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 ; y wile and my children were arrested; they had noth-
 t even the means to cover themselves .
 zen First Consul: A mother fill) }ears of age may de-
 the indulgentre and the kindness of a generous and lib-
 pation. She has no account to render. I alone ought to
 espunibhl Ibr my condut to the Government I have
 d. I have too high an idea of the greatness and the jus-
 tf the First Migitrate of the French people, to doubt a
 nt of its impartiality. I indulge the feeling that the bal-
 in its hands will not inline to one side more than to
 ter.1 .laim its generoity.
 .S .alutati.tes' andi respect,
 I --Tuc'.s. Anr L'OTVERTURE."
I.Wben he wrote thi" bigh-'pirited letter, in which the writer
rncteris-tirally 6howi his t(.on trn for others more than for
melf,-aiad the ton,- of which contrasts favorably with that
bkh his oppre''or, when fallen, ard on the point of quitting
IBope for Saint IIlh.na, ad.lreri.d in true Freuth melodra-
tic stylk- to the CuEnglih peol).., Toussaint obviously had no
ea of the vtrent of th,., perlidy to whi.-h he was about to
Sa victim. Il: hald tbeen seized and carried off, but only, as
Thought, that I.- night be confronted with his maligners, and
bre a fair trial in Fran'e. All be requested, therefore, was
if impartial hearing. attured that the even hand of Justice
bald repair the. ij urie- he had suffered. Little did he then
ftee the dreadful en.l t- which he had been destined by the
%bbsul's blind ambition.
.Wbhile on bo.ar.l the Hero. Toussaint wrote also to Admiral
ierbs, Minisitr of Marine and of the Colonies: -

"CITIZEN-MIU. -TER: I was, with all my family, arrested
y the order Iof the Capta;n-General, who, nevrrtheless, had
Given me hi'i wonrl of ho.lnr, and who had promised me the pro-
otion of the Fr nr I (.;h Gnrnment. I venture to claim both
K justice anl it-i 1..l-tll. I' I have committed faults, I only
igbtlto sulitr tlhe puni;hmenlt of them.