Vol. 11. WASHINGTON CITY, PRINTED BY SAMUEL HARRISON SMITH, PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE.

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MESSAGEOf the Governor of North-Carolinato

the Legislature.To the IJonsi able the General Assembly

af the State of North Carolina.

Gentlemen,I had yefterday the honor of re-

ceiving your meffage, informing me otthe meeting of the Legillature, and ofyour readmefs to proceed on bufinefs :

events on which I offer to you my con-gratulations.

Satisfied under the conviftion, thatthere i 3 no intetefting fubjeft of legifla-tion which will not readily prefent itlelfto you, I proceed to a detail of luchparts of the executive bulinefs as appearto me molt important, and which I deemit more particularly my duty immediate-ly to laybefore you.

The feveral matters committedto myiireftioti, through refolutions of the laltAffentbly, were attended to without de-Jay and with fcrupulous exaftnefs.

On the 27th of December laft, I wroteto the Secretaryof State for the UnitedStates, on the fubjeft of the boundarybetween this State and the Indians ; andat the fame time wrote our Senators inCongrefs, requeuing their attention tothat bufinefs, and enclofing to them acopy of the liefolution of the Afiemblyrefpefting it. The Secretary in reply, ,promifed that matter thould be attendedto : I have not however been fo fortu-nate as to learn, that any meafures havebeen taken in regard to it.

I took an early opportunityof writingMr. Grove, of Congre fs', and enclofedto him a copy of the Refolution of theAffembly with refpeft to the procuringportrait paintings of Gen. Walhington :

from the anfwer with which that gen-tleman obliginglyfavoured me, I foundthe price of fu?h paintings fomuch high-er than I had expefted, that 1 was led toapprehend they would coft a much largerfilm than the General Affembly had pro-bably contemplated ; and under that im-prcii'on, it appeared to memod advileableto pir gone purehalinguntil their furtherpleafur* ll*ould be known. In the letterbook herewithjlaid before your honorablebody, you will find the feveral lettersabove referred to, together with allother official letters written or receivedby m« tince the rife of the lalt Alfembly,wi"h an indexannexed.

Purfuant to therefolution of thegene-rit Affembly, authoriling the appoint'ment of an Agent to manage on tit- partef this State, with refpeft to herdifpute,as to boundary, with South-Carolina :

t applied by letter to Gen. Davie, andhave pleafure in informing the Legilla-ture, he accepted that appointment, andhas taken on him the difcharge of theduties incident to it.

Much labor and time have been em-ployed in fearching for and procuringthe neceffary documents in this regard,with which the Agent has from time totime been furnilhed, and with which heis now in the State of South Carolina,on that bufinefs: The letter-book abovementioned, and to which I would afkleave to refer, will (hew the correfpon-dence which has taken place on thishead, as well between General Davieaid myfelf. as with the Executive ofSouth Carolina and others.

Since the rife of the lalt Alfem-bly, I received and herewith lay beforeyou, a refolution of the legiflature of theState of Maryland, promoting an amend-ment to the conftitution of the UnitedStates by the eftablilhment of an uni-form modefor the choice of Eleftors ofPrelidentand Vice-Prefident oif the Uni-ted States, and of Rcprefentatives toCongrefs.

I have alfo received a letter fromGeorge Wheeler, of the State of Virgi-nia, containing propofals of contract forfupplying this State with the neceffarynumber of mufquets : As no provifionof this kind has been hitherto made, not-withftanding its acknowledged impor-tance, I the more readily lubmit Mr.Wheeler's propofal to your confiderl-tion.

On the 23d ult. I received from gen.Davie, then on his way to South Caro-lina, a letteron the fubjeft of the Agen-cy he has undertaken on the part of thisState, informing me he will be at thisplace about the beginning of December :

and advifmg that a confidential commit-tee of the Legillature be appointed, towhom he may at that time difclofe thewhole of the teftjmony «nd documentsof which he is poffeiTed, with refpeft tothe boundary line between thw State andthe State of South Carolina : in orderthat fome meafures relative to fnrtherproceedings may be then fanftioncd by theGeneral Affembly. As this bulinefs ishighly interefting f would refer, to the

General's letter, in the hope that the <propofed meafure may meet the appro- ibation of the legillature, and that the 1committee will be appointed.

