes, with black Glk fafhes, There were upwards uft two hundred members prefente B 4 The at this time, to be regarded indifference, This queftion, fo clofely, connedted with the commercial interefts of Europe, has divided opinions and formed parties. In the eye of reafon, both experience and policy unite in dictating, if it thac be we fhould abide by the cuftomary regulations; meliorating, yet poffible, the lot of the negroes. The Affembly appeared in white dreffes, with black Glk fafhes, There were upwards uft two hundred members prefente B 4 The --- Page 26 --- I 24 1 The pretended philanthropifts, not baving fucceeded in eftablifhing anarchy by means of an unqualified enfranchifement of the grocs, have direéted their attention to the men of colour, whom time newould naturally have conduéted' to all the rights of other citizens. We draw the veil over fcenes of horror, the bare recital of which has made you fhudder. We leave to journalifts, for thc molt part coldly felnth or irrationally enthufiaftic, to reafon' over them in their manner. Léttbemtell us that France, to be needs no COlonies; that the lois of fugar and coffee is proiperous, an evil to perfons who confume them.- Thefe are not arguments only that will wealthy fuade the patriotic citizen, ftill leis the enlightened merchant. per4 facts convince us," that France owes her (plendour only to her' colo- Let nies; and that, in the prefent ftate of the European nations, without her colonies, cannot be fupportéd. France, It is needlefs, Sirs, to fix your attention upon the nature of the French commerec, but, perhaps, it' may be neceffiry to examine what i the bafis' of its commercial indufiry; an objest fo that it is the principle of our immenfe population. important, The grcater part of our manufactories are noutifhed by taw materials imported, and which we mutt purchafe from and ivhat have we, of the produce of our foil or of the fruits foreigners; of our induftry, to give them in return? Before the eftablihmgnt of our man:- faciorics, which have fo prodigioufly augmented the number of confumers, it was politic to export corn, but we now find, by great objections to an export of that article. There remain, experience, our wines, brandics, fome fruits, a little dried fith, fome cattle, their, and falt; we have alfo to offer them linens, filks, wooliens, cottons, and milienery and haberdafhery wares. Although thefe different manufactories occafion a confiderable export to forcign nations, their amount does not form a for the" raw materials, drugs, and dyc ftuffs, which we compenfation are compelled to tàke from them. Other riches becomé neceffary in ordcr to pay for the furplus ànd to give a balance' advantageous to France: Thote riches our colonies fupply. - France received annually from her American colonies about 300,000,000 valuc. in their produce, of which about one half was exported. Itisby this value that we pay for thofe materials, which zre the fupport of our manufaétures, and for other articles, whether ofl luxury or of neceffity; and, by this value, there accrued to France a balance oftr'de amounting to between. 40 and 50,000,000 of livres. Wihat becômes of this balance, what becorres of the we lofe thefe invaluable polfeffions? Should that lofs kingdpm; from if fault, we have to anfwer to our brethren, refident happen in the our who look to the mother-country for proteétion; we'have to anfwer crlonies, ta the numérous feamen and. àrtificers of all kinds' who refide in our feaports; we havé to anfwer to all thofe manufactories of the internal provinces, whofe hands are employed by the colonies, or by thofe connected with them. How dreadful the profpeét! Siilar addreffes were prefented from Bourdeaux, Nantes, Havreg #ec. (E.] brethren, refident happen in the our who look to the mother-country for proteétion; we'have to anfwer crlonies, ta the numérous feamen and. àrtificers of all kinds' who refide in our feaports; we havé to anfwer to all thofe manufactories of the internal provinces, whofe hands are employed by the colonies, or by thofe connected with them. How dreadful the profpeét! Siilar addreffes were prefented from Bourdeaux, Nantes, Havreg #ec. (E.] --- Page 27 --- 25 1 (E,) Extrait sf the Spech of M. ROUSTAN, in the National Afembiys Dec. 10, 1791. (He was-deputed, by the Colony ef St. Dominge, ta efSnccsrig the American States.) BUT, Sirs, by what fatality are all our meafures to be confidered as fufpicious? By what fatality are zU2 reduced to our juftification? TVe, that arc the viélims, whilft the charges of our enemies, I