The squadron under Rear-Admiral Jurien, the 20th of June, consisted of the Eylau, of 80 guns, Jean Bart, 74, Venus, 24; the Nymph, Themis, Magicienne, Medea, Circe, and Salamandre, each of 18 guns; and five brigs of 10, 18, and 24 guns.

Baron Mackau, commander of the Circe, had orders to sail some days earlier than the squadron, which was not to appear near Port-au-Prince till it should have received notice.

This officer sailed from Martinique the 23d, with the Circe frigate, and the Ruse and Bearnaise brigs. He appeared off Portau-Prince the 3d of July. The remainder of the squadron sailed from Port Royal the 27th of June. The reception given to Baron Mackau authorised him to expect the entire success of his mission. As soon as he appeared in sight, two officers came on board, and a suitable residence was assigned him at Port-au-Prince, as well as to the officers under him.

Conferences were immediately opened between him and three commissioners, appointed by the president of the government of Hayti, and as in three days they had led to no result, they were taken up by the president, to whose conciliatory intention Baron Mackau does full justice.

It was on the 8th of July, after some preliminary discussions, which were not without importance, but which were carried on with that spirit of conciliation which leads to the conclusion of affairs when there is a sincere wish to do so, that the president wrote to Baron Mackau, that after the explanations given him, and trusting in the good faith of the king, he accepted, in the name of the people of Hayti, the ordinance of your majesty, and that he was going to take the necessary steps to have it confirmed in the senate with due solemnity.

I must inform your majesty, that the president, before he took this resolution, thought it his duty to consult several members of the senate, and the principal officers of the island; that the difficulties which had arisen in the discussions were laid before them; that they all declared they would confide in the wisdom of the chief of the republic; that confidence in the word and generous

intentions of your majesty alone smoothed all obstacles, and that when Baron Mackau was introduced from the cabinet of the president into the hall, where all the principal officers were assembled, cries of Vive le Roi! Vive le Dauphin de France! Vive la France! were uttered with unanimous acclamation, and mingled with cries of the national independence which your majesty's ordinance had just proclaimed and recognized.

It was on the 11th of July that the senate was convoked, to proceed to the confirmation (enterinement) of the ordinance according to the forms prescribed by the constitutional laws of the country.

This day was a real holyday for the inhabitants of the island; the whole population had assembled in the squares and streets through which the procession was to pass. A numerous body of troops of the most martial appearance formed a double line from the sea-shore to the senate house. The squadron had been invited to enter the port. Baron Mackau, accompanied by Rear-Admirals Jurien and Grivel, and the officers of the squadron, bore, with the most solemn pomp, the ordinance of your majesty, which was saluted as it passed by all the guns of the ships with the unanimous acclamations of the people. When they reached the senate, where they were received with due respect and ceremony, the ordinance was confirmed in their presence. The proces verbal of this sitting and the speech of the president of the senate to your majesty's commissioners, leave no doubt of the unanimity of sentiment with which it was received, and the profound gratitude which it has excited in every heart.

It was amidst the cries of Long live the King of France, long live his beloved son, that the sitting broke up, and that a committee of the members was ordered to carry a report of the proceedings to the president of the republic.

From the day of this sitting till the 18th of July, when the squadron sailed, and to the 20th, when Baron Mackau quitted Port-au-Prince, there was a series of brilliant fêtes, and the joy manifested by the people proved that the benevolent intentions of

your majesty were felt and appreciated as you had a right to expect.

Baron Mackau has given a passage on board his vessel to three envoys who come to France to negotiate a loan to fulfil the conditions of the ordinance.

Sire, these same sentiments which have caused so much enthusiasm at two thousand leagues from our capital, in an island from which so many events seemed to divide us for ever, have manifested themselves in the same manner in the ports and maritime cities of your kingdom, which see sources of prosperity re-opened which they believed to be dried up. The ancient colonists, so long deprived of resources, and not preserving even the illusions of hope, will feel an unexpected relief. A fixed state, subject to all the rules of reciprocal attention and respect which civilization has introduced among nations, between which it forms the first basis of public law, will replace that precarious state which was not without danger to all European colonies.

