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 psibSly be imagined. It may be strictly said that be
 and especially at the spot where sound judg-
i danger would say that his presence is most essential;
A moderation, his power, peculiar to himself, of never
rest; the advantage he has of being able to resume
uft of the cabinet after laborious journeys, of replying
ldred letters every day, and of habitually fatiguing five
lit; more still, the skill of amusing and deceiving every-
O'ed even to deceit,- make him a man so superior to all
'him that respect and submission go to the extent of
imn in a very great number of persons; it may be af-
tibat no man of the pre-int day has acquired over an
t mass the boundless power obtained by General Tous-
wae his brethren in Saint Domingo; he is the absolute
*t the island; and nothing can counterart his wishes,
itr they are, although some distinguished men, of whom,
,, the number among the blacks is very small. know and
l extent to which his views pro-eed." Bonaparte was
ted at the frankness of these r-presentations, and ban-
fincent, their author, to the island of Elba, whither, at a
briod, he was himself to 1,- banished.
bied to ditmbarra-s himiplf of the veterans in union
%tm he hail gained his renown, but who now from their
republican sympathies blocked up his way to the impe-
tune, he called a coun.-il to deliberate on the most effec-
Imas to be taken in order to bring Tru.saint under his
The members of the council were, of course, Bonaparte's
.a Their desire to please the real sovereign of the
ra stronger than their prof.ssed attachment to liberty.
neillors recommended the employment of forne in order
tablish slavery; a large number proposed that, for the
f terror, those whom they charact rized as "the guilty"
-he decimated. The Rih-lp .'of lows. Gregory, that im-
t*fiiend of the caure of the blacks, had not given his
; What do you think on the matter ?" asked the
i "I think," he replied, "that the hearing of such