might fay of our executioners, are looked upon as' indifputable truths! what right does M. Brifot,* and thofe otber members of the National By Aflembly, who are ignorant of the internal regulation which is fuitable to our own colonies, becaufe that regulation depends on localities that can be knowa only to the inhabitant-, permit themfelves to load us with abufc? Whence comes itahat, when we require them to bring proof.of what they affert, the National Affembly, which has promifed us jaftice, fhould not compe! them to their own vindication; whilft we, on our parts, offer. proof of all we have affirmed? Tp what an excels of defpair fhall we not reduce our haplefs confituents, when we relate tô them, as we muft, all that has during the difcuffion of their dreadful fituation! What confidence paffed wiHl they derive from a journalift, member of' the National who publithes, (J quote his own exprcffion,) that thofe Affembly, words, < Perifh the Colonies rather tban we mould facrifice celebrated a 6 ple-bhave been pronounced in vain from the tribunal Princic Mlerobly." Pronounced in vain! then it is the wifh, f ihe the Conftituent of M. Candorcets that thefe words had not been a fruitlels ineffeétual prayer, declamatioii, Pronounced in vain! Then he would have had pleafure in fecing a maffacre of 50,000 Frenchmen, 20,000 mulattoes, and 500,000 negroes, in the colony of St. Domingo oniy,, rather than have facrificed what he calls a principle. I fhould conceive myfelf to be wounding the delicacy of the National Affembly, fhould I fo prove all the horrors thefe dreadful words convey! attempt (F.) Extradts from the Spech efMr..B BERTRAND, Marine Minifler France, in the National-Afembiy, Dec. 19, 1791. ef, I HAVE explained to you, Sirs, the meafures taken by the for affording relief to the inhabitants of St. Domingo, fo foon king, as int the M. Alfemblye-Spyeralr Rouftanno fooner mentioned the name of M. Brifst than there was a great clamout membersexglimed, < Topsion with him !" their Extradts from the Spech efMr..B BERTRAND, Marine Minifler France, in the National-Afembiy, Dec. 19, 1791. ef, I HAVE explained to you, Sirs, the meafures taken by the for affording relief to the inhabitants of St. Domingo, fo foon king, as int the M. Alfemblye-Spyeralr Rouftanno fooner mentioned the name of M. Brifst than there was a great clamout membersexglimed, < Topsion with him !" their --- Page 28 --- [ 26 J Sheir calamity and danger were made known quate, doubtlefs, of themfelves, their to his majefly: inadetheir promptitude, and on the affurance fuccels that depends wholly on by others morc effeétive. But, they ihall be followed upon, it was fitting we flhould previous know to thefe being determined bles which have led to this terrible the true caufes of the troumeans of difcovering them, becaufe cataftrophe. I have negle@ed no be direéted in the application of thofe by fuch difcovery alone can we its return. meafures which are to . Some accufe the Colonifts of prevent the Englifh, &c. &c.* wifhing to furrender themfelves to but Others, in the on the contrary, fee no other caufe of their view to ftir incendiary the writings, diffeminated in the misfortunes with for fome negroes to revolt; in the Colanics a time paft, between the people of cotrefpondence colour and maintained, Philanthropifis ; founded, fay a fociety called all colonial property, and whofe they, upon a fyftem, deftruétive of ted. origin and principles are thus ftaItis eafy to conceive, that 2 free fo, muit have felt an alloy to its people, always worthy of being ments from the circumftance of their enjoyment of colonial eftablifhThis fentiment of a gencrous and being humane founded on flavery. mable, howeverjuft or well nation (certainly eftia milder treatment of our founded) was fure to gain ground, and But the philofophic fpirit, negroes fo was its natural reful. conquefts, and has been employed prevalent in in France, aimed at farther ofa argument, the theory of a frengthening, with all the force been morc prudently left to its fentiment, own which, perhaps, might have Acording to its dearines, the operations, humanity has been wounded and Colonies, juftice fet thofe polfeflions for which which cupidity has affixed to them, but afide, bave not that value mother-country. The pofibility of are ruinous to the deluded more contiguous, and under a climate replacing them by fettlements (that of Africa or the Mediterranean Jflands more fimilar to our own $ cellity there muft one day arife of for inflance;) the nehabited by men whole ingratitude