STATE PAPERS. 



167 



SUPPLEMENT. 



HisBiitiinnic majesty's generals, 

 willing by all means posuble to pre- 

 vent the effusion of blood, and to 

 remove from the inhabitants of the 

 French islands in America, all donbt 

 ot their intentions, liiink they ought 

 to publish what follows as a sup- 

 J)lemenc to the ma:iifesto; 



Art. 1 , As tiiey cannot be igno- 

 rant that there exists great animosi- 

 ty between the emigrants from the 

 French islands in America, and those 

 inhabitants who remain there, an 

 animosity that would lead them to 

 pursue each other with rage, and 

 retard the re-establishment of peace, 

 his Britannic majesty's generals have 

 judged it necessary to forbid all 

 emigrants to re-enter any of the 

 said islands before such shall be en- 

 tirely conquered ; exacting there- 

 after a perfect tranquillity, and en- 

 gaging to protect none but peace- 

 able inhabitants. 



Art. 2. His Britannic majesty's 

 generals promiseall succour and pro- 

 tection to the colonisti who shall 

 continue peaceable on their planta- 

 tions ; but they are also determined 

 to treat as prisoners of war all those 

 who, in contempt of this declaration, 

 shall be taken with arms in their 

 hands, announcing to tliem more- 

 over tliat they will incur pains of 

 death, if after such transportation 

 they shall ever again appear in 

 either of the windward islands. 



Art. 3. General Rochambeau 

 having promised freedom to those 

 slaves who take up arms for the de- 

 fence of Martinico, and his Britan- 

 nic majesty's generals, sensible of 

 the impossibility of distinguishing 

 those B' Igands from peoj)leofcoloui- 

 horn free, or legally rele;:sed from 

 slavery, chink it jjroper to apprize 

 all people of colour, without dis- 



tinction, that those among them 

 who shall be found armed, or who 

 having fought, shall have escaped 

 the bayonets of the British troops, 

 shall be treated as slaves and traiis- 

 ported immediately to the coast of 

 Africa, wiiere they will be aban- 

 doned to their fatej promising on 

 the other hand a fnli amnesty to 

 those who will surrender themselves, 

 and to those who retire to their 

 respective habitations peaceably lo 

 renew their occupations. 



Given on board his majesty's sliip 

 the lioyne, istJan. 17p4. 



Chakles Gret, General. 



John Jervis, Vice-Admiral. 

 By their eN.ce)lencies cocitnand, 



G. I'ISHER, I p 



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Proclamation ly the states of the 

 island oj J crs.y, March S, 1794. 



THE conmiander-in-chief hav- 

 ing cau-ed thestates to beassem- 

 bled, CO communicate to them the 

 intelligence which he has just re- 

 ceived, that tiie eneiuy have actu- 

 ally collected in force on the adja- 

 cent coasts, that it is their avowed 

 plan to make a desceat in this 

 island, ar.d that they announce they 

 are invited lo ii by tlie inh.ibitnuts 

 of Jersey, with a view, dcaibtless, 

 of spiriting up their soldiers, l)y 

 making thein believe that they will 

 meet v.ith no resistance, and per- 

 haps also with a view of making 

 bad impressions upon our august so- 

 vereign respecting the loyalty of 

 this country : the states, after having 

 testified their gratiiudfc to the com- 

 mander-in-chief for his attentive 

 conduct ill this critical moment, 

 cannot forbear expressing the horror 

 wliich they fctl at such a calumny 

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