There are other matters and things \u25a0which it is proper that Lfhould lay be-fore you : I will, however, at prefent,trefpafs no longer on your patience, but |will make them the fubjeft of a meffage ;which I will fhortly do mylelfthe honorof forwardingto you : In the,mean timeI offer to you my refpefts," and remain,

Your obedient Servant,B. WILLIAMS.'

November IS, 1801.

FRSM THE Baltimore. AMERICA*}. JBy the Nelly, ra/it. Chase, 14 clays from i

C. Francois, I am informed, that the <greatest apprehensions had bken en-tertained at the Cilpe, in consequenceof an insurrection among the blacks,ivHose avowed intention it was to mas- 1sdcre all the whites without except 1tion. The plot had So far ripenedthat it was within Jive hours of its ex-

and was prevented,principallyby thevigilanceof general Christopher, :in the absence ofgen. Toussaint, who '7vas then at St. Marks.

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On this occasion the solicitude and un-wearied attention of our (Omnierciqiagent, Mr. Lear, on behalf %of the .American merchants, were such, and ,indeed/lis whole conduct, since he hasbeen there, as to merit and ensure tlieirlasting gratitude.By Mr. George Atwood, paffenger

in the fchooner Nelly, capt. Chafe, ar- 1rived yefterday from Cape Francois, theEditor of the American was politely fa-voti led with the following journal otEvents, which tranfpired in the I (landot Si. Domingo, and which, wi'.houtlofs of time, he procured to be

Translatedfor the American.

RECI T A LOf events which took place in the North-

ern parts of St. Diitjjingo, betweenthfe 29th Vendimaire, to the 13thBrumaire, 10th year of the FrenchRepublic, one and indivifible?(4thNoVcmher, 1801.After having caufed the proclamation

of the conftjtution of the colony, havingpviblifhed tlie laws for the regulation ofthe public fitmftionartes, civil and mili-tary, having organized the tribunals anda part ot the municipal adminiftration, Iquitted the Cape the 3th Vendemaire,to appoint, in pei l'on,* Conformable to thelaws, the tribunals of appeal and caffa-*-tion?the moll profound calm reignedover the North ; every thing was tran-quil, and the greateft lecurity pervadedevery part of the colony.

After havingvifited the various quar-ters which lay in my route, without re-marking any where the leaft fymptoins ofdiforder?l repaired to St. Marks the14th Vem'einaire, to inHat the tribunal

of appeal,and immediately after, I wentto Port Republican, .to inttitute that ofcall'ation.

Thefe duties fini/hed, I vifited thequarter of Leogane, where I enjoyed thefatisfacrion of remarking the ienfitbleprogrets that had been made in Agricul-ture. From Leogane I returned to St.Mark's, to celebrate the marriage of theDivitionary General Deffalines, and ofmany other militaryofficers, to whom inthe name of the government I had lor along time made this promile.

On my arrival at St. Mark's, I acquit-ted my{'elf of ny promife.?This feaftwas to have beemof feveral days dura-tion ; but reflecting, that I had impor-tant duties incumbent on me, and thatthe law direfted that I fhould inftitutethe tribunal of appeal at St. Domingo,I prepared myfelf for the journey, afterhaving acquainted generalDeffalines thatI left my wife to reprefent me, and dothe honors of the feaft.

At this moment I received a letterof invitationtrora the commune of Ver-rattes, to alTift at the dedication of theParocheal Church, lately rebuilt?lnconformity to the promife which I ludprevioully made, I fet off the 30th Ven-demaire, at 4 o'clock in the morning, ac-companiedby the general of divitionDef-falines.

On my arrival at Verraties in themorning, and not finding the minifter asyet arrived, I embraced,the opportunityof this half day's delay to vifit the pro-grefs of cultivation, which I found inthe beft order?the improvements I re-marked, erttitle gen. Deffalines to thehighelt eulogy, whom I felicitated Uponthe care he had taken to effeft fo muchgoad.

