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 ers the points of the colony which had been
 ir defence.
 ,then, of the bad intentions of the Govern-
 names all those horrors were committed; no
a any security for any one who had aquircd well-
thms to the national gratitude; fearing, with good
FIny own life,- I turned back and prepared to go and
fves official news ,of n event, the consequences of
OItded. I received a letter from the General Agent,
iSmed my I'far, and in wlidih he ordered me to re-
t-Dauphin to ail th,' 6tizen Manigat, whom he had
i(t all iivil and military power, in the reetlablish-
Ser and public tranquillity. I then pres,-d on to
:* order to take the et:rort, of which I had need.
Srommitted by Fremnhmen against my brethren
f't this prudential mcasinr. I left Gonalv,~i with the
Went; but what wafl my grir.f when, on arri;ng at
irt plantation, I learned, that the riiin- f' the labor-
Siome general, that nl the plain wa; in arms, and
C'the Cape with an immedliatl irruption. Those
V'at design had a.-rtmblkd on the II.'ricourt estate
dme as soon as I arrived, reproaching me with hav-
t them in answering I;.r the good intentions of Gen-
IiIlle, and attributed to me the slaughter of their
Ft Port-Dauphin, the arrest of some of them, and the
WlGeneral Mov.e; and then it was that I received
W!o all the details of that unfortunate event. Soon
 tthe evil war intruding into all the parishes, and
_ple required that General Hedourille should he
Ithe restoration of General Mo.yse to his rights, and
 Sof the officers of th, fithb regiment, made prison-
 air at Fort-Dadphin, &.'.
M pain I elt at the iexs.ees e.:cmmitted against a
 ble for it -rvl..:, and against otlicers whom I
Attached to their duties, against a chief who nev-
h. attachment to France and to the principles of