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 neighborhood, made by M. Girod, the librarian of the city, .?.I
* a most diligent and faithful archivist, in which Bertha's fi
 is conceded. This fact, however, does not in the least dimilnl
 the horror which such a monument of cruelty and brutaife
 inspires in our day.
 Crossing the court, an] passing along the gloomy corridor'
 of stone, I was next led to a door whirh, as my companion m
 proceeded to unfasten, she inlfrmed me was occupied by tdie :
 Snaygre." It was the .lurgeon of Tousaint, first called "L'O.'i':
 overture" by a French officer, bec'auw' of his military prowde
! in opening the ranks orf th, English ,oldlii- with his sword du,- .
 ing some engagement. Though of African origin, and forty.-.
 eight years a slave, he took atlvantage of the revolutionay
 troubles in France, and subsequent bhstilities between Frane
 and England, to make the blacks of St. Domingo independent,
 and himself President for lile. Bonaparte, who approved of.7
 the lead he took in saving the colony from the English, was
 solicited to approve the action nf the Central Assembly which
 made him Preillreut. Tou. aint's letter bore the following.
 somewhat memorable but not altogether conciliatory super-
 scription, "The fir.t of the blai.ki to the first of the whiea" .
 Bonaparte's answer was taken out by Lethlerc, his brother-in..
 law, and thirty thousand of the best troops in France, wlho
 issued a pro.lamathon appri-ing tbh islanelrs that the French'
 general had been sent out as the firt Lmagi-trate and Captaid.-
 General of the colony. Touaint bade him and his master :
 defiance, qst fire to the Cap,, retired to the mountains, and ra:
 sisted the invaders with su. h success that, at the end of eight
 months, Napoleon's brother-in-law had but three thousand effe .
 tive men out of the thirty th.-.uoand that had landed with him.
 Finding it impo.rihle to conquer Tou~anint, Lctlere invited hi..
 to a conlt'.-r:nco, tinder the usual ple'gl:s for his safety; and,
 whirn in his power, regardllres of his own honor or that of hi
 master, or of the nation so gravely tomipronmised by his conduct,
 he hustled the too,-onliding negro on board of a ship and sen.
 him to France. Ar tr a brief confinement in the Temple .at: