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they, and they not more than he, are robbers and plunderers.
What, then, are those who purchase the stolen good.'? And
what they who grow rih. and bitten on the syste- t Let men,
then, renounce the Christian name, or change from the top to
the bottom a donmestic insritutiun," which, having p;racy and
theft Ior itl ba.si, anid \ie.lence Ior its support, stands in Il:;rant
contradiction to the ':leiaret precr-pt_, the simplest duLtrinies,
and the fundamental p-inciplrs, of the fo4p.:l.
 As soon as the carriymir off of L'Ouverture waI knr.un in
St. Domi;n;o, General Belair, in the niountain, of Saint Marc;
Colonel Sanri-Souei, at Valiibre; the clhiefi.o the I-l.talion of
Noel, at Dondon, took up arms as Nb one aveord, and wrt in
movement the |population of those ditLri. t The latter made
his way as far as Ennery, orvcrloming all oppor-tiin in lii route,
and augmenting his troops at eery strp. A multhi;l. -,if men
and women who followed him, at ti-. si4_iht rlo th.c Fr.-ii:h gar-
rison, made the hills of Enn.ry rr-r.uI.l with tlh.ir i ri-~ of woe,
indignation, and vengeanre. S.an-.'..i I.; id no soonrr drawn
his sword than he was a'er, -ted, rai wll a: General Baradat, by
Christophe. sent to the Capr-, andl ,ni.l-:rkedl Ibr Fran. -. Bulair
was at the he-a.l of con-kivlrabl. I:erie, l.hei D.-sialin_-. who
was despat he.-d frlun the Cape agait hLiui, ranin. it.o theli moun-
tains of Saint Mare, aire ri queste.d a I olluoqk Belair, hoping
that the inte.rvitiw niiglt bring a .imilatity L if ecentinments to
light, ac:(.tll d t lo rl.-qurl .t. II- i .th 11ll into the: 'nare laid
against him 1. LD)':aline-.I Het wa.r rr'.sted, and, with lis wife,
convey\ ed t t th (.'apl. vh ere they were both -ht. Thus per-
ished General Charl-s Bi-lair, the vi.-tiea of hii ,.Jeotiou to
Toussaint, and of h~s confiden,.e in De~ c-line..-. A mnuil'l of'
friendship, with bravery and military tialknts he uirm-d the
qualitie;l whie.h make a good and amiabli nrii. Towu~ ant, wel
p.la d w;Ih ii, i ,i ndIuct AlnD hV- vi hi-, ;tii.--l.--'.a p. :once
. .l r.. lini, **Charl. %,.u ha,. a t, to-dl, y I ;k l.I,i.-nus."
. (ki.1.1,l," i, I [ 1.I: J, o I p lI l I,. tr.ire- Iii Ilul tu Vyoti
thia L.AL tli, L it tla-t prrted to Ca-'r." T'he :ip.' I..,eame
a rtalir,.. Othe-r lt,s di-tinguilhed, but tinrthl and fiithfuL