lS05.3 State of Public /ffains in September, 1805. 



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*' A number of ordinances, which are plan- 

 ned purfuant to the general taxation, decreed by 

 your High Mightinefles, will be propofed, in 

 this extraordinary fitting, for the deliberation 

 of your High Mighlineffes. In the planning 

 ot them, 1 have principally endeavoured to 

 obtain this end, that, on the one hand, in the 

 limitations contained therein, the lorce may be 

 found which can infure the execution of the 

 liws decreed, and thereby the receipt of the 

 taxes fixjd by your High Mi^htinelfes ; and, on 

 the other hand, that care be t^ken at the iaine 

 time to remove, as much as poliible, ail fuper- 

 fluous impediments, and all vexations ol the 

 food inhabitants, that the raifing of the money 

 due to the Stale may be the lefs difagreeable and 

 oppreffive. Your High Mightinelfes are fenfi- 

 bie how clofely thofe fubjedh are connefted 

 %vith the finances of our country, and this notion 

 is fufficient for your High Mightinefles to per- 

 ceive the importance thereof. The vvifdom, 

 zeal, and care tor the welfare of the country, 

 which, in the preceding feffion, have charadte- 

 r;»ed the deliberations of your High Mighti- 

 nefles, are my guarantee that the affairs on 

 which your High Mightinefles will have to dfi- 

 li'jerate in the prefent feffion, will be Hkcwife 

 confidered with a gravity proportioned to their 

 tender concern. 



" I was defirous, High and Mighty Lords, 

 to be able, on your prefent meeting, to make 

 I'ome communications to you, fnom which yuur 

 High MightinelTes might conceive fome folid 

 hope of a fpeedy peace ; yet, gloomy as is the 

 political profpedl at this moment, we have no 

 realon to defpair of a more fortunate turn ; and 

 then, perhaps, a firmer peace may make an 

 agreeable amends for its tardy approach. Such 

 a peace we may promife to ourfelvts, under 

 the divine bleflang of the genius of our power- 

 ful ally ; and your High Mighlinefl'es will, no 

 doubt, be glad to hear of me, at a period like 

 (he prefent, that 1 have re< eived d him, dur- 

 ing the courfe of my idminiftration, repeated 

 proofs of efteem anil friendfhip, and the molt 

 folemn afl'uraiices of good- will lowa-ds the re- 

 public — a difpofitioB which I fl;all endeavour 

 to prefcrve and lotolter by a conitant fidelity to 

 our engagements. 



" On the internal fituation of the Republic, 

 I conceive that we, in the prefent cutum- 

 ftances, have every reafon to be fatished. The 

 prefcht order ot thinjs has, in a very fliort 

 time, affumed a degree ot authority ai;d per- 

 manency, which, in other human mftuutions, 

 is generally a conlequence of long habits. The 

 Government expeuenced, in ail diflridts of the 

 Kepublic, prools of elteem and co-operation, 

 which arc to it as honourable as encouraging 

 in the difficulties it has to encounter, and our 

 counliy at this moment prefeius the jlCture of 

 a wife and brave nation, which is able to con- 

 ceive its difficult poliiion, which is difpoftd to 

 iubmit to inevitable facrifices to prefeivc her 

 conlcquences among the naiions ol tuiope, and 

 which will unanimoufly fupport the exertions of 

 ks Government t r that i)bje6l. 



" 1 quit your Aflembly, High and Mighty 

 Lords, With a wi(h that, the rcfolutions which 

 ^our High Mightined'cs will Ukc tor the goud 



of cur country may be crswned wilhthe deareft 

 bleflings of the M.>ll High. " 



FRANCE, &C. 



The French agent, M. Baclier, has de- 

 livered an important State Paper to the 

 Minift-rs of the Diet of Ratifbon, ia 

 which Bonaparte complains of the aiina- 

 mtnr of Auliria. He affefts furprife at 

 the military piepara-ions of Germany, 

 an i laments, or pre ent'.s to lament, that 

 wii,ilif he wai encouraging the moft (lierd- 

 ly wifiies towards Aulirw, and intent only 

 on the invafinn of this country, t)e (hoiilc! 

 be called off from this jult objeft of his 

 ambition, to watch the menacing move- 

 ments of the Imperial array. 



WtST INDIES. 



Theconftitu'ion cf Hayti is na tnean 

 fpecimen of tlie talents and liberality of 

 the Emperor DifT-dines and his parry; 



CONSTtTUTtOS OF HAYTI. 



We, H. Chrilfophe, Clervaux, Vernct, Gobart, 

 Petiun, CeiTrard, Toiiflaint Brave, ftnmain 

 Lalondridie, Cap .ix, Migny, Daut, Conge, 

 Magloire, .'imbroife, Yayou, Jean Louis 

 Francois, Genu, .Moreau, Fervu, jiavelais. 

 Martial Belie- 

 As well HI our own name as in that of th« 

 people of Hayti, who have legally conftituted 

 as laithful organs and interpreters of ttieir will, 

 in prefence of the Supreme Bein^, before whom 

 all mankind are equal, and who has fcaiteredl 

 fo many fpecies ot creatures on the furface of 

 the eanh tor the purpofe of raanifelting his 

 glory and his power by the diverfity of hia 

 works, in the prefence of all nattiie by whom 

 we have been lb iiiijuftly, and for fo long a 

 time, confidered as outcaft children. 



Do declare that the tenor ol the prefent Con- 

 ftitution IS the free, I'pontaneous, and <nvariabl« 

 expreflion of our hearts, and the general will 

 ot our conltiiuents, and we fiibmit it to the 

 fjnftion of his Majelty the iimperor J;ioues 

 DcflTaline-', our deliverer, to receive its ipeedy 

 and entire e.\ecution. 



l>Ki:i,lMlNAny DECI.AP.-ATION. 



The people inhabiting the Illand formerlr 

 called St. Domingo, hereby agree to torn* 

 themfelves into a tree Itate, fuvereign and in- 

 dependent of any other power in the univerfe, 

 under the name of tmpire of Hayti. 



Slavery is tor ever abol.lheJ. 



The citizens ot Hayti are brothers at home ; 

 equality in the eye of the law is incomellably 

 acknowledged, and there c^miiot cxilt any rules 

 advantages, or piivilegcs, oilier than thofc ne- 

 ccifarily relulrnig irom the confideration and 

 jewara of lervices rendered to liberty and in- 

 dependence. 



The quality of citizen of Hayti is loll by 

 emigration and naturalization in foreign coun- 

 tries, and condemiialiiiii to corporal or dilgracc- 

 tul puniilimeiits. The iirlt cafe carries with 

 it the punilhnieiU of death and conhfeation of 

 property. 



Mo pctl'oii JJ wgrtby of being « Hajtian wlio 

 Lis ii 



