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time, commercial, of colonial rights and interests of the British empire.

This our folemn declaration muft, as we believe, materially conduce to prevent the neceffity which it is calculated to meet, and we trust that his Majefty will alfo approve of our defire to fupport it by a fcale of naval and military defence adequate to the extent of our danger, and to the importance of the interefts which we have to maintain.

"The anxiety which we feel in this refpect, is the neceffary confequence of our fincere with for the permanence of the public tranquillity, which his Majefty has now re-established. And it is for the fame important purpose that we also most earnestly recommend to his Majesty's wifdom the preffing neceffity of arranging, by immediate and amicable difcuffion, thofe points of effential intereft which had been adjufted by former treaties, but for which no provifion has been made in this negotiation.

Thefe councils we fubmit to his Majefty with confidence in the prefent awful critis of public affairs, prepared to meet with firmness all the difficulties and dangers of our present fituation, but defirous above all things to promote the ftability and fecurity of real peace; the object which it has been his Majesty's benevolent defire by fuch extenfive facrifices to enfure to his loyal and affe&ionate people."

Lord Hawkesbury moved the following amendment:

"That an humble addrefs be prefented to his Majefty, to affure his Majesty that we have taken into our most ferious confideration the Definitive Treaty of Peace, which his Majesty has been gracioufly pleafed to communicate to this Houfe: that we have already declared our full approbation of the preliminary articles of peace, which, by his Majefty's command, were laid before this Houfe; and we are fatisfied that his Majefty has, on the whole, wifely confulted the interefts of his people in having concluded a definitive treaty, founded on the batis of thefe preliminaries: that although we deeply lament the calamitous events. which have taken place on the continent of Europe in the courfe of the war, we cannot but reflect, with the utmoft fatisfaction, that the wild and deftructive defigns with which this country was threatened at its commencement, have been effectually frustrated: that his Majefty's dominions have not only been preferved entire, but valuable and important acquifitions have been annexed to them that our commercial and maritime fuperiority has been maintained and improved; and that we continue in the confirmed poffeflion of those means of exertion which the experience of the late conteft has proved more than ever to be equal, even amidst the new and unexampled difficulties of other nations of Europe, to maintain the independence, and affert the honour of this country: that, impreffed with thefe fentiments, we are on our parts earnestly folicitous

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folicitous to cultivate and improve the bleffings of peace, and to concur in fuch meafures as his Majefty in his wifdom fhall judge to be beft calculated to prevent occafions of mifunderstanding with foreign powers that we rely on his Majefty's known difpofition to adhere with the moft fcrupulous fidelity to his engagements; but that we entertain at the fame time a perfect confidence, that his Majefty will not fail to employ that vigilance and attention which the prefent fituation of Europe demands; and, above all, that his Majesty will be uniformly determined and prepared to defend, against every encroachment, the great fources of the wealth, commerce, and naval power of the empire: that we are fully perfuaded that his Majesty's faithful fubjects will at all times be ready to fupport the honour of his Majelty's crown, and the rights, laws, and liberties, of their country, with the fame zeal, energy, and fortitude, which they have invariably manifefted during the war, now happily brought to a conclufion."

A debate enfued until two o'clock, when the Houfe adjourned the debate upon motion, Ayes 187.-Noes 155.

Same Day, in the Houfe of Lords, Lord Pelham moved

THE order of the day for taking into confideration the Definitive Treaty of Amiens.

Lord Grenville moved an addrefs fimilar to that moved the fame day, in the Houfe of Commons, by Mr. Windham.

The Duke of Norfolk moved, as an amendment, the omiffion of all that part of the noble Lord's propofed addrefs, after the first part, which affured his Majefty of the co-operation of that House, in maintaining the terms of the peace inviolate.

Lord Pelham moved a counter-addrefs, in coincidence with the amendment of the Duke of Norfolk.

[Upon a divifion there appeared for Lord Pelham's amendment Contents 100.-Proxies 22.-Non-contents 16.]

On Friday, the 14th May, in the House of Commons, Sir William Young moved

THE order of the day for refuming the adjourned debate upon the Definitive Treaty,

Mr. Sheridan moved the following amendment:

"We humbly reprefent to his Majelly, that the omiflion of various opportunities of negotiating a peace with advantage to this country, and more efpecially the rejection of the o.ertures made by the Chief Conful of France, in January 1800, appear to this Houfe to have led to a state of affairs, which rendered peace fo

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neceffary, as to justify the important and painful facrifices which his Majesty has been advised to make for the attainment thereof." The question being put on Mr. Windham's addrefs, the Houfe divided-Ayes 20-Ñoes 276.-Majority 256.

