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Monthly Chronicle.
' I begun the 23 d ultimo to embark the heavy stores of every description ; stating my full determination to all the parties concerne . d , and sending at the same time a flag of truce to General Toussaint I'Ouverture , at Gojiaives , to acquaint him with my resolution , and leaving to his option , either to . obtain the possessions we evacuated in a state of ruin , or in a state of perfect order , provided he would guarantee , in a solemn manner , the lives and properties of such persons as chose to remain . . General Toussaint immediately agreed to the last
proposition , and sent to Port-au-Prince ; , on the 28 th instant , a confidential officer , who , having met Lieutenant Colonel Nightingall , Deputy Adjutant General , on my part , on the 30 th of April , an agreement to that effect was mutually exchanged and ratified by both parties . ' : ' The stipulation in favour of the inhabitants and planters afforded them the only security in my power to obtain , and with which they were so entirely satis , tied , that although at first they had actually resolved to follow the King's forces ; yet hearing of this agreement in their favourmany of them who had
actu-, upon , ally embarked , relandcd ; and I think I may safely assure you , there are not ten rich proprietors who have , ultimately , upon this occasion , quitted their properties . ' By the 6 th instant , the whole of the heavy British stores of every description being embarked , and all the French brass guns and mortars , with such of the inhabitants as voluntarily wished to go , atid all the merchandize belonging to British merchants , I ordered the parish of L'Arcahave to be evacuated , which was ac- cordingly done the 7 U 1 at noon . The 8 th , at two o ' clock in the morning , I withdrew the whole of the force from Pdrt-an-Princeand embarked it at Fort
, JSizotbti ; mid on the gth , in the morning , the whole fleet sailed to its different destinations . ' I have not heard from Colonel Grant , who commanded at St . Marc ' s , but I have every reason to believe he evacuated that place on tiie 6 th or 7 th of this mouth ; atid I entertain ho doubt bin that he is now at the Mole , where I ordered him to proceed with his garrison . '
REVOLUTION IN HOLLAND . . . . Hague , June 13 . On the i till , in the evening , there was a grand supper in the Ottden Doole ( a tavern ) wherewost of the officers in the garrison were present , with General Daendels at their head . There were also some Commissaries , belonging to the former government and the ancient corporations . A paper was here produced for the signature of those present , of which the principal purport was , that the Legislative Assemblies should leave their post . Several arrests
took place oil the same night . ' On the following morning , the Legislative Assembly declared their sitting permanent , and procured the assistance of five companies of infantry and a detachment of cavalry . ' In the afternoon , at five , o ' clock , General Daendels , at the head of three companies of infantry , went to tlis department of war , and afterwards to the Hotel ' of Amsterdam , " with intent to ' arrest the Executive Directors , who were sunnosed to be sitting there . -Heonly took citizen VanLangen , who Was sent into ' confinement at Woerden . Several other persons made their escape , theirdismission
and are supposed to be gone to Paris . Two Directors accepted . . . ' At this moment the French minister De La Croix , who , it is supposed , had been invited to dine there , arrived , who expressed great displeasure against General Daendels , who answered him in a few words , and then ordered ' one of his soldiers , for the safety of the ambassador , to conduct'him , with a drawn sabre , to his hotel . General Daendels , thereupon , at the headof a large detachment of cavalry and infantry , marched to the iiinnen Hof , where be took post at the Grenadier ' s Gate , anil sent Commissioner Drury with a message to the respective said to that should dissolve
executive departments , which message is purport they themselves . Five companies next inarched from the Binuen Hof to the Plain , and drew up under the orders of General Daendels . .... ' home persons who were arrested in the first instance have been liberated ; but several people , who were in office , are still under a guard at their houses . It is said , that those will remain in office provisionally , who did not approve of some of the la ' e measures , particularly of what happened on the 4 th of May last' ; and that M . Pymann and Koge ! will have the direction of affair ' s . '
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Monthly Chronicle.