On our return we found the iuinifter

occupied in preparationsfor the ceremo- «ny ; all the cultivators of the Canton af- <filled at this ceremony and after mats.? iFully Convinced of the exaftitude with <which general DelTalines had executed <my orders, and of the progrefs of cul- 1tivation ; I pointed out fome new in- 1llruftions for. another million relative ]

j alio to agriculture, and we were on thepoint of departing for St. Marc, from 1whence I was to have inftantly renaired ito Port Republican, and from thence ;to Santo Domingo, to ereft the Tiibu- inal of Appeal. i

At this moment general Deffalines 1takes me alide to communicate to me a ]letter he had j"uft received from Gonaiyes. <At the fame time a fetter to niy addrefs Iis alfo handed me, which both acquaint- ted ine of an iijfurreftion having arifen to ithe northwatd. We . immediately upon 1this repaired to the,Petite Uivierre,,giv- 1ing orders, for the 4th demi-brigade, to imarch with the greateft esipedition from <St. Marc to Gonaivts. . i

Arrived at.Gohaives the 2d Bruinaire, ;we learned that the Chef de Brigade 1Veriiet had departed thence for Plaif- xance, with the 7th demi-brigade and a 1detachment of theBattalion of Gonaives, jto whoma number of well intcntioned 1citizens Avith fome members of the civilauthority, joinedtheigfelves for the re- \u25a0lief of that place. . At the approach of 1the commandant yernet, after having. ]committed feveral diforders in the village iof Plailance, having affalfinated feveral 1itdiabitants, the rebels fled, crying out?. t" 'Tis general Mojse Avho is for «.?, 'tis 1he who is our chief, 'tis he who luftains 1Us." i

1 palfed the night a't the plantation iCoclieral ; about one o'clock in the morn-ing of the Bth Brumaire, two companies ;of irty guides arrived ;at the break of day 1I was at Gonaives, to give my lalt 1inftruftions to Deffalines?l immediate-ly afterwards fet off for the Canton of iL'Ouverture. ]

. The fame day general Deffalines, at ]the head of the firft battalion of the 4th 'demi-brigade, marched to Plailance,having orders to vilit all the revoltedquarters of the north.

On my arrival at the Village, BourgL'Ouverture, I found the military com-mandant Claude Martin, at the head ofthe troops of the line, and of the nation- ;al guard : his zeal deferves the greateftpraife and I am fully fatislied w'th the ]difpolitionshe has taken. Both in thevillage and the environs, the greateftconcord and order reigns ; every thing iscalm, and the works of cultivation have ;not been*a moment interrupted ; they had ;juft heard the news of the. capture of. ithe village of Mannelade >by the re- jbels. i i

The next morning, the 4th Brumaire,at the break of day I went up to Mar-.njelade with two companiesof the Go-naives battalion, commandedby citizensCharles and Coco, preceded by my dra- -goons; I wilhedto leave the command-ant Claude Martin at L'Ouverture, andto make him refponlible for the fecurityof his quarter ; his anfwer was he wifiiedto follow me, beingaffured, thatnotwith-ftanding his abfenCe, his quarter wouldremain perfeftly uninterrupted.

Wehad but a viewof therebels?theycame to reconnoiter, but after the firftdifcharge, they fled from before us withthe greateft celerity. My orders wereto kill none who fell in our hands ; butit was difficult to rrftrain the indigna-tion of my brave Comrades, fore withthe (hame that a conduft fo infamousmight refleft upon them. Furious, not-withftanding my orders, to bring them tome alive, they wilhed to exterminatethewhole of them.

On the 4th, I entered Mannelade, therebels flying in every direftion, at laftbetook theinfelves to the Soufrierre,threatening us with gen. Moyfe.

At Marmelade I was apprised of thearrival o£ Deffalines at Plaifance ; he in-

-1 formed that his firft care, on his arrival,was to re-eftablilh order, to punilh cul-prits, and to fpare none who has embrued

\u25a0 their hands in blood: they have all fuf-fcred death.

On the fame day, I learned that geniMoyfe was at Dondaft ; the inftant after,

\u25a0 I was informed that the gen. Sylli hadreceived a letter from him ; and, a littletime after, I heard of fhe arrival of gen.Moyfie, with a confiderable bofy oftroops, at a place Called Bori de Pin ; atthe diftance of half a cannon Ihot from

