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 lad resolved to effect his destruction. His arrest was the
 t to be gained. With Tou.-aint in his hands, every-
 ielse he judged would be easy.
 e First Consul was not to be deterred by the consideration
 much a step could not be taken without diisimulation and
 Sr. The end covered, it it did not justify, the means, in
 aeee. In Leclere he had a ready and passive instrument.
 was the Captain-General without his own reasons for the
 plated apprehension. The hatred borne by the master
 taken possession of the servant's soul. Little satisfaction
 *he feel in a peace which a hard fate had induced him
 :seek and conclude. The popularity of the negro chief
 d him to be an object of fear with Lerlerc. In the war,
 chief glory had been gained by his foe, and now that foe,
 ing become, hi rival, eilip'ed Le..lerc in the c-stimation of
 natives of nearly all classes and all opinions. He had,
 i .reover,--and he knew lie had,-injured, deeply injured,
bussaint L'Ouvurture, and injury inrvriably Ibeg-ts a hatred
proportion to its own iintenity. B.-side-, the original plan,
which so far had been suCce~4sul, remained to be completed.
F~Terc, in cOnslqu,-nee, was well disposed to execute the
oasul's will.
"'Without waiting for expreCs directions in a matter on which
6 well knew thl mind of Bonaparte, the Captain-General be.
0a to prepare the way Ibr the final act. For this purpose
Hi spoke o' Toussaint, not as an independent power who had
Shis own accord laid down arms and declined the highest
h.st in the colony, but as a revolter who had been outlawed
ad condemned to death, but pardoned as an act of grace on his
ain prt. Consulting him as to the disposition of the troop
I aseto prevent isuLpiion, he sought occasions which, in extort-
Iag complaints from him, might borm the grounds of a disagree- ",-
ient, and so afford pretexts for his seizure. Two frigate
6chored off Gonaives. The soldiers no longer paid Toussaint
military honors. The plot was dimly seen by friends, who ad-
ided the black hero to be on his guard. Some went so f.r a