The New Hampshire Gazette

Extract from the New-York French Gazette of the 29th August, 1796.

Suppression of relief to the French Refugees.

The French Republic had granted subsistence to a small number of colonists, who had been forced by the dangers of every kind which surrounded them in St. Domingo, to take refuge on the continent. The new commissaries hastened to recall into the colony, not those who could be useful, but the women, children and old men. In consequence of which, they have been invited to enroll themselves for the two flags of truce, which have been sent out; declaring, that from that moment, every kind of assistance would be withheld. Very few have embraced the opportunity, because they had no asylum or resource, particularly in the northern part of St. Domingo; because women and children could not be prevailed on to abandon their parents, their husbands, their brethren, who might have supported and protected them in a country laid waste, and exposed on all sides to the ferocity of lawless plunderers.

Thus, these unfortunate people, so worthy of protection, expelled from the bosom of their country, of whose favors they have not been ungenerous; banished from their habitations by tyranny or anarchy, see themselves doomed to sigh amidst the horrors of indigence in a foreign land. Happy could the philanthropic nation, which has afforded them an asylum, join to this benevolent action, that of enabling them to exert their industry, and to procure those comforts denied them by the country to which they owe their miserable existence.