LIBERTY AND INDEPENDENCE, STATE OF HAYTI.-GENERAL OR their arms, are about 400 wounded, who are to be brought to the capital in order to be treated and taken care of like the sick troops who have been faithful to the legitimate authority. About 200 women, inhabitants and cultivatrixes of different districts, who were shut up in the Mole, and who followed the rebels into the woods, have also given themselves up. Monseigneur the president has ordered that they be sent back to their habitations and to their respective districts. The pacification is general in the district where the fire of revolt prevailed. All the corps of the army DER OF THE ARMY, 17th October employed at the siege of the Mole 1810, 7th year. The rebellious and proud city of the Mole of St. Nicholas, and the forts which defend it, have fallen into the power of our army. After the extinction of the two successive chiefs, Lamarre and Eveillard, all the troops which compose the rebels' pretended army of expedition, and the body of the 9th regiment, which first raised the standard of revolt in that district, have been compelled to lay down their arms, to surrender at discretion, and to implore the clemency of his serene monseigneur the president, abjuring errors, and promising for the future a regular conduct which shall redeem every thing culpable in the former. They have experienced the generous effects of that clemency which knows how to pardon weakness and error, but which punishes crime. His serene highness has ordered that the body of the 9th regiment rejoin the true number of its corps, and that the troops below upon the coast should be sent to the capital to take rank in the army. Among the troops who have laid down His have merited well of our country, for His highness has ordered that the army should return into its respective garrisons and cantonments, and that every corps should be brought up to its full complement. He has also ordered that a general return of the force of the army should be presented to him, and that sea forces, and the deputies of the city of Amsterdam, have the honour of presenting themselves at the feet of your majesty's throne, respectfully to declare the sentiments of admiration, confidence, and obedience with which they are animated. "The Dutch people, sire, known in the annals of history by the exploits of their heroes, by the spotless character of their statesmen, and the exertions made by them to obtain and maintain their independence, are still possessed of a strong recollection of the virtues of their forefathers. "The great events which Europe has witnessed in the course of the present century have completely changed the political supports and relations of states; and the independence, for the attainment of which our ancestors sacrificed their property, their blood, and all that is most dear to men, from the pressure of circumstances could not but undergo certain restrictions. At length united with the first nation in the world, called by the greatest prince in the universe to share in the favour which his exalted genius and paternal solicitude liberally bestow on his happy subjects, and of which Holland has already obtained so many proofs, the Dutch continue to flatter themselves that by their loyalty, their obedience, and their inviolable attachment to their prince and father, they shall deserve the protection of a mighty, generous, upright, and benevolent go vernment.' His imperial majesty returned the following answer: "Gentlemen deputies of the legislative body, of the land and sea forces of Holland, and gentlemen deputies of my good city of Amsterdam,-For these thirty years you have experienced many vicissitudes. You lost your liberty when one of the great officers of the republic, forced by England, employed Prussian bayonets to interrupt the deliberations of your councils. It was then that the wise constitution handed down to you by your forefathers was destroyed for ever. "You formed a part of the coali tion, in consequence of which French armies conquered your countryan event which was the unavoidable consequence of the alliance with England. After the conquest, a distinct government was formed, yet your republic formed part of the empire. Your strong fortresses, and the principal positions in your country, were occupied by French troops, and your government was changed according to the opinions which succeeded each other in France. "When providence placed me on this first throne of the world, it fell to my lot to decide for ever the fate of France, and of all the nations which compose this vast empire, to bestow on all the signal advantages which arise from firmness, consistency, and order, and to destroy the baneful consequences of irregularity and weakness. I put a period to the wavering destinies of Italy, by placing the iron crown on my head. I annihilated the govern ment which ruled Piedmont. By my act of mediation I justly appreciated the constitution of Switzer. land, and brought the local circumstances of the country in unison with the safety and rights of this imperial crown. I gave you a prince of my blood for your ruler; this was intended as a bond to unite the concerns of your republic with the rights of the empire. My hopes have been deceived; and on this occasion I have shown more for(M2) bearance bearance than my character generally admits, and my rights require. I have at length put a period to the painful uncertainty of your future fate, and warded off the fatal blow which threatened to annihilate all your property, all your resources. I have opened the continent to your national industry: the day shall come when you are to conduct my eagles to the seas celebrated by the exploits of your ancestors; then shail you show yourselves worthy of yourselves and of me. From this moment till that period all the changes that take place in Europe shall have for their first motive the destruction of that tyrannical and irrational system which the English government, unmindful of the pernicious consequences which arise therefrom to its own country, has adopted, to outlaw commerce and trade, and subject it to the arbitrary authority of English licenses. "Gentlemen deputies of the lcgislative body, and of the land and sea forces of Holland, and geatle men deputies of my good city of Amsterdam, tell my subjects of Holland, I feel perfectly satisfied they possess the sentiments they profess for me; tell them that I doubt not their loyal attachment, and depend on their heartily join ing their exertions to those of the rest of my subjects, to reconquer the rights of the sea, the loss of which five coalitions incited by England have inflicted on the continent; tell them, that in all circum. stances they may reckon on my peculiar protection." PROCLAMATION BY THE FRENCH COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF. Portuguese,-The armies of Napoleon the great are on your fron tiers, and we are on the point of entering your country as friends, not as conquerors. They do not come to make war upon you, but to fight those who have induced you to take np arms. Portuguese, awake to your true interests. What has England done for you, that you endure her troops on your na tive soil? She has destroyed your manufactures, ruined your commerce, paralysed your industry, for the sole purpose of sending into your country articles of her own manufacture, and making you her tributaries. What does she