refigning and polefions fo diftant, inforefec, &c. &c. all thefe motives united treachery lead there is reafon to tary abandonment as no more than an us to regarda a volunzable, with the advantage of a prévious anticipation of events inevimore durable refources. Our wiler preparation and a provilion of calculations relpecting their neighbours have made fimilar the fums expended in their North-American defence, how colonies, proving, by been. burthenfome they have Although fuch calculations (natural tion for having loft them) related enough by way of confolarefembling but in name the colonies only of the to the continental colonies, this difference did not ftrike every mind, American Archipelogo, yet peared to fecond the diétates of Commercial policy aphumanizy, and the number of the See % Mr. Thefe accufations have been omitted by the tranflator, as Bertrand's own opinicn of them in the. fubfequent part being of his now, fpech, generally difcredited. Philanthropifts tion for having loft them) related enough by way of confolarefembling but in name the colonies only of the to the continental colonies, this difference did not ftrike every mind, American Archipelogo, yet peared to fecond the diétates of Commercial policy aphumanizy, and the number of the See % Mr. Thefe accufations have been omitted by the tranflator, as Bertrand's own opinicn of them in the. fubfequent part being of his now, fpech, generally difcredited. Philanthropifts --- Page 29 --- L 27 J Philanthropifts was fwelled all to be excited, needed other by thofe, whofe fenfibility, in order itfelf, ftimulatives' than thofe of cc This is thé philanthropy 6c and cruelly occafioned fyftem, (fay thofe the planters,) which has 6 vidtims. Follow, ftep bloody fcenes of which erroncoufly, we are se this by fep, the proceedings and the ce tion of profelyte-making Alavery and zeal, which began by cffeéts of 6e moderating its unqualified liberty to our negroes preaching ; àn abolis6 afked pretenfions, the better to which then es only a fuppreffion of the and graduate'its progrefs, more plaufible and fecure trade; which at 66 to the elevation of the aim, has feemed to confine its laft, with a ce work our delftrucion. people of colour. the more attention 6 alftuming iallit not be cffeStually that to < cruel? Has humanity asits bafis, hhould be dbomadimpafilin, a Mlems not the hiftory of thofe capalle 9 praducing efeets fo afad, a reference to very climates €6 which cannot but do furnifhed us with pulous honour to the 66 that America philanthropift ? It is to the bumane and moft feru66 fcllow-citizens owes her negroes: : touched with the pious Las Cazas cc Africa for infliéted upon the native gvils which his sc vation men already doomed to Caribbs, he fought in c of mifery and by a fimple flavery, who, without aggra- €6 climate fimilar to their own, might exchange of fetters, under a ricaps, alike unft for fupply the place of e6 labour and for the Amenary was deceived chains. Ifthis 66 flavery a remnant of by the his humanity; if, to fave from pious miffioa ing to that loi millions Caribbs, of he has been the means labour of and es who cannot pretend Afriçans, let the modern doomsc their objedt, In their purer motives, fee that they alfo philofophers, fail 66 negroes, they may ieJuce attempt, to put an end to the. not of of fc white to mifery five or fix millions llavery of the fe ftrongeft fellow-citizens, pillars of the friends and brethren, and their €s tual national may overturn the good' to thofe whom profperity: nor will they do effecsc rence of all the interefted they with to ferve. Without a 6 their proteétor, the flaves powers, their the Colonies have only to concur- choofe fe ,as they have Jately too mafter. Thefe laft se throats of dreadfully proved, may, indeed, 66 fetover them; ourfelves, butic our wives, and children, attempt and of all to cut who the 46 vitude for another." will be only that they may exchange one fer- are Such, Sirs, are the arguments planters and their advanced, in their turns, have I endeavoured antagonifts, to diferiminate In my adminiflrative capacity, by.the which have led the way to the the caufes, whatever: they folely, be, might the more effedtually. troubles in St. Domingo, may that I As to the accularions, apply the means of prevention. themfelves to the againf the Colonifts, of defigns to effedt a Enghih; tq render themfelves fubmit thing, in countcr-revolsition: : Iknow I independent; have to furd? evidence, of projeêts, fo culpable, nothing; found noAs to tie extravagant, or abWlacks,- accufatien brought