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support them. In the mean time 

 let us cherish them with patient af- 

 fection. Let us do them justice, 

 and more than justice, in all com- 

 petitions of interest ; and we need 

 not doubt that truth, reason, and 

 their own interest, will at length 

 prevail, will gather them into the 

 fold of their country, and will com- 

 plete that entire union of opinion, 

 which gires to a nation the blessings 

 of harmon)', arid the benefit of all 



its strength. 1 shall now enter 



on the duties to which my fellow* 

 citizens have again called mc ; and 

 shall proceed in the spirit of those 

 principles which they have approved. 

 I fear not that any motives of in- 

 terest may lead rac astray ; I am 

 sensible of no pilssion which could 

 reduce mc, knowingly, from the 

 path of justice ; but the weakness of 

 human nature, and the limits of my 

 own understanding, will produce 

 errors of judgment sometimes inju- 

 rious to your interests, I shall need 

 therefore all the indulgence I have 

 heretofore experienced ; the want 

 of it certainly will not lessen with 

 increasing years. I shall need too 

 the favour of that Being in whose 

 hands we are, who led our fathers, 

 as Israel of old, from their native 

 land, and planted them in a country 

 flowins with all the necessaries and 

 comforts of life ; who has covered 

 our infancy with his providence, 

 and our riper years with his wisdom 

 and his power ; and to whose good- 

 ness I ask you to join with mc in 

 supplications, that he will so en- 

 lishtert the minds of your servants, 

 guide theij councils, and prosper 

 their measures, that whatsoever they 

 do shall result in your good, and 

 sitall secure to you the peace, friend- 

 shipj and approbation of al! nations. 

 Thomas Jeflcrson. 

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Pi'oclamafion of Brigadier-General 

 Ferrand, Commander-in-Chief in 

 the Island of St. Domingo (or 

 Hispaniolu). Dated al the City 

 of St. Domingo, 5th Februarj/, 

 ISO*. 



Convinced by long experienc« 

 that all kind of regard and modera- 

 tion is useless towards the scoundrels 

 who maintain the rebellion in His- 

 paniola, by furnishing supplies to 

 the rebels, &c. Art. 1. All in- 

 dividuals, whomsoever, found ou 

 board any vessel or vessels, allies or 

 neutrals, bound to any ports in His- 

 pauiola occupied by the rebels, shall 

 suffer death. Those found on board 

 any vessels, allies, or neutrals, com- 

 ing out of any ports in Hispaniola, 

 occupied by the rebels, shall suffer 

 death. Those found at two leagues 

 from any port on the coast of His- 

 paniola, occupied by the rebels, ofl 

 board of allies or neutrals, shall suf- 

 fer death. — 2. All prisoners made 

 in these different cases, shall be | 

 brought into one of the ports of 

 Hispaniola, occupied by the French, 

 to be tried by a military commission, 

 which is to pronounce sentence. — ' 

 3. This proclamation shall be put 

 into execution on the 1st Floreul, 

 (21stApril). 



Letter from General Ernouf to 

 his Majesty the Emperor. Dated 

 Quarter-General, from the Camp 

 of Boulogne, iiear Basseterre, 

 Guaddoupe, I2th March, 1805. . 



Sire,— By order of your majesty, 

 and in spite of the numerous ileett 

 of the enemy, a lleet has made itd 

 appearance at theWindward Islands- 

 Its presence has increased our force, 



and 



