The Kentucky Gazette

Maryland.
BALTIMORE, July 9.
LIBERTÉ.
ÉGALITÉ.
French Republic.
ARMY OF ST. DOMINGO.
PROCLAMATION.
Head-Quarters at the Cape, 22d Prairial,
(June 10) 10th year.
The general in chief of the colony of St.
Domingo, to its inhabitants.
CITIZENS,
Toussaint was a conspirator ; this you will
be enabled to judge of by the enclosed letter
directed to citizen Fontaine. I thought it
my duty not to endanger the tranquility of
the colony. I caused him to be arrested and
embarked, and I sent him to France, where
he is to account for his conduct to the French
government. In another letter directed to
citizen Fontaine, he discharges heavy invec-
tives against Gen. Christophe, and he com-
plains that gen. Dessalines has abandoned
him.
He forbids Sylla to lay down his arms, and
the cultivators to work on any plantation, but
those intended for provisions.
He sent one of his accomplices to general
Dessalines, to induce him not to submit with
good faith.
He depends much on Massena, in St. Mark:
He is arrested.
I have inflicted punishment on that miscre-
ant; and I order all the generals of division
of the army to compel all the cultivators who
are still in arms, in the mountains, to return to their duty.

The cultivators are not the most guilty—it is those that misled them—in consequence of which every commandant of the national guard, every officer, overseer or planter who shall be found in an armed meeting, shall immediately be shot.

As to the inhabitants of Emery, I order that they shall be immediately disarmed, for having been so tardy in submission.

Gen. Brunet shall cause this order to be executed.

The chief of the general staff shall cause the present order, together with gen. Toussaint's letter to be printed, published and posted; and he will, with all speed possible, send it to the whole army throughout this colony.

Signed,
LE CLERC.

Copy of exGeneral Toussaint's letter.

TO CITIZEN FONTAINE;

You give me no news. You endeavor to stay at the Cape as long as you can.

It is said that gen. Le Clerc is in a state of bad health at Tortuga: this you must be very particular about informing me of.

You must see—, for arms from America, (Nouville.*) As to the flour, for we are in want of some of the last kind, it ought not to be sent without passing through Savana, that we may know the depot where it might be placed with safety.

If you see the general in chief, tell him positively, that the cultivators won't obey me.

They want to make them work at Haricourt, but the overseer ought not to do it.

I ask you if we can bribe some of the attendants of the general in chief, that we might free D—,t he would be very useful to us, through his credit both in America and somewhere else.

Inform Gengembre that he must not leave the Borgne, where it is necessary the cultivators should not work.

Write to me at the plantation Najar.

Signed,
Toussaint L'Ouverture.

True copy from the original.

The general of division, chief of the general staff of the army,
Dugua.

* It is understood by Nouville, the United States.

Supposed to mean Develcourt, one of Toussaint's aids-de-camp.