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Doe: New page: Courier of New Hampshire No. 47 Vol. XIII
Thursday, December 16, 1802
Boston Centinel, Dec. 8.
French West-Indies
The Intelligence from these Island...

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New page: Courier of New Hampshire No. 47 Vol. XIII Thursday, December 16, 1802 Boston Centinel, Dec. 8. <center>French West-Indies<center> The Intelligence from these Island...

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Courier of New Hampshire No. 47 Vol. XIII 
Thursday, December 16, [[1802]] 

Boston Centinel, Dec. 8. 

<center>French West-Indies<center> 

The Intelligence from these Islands continue very distressing. An arrival at Philadelphia, from [[Port-Republican]]. in [[St. Domingo]], brings accounts to the 2nd November: -- At that time the French. it was understood, were about to evacuate [[St. Marcs]], [[Gonaives]]. and [[Leogane]] ; and that the blacks were in possession of [[L'Arcahaye]]. The fame accounts mention, that the French exercise the greatest imaginable cruelties on the blacks which fall into their hands :-- at St. Marcs, 600 of them were paraded. and ordered yo be disarmed ; and because they resisted the measure, they were all massacred. The dead bodies of the negroes were seen floating on the water by American vessels coming out of the bite of Leogane. It was said, that every week a vessel took 100 to 150 negroes on board at Port-Republic, carried them to sea, stifled them in the hold with brimstone, and then threw the bodies overboard ; and that a brig frequently took blacks on board at the Cape, went to sea, and in a few days returned empty.

An arrival from New-York, from Jamaica, brings accounts to the 5th November ; which inform, of the arrival of a frigate from [[Cape-Francois]], dispatched by [[Gen. Le Clerc]]. to solicit of the British government in Jamaica. an asylum for [[Madame Le Clerc]], (who is the sister of [[Napoléon Bonaparte|Bonaparte]]) and suite ; the blacks having become so formidable as to render her residence in St. Domingo unsafe. The same accounts add, that the blacks had obtained a victory over the French near the [[Le Cap|Cape]]. 
No reinforcements had arrived at St. Domingo at the Last dates. The French alone are not the ministers of cruelty and carnage ;- A barge, on its passage from St Marcs to Port-Republic, full of women and children ], was met by a boat armed with eighteen negroes, and every one massacred. - The murderers were shortly after overtaken by a French frigate :-- immediate vengeance was exercised on sixteen, and the other two were torn in pieces by the infuriated whites at Port-Republic. [[Jean-Jacques Dessalines|Dessalines]] and [Henry Christophe|Christophe]] it is said. have deserted from the French, and joined their color. 

The accounts from Guadeloupe, which reach into November, are equally unfavorable to the French, as those from St. Domingo ; and evince that unless speedily and powerfully reinforced, the evacuation of the island by them was unavoidable. 
The late intelligence from the the West-Indies rests principally on verbal accounts, and on rumor, which frequently is the echo of falsehood and always of exaggeration :-- It must therefore be received with difficult, and credited with caution. 

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		+	* [[Antoine Richepanse]] - Richepanse re-established slavery in the French colony of Guadeloupe in 1802.

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−	This is an 1802 account of the Haitian Revolution from an New England newspaper. It details some of the extreme atrocities the French carried out in [[Saint-Domingue]] and shows that, in much of the same way as is the case with present day conflicts, the world was watching and did largely nothing to come to the aid of the Haitian (Saint-Domingue) population.	+	This is an [[1802]] account of the Haitian Revolution from an New England newspaper. It details some of the extreme atrocities the French carried out in [[Saint-Domingue]] and shows that, in much of the same way as is the case with present day conflicts, the world was watching and did largely nothing to come to the aid of the Haitian (Saint-Domingue) population.

