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 C CHAPTER IV.
 '.ambeanu ~numes the command -lls character--Voluptousness,
 m.ny, and cruelty Receives large reinforcements Instltutes a eyr-
 t1fb of terror-- The Inrurrection becomes general and Irresistible The
 cinoh re driven out of the Island.

 tTTER the death of Lecler, the command of Hayti passed
 T. into the hands of Ro'hambeau. That General was de-
 .bed in body, but of a robust constitution; his manner was
 f and severe, though he had a propensity to voluptuousness.
 utis youth he had, under the eyes of an illustrious father,
 ed the cause or independinre in North America. He
 t&ed neither ability nor exprriu.ne in war. Hie possessed
 Older, domcvtic, and friei'nlly ali lions. His goodl qualities
 Suld have aci.ompanied him to the tomb if he had not been
 Ilod to the government ofl Saint Domingo. Regarding vir-
 f as both lovely and requisite in private life, he judged it
 less and even dangerous in public affairs, as if the laws of
 i emal justice depended on position and circumstances. Miled
 This gross delusion, he feared not to give himself up to acts
 Violation, spoliation, and cruelty of all kinds. Blaming the
 irdy and heitating administration of his predecessor, he re-
 lved to employ all the resources of terror in order to establish
 I authority.
 Masters who had been impoverished by the freedom of the
 Ives saw with joy Rochambeau succeed a chief, who, according
 eircnmstances, espoused or betrayed their personal interests.
 iat the blacks were disquieted when they knew that he had
ten the helm. Independrently of the massacre he bad commit-
din the Bay of M1anceuille, they remembered that when merely *
general, he had not ,:rupled to degrade them with the punish-
i~tsofthe lash; but what caused them greater alarm were some
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