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236 THE L1TE OF

 I beg you, Citizen-Minister, to employ your interest
the First Consul, on behalf of my family and myself.
 Salutation and respect,
 (Signed) Touss.aNT L'OuvERTTURB.

 This simple and dignified letter is reported to have dra4
tears from the eyes of the minister. That minister felt the
trast between the dark deiuns of Governmn.nr and the unstusj
cious tone of the conumntniation. Justi.'v !" As well a
mercy from tiPers; as tell srrLk grapes on a brambl-bush. i
 As boon as the vcil arr;med at Breit, the First Consul, gt
to have so tlrmidable an enemy in his hand, gpaie free coUta*
to his resentment. Without paying any respect to Toussaiat
character, fame, ser ices, or lbrmer position, he. consulting oae
his fears and selfish interests, tore him Irom his family, mIa
began the persecution which was to end in a most painful deai
Toussaint was immediately hurried on shore. On the 13th 4
August, the maritime provotL of Brest. at five ;n the mornisj
sent an officer of police and four men to transfer the negj
chief from the vessel. On the dei k only wad he permitted:
have an interview with his wil;' and rlhiljdrn, whom he wamt
meet no more. in this life. Only his servant was he allowed
take with him. When in the hIat, he bade a last adieu.-
Madame Tou.-aint, ,to Isaae, to Saint-Jean, who then remain
on board the Hero, and extended his Itand to Plar.ide, wbomi
cruel policy at the same moment was tearing Irom the arms;
his mother, and was conveying on board the c:orvette La Naia
to Belle Isle en Mer. In the evening. Plaiddi learnt of
removal of his father from the Hero. Previously, he had
the following letter to him, which was found unl'r Tou
pillow:-
 Brur.T ROA, l 'Ihermidoa
 "MY DEAR FATHER AND MOTHER,-
 I am on board the brig La Naiade. As yet, I am ign
 of my lot. Perhaps I .ball never see you again. In that I
 not accuse my destiny. No matter where I am, I eatref