MEMOIR OF


S'" With confidence in the Captain-General, with friendship.
a for all who are under him, and hoping that you may enjoy.
 peace, I cordially salute you.
 (Signed) BRTNET.
 "P S. Your servant who has gone to Port-au-Prince passed
 here this morning; he left with his passport made out in due
 form."

 That very servant, instead of receiving his passport, was
 arrested, and is now in prison with me.
 After reading these two letters. although not very well, I
 yielded to the solicitation of my sons and others, and set out
 the same night to 'ee Gen. Brunet, accompanied by two officers
 only. At eight in the evening I arrived at the General's house.
 When he met me, I told him that I had received his letter, and
 also that of the General-in-chief, requesting me to aut with
 him, and that I had come for that purpose; that I had not
 brought my wife, as he requested, becausi- she never left home,
 being much occupied with dInmistic duties but it' sometime,
 when he was travellin he would do her the homor of visiting
 her, she would receive him with pleasure. I said to him that,
 being ill, my stay must be abort, asking him, therefore, to fin-
 ish our business as soon as possible, that I might return.
 I handed him the lett:.r of Gen. L.~ lI.rc. After reading it,
 he told me that he had not yt rtieiued any order to act in
 conc'-rt with me up,.,n the suibject of th.- h-tter; he then ex-.
 cusIed him.elh' I'1r a momiet, anl went out, aller ..alling an of-:
 fiver to keep me company. II.. had hardly :left the room when.
 an aide-de-camp of Gen. L.tlerc entered, accompanied by&
 large number of soldiers, a ho 'irrounded me, seized me, bound
 me as a criminal, and conlductd me on board the frigatte
 Crcole.
 I claimedd the protection wlii.h G.on. Brunet, on his word of
 honor, had promi-e-d me, but without avail. I saw him no
 more. lie had probably onm reakld himself to isseape my well
 merited reproathes. I afterward learned that he treated myjJ