NOTES AND TESTIMONIES.


rounds the coffin now forms part of a new wall; but it was till
lately within the church.
 This womau's story was that which was probably given out
 on the -pt to be told to inquirers, so inconsistent is it in itself,
 anl with known facts. Her account was that Toussainr was
 a arrived c(tT from Saint Domingo by the ship in which he was
 iault-ted I'y Leclerc (the last of a line of two hundred),
 rweiglhitU an,:bur without his perce-iving it, while he was at din-
 ner. Thbe absurdity of this beginning shows how much reliance
 ii to be placed upon the rest of her story. She declared that
 the Cummaudaut, Rubaut, had orders from the Government to
 tn-at the prisoner well; that his servant remained with him to
 the last; that he was well supplied with books, allowed the
 range o(f the Ibrtrr-s, and ac'cutomed to pass his days in the
 hou:e of the -:ommandant, pla lumg cards in the irenings; that
 on the last day of h lifi i hu excusi':d him-elf from the card-
 table ..,n the pl:.a of bi-in unwell; that h- reI'fued to hdve his
 .rr'aut with him, though urged not to pa s the night alone;
 that hIn waI left with fire, hautruil, flambeaux, and a book, and
 Ifiund deadl in his chair in the morning; and that the physicians
 who :examined the body declared his death to have been caused
 by the rupture.of a blood-vessel in the heart. This lastrpardc-
 ular is known to be as incorrect as the first. Asi fr the rest, this
 iniibrmant d;trers from all others in saying that Mars Plaisir
 remained with hi- master till the last day of | Ilhb. And we
 may a-k why Tous.aint's nights were to be passed in his horri-
 Ile cell, if Lis days were favorite; and how it was that no re-
 'e.arch a'ail.-rl to disicuser to the eagIr curiosity of all Europe
 and ihe W\vt Indie- the- retreat of L'Ouverture, if he, a negro,
 war daily pr-i.-ent to the e ye of the garrison of the fortress,
Sand of thoEe of all thib- inhabitant of the village, and of all the
train lIt rR ,n Ihat r'aad. whn ch,,se to raise their eyes to the walls.
 Our tliril inirmarnt w3o a boy, hbrewd and communicative,
 l l.i -iould tell u-s the traditions of the place, and, of course,
 youna as he was, nothing more. It was he that showed us
 where the additional store was placed when winter came on.