r TOUSSu NT L'OUVERTU IE. 151

 If of the peace, (of which he has not deigned to in-
 i.and which I learn only through the English,) in order
 against me a tbrmidable expedition, in the ranks of
 see my personal enemies, and people injurious to the'
 :,whom I sent away. Come to me within" four-and-
 Ihours. Very ardently do I wish that you and my
 .nay arrive in time to make the First Consul change: his
 Vpation, and to make him sensible that in ruining me he
 Sblacks,- he ruins not only Saint Domingo, but also
 SWestern coloni:-s. II' Bonaparte is the frst man in
B Toussaint is the first man in the Archipelago of the
," After a moment of retlection, he added, in a firm
I was going to treat with the Americans and the En-
propure me twenty thlou.and Ila'-k from the roast, but I
p other olije..t ihan to make nHild'r '4 n them for France.
wr.the perlidy of the Englih. I am under no obligation
am for the inl'rmation thry given m' as to the expedition
g to Saint Dominglo. No! no- er will I arm 'or them I
ap arms for th, freedom of my color, which Fiam.e alone
aimed, but whi,.h she has no right to nullify. Our liberty is
gner in her hands; it is our own! We will defend it or