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to recommend him to take measures for his personal
He replied, For one to expose one's life for one's
when in peril is a sacred duty; but to arouse one's c
order to save one's lie, i3 inplorious."
 In order to gi'e somei color to the contemplated
clere coniplaind that Tousis3int's hody-guard had t
wholly di.armvd. Toui-aint replied that he had given
for its disbanldmnt, and advised the Captain-General to
mildly in bringing that result about. Impatient of
tion, Leclkre employed fore,', and with difficult su
In this opposition an ex:use was Ibund for filling the distrdl
Ennery with Europe-an troop- The inhabitants comply
Toussaint L'Ouvcrture became the medium for making A
complaints known. Thib was exactly what was wanted,"i
one who knew Leclere's designs. 'A
 On the 7th of June. General Brunet wrote to Toau
L'Ourerture the following letter: -

BRUNET, GENERAL OF DlIVISION,O O THE OFGNERAL 0*.
 VISION, TOUSSA.LNT L'OUVERTURE.
 "HEA.,y.iQARTEr.s3 T THF PLANTATION OP GEOBI
 l, Pr.~rital, An. X.
 "The moment, Citizen-GCneral, has cromr to make know
General Lrelere, in an incr',nttrtabl.l manner, those who i
de-eive him in refar'd to nurielf'; th.y are calumniators, l
your srntimenti ten. only to bring back order in the disi
which you inhabit. It is necessary to render me aid in oa
to restore the communication with the Cape, which was yed
day interrupted, since three persons have been murdered b 
band of fifty brigands, between Ennery and Coupe-k-Pintd
Send toward those places faithful men, whom you wit i
well; I will be accountable for the outlay. There are, my&
General, arrangements which we ought to make in coned
which it is impossible to treat of by letter, but which an ol
conference would terminate. Had I not to-day been oW
whelmed with business, I would myself have brought the 1