? Mannelade.1 ordered hir.i to repair immediately

i to me and leave his troop where they? were encamped j when arrived, I told

: him, that every thing confpires to de-i monftrate that you are the author of thisi revolt, the rebels every where declare,

that they aft in your name?it is iucum-? bent on your honor to jnftify yourlelf,

and the firft ftep you ought to take is tooccalion every thing again to re-enterinto If culpable, your grade ofgeneral officer ftiall not proteft you?.and you lhal! be more fevertly puniftiedthan another. I then enquired of himhow many men he had caufed to bepunilhed at I)ondon ? he anl'wered, none.How ruaity he had arrelted ? he replied Inot one- How, cried I, you are thecommander c.f a quarter in the north?.you are come from a quarter where themoft horrible aftaffiliations have beencommitted, and you have arretted no-body or punilhed any one ? There areyour orders?return to Dondor-r-caufeeveryguilty perfon to be arretted andfend ihcm to me under a fale.elcort,that I may myfelf interrogate them.?Uieflefting afterwards upon the terribleiufpicions by which I was agitated, Ithought I plight not to leave him anymeans of misreprefenting my intentions,although what I had juft ordered himwas pretty p'ofitive?l fent an exprefsafter him with a new order, in whichhe was enjoined to bring me, alive allthe guilty he could take, without poti-tively putting one to death. In theplace of conforming, he ordered 13 tobe fhot, fending me only 11.

I his lame night I received a letterfrom the gen. of brigade, Henry Chrif-tophe, written from tht plantation ofjMadame Tage, to Limbe : he informedme oi the meafures which he had takento preferve the,town of the Cape, to re-eftablifh order in the neighboring coun-try, and to take up the rebel chiefs-?Ithen gave contrary orders to Deffalines,net to return any more to Limbe, and tojoin me at Mannelade.

I was till now ignorant that the ori-gin ot this rivolt was at the Cape, andbroke out the 30th Vendemaire. Onthe evening - of the 29th, brigade gen.Henry Ghriftophe, informed of inflam-matory dilcoui les held againft the pub-lic lafety, repaired to the carnage, where,he found a numerous body of men andwomen tumultuoufly affembled? wheiin attempting to difperfe them, one ofthe men Avho appeared the moft forward,*

-was knocked clown and feized. Thisman (by name Trois Belles) ii}>ou beingqueftioned) without much difficultynamed, a,s chief of the Company, oneSantorge, lipon whofe immediate cap-ture lie affirmed the ccnfpiracy to de-}).end ; he alio nanied with him JoanBabtifte, I,e Fon, and Bon Homme.

Theffc three men were innr.ediatelyarretted by the gen- in perfon, and asfait (is thefc four villains denounced theiraccomplices, they were immediately fe-cured?above 30 that night were im-prifoned; and about midnight a partyot 40 men who were affembled in arms,Ivere difperfed and part taken, and al-moft immediately after, when the troopshad retired, another body of the rebels,who had attacked citizen Gabart, chiefof the gendarmerie, and killed one ofhis men, were difperfed?the whole ofthis was performed with lb little noifeand cOnfution, that many citizens wereunacquainted next day with the com-motion, and the ftores were opened asufual; fach was the prudence and afti-vitv of gen. Chriftophe.

On tils firft Brumaire reports fromevery fide confirm the news of the re-volt in the quarters of Alcui, Limbe,Port Margotj Mormrdade, Plaifance,and Dondon, and the unhappy fufterers?Who had efcaped from the maffacre, an-nounce that the cry of thefe wretches,is deftruftion to the whites.

After having allured thefafetyof theCape, gen* H. Chriftophe, with detach-ments from the different demi-brigsdesandfornedragoonsof the national guards,proceed# toward , Aleul.?Oppolite thehabitation of Vendreil he encountersthe advanced guard of the rebels, whoimmediatelybetook theinfelves to flightin every tiireftion» At the Correfour,of Mont Rouge, he meets with anothercoming from the Plain du Nord, andanother from the road of A!cul, who in-tended forming a juriftion to march tothe Gape; thefe were immediately dif-perfed, end he proceeded to Limbe,where he ordered the cultivators to le-turn to their refpeftive habitations.

At Limbe, finding the inlnrreftiongeneral,he fent for gen, Jofeph Flaville,the commandant of the guard, who be-ing interrogated as to the caufe of therevolt, anl'wered, that the people hadrifen in fpite of his endeavors to the con-trary. He is made refponfible for thequiet of the place, and ordered to af-fembl# his dragoons.

At Port Margot a number of the re-bels were found in arms, who, beingdifanned, their chiefs were announcedand fhot on the fpot?-upon which theyquietly retired to their labours.

