On board the Ocean, off the Cape, the 15th of Pluviose, 10th
year of the French Republic, (Feb. 6, 1802.)
_Le Clerc, General-in-chief of the Army of St. Domingo, Captain
General of the Colony, to the inhabitants of St. Domingo_:
Inhabitants of St. Domingo! Read the proclamation of the
First Consul of the Republic. It assures to the blacks that
liberty for which they have so long fought; to commerce and
to agriculture that prosperity without which there can be no
colonies. His promises will be faithfully fulfilled; to doubt
it would be a crime.
The General-in-chief,
LE CLERC, _Captain General_.
By order of the General-in-chief,