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Paris, Napoleon ordered him to the Fort de Joux. The room
which be occupied, and to which I was now introduced, is mms
twenty-five or thirty feet long, by, say, twelve broad. Therd
was a fireplace on one side near the middle, but no furniture
of any kind. Its walls-were all of stone, and arched with stone
overhead. Near the ceiling, one end was piercoby a small
window whi,.h aidamitted what light and air the inmates were
expected to enjoy, but which seemed enough to keep the place
euL~fiieutly dry i;r habitation. On the mantel over the fire-
pl? e wae the lower half of a skull, most of the brain-cover
hbaing been taken off, and, resting on what remained, was the
following aris, which my guide forbade my copying, as contrary
to the orders of the conmuandant, and for a transcript of which,
aa l;r many other gratifying attentions, I was indebted to M.
Girod, to whose are theological and historical labors I have
already made allusion. -
 "Tousaint L'Ou~rrture. who erected the enfranchisement
 of the negr,:-. of his country, and, in the day of his prosperity,
 designated hhislelf as the Bonaparte of St. Domingo,, and who
 wrote to Napoleon, 'The first of the blacks to the first of the
 white,' terminated his career in this casement, of the donjon of
 Fort de Jous. It is pretended that he answered an aide-d-camp
 of the First Consul, who Tame to ask him where he had con-
 cealed his treasures: Say to your master that I will die before
 he shall know anything from me.'
 The C'hef de Bataillon Atfiol, commandant of the Place du
 Fort de Jous, found him here in a corner of his fireplace *
 struck with apr'h,..ie .itbudrunvte, the 17th Terminal, the year
 11. Somedays bthvlr his d.:ath he declared that he had buried
 15,00il. Oi.i, in the mountain by _lavei whom he had destroyed."
 I illt indignant at finl;ng ureh a gross calumny as this upon
 the Lharaetor of une of th.- hravest, and, according to his oppor-
 tLunit. ,-, one of llthe nim:t remarkable men of Ris day, perpetrated
 by the authority of the Government; and when I was refused
 permission to take a copy of it, my inference was that those who
 placed it there knew it was one of those lies that would not

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