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Evacuation Of St. Domingo.
EVACUATION OF ST . DOMINGO .
THE following account of this transaction we have extracted from a French Journal . The French General Kedouville was , it is said , displeased with tin capitulation of Port-au-Prince , Toussaint having permitted the brass cannon , & c . to be carried off . Hedouville was therefore desirous of treating personally for the evacuation of the Mole . He concluded a capitulation upon wore advantageous terms . The English consented to surrender the place
With the cannon ; and agreed also that the emigrants should be removed . A proclamation of Hedouville , conformable to this last article , was posted up at the Mole , with the consent of General Maitland ; but Toussaint L'Ouverture complained in letters to Hedouville , that he had not been employed in treating . General Maitland ordered the proclamation to be taken down , and declared , at the . instigatioii of Toussaint , it is said , that he would not adhere to the treaty ' . Toussaint was then sent to treat . The English
received him with an eclat which formed a singular contrast with the prejudices of their nation . The priest , followed by a troop ofthe faithful , came to meet him , under a canopy with the host , & c . The General then gravely accepted a place b y the side of the Pontiff ; and in entering the Mole carried himself the precious burthen , which the seduced multitude adored with as much piety as fanaticism . A superb tent was erected for him on the parade , where Maitland . gave him a magnificent entertainment , after which he made the English troops pass in
review before him . He was presented in the name or the King of England with two culverines in bronze , and with the House called the Government , which the English had built . Toussaint was so pleased with his reception , that on his return to Port de Paix , he said loudly , that the Republic had never done him so much honour as the King _ of England had .. ' Meanwhile he openly protected the emigrants . He maintained Count O'Gorman , the Marquis de Contades , the Viscount de Bougues , ore . in the
military rank which they had received from the English . He fomented partial insurrections , directed against the warehouses of those whom he knew to be clevotecl to the Republic . He chiefly employed a person named Moyse , who is his nephew , in this latter kind of machination . Moyse commanded at Fort Liberty , formerly Fort Dauphin . In the night between the 2 ist and izdVendema ' ue last , he beat to arms in the fort , and his regiment came out of their banacks , crying out that it was intended to murder their Commander .
The night , however , passed , as did also the day , and the next day , without a drop of blood being shed . ¦ The Agent of the Direitorv , informed of this conspiracy , ordered Toussaint . L'Ouverture to proceed to Fort Liberty and to arrest Moyse and the other seditious persons : but instead of obeying this order , the General concerted with these brigands the assembling of an army of : a , oco men , and in the night of the 30 th ofthe same month , or the 1 st of Biumaire , he stirrounded the town -and the Cape , took possession . of the forts , and fired the cannon of alarm , without having given General Hedouville any notice of his
intention . ' Hedouville hot having a sufficient number of troops at his disposal to reduce the rebels , went with his suite onboard the frigates , anel sailed for France , accompanied by the General of Brigade Leveilles , Commandant ol the Cape , and the Ex-conventionist Belly , Commander of the Colonial Gend ' armerie . The day after he sailed , Toussaint caused Te Drum to be sung , , and thus remained master of the field of battle .
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Evacuation Of St. Domingo.
EVACUATION OF ST . DOMINGO .
THE following account of this transaction we have extracted from a French Journal . The French General Kedouville was , it is said , displeased with tin capitulation of Port-au-Prince , Toussaint having permitted the brass cannon , & c . to be carried off . Hedouville was therefore desirous of treating personally for the evacuation of the Mole . He concluded a capitulation upon wore advantageous terms . The English consented to surrender the place
With the cannon ; and agreed also that the emigrants should be removed . A proclamation of Hedouville , conformable to this last article , was posted up at the Mole , with the consent of General Maitland ; but Toussaint L'Ouverture complained in letters to Hedouville , that he had not been employed in treating . General Maitland ordered the proclamation to be taken down , and declared , at the . instigatioii of Toussaint , it is said , that he would not adhere to the treaty ' . Toussaint was then sent to treat . The English
received him with an eclat which formed a singular contrast with the prejudices of their nation . The priest , followed by a troop ofthe faithful , came to meet him , under a canopy with the host , & c . The General then gravely accepted a place b y the side of the Pontiff ; and in entering the Mole carried himself the precious burthen , which the seduced multitude adored with as much piety as fanaticism . A superb tent was erected for him on the parade , where Maitland . gave him a magnificent entertainment , after which he made the English troops pass in
review before him . He was presented in the name or the King of England with two culverines in bronze , and with the House called the Government , which the English had built . Toussaint was so pleased with his reception , that on his return to Port de Paix , he said loudly , that the Republic had never done him so much honour as the King _ of England had .. ' Meanwhile he openly protected the emigrants . He maintained Count O'Gorman , the Marquis de Contades , the Viscount de Bougues , ore . in the
military rank which they had received from the English . He fomented partial insurrections , directed against the warehouses of those whom he knew to be clevotecl to the Republic . He chiefly employed a person named Moyse , who is his nephew , in this latter kind of machination . Moyse commanded at Fort Liberty , formerly Fort Dauphin . In the night between the 2 ist and izdVendema ' ue last , he beat to arms in the fort , and his regiment came out of their banacks , crying out that it was intended to murder their Commander .
The night , however , passed , as did also the day , and the next day , without a drop of blood being shed . ¦ The Agent of the Direitorv , informed of this conspiracy , ordered Toussaint . L'Ouverture to proceed to Fort Liberty and to arrest Moyse and the other seditious persons : but instead of obeying this order , the General concerted with these brigands the assembling of an army of : a , oco men , and in the night of the 30 th ofthe same month , or the 1 st of Biumaire , he stirrounded the town -and the Cape , took possession . of the forts , and fired the cannon of alarm , without having given General Hedouville any notice of his
intention . ' Hedouville hot having a sufficient number of troops at his disposal to reduce the rebels , went with his suite onboard the frigates , anel sailed for France , accompanied by the General of Brigade Leveilles , Commandant ol the Cape , and the Ex-conventionist Belly , Commander of the Colonial Gend ' armerie . The day after he sailed , Toussaint caused Te Drum to be sung , , and thus remained master of the field of battle .