againf the partifans Lcanrat conceal that it appears much better ofthe liberty of the founded But, whatever prevention. themfelves to the againf the Colonifts, of defigns to effedt a Enghih; tq render themfelves fubmit thing, in countcr-revolsition: : Iknow I independent; have to furd? evidence, of projeêts, fo culpable, nothing; found noAs to tie extravagant, or abWlacks,- accufatien brought againf the partifans Lcanrat conceal that it appears much better ofthe liberty of the founded But, whatever --- Page 30 --- i 28 J whatever be the caufe, where difafiers? How are are we to look for the - The firft and moft we to prevent thein repetition ? remedy of thefe with our true interefts, ufeful and ftepis, real doubtlefs, to become nies Ance an ignorance %f commercial relation with acquainted the coloef our errors and of their thefe principles has been the primary Wefhould confider calamities. Jource blifhed at 1800 leagues our di0ance Colonies as fo many manufaétories, eftamother-country the herfelf as the from the mother-country, and the expence of thefe monryed firm, which has ther for their firft eftablifhments of agriculture and furnifhed member of the foundation, ma aintenance, or proteStion. induftry, whefpeculation; to tharethe mother-country is a ftock. holder in this Every born in France; and all benefits French of which, it is enough to important have been terefled in its fuccefs, citizens, Ir repeat it, all, are inor proptictors of lands, which, though in in different.d degrees : fome as farmers fupply the wants of thefe diftant wholeor in part, are cultivated to without fo imporrant a demand canfumers. and who would be in various for their fome ruined departments of induftry, produce; as pmbarked fupplying the Colonies, and whofe wholly or partially occupied in remain on hand; ; fome, productions without them would coafling traders, &c. again, as commercial the Colonies the forming a third clafs, bulied people, in navigators, rank in this firm, connedion of the other two. Whatever carrying on be with from the laborious whatever be the fum and nature of our our induftrious manufaéturer bhufbandman to the lazy thares, turous to the ufelefs money-lender, from from the fpeculator to the caytious fock.jobber, the advenrefted in the fate of thefe valuable annuitant, all, yes, all, are inteCalumny herfelf fells ber poifon to ettakilments, a profit. by whole aid even ftill Regulated and governed in whatever keep their primitive charaéter of manner, thefe ellablilhments mother-country the has embarked, and of which an enterprife, in which the profit or the lofs. fhe alone ought to reap As to calculations of the fums thefe pofing them not exaggerated, bow are eftablithments haye coft, fupAgures, the atuantoges wbich refult to We to appreciates in gold Or in pofible we thould be blind to the Europe from ber Colanies? Is it the only true criterion of national obvious increafe of our once population of the plenty of food and of the profperity,, need of an infallible fign at tiply fail where fubfiftence abounds and hands; for, men multo fee, that an obligation to fell where labour invites. Can we bers of the mother-country,, and to their produce only to the memthey want, forms a double fource of buy of them alone every article is immenfe? In fhort, the Cplonics riches, of which the meafure fuch prices as we pleafe to take from us all they want at their valuable impofe; they return us a five millions of produce, not only to ferve the confumption fufliciency of of we fell with profit inhabitants, but to form a very great twentyown. And Thall all thefe to the narions who have no Colonics furplus, of which their gures, which, exprelling only advantages the be cftimated by a feries of fible to none but to material and inanimate relations of quantity, are applicaobjedts? Cbferve, afe to take from us all they want at their valuable impofe; they return us a five millions of produce, not only to ferve the confumption fufliciency of of we fell with profit inhabitants, but to form a very great twentyown. And Thall all thefe to the narions who have no Colonics furplus, of which their gures, which, exprelling only advantages the be cftimated by a feries of fible to none but to material and inanimate relations of quantity, are applicaobjedts? Cbferve, --- Page 31 --- [ 1g 1 Obferve, Sirs, that the effect of fuch erronéous calculations, repecting our Colonies, muft neceflàrily impofe a retrograde courfe npon the public fortune: It is not to' moderate the fpeed, but to fop at once the motion, of this powerful