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ened, was very far rom restoring onfdenco in the
the people of Saint Domingo. The discontent of the la
had increased by the compulsion of an engagement for.
years. That seemed to them a step back to slavery. They
to mind the means proposed by Vaublane to establish his
tem in this colony, and they were surprised that when the
rectory had punished that conspirator. its Agent should pro
the same measures, should press ribe them, should exact
prompt and full execution. This dii.atisflaation, whikh was
tered, was soc n shared by the soldiers. By the dischai
more than three thousand mnn, effected after the evacuatri
the West by the English, I had proved how nere6rean I tho
it to cut down the armaments of the military. I was blag
in that operation, and I received the order not oi *.ut down
troop. Nevertheless, on the departure of the English, itL
declared that all the black orce-s ought to b.- dil.'anded ia
der to be sent back to agriculture, and that European sol|
only should be employed in the detlen.e of the coasts.
distrust entered the soldiers' hearts, and while. preriousl
part of them had taken the hoe without a murmur, they sho
aversion toward a measure which they regarded as an attack
liberty. .
 Whatever were the grounds of di.tru.t with which I
surrounded, however faithful th- ,oujn.tsela I received on
parts from the most sincere i'ritnid uA' the prosperity of
Domingo, whatever I lars were infuted into my mind by,
crimes contemplated against my person, I did not heita
set out for the Cape, and even endeavored to give a p
my confidence in the highest authorities, by going unatt
except by an aide-de-camp and a cavalry officer; but, ha
arrived on the HEricourt plantation, I was mt by alarmin
morse. I learned that at Fort-Dauphin, the Iifth colonial
ment which contributed so much to the rt-toration of
to the p'uritli -aiun of La Grand, Rivibre (the Vend&e of
Doming".), ti, the expulsion of thi. English had become'
Vitim of the Eurupean troops, who lbrmerly had deliver