' I begun the 23 d ultimo to embark the heavy stores of every description ; stating my full determination to all the parties concerne . d , and sending at the same time a flag of truce to General Toussaint I'Ouverture , at Gojiaives , to acquaint him with my resolution , and leaving to his option , either to . obtain the possessions we evacuated in a state of ruin , or in a state of perfect order , provided he would guarantee , in a solemn manner , the lives and properties of such persons as chose to remain . . General Toussaint immediately agreed to the last
proposition , and sent to Port-au-Prince ; , on the 28 th instant , a confidential officer , who , having met Lieutenant Colonel Nightingall , Deputy Adjutant General , on my part , on the 30 th of April , an agreement to that effect was mutually exchanged and ratified by both parties . ' : ' The stipulation in favour of the inhabitants and planters afforded them the only security in my power to obtain , and with which they were so entirely satis , tied , that although at first they had actually resolved to follow the King's forces ; yet hearing of this agreement in their favourmany of them who had
actu-, upon , ally embarked , relandcd ; and I think I may safely assure you , there are not ten rich proprietors who have , ultimately , upon this occasion , quitted their properties . ' By the 6 th instant , the whole of the heavy British stores of every description being embarked , and all the French brass guns and mortars , with such of the inhabitants as voluntarily wished to go , atid all the merchandize belonging to British merchants , I ordered the parish of L'Arcahave to be evacuated , which was ac- cordingly done the 7 U 1 at noon . The 8 th , at two o ' clock in the morning , I withdrew the whole of the force from Pdrt-an-Princeand embarked it at Fort
, JSizotbti ; mid on the gth , in the morning , the whole fleet sailed to its different destinations . ' I have not heard from Colonel Grant , who commanded at St . Marc ' s , but I have every reason to believe he evacuated that place on tiie 6 th or 7 th of this mouth ; atid I entertain ho doubt bin that he is now at the Mole , where I ordered him to proceed with his garrison . '
REVOLUTION IN HOLLAND . . . . Hague , June 13 . On the i till , in the evening , there was a grand supper in the Ottden Doole ( a tavern ) wherewost of the officers in the garrison were present , with General Daendels at their head . There were also some Commissaries , belonging to the former government and the ancient corporations . A paper was here produced for the signature of those present , of which the principal purport was , that the Legislative Assemblies should leave their post . Several arrests
took place oil the same night . ' On the following morning , the Legislative Assembly declared their sitting permanent , and procured the assistance of five companies of infantry and a detachment of cavalry . ' In the afternoon , at five , o ' clock , General Daendels , at the head of three companies of infantry , went to tlis department of war , and afterwards to the Hotel ' of Amsterdam , " with intent to ' arrest the Executive Directors , who were sunnosed to be sitting there . -Heonly took citizen VanLangen , who Was sent into ' confinement at Woerden . Several other persons made their escape , theirdismission
and are supposed to be gone to Paris . Two Directors accepted . . . ' At this moment the French minister De La Croix , who , it is supposed , had been invited to dine there , arrived , who expressed great displeasure against General Daendels , who answered him in a few words , and then ordered ' one of his soldiers , for the safety of the ambassador , to conduct'him , with a drawn sabre , to his hotel . General Daendels , thereupon , at the headof a large detachment of cavalry and infantry , marched to the iiinnen Hof , where be took post at the Grenadier ' s Gate , anil sent Commissioner Drury with a message to the respective said to that should dissolve
executive departments , which message is purport they themselves . Five companies next inarched from the Binuen Hof to the Plain , and drew up under the orders of General Daendels . .... ' home persons who were arrested in the first instance have been liberated ; but several people , who were in office , are still under a guard at their houses . It is said , that those will remain in office provisionally , who did not approve of some of the la ' e measures , particularly of what happened on the 4 th of May last' ; and that M . Pymann and Koge ! will have the direction of affair ' s . '