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 deitaken, he employed all his ability in the de-
 in enemy was at work over whom he had no
 fine reached su. h a height, that the inhabitants
 i!ed to eat the horses belongijg to the ravalry.
thing was torn tip and devoured. Throe thought
hapy who, in their search for iood, met with a rat
it~; In the public highways, famished men scarcely
I Lach other. Frenzy and wailing fiLled every place.
'arn down by want, fatigue, and woe, lay in the
ht their dead infants on their exhausted breasts. At
.ion, seeing that further resistance was impossible,
6 eat his way through th.. hsi-,..r-s. In order to in-
ldiers with lhi own couraniet, he tore the tla.s from
and commanledl his min to biinu strips of then round
es, so that if they prri-lied thl.y might still he faith-
er colors. Ja.nmel 1;.ll, and its Cill wvas a heavy blow
a. Having t.ik.-n Ipo.-e-ion of Ja. mel, Tousaint
are addre-sled to the inhabitants of the Southern
int the following proclamation. -

I~e : By what fatality i. it, that, hitherto deaf to my
Kh invites von to order, you have listened only to the
if Rigaud How i- it rosnible that the pride of a sin-
i should be the source of your evils, and that to flatter
ion, you are willing tn d]e-rroy your families, ruin your
and bring ourselvess into disgrace in the eyes of the
lid?
Wat to you Ior the third and la.t time, that my quarrel
f the citizens of the South, but solely with Rigaud,
as he is disobedient and insubordinate; whom I wish
ack to his duti:', that he may -.ubmit to the authority
Whom he can no lungor da ,-rn. Yiou oluht not to
ported in his nai-ldree- a pr.Ailu s*oldir wlho evifidetly
5 standard of result. You ought to have left me Freu
tee I had a right to reprimand and even to punish
Oii iigaud knew well; but, too haughty to bow before
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