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HISTORY OF MAURITIUS. 
“ But in a very short time a difference of interest rekindled discord, and some 
evil spirits, always active in fomenting mischief, conceived the hopes, by means of 
the soldiers in the garrison, of renewing the public disorder. The soldiers, to whom 
the colony continually gave proofs of its gratitude, in order to maintain peace, abused 
the kindness with which they were treated, and having given themselves up to licen¬ 
tiousness with the Negro women, formed a plan of freeing them from the servitude 
which retained them with their masters, by proclaiming their freedom. 
1797. The ColoniaFAssembly, who watched without ceasing for the preservation 
of the-: island, 1 being informed of the fresh dangers with which it was threatened, 
succeeded in obtaining from the Governor-general Malartic an order for sending 
to Batavia all the soldiers who came with the agents, under the division of Vice 
Admiral Sercey, which was executed towards the end of the year 1797, on pretext 
of assisting a colony, in alliance with them, and which was threatened by the 
common enemy. 
1798. This is the epoch when two ambassadors from Tippoo Sultaun arrived 
at the Isle of France. The -following is a copy of the proclamation, published on 
this occasion by the Governor-general Count de; Malartic. 
MALARTIC’S PROCLAMATION. 
Liberty. Equality. 
the' FRENCH REPUBLIC, ONE AND INDIVISIUE, 
PROCLAMATION, 
By Anne Joseph Hyppolite Malartic . 5i Commander in Qbiefand. Governor-general 
of the Isles of France and of Reunion f and of all the French Establishments to 
, the Eastward of the Cape of Good Hope. 
Citizens, . 
Having for several years known your zeal and attachment to the interests and 
the glory of our Republic, we are very anxious, and feel it a duty, to make you 
acquainted with all the propositions which have been made to us by Tippoo Sul¬ 
taun, who has sent two ambassadors to us. 
* A particular expression employed by the republicans, meaning of the Isle of Bourbon. 
