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are indebted to the politea friend for Port-au-Prince as late as the 12th April, are exclusively occupied xounts of the death, burial, leral solemnities of Petion, ths re-organization of the

Wnt under general Boyer, Itto of talents, education, &

pa of character, who had

Jie commander in chief of Pe-

army.

ROM THE TELEGRAPH

inied at Port-au-Prince,

April 5, 1818.

hit a nainiui tasK is mat

is imposed upon us ? Duty

ra prescribes us to fulfil it

b render to the memory of

ther of Ins country, the tri-

pf the gratitude of a whole

.for the benefits with which

i loaded them during the

p tl his numerous labours &

Jble t Jbrts to consolidate the

(lie on 2 firm foundation.

ie friend of man the good

wise ALEXANDEK. ri!.-

Kw;s born on the 20th A-

770, of rcsoectable parents.

iccomencement of the French

piuon. though very young,

ps one of the first who took

ms in St. Domingo, with the

ion of defending the rights

") which the French govern1 1 . ...

naci at last granted to mat which had groaned under

ery, at the same time the

hard and debasing which n nature could endure. E-

that neriod he distinguish-

jimself by the sweetness of his jners, and by a great and noposition, which captivated finds. Brave and intrepid, profession of arms did not liarps good and generous' , heart. Was always alive to the misforf of the afflicted, and he al.

ways knew how to extend towards them a protecting and generous hand. Virtuous by princi

ple, he never belied himself. Kaised by his courage and military knowl. edge to the rank of adj. gen. he fought under the orders of gen. Rigaudin the deplorable civil war between the latter and gen. Toug saint. He was sent to Jacmel to take the command of that place, to sustain a siege which had already commenced two months before under gen. Toussant. He acquited himself well though the city was given up to all the horrors of famine, and reduced to the greatest extremity. He succeeded in the evacuation with 900 of his troops, protecting numbers of women and children in passing by the strong besciging army of 22?ooo. The chances of war turning against gen. Rigaud, he embarked for France, and he whose loss we deplore followed him in his misfortunes. The illustrious deceased staid in France unemployed till the epoch when Napoleon sent his brother-in-law gen. Le Clerc, with a formidable army, to fight against a free people, whom he wished to reduce to slavery. He was then employed. The people of Hayti having been deceived by false demonstrations of friendship from their enemies, and by their perfidious promises, generally joined the French army. The country appeared disposed to submit, and desirous of peace; when French Machiavclian intrigue was suddenly unmasked, and in an island which promised to spread over its ancfent prosperity and splendor, nothing was to be seen but a vast plain covered with flames, fire and smoke. The arms of the Haytians, who were all united in one cause, were downed with the most happy success. Of an army of more than 60,000 men, there only remained to the French a few weak garrisons in the principal towns. They could not retain their skuation & the evacuation of the enemy was affected, almost as soon as decided on. In the numerous battles we had to encounter our hero particularly distinguished himself, and won the esteem and confidence of gen. Dessalines, who had been invested with the command

in chief of the indigenous army. In January, 1804, the soil of Hayti being no longer pressed by one of these cruel invaders, the independence of the Island was DECLARED. Appointed general of Division, ALEXANDER PETION was charged with the command in chief of the department mcnt of the west. By his irreproachable conduct at that time, the same which he had previously maintained, and which he continued to maintain to the fatal moment which has taken him

from us forever, he deserved that the audience chamber of the nathis allegorical and sentimental tional palace, changed into a chapel expression, " He never earned a where a light is always kept,f Une tear to flow become the device cbapelle aldente J was contemplated which all who have known and by all who approached it with the admired him, have decided to be- calmness of reflection, the dispair long to him under every circum- of grief,' and the profoundness of stance. silence. Gen. Dessalines having become To what can we compare the emperor, departed from the sa- scene which followed the differcred duties which reciprocally ent testimonials of the most deep bind the people and the chief ma- affliction of a whole people durgistratc of the state. He became ing the three days the body of perjured, and the Haytians recov- the immortal PETION was laid ered their liberties in the destruc- without life within view of all tlon of the tyrant and the tyran- those who came to cast a last ny. The republic was established glance upon those features, which upon the wreck of the throne ; had become more beautiful (if I and to the great mortification of may so express myself) since the the people another tyrant raised caprice of time had cut him off himself. The latter desired to from the sojourn of mortals? smother the republic in its birth Shall it be compared to those rebut these violent and disorderly peated pilgrimages of the believefforts were annihilated on the ers directed towards Medina to wails of Port-au-Prince. The see at least once in their lives the people had declared to him the tomb of the prophet sent by God presidency, he refused it.-0 upon earth, and afterwards dimonster of iniquity ! In confor-. recting their steps towards the mity with the constitution we had holy city of Mecca, there to adore established the senate proceeded the black stone of the mosque? to the nomination of another pre- Or rather according to the idea of sident of Hayti, and the good the true christian, shall it be to Alexander Petion was elected in those pilgrims, religious observers 1807, t0 thit chief niag'lstracy - of t!ie divme morals of Jests He has governed the Haytian Christ, who disregarding the people with that mildness, that greatest fatigues, despising even urbanity so worthy of a first citi- jife itself, traverse the regions of zen of a republic By his conci- infidelity to visit the holy and reliating disposition, by his good verend place where the Son of judgment which sometimes post- God died to save mankind ? If poned to put into execution his we can make such a comparison v grand designs, until the most con- such is the idea man can figure to venient time offered, he has himself of this concourse of peostrengthened the state both within pie of all ages and all sexes, stranand without, and he has re-unit- gers as well as natives, approached all hearts in considerably ad- ing towards the precious deposit vancing the civilization of the which contained the remains of people. an anSle f God, whose body We began to taste the sweet was uncorrupted as his soul was fruits of all his institutions, When pure. death came and took him from By the public notice of the ob us on the 29th March, after a sequies of the president of Hayti short illness of only eight days, his body was to be entered at theOh Death ! what a terrible foot of the Tree of Liberty in a stroke thou hast inflicted on us. vault prepared for the purposeChildren who lose their beloved his bowels were to be deposited in father could not shed more tears, the National Fort, and his heart' utter more cries, more sobs of an- was given to his family in testimoguish, than the people of Hayti, ny of gratitude, at the dreadful moment when On luesday the yst March they learnt that their beloved all was prepared for his sepulchral cheif had breathed his last, and & solemn ceremony. The funeral that his soul had fled to the man- procession marched at 11 o'clock sions of heaven. The whole city in the morning to the distressing resounded with groans produced sound of the most profound laby the most lively and most sin- mentations and arrived at the cere grief. The farms were aban- churchi The reverend priest farmers bringing Gaspard, assisted by the clergy,

their wives and children covered did all that religion required, afthe roads, and transported them- ter which the reverend priest Gorselves towards the place of sadness don ascended the pulpit and prothat they might for the last time nounced a short funeral sermon contemplate the inanimate body when he finished, the chief judges of him who always regarded them delivered the funeral eulogy atter as all good kings regard the inhab- which the office of the dead was itants of their kingdom a regard chaunted and then the Prcession at once simple, sublime and senti- marched to the Champ deMtrr mental. where the body was deposited in The body of our illustrious chief the vault. It was with the greatstretched upon a bed of state in est pain that they retired from.