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desired to wait. It was some time helbre Tonssaint made lit"
appearance ; at length, however, h-- entered the room with tw,.
open letters in hin hand. There, General,' said he, beforee we 
talk together, read these. One is a li.ttcr from the French
commissary, thr othbrr is my answer. I could not see you till
I had written my reply, that yru might be sati-tied how efa&
you were with me, and how incapable I am of baseness.'"-
QutJri,.r!y R ,'-, V,. NXI. p. 442.
 The charge ofi [,-eronial ambiiton ik, above all, contradicted
by f'act.. If1 anything i. ,Ilear in Tounsaint's hi-tory, it is that
his ruin was owing to, hi' loyalty ti Franni, li nil placed trusting
Napoleon, and Lis want i.it per>..,ual ambliti.n. Ilb did not, as
he might have d.ino, make hinri-lf a sor..reign when France
was wholly oc,.upid.d with European wartlrc. He did not, as
he might have done, prepare'hii peo-ple, to r,-it the power
of the mothercountry whun she should at Ionagth be at liberty
to reclaim the colony. Hie sent away the French commis-
saries only when, by their ignorance andi in'jomiietcncy, they
perilled the I.peate and salf.lt ot the colony. LHe cherished
the love of the nt..rher :oitntr.y in the h.-artn of the negroes
to the very last mimrnt, till the armanienit nhich rame to
reestablish slavery appeared on the Ahore.s, till it was too
late to oilTer that rtei.itance whiih wuuld have made him a
king. C'riktorphle' view or" this part cf his conduit ii given in
a manifstio, dated in th.e ( rihenth year of the Independence
of Hayti:-
 Toussaint L'Ouverture, under hLi paternal administration,
had reinstated, in full l'ore, law. moral., religion, education,
and industry. Agriculture and cunmmnerce were flourishing.
H Ih vored the white .,Ilonits, particularly the planters. In-
deed, his attentions and partialities had been carried to such a
klngth, that he w-as loudly blamed IZur enternainin-, more af-
ri-etion I;r bthm than Iur tho. i h of his own color. Nor was this
reproach without ItlunJ.litin ; lr, a few n iont h belbre the ar-
rival of the Fienclh. he isa.rnfi;.llI hiL own ntphiew, General
Mloyre, who had di!.regardjild the orders he had given for the