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saint reeeiledu.,jiuiaim the conflict, but Brisbane
wounded. The victorious soldiers, having their muskets cr
ith laurels, were received in 4Gonanes in the midst of the
clamations of the people.
..' he influence of Toussaint L'Ouverture grew every
lmost at will, he drew the negroes round his banners,
reduced them into discipline.. He also detached from the E
lish colors bands which they had taken into their pay. Appi
ing himself to matters connected with the general admini
tion of he colony, he put on a firm Iboting the prosperity wh
bad begun to appear. He applied his power specially to
restoration of the culture of the so;I; wisely declaring, t
the liberty of the blacks could be con-olidated only by
prosperity of agriculture. This important averment, pread
among the black chiefs, awoke in them the desire to aqu
and to conserve property.
 While the Englh had great diffiulty to straggle against
French arms in the West, they were vigorou-ly pressed by
fourneaux in the North. Four columns surrounded the heig
of Vallibre, where the enemy, with the aid of some det
ments, kept up what they called ** La Vendde of Saint
mingo." Henry Christophe, afterwards King of Hayti, po
fully contributed to the succ.-s of this expedition. In
South, Rigaud asum:-d the offensive. Having -trongly orti
Les Caves. he marched to attai.k Port-au-Prince. He
with a resistance so vigorous, so brave, and so well condu
that any but a very superior man must hav,. perished.
sally made by Colonel Markham, at the hcad of a thou
men, his outposts were carried, and his headquarters p
dered. The rout was becoming general, when Rigaud, th
urged to save his life by flight, leaped on bis horse, and, rally
fifty men, threw himself on the English occupied in pillage,
put many.of them to the sword. The plunder was recover
and Markham, forced to beat a retreat, ti-il pier:ed with b
 L'Ouverture, not alow in sustaining the effbrts of Riga
down before Saint Marc with ten thousand men. Thrice: