TOUSSATNT L'OUVETUTRE.


 Spisoners. On the place of execution, and under the
 of the victims, they dug a large hole for their grave, so
 the poor wretches may be said to have been present at
 own funeral.
 tesalines, burning to avenge Maurepas and his fellow-sol-
 rushed like a lion on the Cape, and, in his impetuous and
 le march, he surrounded and made prisoners a body of
zchmen, who, at the post called Belair, defended the ap-
bneh to the city. Then, with branches of trees, that ferocious
iean raised, under the eyes of Rochambeau, five hundred
bbets, on which he hanged the same number of prisoners. Of
Iese victims of vengeance, the greater number had been the
tonsiul's companions in arms; they had assisted that bad great
itt to acquire his pretensions to a throne, and for their reward
bey had been ;ent out of I i way to sufl:r an ignominious and
Ia1ful death at the hands of a savage.
B Rochambeau, who orcupied himself less and les with war,
mtinued to plunge into the delights of the table, and ofrlolp-
itouness with courtesan. and wives of coloniuts, who never
iebased to stimulate hii tyranny, and exact from him the restora-
t#A of their slaves. Then. while the insurrection, in the name
It liberty, made head in the mountains, on the plains suspicion
averted d everything into crime. If you went abroad, yon
 fdIed the revolters; if you stayed at home, you were wait.
 for them; if you manie-sted joy, you took pleasure in the
 blie calamities; if you appeared sad, you grieved over the
 wrse of the revolt; if you wrote letters, you corresponded
|ith the enemy; if you talked, you spread sedition; if you were
served to listen, you were a spy; if you failed to salute a
likte, you insulted a master; bravery was dangerous, weakness
cas complicity, innocence was stratagem. Interpretations were
tt on a gesture, a smile, a sigh ; silence was accused of sedi-
Ion, and even thoughts had no asylum in their last refuge,-
 e human heart.
~ Such is the character of the tyranny which under the slightest
 etext and often by mere hazard, threw its toils round a multi-