wheel, that we arcinvited, In an inftant, we are to condemn to inaétivity thofe millions of arms, which are now employed to move it: in an inftant, we are to cut all the threads, which conduét us to fuch an immenfity of wealth! Efimate, I befeech you; Sirs, the dreadful effeéts of fuch a fudden feparation ! (G.j With the falinuing Pgffript to Mr. de Blanchelande', Letter, ef thd 3oth of November, to the Minifler Marine, (wbich is among the latef authentic advices from St. ALAS the Tranflator clejes this imperfit Rketcb ef tbe miferies ef the riche and mafi important in the world. Colony à CE THIS inftant I have received a Letter from the of Port au Prince, of which I fubjoin a copy,* The Municipalits truth contents has been confirmed to me by Mr. Saule de Saulnoir. of Some its curfe from above has, I fear, been pronounced againit this wretched Colony dooming itto entire deftruéion ! Calamities of tion are furely to fall to its Jot! A ray of hope, on the everydeferip- arrival of the Commiflioners: fent by the National Affembly, feemed deftined to foften my anxieties and my pain : that momentary fatisfadtion is now crueliy difturbed $ and the more fo as our fituation in the vince and the exhaufted itate of our refources form northern obftacles promy wifhes of Aying to the fuccour of the ravaged to that would require fuperior forces, and fcarcely have departments. we But maintain a humiliating defence. lf our brethren in fuflicient to not fpecdily to our fuccour, what will become of. us P Europe come 22d of This November. letter gives The an account moft moderate of tho eftimation burning of that rich and flourithing town on the 130,000,000 of livres, makas the lofs, fuftained on that occalion, Poftfcript by the Tranflator. the above papers were publifhed in their prefent form I have a printed letter, addreffed to a member feen SINCE. Clarkfon, the object of which Îs to remove, of from parliament, the Amis and des figried T. France,and, con(equently, from their Englith predeceffors in the fame Noirs in (among whom Mr. Clarkfon fo confpicuoufly fgares,) all carcer, having, in the moft diftant manner, occafioned the infurrection imputation in St. of mingo, which he either lays at the door of the nature of and Doflave-trade, or attributes to circumftances attendant lavery the the in France. upon revolution This to remove, of from parliament, the Amis and des figried T. France,and, con(equently, from their Englith predeceffors in the fame Noirs in (among whom Mr. Clarkfon fo confpicuoufly fgares,) all carcer, having, in the moft diftant manner, occafioned the infurrection imputation in St. of mingo, which he either lays at the door of the nature of and Doflave-trade, or attributes to circumftances attendant lavery the the in France. upon revolution This --- Page 32 --- 30 ) This letter appeared, without fignature, fome Chronicle, where it has been ably replied to timeago, in the Morningand another under the name of by a wtiter wha figas Dete2lor, meafure refutes hinfelf; for, while Phil-Deestor he feeks to draw Indecd Mr: C. in a great St. Domingo infurtection and former Orids, a parallel between the in the Welt-India iflands; he expresfly tells whether in the ancient world or the infurredtions, which can be traced in the us; from of Mr. Long, that 4 all begun by the imported Africans and never by tbe hiftory thote Mlands, were Now this finglet faét; well confidered, will lead creolej or fand-born, Paves2 clufion from that which Mr. Clarkfon draws from us it. to a very different contively perufed the preceding accounts willl be Whoever has attenin St. Domingo, manifefting itfelf in a different convinced, that the infurreétion different defeription of perions; cannot form be and among a totally caufe which produced thofe former infurreétions reafonably imputed to the fame An event foextraordiniry muft be traced to fome of which Mr.C. fpeaks: with itfelf. Upon Africans, Hewlg imported, origin the cqually extraondinary and fpeeches of Englifh or French fanaties could infauimatory writings ferocity they brought with them from their own have no influence; the their own barbarous wars, muft have habitually uncivilized country, and labour, and to refift an aathority; the nature and difpofed tbem to (pum at not pofibly know. On the contràry; the effecis of which they could particularly thofe among them who creole; or ifland-bom, flaves; edby tbeir mafers" were exadtly capable weredomeficated, of and 6 mof kindly treat: perly digelling, the poifon. conveyed in our late reciving, though not of can read, and fome few