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 protil.tion of the colonists. That act of the Governor, added
 to the great confidence he had placed in the French au-
 ithritir2, w~sm the principal cause of the feeble re-i.tance the
 Fren' h riieountered in Hayti. Indeed, his confidence in these a
 authorities was such that he had disharged the greater part of
 thu regular tr:hp.', and sent them back to the tillage of the
 s.,il.'" Iytlia, Pap.cr., p. 1.5A.
 SnI. h condu,.t is a sutfi'ient answer to the allegation that
 ToIir-iat was a ctuated by a selfish ambition, cunning in its
 ainm, and i ruel in its use o(l means.
 Snme,, l;ght is thrown upon the character of his mind by the
 record of the books he studied while yet a slave. Rainsford
 piv:s a list, which does not pretend to be complete, but which
 is taluablel as tar as it goes. It appears that in his years of
 comparative lei-ure he wa. cnmpletily engrossed by one book at
 a time, rea.iiin-x it at all -pare niommr-nts, in.-'litating its contents
 while in th] [il.,, and lpioting it in iL'n.VrLa`LiUIn ijr weiks Lo-
 :th:r. Onn- of l tn fir-t autliora whlo-e wrk.I thui entirely
 ,, ... im waa, Uan al; art:l.rward Epiel.tiu-s, in a FrcntlI
 tranrilatiol ; th:-n roth.-r, a- I;tlows: -
 S. riptr.rres il RI Militari.
 ('a-.ar'&, C'r.ninicntarie. French translation by De Crisse.
 D)es Clai.:ui'' Iliztory of Alesander and Ca~sar.
 rD'rl, an'l Hii-t...ry of Revolutions in England and Spain.
 Marshal Sa,.,'s Miliitary Reveries.
 Guii, lnr.l'i Military M,moin;r. uf the Greeks and Romans.
 Hi roottiu.
 Le Beaui' Memoirs of thl A.\-a'.my o' inscriptions and Belles
 Lettres.
 Lloyd' 1 Militait and pliiti.al 1M:moirs.
 En.li-h Soirate.-, Plutar.-l, (Corneiiun Nepos, &r., &c.
 (;r ar:t Uim :r.'r halnr- stnl. r the tale of To'tusaint's imprison-
 iii-nit an'l d.lath. It appears thb:a I[i was conf'inr;.i in the Tem-
 ple ats I,.nir_ as Nap.llron had hb'l..c of extorting from him in-
 Itrucit;.'n. about lj tl'-t at n, absurdly reported to have been