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THE

CRITICAL REVIEW.

OR

ANNALS OF LITERATURE.

VOL. IX.

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THE

CRITICAL REVIEW;

OR,

ANNALS

OF

LITERATURE.

SERIES THE THIRD.

VOL. IX.

TERMUTED DOMINOS, ET CEDAT IN ALTERA JURA.

PUBLIC

LONDON:

PRINTED FOR J. MAWMAN, 22, POULTRY:

AND SOLD BY J. DEIGHTON, CAMBRIDGE; HANWELL AND PAREER,
AND J. COOKE, OXFORD.

STOR LABR

NEW-YOR!

1807.

W. Flint, Printer, Old Bailey.

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ART. I.-An Historical Account of the Black Empire of Hayti: comprehending a View of the principal Transactions in the Revolution of St. Domingo; with its Ancient and Modern State. By Marcus Rainsford, Esq. late Captain Third West India Regiment, &c. &c. &c. Cundee.

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1805.

THE extensive and fertile island of St. Domingo has had the fortune to attract much of the attention of mankind at different periods, and for causes as nearly opposite as can be well imagined. In the times of the French kings, the happy fate of this noble country excited the envy of sur rounding nations, who beheld, without a hope of rivalling, its vast and precious productions. Its white inhabitants were numerous, wealthy, and polished, and its negroes, though bowed beneath the yoke of slavery, received all the mitiga tion of their hardships which a humane and liberal policy could devise. Under the republic and empire of France, a total change has been effected, in all these things; the white population is almost wholly extinct, the victims of sanguinary warfare and savage massacre; the negroes, having cast away their fouers, have established their power and independence in spite of all the resistance which has been hitherto opposed to them, and now present to the world a new spectacle of successful revoit, and of a negro government having some pretensions to a degree of civilization. ther we consider this revolution as an opportunity afforded to demonstrate the equality or inferiority of the negroes with regard to the whites, or as the focus of a rebellion which threatens our neighbouring colonies with endless danger of tremendous destruction, the subject is in every point of view of the highest interest and importance.

Whe

In the ponderous work now before us, the history of St. Domingo is pursued from the æra of its discovery, and ninety-four pages are allotted to an investigation of its early history, without much regard to considerations of propriery. This part of the volume we may justly style a copied compila tion, of which the disjected fragments are connected by counCRIT. REV. Vol. 9. September, 1800.

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