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that they might not throw their bayonets across
to the imperial throne, whither he was urged by hiimi
-oe desires.
 Soon his mind arose from that dejection, and in the i
 sity of the future which his gemusw embraced, be regarde'i
 calamities of Saint Domingo only as an unlucky but useN
 cident. Had he not thrown into prison Toussaint, the 4
 and the soul of the revolt ? The f-ver had nearly conetW
 fuel; Rochambeau, whose character he knew, would torri
 island into obedience. Those wandering bands of insUm
 without a head, without union, divided among themselves,.
 desert the mountains to enjoy the pleasures of the cities.
 sides, did he not possess'the two heads o'f Saint Dinogo,-
 South and the Spanish territoryI? Iad he no more soldier
 more ships ? Let twenty thousand mtun fly over the oe
 Thus Bonaparte prepared for the loss of a s:-eond army. B
 ambition, reckless of its means, reckless of the misery it
 casions I Meanwhile, the Firt Consul deposited Led
 corpse, amid much pomp, in the Panthdon, and erected sta
 to his memory. The greater the calamities of [layti, the a
 he endeavored to efface the recolUtrtion of them by show
 pomp, and by the aid of those arts 'which ought to transmi
 posterity the memory only of truly great men.