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family with great cruelty ; hat, immediately after my arrest,
he sent a detachment of troops to the house where I had been
living with a part of my family, mostly women, children, and
laborers, and ordered them to set it on fire, compelling the un-
happy victims to fly half-naked to the woods; that everything
had been pillaged and sacked; that the aide-de-camp of Gen.
Brunet had ev-e taken from my house fifty-five ounces of gold
belonnging to me, and thirty-three ounces belonging to one of
my nic e:., brother with all the linen of the family.
 Having committed ILese outrages upon my dwelling, the
commander at Ennery went, at the head of one hundred men,
Sto the house occupied by my wife and nieces, and arrested
them, withet giving them time to collect any'& their effects.
They were conducted like criminals to Gonaives and put on
board the frigate Guerridre.
 IWhen I was arrest.-ld, I had no extra clothing with me. I
wrote to my wilfe, askiug her to send me su.h things as I
should need nimt to the Cape, hoping I should be taken there.
This note I :ent Iy an aide-de-camp of Gen. Letlerc, begging
that it might be allowed to pass; it did not reach its destination,
and I received nothing.
 As soon as I was taken on board the Crdole, we set sail, and,
four leagues from the Cape, found the Hers, to which they
transferred me. The next day, my wife and my children, who
had been arrertedi with her, arrived there also. We immedi-
atrly set sail for France. After a voyage of thirty-two days,
during whit h I endured not only great fatigue, but also every
species oif hanrdhip, while my wifl and children received treat-
ment from whith their sex and rank should have preserved
them, instead of allowing us to land, they retained us on board
sixty-se en Jays.
 Alter such treatment, could I not justly ask where were the
 promises of Gen. I.eclrrc ? where was the protection of the
 French (;oernmmnt ? If they no longer needed my services
 and wished to rcplat. me, should they not have treated me as
 white French generals are always treated? They are warned