I shall not terminate this report, Sire, without laying at your majesty's feet this expression of the devotedness of the commander, and of all the officers of his squadron. All were equally zealous punctually to execute your majesty's commands. The reports of Baron Mackau, which I have before me, will, I venture to hope, leave you no doubt that this officer has answered the confidence you placed in him. This mission, to make use of his own expression, on his conference with the president of Hayti, gave him the character of a soldier, and not of a diplomatist or a negotiator.

The frankness of his explanations, perfectly in harmony with that which the president never ceased to show from the first instant, I have no doubt smoothed many difficulties. I will venture to recommend him to your majesty's favour.

I am, with the most profound respect, Sire, your majesty's most humble and most faithful servant,

THE COUNT DE CHAMBROL.

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Royal Ordinances.

1. Promotes Baron Mackau to the rank of rear-admiral.

2. Appoints a commission to propose-1st, the mode of the claims to be made by the ancient colonists or their representatives; 2d, the bases and the means of distributions of the sums assigned to them.

The members of the commission are-The Duke of Levis, peer of France, minister of state, president; the Marquis de Barbe Marbois, Viscount Laine, Count de Segur, peers of France; Count Begouen, honorary counsellor of state; Sieur Pardissus, member of the chamber of deputies; Sieur Gautier, ditto; Sieur Levesque, ditto; Count Alexander de la Borde; Colonel Count Galifel; Sieur Harnet, member of the colonial council.

Proclamation to the People and to the Army.

Haytians!A long oppression had pressed upon Hayti. Our courage and our heroic efforts snatched it twenty-two years ago from the degradation which oppressed it, to place it in the scale of independent nations. But there was wanting to our glory another triumph. The French flag, in coming to salute this land of liberty, consecrates the legitimacy of our emancipation. It was reserved for that monarch, as great as he is religious, who governs France, to signalize his accession to the throne by an act of justice, which dignifies at once the throne from which it emanates, and the country which is the object of it.

Haytians!-A special decree of his Majesty Charles X., dated the 17th of April last, recognizes the full and entire independence of your government. This authentic act, in adding the formality of right to the political existence which you had already acquired, will legalize in the eyes of the world the rank in which you had placed yourselves, and to which Providence had called you.

Citizens !-Commerce and agriculture are about to extend themselves. The arts and sciences, which delight in peace, will hasten to embellish your new destinies with all the benefits of civilization.

THE AMERICAN MONITOR.

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Continue, by your attachment to the national institutions, and above all, by your union, to inflict despair on those who would attempt to disturb you in the just and peaceable possession of your rights.

Soldiers !-You have deserved well of your country. Under all circumstances you have been ready to fight in her defence. You will be ever faithful to your duties. The confidence of which you have given such proofs to the chief of the state is the sweetest recompense of the anxiety he has felt for the prosperity and glory of the republic.

Haytians!---Show yourselves always worthy of the honourable situation which you hold among nations; and more happy than your sires, who could transmit to you but a dreadful lot, you will bequeath to your posterity the most delightful inheritance which it is possible to desire---concord at home and peace abroad, a country prosperous and respected.

Given at the national palace of Port-au-Prince, the 11th day of July, 1825, in the 22d year of independence.

By the president,

The secretary-general,

BOYER.

B. INGINAC.

Reflections on the Treaty of Peace, Friendship, Navigation and Commerce, between the United States and the Republic of Colombia.

(Extracted from the Constitutionel)

Montesquieu quotes two beautiful examples of treaties; the prohibition by which Alexander forbade the Bactrians to give their aged fathers to be eaten by great dogs; and the treaty of Gelon, who, having defeated three hundred thousand Carthaginians, imposed upon them, as a condition of peace, the abolition of the custom sanctioning the immolation of children at the altars of their gods; thus stipulating both for humanity and the Carthaginians.