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CHAP. XXII. 
| Mrs of the West Indies.-—Transactions: of the French in St. Domingo. 
— Dreadful cruelties exercised by them towards the Black loknbitante, 
Fever breaks out,—Great ravages . among the French 
_Forces.—General Insurrection.—Partial Sighabice of ‘thé Blachks.— 
Great Distresses of the French.—Cape Town besieged by the Insur- 
gents. — Sickness of General Le Clerc.——And Death.—Command of the 
Army devolves on General Rochambeau,—Cape Town relieced.—Action 
at the Mole.—Great slaughter of the Negroes.—Effect of the War be- 
tween England and France, on St. Dotiingde—Br itish Squadr ons block= 
ade the several Ports of the Island.—Cr itical situation of the French.— 
—Capture of the Towns on the Coast.—Out Posts successic ely fall into 
the hands of the Negrocs.—Fort Dauphin taken by the English. tered 
lant defence of the Cape Town.—French. force Capitulate. 
the Island by the English Squadron.—Freedom of St. Domingo pr Fadia 
ed by the Negro Chiefs.— Reflections. Effect of the War on the Brit- 
ash West Indian Islands. —Greath Ly benefited thereby, —Disputes in Jampi- 
ca.—Not terminated.—Affairs of the United States of America.— 
French encroachments and designs. —Totally defeated by the declaration 
of War.—America thus rescued from the most serious dangers—Obser- 
vations. —Glance at the sttuation of India.—Conclusion, 
ey attention is next forcibly 
drawn to the events which oc- 
curred in the new world in the 
course of the present year: those 
‘with which we shall commence our 
Narrative, as most interesting and 
certainly most important, are the 
transactions of the French force in 
* Hispaniola. 
The triumph.of Bonaparte’s gene- 
tal in chief, LeClerc, and of hig vast 
armament in St. Domingo, was 
not of long duration. ‘The cru- 
elty and perfidy which were exer- 
cised towards all the unfortunate 
negroes who had submitted, and 
particularly to their gallant leader, 
Toussaint L’Ouycrture, was more 
’ 
than sufficient to rouze the deep- 
est resentment in their bosoms. 
Although the sufferings of a hero, — 
or the injustice offered to an il- 
lustrious individual, usually en- 
gages more of the attention of the 
world, than is excited by multi- 
plied acts of cruelty, exercised in 
secret, and on obscure persons; yet 
in the colony of St. Domingo even 
the barbarous act of seizing upon 
Toussaint after he had surr endered, 
and sending him to France to be 
made away with in cold blood, was 
lost among the frequent and atro- 
cious acts of horror, committed by 
the French upon the unresisting ne- 
groes. Frequently were the latter, 
wher 
