No. IV. No. IV. (Referring to p. 169.) Terms of Capitulation proposed by the Inhabitants of La Grande Anse (including the Quarter at Jeremie) represented by Mons. de Charmilly, possessed of full Powers by a Commission from the Council of Public Safety of the aforesaid Place, dated the 18th of August, 1795, and presented to His Excellency Major-General Williamson, His Majesty's Lieutenant-Governor of Jamaica, for his Acceptance. ART. I. That the proprietors of St. Domingo, deprived of all recourse to their lawful sovereign, to deliver them from the tyranny under which they now groan, implore the protection of his Britannic Majesty, and take the oath of fidelity and allegiance to him, and supplicate him to take their colony under his protection, and treat them as good and faithful subjects till a general peace, at which period they shall be finally subjected to the terms then agreed upon between his Britannic Majesty, the Government of France, and the Allied Powers, with respect to the sovereignty of St. Domingo.-Answer. Granted. Art. II. That till order and tranquillity are restored at St. Domingo, the Governor appointed by his Britannic Majesty shall No. IV. 1804. have full power to regulate and direct whatever measures of safety and police he shall judge proper.-Answer. Granted. Art. III. That no one shall be molested on account of any anterior disturbances, except those who are legally accused in some court of justice, of having committed murder, or of having destroyed property by fire, or of having instigated others to commit those crimes.-Answer. Granted. Art. IV. That the Mulattoes shall have all the privileges enjoyed by that class of people in the British islands.-Answer. Granted. Art. V. That if, at the conclusion of the war, the colony remains under the sovereignty of his Britannic Majesty, and order be established therein; in such case, the laws respecting property, and all civil rights, which were in force in the said colony before the revolution in France, shall be preserved; nevertheless, until a colonial assembly can be formed, his Britannic Majesty shall have the right of determining provisionally upon any measures which the general good and the tranquility of the colony may require; but that no assembly shall be called, until order is established in every part of the colony; and, till that period, his Britannic Majesty's governor shall be assisted in all the details of administration and police by a committee of six persons, which he shall have the power of choosing from among the proprietors of the three provinces of which the colony consists.-Answer. Granted. Art. VI. That, in consequence of the devastations which have taken place in the colony by insurrections, fire, and pillage, the governor No. IV. of the En Domingo. governor appointed by his majesty, on taking possession of the colony, to satisfy the demand of the inhabitants in these re- Capitulation spects, shall be authorised to grant, for the payment of debts, glish at St. a suspension of ten years, which shall be computed from the date of the surrender; and the suspension of all interest upon the same shall begin from the period of the 1st of August, 1791, and terminate at the expiration of the ten years granted for the payment of debts; but all sums due to minors by their guardians, or to absent planters by those who have the management of their property, or from one planter to another for the transfer of property, are not to be included in the above suspension.-Answer. Granted. Art. VII. That the duties of importation and exportation upon all European commodities shall be the same as in the English colonies.-Answer. Granted. In consequence, the tariff shall be made public and affixed, that every one may be acquainted therewith. Art. VIII. That the manufactures of white sugars shall preserve the right of exporting their clayed sugars, subject to such regulations as it may be necessary to make with respect to them.-Answer. Granted. In consequence, the duties upon white sugars shall be the same as were taken in the colony of St. Domingo, in 1789. Art. IX. That the catholic religion shall be preserved and maintained, but that no other mode of evangelic worship shall be excluded.-Answer. Granted. On condition that such priests as have taken the oath prescribed by the persons exer No. IV. cising the powers of Government in France, shall be sent away, Capitulation and replaced by others. of the English at St. Domingo. Art. X. The local taxes to acquit the expences of garrisons, and of the administration of the colony, shall be assessed in the same manner as in 1789, except the alleviations and remit. tances which shall be granted to the inhabitants whose property has suffered by fire, till their possessions are repaired. An account shall be kept by the colony of all the sums advanced on the part of Great Britain, for supplying the deficiency of the said taxes; which deficiency, as well as all the public expences of the colony (except those of his majesty's naval forces, destined for its protection) shall always be defrayed by the said colony.-Answer. Granted. Art. XI. His Britannic Majesty's Governor of St. Domingo, shall apply to the Spanish government, to obtain restitution of the negroes and cattle sold by the Spanish territory by the revolted slaves.-Answer. Granted. Art. XII. The importation in American bottoms, of provision, cattle, grain, and wood, of every kind, from the United States of America, shall be allowed at St. Domingo.Answer. Granted. On condition that the American ships, which shall be employed in this trade, shall have only one deck; and this importation shall be allowed only as long as it shall appear necessary for the re-establishment or subsistence of the colony, or until measures have been taken for putting it in this respect upon the same footing as other English colonies; and an exact account shall be kept of the said vessels, with the descrip No. IV. Capitulation of the En tion of their cargoes, and shall be transmitted every three months to the Right Honourable the Lords Commissioners of his Majesty's treasury, as well as to one of the principal Secre- glish at St. taries of State; and on no account whatever shall any of the said vessels be allowed to take in return any production of the colony, except molasses or rum. Art. XIII. No part of the aforesaid conditions shall be considered as a restriction to the power of the parliament of Great Britain, to regulate and determine the political government of the colony.-Answer. Granted. Domingo. No. V. (Referred to in Page 183.) Copie de la Lettre de M. le Chevalier de Sevré, Commandant les Troupes Colonailes à Tiburon, au Colonel Whitlock, Commandant en Chef les Troupes de sa Majesté Britannique à St. Domingue. "MONSIEUR LE GOUVERNEUR, No. V. Dispatch of "Le Vaisseau, Le Capitaine Robert, qui est arrive ce matin dans notre port (et décidé à partir cette nuit,) me fournit une occasion sûre et prompte pour vous instruire des details de l'at- M. de Sevré, taque qui a été faite par les brigands, sur nos postes lier, deux tish service. heures avant le jour. in the Bri |