NOTES AND TESTIMONIES. required by a life of slavery, and guided by it in a course of the strictest domestic morality while surrounded by li'centioua- ness, ftay well be supposed sincere in his religi-in under a change of circumstances occurring after he was fitly years of age. The imputation of hypocrisy is not, however, mu'.h to be wonder-ed at when it ii considered that, at the time whea the tirt noiti, es of Touswaint were written in Paris, it was the fashion there to belieJe that no wise man could be sincerely re- ligious. A Ibor the charge of general and habitual dissimulation, it can only be said, that while no proor of the assertion is offered, there is evidence in all the anet.dotes preserved of him, of ab- solute franknes_ and *inipli:ity. I rather think that it was the incrdllible extent e.,f hiUs implicit which gave rise to the be- lief that it was. a'umend in ,jrd.-r to hid.: cunning. The Quar- terly Rerview quot.es an an,. eiot,, t lior'tiiihly (haracterisrti of the man, whi,-h ip nr.t intrtl..I rl d into iy stry beh.ause, in the ahin- dau:c ut' im material'. I found it n-'-ereary to avoid altogether the hi-tory of the Englih transa: tions in Saint Do.minup. It was. only by contnoing my narrative to the relations between Touniaint and France that I could keep my tale within limits, and pre?erve the clearness of the representation. There are circumtannoc., however, in his intercourse with the British as honorable to Tuussaint' character as any that I have related; and amng them is the Ibllowing, which I quote from the Qnar- te)rli R..view :- "General Maitland, preriou- to the disembarkation of the troops, returned the isiit at Toussaint's camp; and such was the