can write: It is notorious doêtrines: Many of Scs journals and our pamphlets; and make them the that they do read our sures to fuch of their brethren as affemble for the fubject of their nightly leca Perfons of this defeription, as we have purpofe of being initruéted. given to fedition, and certainly feen; though at no former time foul oft the infurgeétion in St.. Domingo." notincitedby ce any liqcast recent grievances, were c the ported Africans) abo delivered tbeir bunane tbey (andnet the lately-ime avas they rubo, feduced, and Airred up to revolt, maRers the to the afalin's fword! ubject of their nightly leca Perfons of this defeription, as we have purpofe of being initruéted. given to fedition, and certainly feen; though at no former time foul oft the infurgeétion in St.. Domingo." notincitedby ce any liqcast recent grievances, were c the ported Africans) abo delivered tbeir bunane tbey (andnet the lately-ime avas they rubo, feduced, and Airred up to revolt, maRers the to the afalin's fword! It nwas they aebo mafacred all tbat refafed to bécome di/pejed to hdelity! It hence arifes ErEr ftrong prefiomptirve evidence that the HETN accomplices!" And new caufe; that an infurrection, more deep and deliberate eftas (prang from the extenfive and atrocious in its execution, than which in its plan; more them in its origin and all its circumfances, any muft ftand preceded it, unlike novel proceedings refpedting our ilands, thei influence of connefted with thofe too furely predicted" by perfons beft acquainted with the which had been but negroes: charaéter of tac And do not the abolitionifts themfelves confirm this they not now anxious to difclaim their aimed at Prefumption? Are the negroes? Witnefs the late advertifements having from the the emancipation of Wilberforce's declaration; on the gth of March laft, in the Old Jewry; Mr. mons; the bold affertions ofMr. Clarkfon's defender, Houfe of ComIng Chronicle; who tells us ce the lociety for abolition Scrutator, have in the Mornthat emancipation is their object:" witnefs, too, in repeatedly denied claration to Mre Du Morier which, the latter France, Mr. Brillot's defpeech, Surl lesTroubles des Colonies; er thdt be reports; bad P. 37 of his printed ling tbe faves: tbatyduring his refdence in Virginia, be never tbought gf Hiberanegroes avere as unfit for liberty as infants at awvas comvinced that tbe Juaded tbe abolition of lavery wouldbe a great sunyearigage; evilro tbat be avas pera tion 1o it, be wouldloje bis life if necefary." tbem; andt that, in oppyfin Whence this fudden retradtion of fentiments and prove to have becn avowed, if not by thefe very perfons, apinions, which I thall yet by others with whom --- Page 33 --- ( 31 1 whom they have affociated, and whofe writings they have been induftrious to diffeminate? Does it not procced from a heartfelt conviétion among thefe gentlemen, that the doctrines, which they are now fo anxious to have occafioned the fubfequent calamities? Yet, though every word difclaim, which I muft recal to their recolleétion fhould feem to them, as it does to me, to be written in. chara.ters of blood; chongh I fhould 6e certain bour 3> the wretched colonitts of St: conjure up to them at a murdered, violated, inpaled; and thofe, the Domingo, wretched men, objects women, of their infants, ing benevolence, in prey to every evil from which their late fervitude errtected them, with tyranny intolerable fuperadded, under the name, alas, pro- of liberty! Though thefe be the fad impreffions that muft be produced in their minds by every rude vibration of memory, yet mine is the tafk to feledt and lay before them, from volumes of a fimilar the ce We could not have imagined that the moment tendency, was fo following near, in paffages. which great caufe of the liberty ef tbe negroei, involved in that of the the of the human fpecies, fhould be folemnly eftablifbed, avowed, general liberty by the National Affembiy." and Janczioned, Mirabenu's Comment on the Declaration of Rights, No. by every rude vibration of memory, yet mine is the tafk to feledt and lay before them, from volumes of a fimilar the ce We could not have imagined that the moment tendency, was fo following near, in paffages. which great caufe of the liberty ef tbe negroei, involved in that of the the of the human fpecies, fhould be folemnly eftablifbed, avowed, general liberty by the National Affembiy." and Janczioned, Mirabenu's Comment on the Declaration of Rights, No. Courier de Province. 30, ce In the colonies, the negrces have a right 2o reff their mafters without being confidered as rebellious.' 