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liberty, my own nephew, I regarded in so aar
event only the imminent danger- to which the public int
were exposed. I sent on all .itlei faitht'ul emissaries to ai
the agitated minds of mr-n; to announce to them my arri
and to require of them tn do nothing without my orders.
hastened to set myi.lf in opp,.,.ition to the enterprises of i
more sen-ele.s, who had already taken pos'el-ion of the heii
of the Cape and or" Fort HJlir whkih c.ommanils the d
With difficulty could I oriLk. my way through the i:njwds;.
immense indu.x rof people, whom the blindly d.siren for revel
had armed, .cov.r,.,d all the roads whi.i led to the Cape, a
threatened that ciry with the greatest calamities. Frightel
at the abyss, on the brink of which the city str.od, I ran todr
it back. In my course, I learnUtd that the CGencral Agent I
gone on board the fleet. Surprised at the news, I hatened
the Cape, which I reached with ditic.ulry, after h.aing, so
times by prayers, sometimes by menace, stopped the tort
with which it was threatened to be inundatedr. The astona
ment caused by the departure of General Htdouiille i
changed into grief when I leirne d that that Ag.'rnt alarm
doubtless, at the dangers to whitb hi had e-xpo-ed the pul
weal, and dir4pairing of any lonlrr bhini able to onsfrve
had reshol'cd to go away, andl that, to color his putillaniai
flight, he had prnolaimed that I was aimini? at indr-pendence
 "The terror having augmnirtd, niore than eighteen hund
 persons tolluwed the Agent in his flight. He ordered the a
 nons to be spiked. The command d was b,:in? -xe(uted, wl
 there arose a i.ry To arms !' The troops drawn out in bal
 array were moved by the crv; they were pacified by tli
 leaders; had a single musket been fired, the city would hi
 perished.
 Strong in my conscience, I hall not remind you, Citii
 Directors, of all I have done l'ir the triumph o'f liberty, I
 prosperity of *t. li,-Doin.go, thl g-lory ofl tlh Frr.nchh Republ
 nor will I prot-st to yo.u my attachment to our mo(-ier count
 to my duties; my repeclt to the constitution, to the laws of q