Mr. Sheridan's amendment, and another moved by Mr. BouE verie, were then negatived without a divifion.-Lord Hawkefbury's amendment was then put, and carried without a divifion.

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On Friday, the 21st May, in the House of Commons,

HE Speaker informed the Houfe that he had received, through the lords lieutenants of the counties, the acknowledgments of the yeomanry and volunteer corps for the thanks of the House, voted to them: alfo a letter from Lord Hutchinfon, dated Turin, 8th May, expreffing his gratitude for the thanks voted to him by the Houfe, for his conduct in Egypt.

ADDENDA,

ADDENDA.

Proclamation in the Name of the French Colony of St. Domingo, Touffaint Louverture, Governor.

LIBERTY.

EQUALITY.

EVER fince the revolution I have done all that refted with me to restore the happiness of my country, to fecure the liberty of my fellow-citizens. Forced to fight the internal and external enemies of the French republic, I have made war with courage, honour, and loyalty. Towards my greatest enemies I have never Twerved from the rules of juftice; and if I have all the means which were in my power to conquer them, I have likewise endeavoured, fo far as lay in me, to mitigate the horrors of war, to fpare the blood of man. The pardon of offences has ever been my principle; humanity my leading fentiment; and I have received as friends and brothers thofe who the day before were under the hoftile banners. By forgetting errors and faults, I have wifhed to make the genuine and facred caufe of liberty amiable, even to our moft ardent adverfaries.

I have conftantly reminded my brethren in arms, as well officers as generals, that the rank to which they were raised ought only to be the reward of honour, bravery, and irreproachable private behaviour; that the more they were elevated above their fellowcitizens, the more circumfpect and unblameable fhould be all their actions and all their words; that the fcandal of public men was attended by confequences more detrimental to fociety than that of fimple citizens, that the rank and functions with which they were invested, were not given to them only to ferve their fortunes or their ambition, but that thofe neceffary inftitutions had for their caufe and their end the public good; that they impofed duties which ought, in the first place, to be discharged without felfufh confiderations; that impartiality and equity ought to dictate all their decifions; the love of order, the profperity of the colony, the fuppreffion of every vice, fhould perpetually call forth their activity, their vigilance, and their zeal."

I have continually and energetically recommended to the whole military, fubordination, difcipline, and obedience, without which

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an army cannot exist. It is created to protect liberty, the fecurity of perfons and property; and all thofe who compose it should never lofe fight of the object of its honourable deftination. It is for the officers, along with good advice, to give their foldiers good examples. Each captain ought to feel the noble emulation of having his company the best disciplined, the cleaneft, and the best exercised; he ought to confider that the errors of his foldiers recoil upon himself, and that he is degraded by the faults of thofe he commands. The fame fentiments ought, in a higher degree, to animate chiefs of battalion for their battalions, and chiefs of brigade for their brigades: they ought to regard them as their own families, when the individuals of whom they are compofed perform their duty well, and fhow themselves rigid commanders when they depart from it.

Such is the language I have held out to General Moyfe during ten years, in all my private converfations; which I have repeated to him a thousand times in the prefence of his companions; which I have refumed in my correfpondence: fuch are the principles I have recorded in a thoufand of my letters. On every occafion I have endeavoured to explain to him the holy maxims of our religion, and to prove to him that man is nothing without the power and will of God; that the duties of a Chriftian who has received baptifm ought never to be neglected; that when a man braves Providence he muft expect a dreadful end. What have I not done to bring him back to virtue, to justice, to benevolence, to change his vicious inclinations, and to hinder him from precipitating himself into the abyfs? God alone knows it. Instead of listening to the advice of a father, of a chief devoted to the colony, he was only guided by his deftructive paffions-he perifhed miferably! Such is the lot referved for thofe who fhall imitate him. The juftice of Heaven is flow, but fooner or later it strikes the wicked like a thunderbolt, and crushes them.

The cruel experiment I have just made will not be ufelefs to me; and after the mifconduct of General Moyfe there fhall be no general of divifion named without new orders from the French government.

Nevertheless General Deffalines fhall, on account of the services he has done, retain his rank of general of divifion.

In one of my proclamations, during the war of the fouth, I have traced the duties of fathers and mothers, their obligations to educate their children in the fear of God, always regarding religion as the basis of all virtue, and the foundation of the happiness of fociety. In fact, who are they who have, fince the revolution, caused the greatest misfortunes to the colony? Have they not been men without religion or morals? He that defpifes God and his divine precepts, who does not cherish his neareft relations, will he love his fellow-creatures? Thou fhalt honour thy father VOL. XI.

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