39 oI confefs I think a different decifion" (from that Clarkfon's Efay, the P. 241. the negro Somerfet) <e could hardly have been given, relpedling ifa fimilar caufe, liberty of bing carried through tbe inferior courts in the plantations, were afer moved for a final decifion to this regularly re6E How little do we value the country." caufe offrcedom where Cooper's Letters, P.7is not concerned !3 our own emancipatione ce The experiment of manumifion, extenfively tried, has even Ibid. P.24anfwered." lucratively 6e The objedtions ftated would not lie to the gradual or e-ven Ibid. P.27. miffion of the numerous negroes now holden in fudden manuee I argue upon the improbable fuppofition, flavery." that our Ibid. p.32. would be materially injured by the manumifion %f Javes and Weft-Indian tbe colonies fave-trade2" abolitieneftbe ec Scor Bball the Jor fbine 017 nonte but frecmen, The beams Ibid. tbe P-33fall ceafe 2o illumine tbe fsuterreffarvery. > %f morning Abbe circular se Let us look with an Grégoire's of Letters difperfed in the colonies. and iron ; let us confider cye pity on thofe who are faft bound in mifery let thofe, who are thus bound, as them; us break their bonds afunder, &c. &c." Peckard's heing bound with Prieftley, Dickfon, Dean Nicholls, &c. alfo, in direét Sermon, p. 39mend emancipation, though in fomewhat a morc qualified mahner.t teris, recom- + In evidence of the fpirit of fome Drano writers ofMidleham's on the fame letter. What duced, as yet, any effeat in tie Wefl-India iflands, I will fide, add though the too recent to have propamphlets diffeminated with no fmall induflry and following quotations from second exults UUer, the atrocities committed expence. -The firft fecms to predict, the c Surely we thal noc limit o2r wicws merely at St, to Domingo. the abclition of fecing the coloniat Aave.y, formed upon it, is in its the African flave-trade, adopted, for purting the daves in our iflands in principle egually unjaf. The plan tol be robe certuin and) Jpeeayin its operation. -Our excrtions poffefion oft their legal and natural right, oughe immidiate efe3i; for, they may produce remote ones of arc which not to be judged of merely by tbeir wubatever they may be, after having done we çan furm no eftimate: buty all things after the counfels of his own will.". cur duy, - we may to the leave them with Him who governs have A parto of the immediare fittty for which this Alinefi writer PropleefGreat Britain. Gurngy. for now taken place in St. Domingo. The certain pious and leayes the Almighty anfiwverable, flling our iflands with rapine, pillage, conflagration, Ipeedy and blocd! plan hc recommends is at plan fuch, and fuch only, being --- Page 34 --- FB S137 S What effect thefe and 32 ) the following facts. to the leave them with Him who governs have A parto of the immediare fittty for which this Alinefi writer PropleefGreat Britain. Gurngy. for now taken place in St. Domingo. The certain pious and leayes the Almighty anfiwverable, flling our iflands with rapine, pillage, conflagration, Ipeedy and blocd! plan hc recommends is at plan fuch, and fuch only, being --- Page 34 --- FB S137 S What effect thefe and 32 ) the following facts. many other fimilar writings An infurrection ofthe prodaced we gather froni ring which the flaves happened in July; 1789, at be no more havery; negro prifoners declared they had Martinique; duAnother infurrection Jor, ihat it bad becnjo orderdin underfood France: 4 there cwasto mcr, in which alfo it was followed publicly in the fame ifland two months afer wery." declared e tbat the king bad the forIn tlie flaves rofe at abelipedfaliberty 7271 beèn ebiainedsi France." Guadelotpe in tle fimc ie In that year'and the Ferfuafion, tbat tbeir flaves at Dominica, who beginning cinimed of 1791 thete was zn infitrection of What atinity do thefe inforrections tbeirrigbts but, pretended no grievances. the Mr. Clarkfon allows with Mr. bear to thole ones, Arecerd and né ver bythe creale, Long 1O have been ail" preceding beguh tbe whiclt the obvious relation betsveen caufe or Haud-born, Raves? Can we by Be fo imported harbingers of that more dreadful and cflect as not to fee, in thefe bhind to the direct and legitimate one which foon followed in St. calamities, trade? olfspring of olr late diicuffions Dominge, But, to the revolution iri concerning the ilavezccording to Mr. Clarkfon, France; be and to circtmfances attentlinig it, terrible cvents. Whar hewould imputed whatever of nevelty there muft; been aftcondary, make a primary, Iwill bein thefe