100 nELI up oF

 Toussaint returned to the Cape. The guilty thought the
 of their doom wa come. The high-minded victor invited
 inhabitants to meet him at the hur .h, and there, besides a
 course of people, all the vI'%il and military authorities
 bled. The garrison, which consisted olf la,.k troops,
 rounded the place; and under the guard of a pit ket of sold
 in the church were the mnil or color, alinost naked, arnJ] in
 trerm dejei.ion. Tousaint L'Ouverture ailveinled an r-levai
 pronounced a culogium ou the Ibrgivenes fI't iniuri,.s asa
 duty of every Christian, andk then, prcxlainirig thIV pardon
 the freelolum of all the mulatloes, he distribut-rd l lothns a
 money to them severally, and gave strict injunction, that,
 their way to join their families, they should bh prote.rted a
 treated as brothers. This unexpe.lted genCro-ity produced t
 most lively enthusiasm. As he Irlt the -:hun l, benedict.
 were showered on his head.
 While at the Cape, admiration at To1i-s.init'' .l.mency f
 universal; the mulatto insurgents in the S uth only tbugnt
 more strenuously, in order to make up by milit..ry a'dvant,
 that which L'Ouverture had gained by wise mlr.,ratinn.
 wars are so bitter or so bloody as those o1f las, cat..a, and rol
 The fact was illustrated in this terrible *:onllict. With st
 bitternevi and I'Vro.iry did it rage, that T.,u-u.aint wa- Lompell
 to employ all his influence to rer~nuit Ih; ranks. T' the black
 he might look with confiJdntne, as th- war "as pt i.i aly f tbr thA
 benefit ; but the blacks began to grow alarmr.- as the sang-
 nary struggle proa..eded. The whites in the Nurth and the W~
 who had hitherto been exempt from the ser ice, were m4
 shalled at the Cape, and sent into the South, to take part
 contest in which they had only a remote interest. A mute c
 sternation prevailed. Scarcely wss the cr.ntlirt -poLken ofA
 the intercourse of private lifr, and the p, rilli, l a prrss tri
S scribed the reported of the se-vral chiC-I'- without permittl
 themselves to add alny comments or retle' tion, Every one
 actually engaged in the warfare learel to i ompronise himld
 lest he should bring on his head the vengeance of the co