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wi not learned; I am ignorant; but my father, who is now
bla* showed me the road of virtue and honor, and I am very
pmg in my contcience in that matter; and if I had not been
aoted to the Government, I should not have been here, that
a truth! 1 am wretched, miserable. a victim of all my servi-
s All my lile I have been in active service, and since the
solution of the 10th of August, 1790, I have constantly been
the service of my country. Now I am a prisoner with no
Iwer to do anything; sunk in grief, my health is impaired.
SJ have asked ) ou for my freedom that I may labor, that I may
iL my subsistence and support my unhappy family. I call
yourr greatness, on your genius, to pronounce a judgment on
destiny. Let your heart be softened and touched by my po-
orn and my misfortunes.
 I salute you, with pro(undl respect,
 (Signed) -"ToUi.'AINT L'OuviiKroRE."
?"
Alas the First Consul h/as pronoun.:ed judgment, and the con-
Iaentsenten e the prisoner i evenu no" undergoing. That sen-
ee is slow death I" And th.in a- you, Tou.aint, shake with
*cold of the northern blast, or sinik overcome with sorrow on
Smoist., foul dotor of )our cell, or refuse with loathing the un-
rjy food; and as your limbs part with their strength, and
lr heart lutteri in debility, and your blood becomes thin and
 ,and as you look to the winter's frost, snow, hail, and
 ,with a vague distress and dismal forebodings,-in each
 of the process of blow death the C'onsul's verdict goes into
 ution, and another day, or another week, is taken from the
 Number that remain to you.
 t ell and noble is it, that under the depression of your
 ppy condition, while your heart sinks with the sinking of
 ill-supported frame,- it is well and noble that you descend
 mean flatteries, that you descend to no unworthy supplica-

 u-GulDOu, Tous-nintm' father, died in 180, having completely lost
 t. Hie is said to hat let the world uttering cur cs against white

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