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 Rally round the Captain-General; he brings you
 and peace; rally round him. Whoever shall dare to
 himself from the Captain-General, .will be an enemy
 country, and the wrath of the Republic will devour bis
 fire devours your dried sugar-canes. .
 Given at Paris, at the Government Palace, the 1'i
 maire, in the tenth year of the French Republic (8 Nov.,
 '" The First Consul,
 (Sigued) Boe N

 This proclamation was not of a nature to inspire con
 in men whom servitude hail made habitually distrustful..
 words 'f the Consul appeared those of a mnastrr who al
 emploIy. promises and tlreat-s. The people of the Cape h
 need of being assured ul'a liberty which they actually en
 and that wrath presented under the image of the eon
 tion of their narve-ss louked, in the;r eyes, like a token o
 very. All declared that they would rather perish than
 to qkn itude. 1While time was thus spent in useless words,
 war had be-,jun without any negotiation with T-,ussaint, w
 an order to that eifeetr had been given by the Consul, thatW
 might strike ti-.rr...r into the inhabitants, or whether Leelere.
 sidered that pro.mptitlude was the l,-st means or co
 obedi-nee. Rxohambeau, who had been sent against F
 Dauphin, atta.k,-d the pla3~r by land and by sea. Eve
 soon yielded to Frt-n.uh 'alor. The blarks fled, but in fl
 set the city on fire. At the eight of the flame?, oeba
 slaughtered all the prisoners, whom he treated as rev
 The bay of Mancemile was stained with the blood of many
 armed blacks, whose crime was that they had shouted, "
 whites I no slavery !
 Afraid le.-t Christophe should carry his threat into exeeu
 and set the city on fire, Leelere resolved to take the en
 in the rear by landing his Ifrees in the Bay of Acul. But
 amusement of the v,:-sels and the noise of the cannon spread
all. nides tumult and alarm. Burning plantations ann