202 THE LIVE 01

 ** The lofty position of Matheux presented to us the
of the champaign lands of Fran.e ; we there found its
phere; the lungs of our soldiers dilated; we were agile,
the contrary, the black, whom we had am auxiliaries. wofl
shrunk appearance. In the different gor'zs ot' thli mount
we delivered from fie' to -ix hundred p[r--r.n who had
thither fIrom Saint Mar, and the n-ighhoring land?. Ha
and Ro. hambeau had set at large a thousand fjgitives in M
Cahos.
 I collected on Matheus a large number of horses, m
and horncl rattl.-, which Btlair had got tii.. ,bler. Two d
after, I began to mar. h Ioward Port-au-Prin,:e. A letter W
brought me from General Boudet. who, dire'tiing mn- to cond
his dii iion to that c;ty, r-queit-t.d that I would mnak a proceT
sional entrance into it, and that in so hdin.i, I .hriull make t
troops appear as numerous as a pci;ble, in irnlh-r t1: iThe f
the minds of ibe me.n orl i iilr in the \V'est ti.e ;ilprer:Cions th
had received a t tto li extent of o.ur Io,;. I put the troops in
two ranks: our sections marched at gr .at di'tan,.e; all 'o
officers were on horseback: artillery ready tfr the feld w
sent to meet mu I distributed it in the column with t
gage; and our entran-fe prodlued the moral eff'et which w
expected." *
 Nothing can more clarly show the v:tlor:l rr-itance mad
by T,:.uAAaiut L'Ouvrture than the frank ronti.,ionr made by.i
this rerspve. table % writer lt' tli di,,ire..nized and w-iaklidonel co"
dirion ol'the Fr ni.h tr.n..ps atll-r the i.apture ,f Crt'.-iL -Pierrot.
Scarcely able to k., p the ti..11 or cIiT.t a rctrorzrade movement,
the decimated and shattered armies of Le..lere could not be'
allowed, except when tricked out in this Ithion, to return .
the capital of the i land. \\hut impunli nr-, thn. n. wa that
which de-asrihed th,- preat Afri'an le'ah.r a; a mrn, o.hief. of
banditti and what did that lhadcr want h'it the support
some European power, frie-nlly to human free':.nm, in order td
 Mimolres potr scrvir h I'his oire de In R.rolulion," &.:., Vol. U.
172, seq.