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 The accounts from Guadeloupe, which reach into November, are equally unfavorable to the French, as those from St. Domingo ; and evince that unless speedily and powerfully reinforced, the evacuation of the island by them was unavoidable. <br>
 The late intelligence from the the West-Indies rests principally on verbal accounts, and on rumor, which frequently is the echo of falsehood and always of exaggeration  :-- It must therefore be received with difficult, and credited with caution.<br>
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 An arrival from New-York, from Jamaica, brings accounts to the 5th November ; which inform, of the arrival of a frigate from [[Cape-Francois]], dispatched by [[Gen. Le Clerc]]. to solicit of the British government in Jamaica. an asylum for [[Madame Le Clerc]], (who is the sister of [[Napoléon Bonaparte|Bonaparte]]) and suite ; the blacks having become so formidable as to render her residence in St. Domingo unsafe. The same accounts add, that the blacks had obtained a victory over the French near the [[Le Cap|Cape]].<br>
-No reinforcements had arrived at St. Domingo at the Last dates. The French alone are not the ministers of cruelty and carnage ;- A barge, on its passage from St Marcs to Port-Republic, full of women and children ], was met by a boat armed with eighteen negroes, and every one massacred. - The murderers were shortly after overtaken by a French frigate :-- immediate vengeance was exercised on sixteen, and the other two were torn in pieces by the infuriated whites at Port-Republic. [[Jean-Jacques Dessalines|Dessalines]] and [Henry Christophe|Christophe]] it is said. have deserted from the French, and joined their color.<br>
+No reinforcements had arrived at St. Domingo at the Last dates. The French alone are not the ministers of cruelty and carnage ;- A barge, on its passage from St Marcs to Port-Republic, full of women and children ], was met by a boat armed with eighteen negroes, and every one massacred. - The murderers were shortly after overtaken by a French frigate :-- immediate vengeance was exercised on sixteen, and the other two were torn in pieces by the infuriated whites at [[Port-Republic]]. [[Jean-Jacques Dessalines|Dessalines]] and [[Henry Christophe|Christophe]] it is said. have deserted from the French, and joined their color.<br>
 The accounts from Guadeloupe, which reach into November, are equally unfavorable to the French, as those from St. Domingo ; and evince that unless speedily and powerfully reinforced, the evacuation of the island by them was unavoidable. <br>

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 Courier of New Hampshire No. 47 Vol. XIII<br>
 Thursday, December 16, [[1802]]<br>
-Boston Centinel, Dec. 8.<br>
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 The Intelligence from these Islands continue very distressing. An arrival at Philadelphia, from [[Port-Republican]]. in [[St. Domingo]], brings accounts to the 2nd November:  -- At that time the French. it was understood, were about to evacuate [[St. Marcs]], [[Gonaives]]. and [[Leogane]] ; and that the blacks were in possession of [[L'Arcahaye]]. The fame accounts mention, that the French exercise the greatest imaginable cruelties on the blacks which fall into their hands :-- at St. Marcs, 600 of them were paraded. and ordered yo be disarmed ; and because they resisted the measure, they were all massacred. The dead bodies of the negroes were seen floating on the water by American vessels coming out of the bite of Leogane. It was said, that every week a vessel took 100 to 150 negroes on board at Port-Republic, carried them to sea, stifled them in the hold with brimstone, and then threw the bodies overboard ; and that a brig frequently took blacks on board at the Cape, went to sea, and in a few days returned empty.
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 The accounts from Guadeloupe, which reach into November, are equally unfavorable to the French, as those from St. Domingo ; and evince that unless speedily and powerfully reinforced, the evacuation of the island by them was unavoidable. <br>
 The late intelligence from the the West-Indies rests principally on verbal accounts, and on rumor, which frequently is the echo of falsehood and always of exaggeration  :-- It must therefore be received with difficult, and credited with caution.<br>
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Doe: New page: Courier of New Hampshire No. 47 Vol. XIII Thursday, December 16, 1802 Boston Centinel, Dec. 8. French West-Indies The Intelligence from these Island...

Doe: New page: Courier of New Hampshire No. 47 Vol. XIII
Thursday, December 16, 1802
Boston Centinel, Dec. 8.
French West-Indies
The Intelligence from these Island...