TOussAINT L'OLTTEIITURE. 105

 Ssoon rise from the town. Christophe, threat-
 'iad by land by two bodies of foes, determined to
 Cape. After dlstrihuting torches to his soldiers,
 o were devoted to so sacred a tause, he called the
 tetorof liberty to witness that he was driven to
 ind commenced the ronflagration with his own resi-
 ted in a costly manner by the arts of luxury.
 of flames rose in the air; roots fell in all on fire; and
 es the blark man saw the prr-servation of his lib-
 appearance of the fleet, the blond of blacks and
 ng on two parts of the coast. trror, confusion, the
 imtich wealth, awonke in all lharts the Iormer furies of
 Idan slavery. At the right of the flames, which
 I:lght into day, thnse pa.-sions painted themselves on
 Well as black countenani-r*. But no crii-s, no om-
 ere heard. Only fin_ rs were poinlct to the high
 e the Cape- where freedom might find an asylum.
 took place in sil uce, as i' vengeance was deferred in
 be more terrible. An explo4on ',of a powder maga-
 ed that work of rnurage anld despair. The flames of
 agration were seen nearly at the same time by the
I'leet and by Tousinaint L'Ourerture, who arrived in
tihrborhood tim Santo Domin:o, and who then regretted
flid not loil his life in the plains of the Artibonite when
it for France and lor his country y ; so great was his grif.
Ibwed compar-ion it a niiltudnd of old men, women, and
ll who were ia:ttiredI on all the roads, and who were
'through the mountain. How embarras-ing his posi-
tJe Cape and Fort Dauphiu had lbeen treated as hostile

Nhtophe, who hrai -ret on fire his own lholue and the city,
uted a pgen,.m.ity too rare in war; Iearing lest, in the
ilon and trht tumult of thl- rnfti'iratiin, some two thou-
jiites with their wivi-. an]d children might become victims
h'4men, he conidiuted them into a place of safety. After
Iuling the Cape, Clhriitop'ie joined Toussaint, and con-