L OUTERTURE.


FWby both distrusted and destroyed. Constituted
 Sin hostility. Bands of injured men seeking
Wild each other. Spanish royalty foi tered colonial
E. The forces of the country were exhausted in the
,l ever-recurring strit;:.. Without unity, and without
1 rar raged on every side, unilbrm only in the unirer-
h which it inflicted.
hinus complication was to be yet more complicated.
Sirw on the wasted shores of IIayti another brand.
M already seen the planters make overtures to Eng-
their dissatisraction with France, they renewed their
it. The Court of St. James instructed Williamson,
tf Jamaica, to lend the required assistaone. In this
 A'proprietors Ift' La Grande Ante sent to the gor-
ity, which was a.rpl)tfrl. Among the points agreed
tlhe island should pas into the hands of Britain, and
uirentative should hare lill power to regulate and
jtland with a view to its restoration to tranquillity.
tnor of tbis artii.l.-, and tirjm the express words of
S'bbject of the coloni-rs was to turn the power of
S to account, in ordh.r to offert that in which they
bd failed, th, humiliation of the mulattoes and
Sof the lla. ks. With a view to the occupation
Mvernor William., in September, 1793, sent an
"hcnder Colon.-r Whittlo,.ke, which disembarked at
Itle 9th of the month, and on the 22d, the harbor
olas was put into the po-session of the English,
 Nenee, held two important positions in Hayti, the
 .tremity of the northern, the other near the ex-
 southern tongue of its western end. While the
 of the mulattoes tonod akl f, many' of the men
 being soldiers, threw Ilh'-n.lvre int.) th.- arms of
 d Saint Mar.., Laogane, L.: Graud Goare, and
 Wf the south, adopted the conditions of La Grande

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