UAuTf L'OUVERT URE. 95

 Stroke, he might have set up a throne, and
 ed a dynasty, he asked for his dismissal. The
 a universal remonstrance. The civil and the
 'ties, the white, black, and brown inhabitants,
 and the laborers, all combined in laying before
"addreeoses, in which they entreated him to remain,
 terms, their father and their benefactor."
 Swags a court of appeal. Before that tribunal
would appear with singular advantage. Toussaint
 ty of his means for obtaining a fair hearing;
 to employ suLh as were at his command. Ac-
se ent Colonel Vincent. one of his secretaries, to
justify his condu t biefre the rrench Government,
hands lo the Direc.tory. Colonel Vincent was the
letter, of whiAh the allowingg contains the principal

 L'Ouverture., Gcnral-in-Chief of the army of
 to the Dire tory aro the Republic:-
 DraBCTORa : When, in my last dispatches, I de-
 Mequest my dismi-al, I did oi because, after having
 the instances of opposition to the principles which
 n has established, wbi. h your wisdom has main-
 your energy has defended,-all the instances of
| say, manit-rted in conduct held by the agent,
during the hort spa:-e of time which he governed
I.-I foresaw ti:h unhappy event which for an instant
 public tranquillity I had had so much trouble to
 did so after having calculated the consequences
 at which he held himself from me, and of which
 Sproofs on several oi.asions, faring that my
 ich he meditated, would be the reward of my long
 Fidelity. and of m drvotednas,.
 et at For-IDaiiphin realized my apprehensions as
 for w-hi. h preparati.-.ns were made; and the
 which the Agent put forth at the moment of his
 justified my fears regarding the fate he intended