thion de caufe. Toi a Mirabeau, a allow only to have dextcrous Villeneuve, manceuvre, (all eminent among Roberufpierre, the Amis des a Grégoire, a Pé: the wife decree obtained the decree ofthe 15th of Nar1,7 who, bya which fet preceding the coloaies in of the 8th of March, we May, contradicting without attention to local a flame. Suddenly to exalt the owe thofe meafures a meafure refulting from thcir prejudices arid long- -cflablifhed people of, colour; of the blacks, Mr. principles and to Abordinastion, an was to mhireprefent the Clarkfonhas Jound Raya under a emancipation Elis Opponenti, proceedings in refpect to Ogéand to the nsecefity glatingly his fallacious Ratement; Detector and til-beteator, have in forne people ofd Fcolour: proceedings of the National but, for a fuller account of the fickle refpects and expofed which the Amis ides Ncirs havé Affembly, had id reipecting the colonies and of capricious the part apamphlet, National before-quoted, written by promocing Mr. Du them; I refer my redder to Aflembly, who is candid to Morier, a niember of the alliutentions and profelles himflf enough a acquit the Amit des Noirs of takes to eftablith, 46 upon incontefible democrat and philanthropift; yet under- any the cucftion, thetreubles of the colonies, evidence, and of St: that; incention out of the thc imnedinte quettions or remote. refult ofthe difeuflions Domingo particularly, are We connected with it." concerning negro-flavery and France, owe,. candid to Morier, a niember of the alliutentions and profelles himflf enough a acquit the Amit des Noirs of takes to eftablith, 46 upon incontefible democrat and philanthropift; yet under- any the cucftion, thetreubles of the colonies, evidence, and of St: that; incention out of the thc imnedinte quettions or remote. refult ofthe difeuflions Domingo particularly, are We connected with it." concerning negro-flavery and France, owe,. that, perhaps, avilb to the wavering counfels and unfettled kained a folemn warning. them, the flame has fg burft out : hence government we of May we be wife enough to tarn it to have ob. being thefignals of oegro.emanciparion! advantage! turef negroes exultation in St. to Mi. Pedleatrtuate And, who doub:lefs, thus he hopes foon to occafion fartber mat4 Should we Domingo not ina letter addretled to his friend, applauds the cruelties, committed by the logium if they approve their condua in this violence?" Mr. Should Granvilie Shap, the mof exgwifite exterminaté tortures on their thofe, tyrants with fire and fword? Should we not crown ic.with cuof thofe who properly valuc thofe tyrants, wouldt they not be cxcgfabloin they the delibei a infliet berty ? incfimable bleiflings, perfonal, monajigements Are thefe the advocates for abolition who rational, and raligious, liwhole writings cuuid, at no time, tend to excite confine infurrechons their views in to a ceffation of the trade, and T H E E N D. the colonics ? Eaare-haphap for thole lew, read thofe twe clafles of men, --- Page 35 --- --- Page 36 --- lembly, who is candid to Morier, a niember of the alliutentions and profelles himflf enough a acquit the Amit des Noirs of takes to eftablith, 46 upon incontefible democrat and philanthropift; yet under- any the cucftion, thetreubles of the colonies, evidence, and of St: that; incention out of the thc imnedinte quettions or remote. refult ofthe difeuflions Domingo particularly, are We connected with it." concerning negro-flavery and France, owe,. that, perhaps, avilb to the wavering counfels and unfettled kained a folemn warning. them, the flame has fg burft out : hence government we of May we be wife enough to tarn it to have ob. being thefignals of oegro.emanciparion! advantage! turef negroes exultation in St. to Mi. Pedleatrtuate And, who doub:lefs, thus he hopes foon to occafion fartber mat4 Should we Domingo not ina letter addretled to his friend, applauds the cruelties, committed by the logium if they approve their condua in this violence?" Mr. Should Granvilie Shap, the mof exgwifite exterminaté tortures on their thofe, tyrants with fire and fword? Should we not crown ic.with cuof thofe who properly valuc thofe tyrants, wouldt they not be cxcgfabloin they the delibei a infliet berty ? incfimable bleiflings, perfonal, monajigements Are thefe the advocates for abolition who rational, and raligious, liwhole writings cuuid, at no time, tend to excite confine infurrechons their views in to a ceffation of the trade, and T H E E N D. the colonics ? Eaare-haphap for thole lew, read thofe twe clafles of men, — Page 35 — — Page 36 —