814 MEMOIR O 1F

dered the commander of that place to restore the artiJdf
and ammunition to the commander of Plaisance, in conformti
to the desire of GeCn. Ledtlhre. I also ordered the commandea-
at Ennery to return the only pine of artillery there, and alro
the ammunition, to the commander of Gonaive s.
 I then emnployed myself in rebuilding my houses which had
been burned. In a house in the mountains, which had escaped
the flameF. I had to prepare a comlurtable Inlging for my wife
who was still in the woods where she had been obliged to take
refuge.
 While engagr-d in these occnp'tiionl, I Iharued that 5'i0 troops
had arri -d, to be etationed at Eurn-ri. a little town, which, until
then, reull uot hnhae had more thin ,51 arm.l men as a police
force; an.l that a very largIe detabniment hit'] alJo bh,-n sent to
St. Michel. I hastened to the town. I saw that all my houses
had been pillaged and even the cotrer of my labor.rrr carried
off. At.the very moment when I was entering my complaint
to the commander, I pomiteJ ou:t to him the suhliers loaded with
fruit of all kinds, evcru unr;pe fruit ; I al-. owed him the Ia.
borers who, se-ing these rubberies, were fl-eing to other houses
in the monIitinu. I gaL- an ac.:.-unt to Gen. L-clere of what
was going on, antd '.L-eriel t.o him that the measures which
were being taken, Ihr from ionp;ritg i:onfidence. only increased
distrust; that the number (of trioips which he had sent was 
very considerable, aud ioutdi only be an injury to agriculture
and the inhabitant&. I then returned to my house: in the moun-
taianr
 The next day I received, in this house, a visit from the com-.
 mander at Enner.y and I saw very clearly that this soldier,
 instead of making me a visit of politentes, had come to my
 house merely to reconnoitre my dwelling and the avenues about
 it, that he might seize me the more easily when he rei- :ived the
 ornlr to o o While talking with him. I was intbrmed that
 several soldieri had g...ne with horses and other beasts of bui'
 den to one of my re-idenees near the town, where a god-daugh.,
 ter of mine was residing, and had taken away the coffee and