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To George Washington from Mirbeck, 6 March 1792

From Mirbeck

Cap français [Saint Domingue]
le 6 mars 1792.

Monsieur Le Président

J’ai l’honneur d’envoyer, à Votre Excellence, quelques imprimés, qui vous instruiront de l’etat actuel de la partie française dela Colonie de st Domingue.1

Je la prie d’en agréer l’hommage; c’est un tribut que Je Suis enchanté de Rendre aux talents et aux Vertus d’un grand homme qui fait, depuis longtems, mon admiration et celle du Monde. Je suis avec les Sentimens que Votre Excellence a inspirés à l’univers entier Monsieur le Président Votre très humble et très obeissant Serviteur.

de Mirbeck
Commissaire national-civil, délégué
par le Roi aux Iles françaises
de l’Amérique Sous le Vent.

LS, DNA: RG 59, Miscellaneous Letters.

Frédéric-Ignace de Mirbeck (1732–1818) was an attorney in Lorraine before moving in 1774 to Paris, where he became a consulting barrister to Louis XVI. In 1791 the National Assembly appointed him to head a civil commission to investigate the recent slave insurrection in Saint Domingue and to restore political order there. After clashing with the colonial assembly, Mirbeck and the other commissioners returned to France in April 1792 (see Nathaniel Cutting to Thomas Jefferson, 13 April, in Jefferson Papers, description begins Julian P. Boyd et al., eds. The Papers of Thomas Jefferson. 41 vols. to date. Princeton, N.J., 1950–. description ends 23:413–17).

1. The enclosed pamphlets have not been identified but may have included Mirbeck’s published letter of February to Saint Domingue’s colonial assembly, a copy of which Nathaniel Cutting sent to Jefferson on 1 Mar. (see ibid., 177–79).

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    “To George Washington from Mirbeck, 6 March 1792,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/05-10-02-0021. [Original source: The Papers of George Washington, Presidential Series, vol. 10, 1 March 1792 – 15 August 1792, ed. Robert F. Haggard and Mark A. Mastromarino. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2002, pp. 33–34.]