do at present, that you should embrace the unjust cause which has roused the whole of the continent against her? She deceives you respecting the issue of a campaign in which she seems determined to incur no risk. She puts your battalions in advance, as if your blood was to reckon for nothing. She is prepared to abandon you when it will suit her interest, however disastrous the consequences may be to you; and to complete your misfortunes and her insatiable ambition, she sends her ships into your ports to transport to her colonies such of you as may escape from the dan gers to which she has exposed you on the continent. Does not the conduct of her army, before Ciudad Rodrigo sufficiently explain to you what you are to expect from such allies? Did they not encourage the garrison and the unfortunate inhabitants of that fortress, by deceit ful promises, and did they discharge a single musket to assist them? Again; lately have they placed any of their troops in Almeida, except a commander who is put there to invite you to as ill-judged a resistance as that of Ciudad Rodrigo? What! is it not an insult to place one Englishman thus in the scale against honourable house its true weight and character, may rescue our country from domes ic discord, and secure it from the foreign foe, give stability to the throne, and perpetuate the constitution." THE THANKSGIVING PRAYER. Form of prayer and thanksgiving to Almighty God, for his mercy in having vouchsafed to bestow on this nation an abundant crop and favourable harvest. "O Almighty God! who open. est wide thine hand, and satisfiest the desire of every living thing, we thank thee that thou hast reserved unto us the appointed weeks of harvest, and caused our valleys to be covered with corn. Sustain and keep alive in us, we beseech thee, such a sense of thy bountiful goodness, that we forget not, in the pride of our heart, the hand from which every blessing flows. It is thy mercy, O God, that humbleth us in want. It is thy mercy that feedeth us with plenteousness. Protect and cover us, we pray thee, from the abuses of each; lest we be full, and deny thee, and say, Who is the Lord? or lest we be poor and steal, and take the name of our God in vain. More especially at this time dispose us to acknowledge, with all humility, thy good providence, in supplying our wants at the moment of approaching necessity, in upholding our cause against the increased aggression of our enemies, and in continuing thy protection to our most gracious sovereign, the father of his people, and the dispenser of thy mercies. These praises and prayers we humbly offer at the throne of grace, through the merits and mediation of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.-Amen." PRAYER FOR THE RESTORATION OF HIS MAJESTY'S HEALTH. "O God, who commandest us. when we are in trouble to open our hearts, and to tell out our sorrows mise to listen with compassion to our unto thee in prayer, and dost prohumble supplications, give us grace so to approach thee, that we offend not in word or thought: put away from us every impatient feeling, si lence every unworthy expression: let not our prayers assume the language of complaint, nor our sorrows the character of despair. Upon thee, O God, and upon the multitude of thy mercies, we repose our grief. To thee alone we look for that blessing for which our hearts bleed. Raise, we implore thee, our beloved sovereign from the bed of sickness and of affliction; soothe his parental cares; restore him to his family, and to his people.-And of thy great mercy, O God! look down with pity and compassion on the accumulated sorrows of the royal family. Give them strength, and courage, and virtue, to meet with pious submission the grievous trial to which they are exposed: and, whether it shall seem fit to thine unerring wisdom, presently to remove from us this great cala mity, or for a time to suspend it over us, teach both them, and us, patiently to adore thy inscrutable Providence, and to bless thy holy name for ever and ever. These prayers and supplications we humbly address to thy Divine Majesty, in the name and through the mediation of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. Amen." AMERICA. AMERICA. On the subject of the doubts existing as to the precise time and manner of carrying into effect the non-intercourse act against Great Britain and her dependencies, under the president's proclamation, the following official papers deserve at tention: the letters are from the American secretary of state. "Treasury Department, Nov. 2, 1810. "SIR-You will herewith receive a copy of the proclamation of the president of the United States, announcing the revocation of the edicts of France, which violated the neutral commerce of the United States, and that the restrictions imposed by the act of May 1st last accordingly cease from this day in relation to France. French armed vessels may therefore be admitted into the harbours and waters of the United States, any thing in that law to the contrary notwithstanding. "It also follows, that if Great Britain shall not on the 2d of February next have revoked or modified in like manner her edicts violating the neutral commerce of the United States, the 3d, 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th, 9th, 10th, and 18th sections of the act to interdict the commercial intercourse between the United States and Great Britain and France, and their dependencies, and for other purposes, shall, in conformity with the act first above mentioned, be revived and have full force and effect, as far as relates to Great Britain and her dependencies, from and after the said 2d day of February next. Unless therefore you shall before that day be officially notified by this department of such revocation or modification, you will from and after the said day carry into effect the abovementioned sections, which prohibit both the entrance of British vessels of every description into the harbours and waters of the United States; and the importation into the United States of any articles the growth, produce, or manufacture, of the dominions, colonies, and dependencies of Great Britain; and of any articles whatever brought from the said dominions, colonies, and dependencies.-I am respect fully, sir, your obedient servant, "ALBERT GALLATIN." To the collector of the customs PROCLAMATION.-Whereas, by the 4th section of an act of congress, passed on the 1st of May 1810, entitled, An act concerning the com mercial intercourse between the United States and Great Britain and France, and their dependencies, and for other purposes, it is provided: That in case either Great Britain or France shall, before the third of March next, so revoke or modify her edicts as that they shall cease to violate the neutral com merce of the United States, which fact the president of the United States shall declare by proclamation; and if the other nation shall not, within three months thereafter, so revoke or modify her edicts in like manner, then the third, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, eighth, ninth, tenth, and eighteenth sections of the act, entitled An act to interdict the commercial intercourse between the United States and Great Britain and France, and their dependencies, and for other purposes, shall, from and after the expiration of three months from the date of the proclamation aforesaid, be revived and have full force and effect, |