Order b»«ing reftored to Part Margot,

the general returned to Lirnbe, v.hers,during his abfeßCt, the troubles hadburft forth afiefh. , Flaville. was iVntfor, and upon his fefufal, was taken andconduclcd under a guard, .o the capital,where every thing remained quiet.

Gen. ftjpyfe, who lince the 26 v en-demaire, had been ablent, returned ,thc4 Brnmaire , but lie only remained fourhours,,fo great was the c®nl\ernation athis appearance. , , , .i But to refunie th? thread pf events*Being at Marmelade myfelf. the 4th, Igave orders to march to., the SouffYicre,the Riviere Doree,, the Fond-BlieUj tieGrand Ruvine of Liftibe, where tierefugees* pre fled on all fides, had,tske.ufhelter i_on my route I was met by fevt-ral bands of fugitives, and ambufcades,>vho fired at mei, hut tjiey were fppndii-lodged, and ordered to retire immedi-ately to their ufual occupations. .

. General DefTsdjines. after having vifit-ed the mountains, difperfed the rebelsand made them retire ,to their habita-tions, with, orders to keep them con-ttantly employed, informed' me of uJ\crefplt of his. operations?l appointedhim to meet me at Harrecpurt for fur-ther orders. , \, ,. Brigade general Chriftophe, afterhaving performed his tour, eflabli/li -dorder and rein fiat *d th different pofh,repaired alfo to Herrecourt, to give mean account of his proceedings, and re-ceive my further inftruttions, after thereceiving of which, thefe two general;returned to their rcfpt&ive appoint-ments.

The unanimousreports of thegeneral*,of the military commanders* the criesof the revolted, the interrogatories ofluch as were taken up?all concur incondemninggeneral Moyfe as the authorof this revolt. I ordered him to attendme in pcrfon, and after having caulidto be read to him thefe declarations, l-ythe adjutant general Idlinger, I hadhim arretted the 6th Brumaire ; the 10thhe was lent to Port de Paix, under tit©refponlibility of brigade gen. Clairvaux,to be detained at Grand Fort, till hisp'rocefs be completed.. , Being informed that order was efu-hliflied, and anxious to appeafe theminds of tile inhabitants of the Cape,i entered this town the 13th Brumai e,ordering 40 piifonei3 to be conductedbefore me.

Having ordered the armed force tobe a(Tern bled upon the place d'arniesj tordered \ 3 of the chief of the rebels tobe brought forward, where they imme-diately fuffered death 5 a number to agreat amount of others afe in the pri-lefts, aw p.iting the deoifion of their fate;

T'.is confpirJtcy, planned by tlie moflprofound perverlity, appears to havebeen directed againft the governmentand the whites, in the northern part ofthe ifland ; the rebels have fuflicientlypointed out the promoter ; they wereled to believe by him that I had foldthe blacks to the whites, aiid tiiaf gen*Moyfe alone had refuled to fign thispretehded contract* but that general*Deffalines and Chriftophe were a&ive ineffetting the fale. The authors of hisinfamy had caufed chains to be made atLimbe, to fhew the blacks on the day ofthe fevolt, as a proof of theif abfurdafiertiom

The evil has been great withoutdoubt ; the remembrance will be everrooted in my memory?my heart hasbeen forely afili&ed : but if the hand ofthe Divinity had not retrained the rag*of thefe monfters, how much mere fiionidwe have had to bewail.

The blood of innocence fhall be a-venged, and juftice {hall be Fo rigidlyexecuted to deter the moll: daring ;Providence has granted, that in the Gapebut one innocent vi&im has fallen ; notthe leaft dilorder has been committed,nor the leaft pillage exerciled, thoughthe feat of the revolt: the 2eal of gen.Chriftophe, feconded by the other mili-tary chiefs under his command, has ef-fected this.

Tranquility is now eftablifhed. Themoft pofitive orders have been giventhat the works of the plantations fhouldbe carried on with the greateft vigor;that no inconvenience fhould accruc toperfons or property, and that the fmalleftattempt upon the public peace be moltexemplarilypunifiled ; and all my caresand attention fhall be directed, t© pre-vent any evil effe£\ upon the public con-fidence from this fatal event.

Done at Cape Francois the 16th Bru-maire, the 10th year of the Re-public, one and indivifible, 7thNov. 1801.

(Signed)

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