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 "The most outrageous injury which can be done toa
honor crowns the vexations with he has made me
By this perfidious act, he eau;es a vast numb-r of Frenc
to quit these lands, who had congratulated themselves on 1
happiness here, and who, faithful to their country, were I
pulled tosacrifice their interests, rat her than become accompl
in the crime ol indpndenec of' whit c I wa. re-garded as gj
he carries with him, especially, the principal authorities
(as he said on leaving) they may be the irrefragable proa
my duplicity, of my p'rfi'dy.
 Doubtless, the tirst feIeing (of the Dirert ory, whom I res 
on seeing them unanimously bear witness aeain-t ie, will b
invoke vengeance on my head; that of the French pe(
whom I love, to devote me to execration ; and that of the
mies of the blacks, whom I despise, to enr out for slavery i
when it shall be known that at the time whiih I was at cuse
wishing to sunder this island from France, my benelctrel
repeated the oath of fidelity to her, I ltak pleasure in belihe
that the government I own, and my fllUow-citizens, will Yj
me the justice I merit, and that the enemieri of my bred
will be reduced to silence.
 "The Agent, in reality, surrounded him r-lf nnly with i
sons in th..* colony sunk in public opinion, ambitious and
triguing, who cares all the Ihctionz whL. h have torn this ut
tunate country. A hand ,f' yi~.jin. nn. -u, o'n un character.
no principles, who came W"ih him, then threw away the m
and manifested a spirit both anti-national ani in-ulLing to I
 The laborers, who began to taste the swerts of repo$
 the midst lo security, were surprised at the impure poundss w]
 struck their ear and wounded their heart. I became the,
 positary of their griefs, and I composed their minds by
 during them of the good intentions of the Agent of a be
 olent government; but they soon atrused me myself' oh "
 tiality, having I-ecome certain that even at the t.Able o
 General Agent they were denounced as unworthy the lii
 they enjoy, and which they have derived from the equity
 France.