NOTES AND TESTIMONIES.


 bear ventilation, and therefore kept it from the public, but left li
 to do what it could qui-tly to poison the minds of all who made
 the pilgrimage to Iis tomb. I was all-rwards satiitled by M.
 Girod that I did the Frenih Go)v.rrnmrnt injustice, at least in
 one respect; lor he as-ures me that no orders to prevent copies
 being maddf the pap,-r on the mant'l, had cover b.-,:n given to
 the concise e.
 It. is a shame, how-ver, to)r the G(overnment to perpetuate
 such an absurd scandal upon thh- memory of Tou-saint, as that
 he destroyed the slaves who hlp.111 I im to hid'. his treasures;
 for the story not only i ;tLi :l.-li'.1 '1y oiu :vi.len.O, bu.t it lacks
 the first t-lmenrt of planiinilii,. That hI may Iha'e said he
 had treasurr.e bari,.l in Sr. ID.,minu,. an1i thi:t he m.y% have
 added, fur the puTrpos.- of beiing se-nt back t. lind tlnem, that
 there wero no living witn-nr" .. t thtir lurial, ii n.ut impossible;
 but it is prepoterrus to, uppsi e that s.ti h a marn a- To),ssaint
 would have perpetrated such a gratuitous crime, or, ir he, did,
 that he would have toll -.f it, without anDv app)art-:rt mnolie.
 This story to the pr.-iudlii-. ...f thi. tirt .-i the Iliaks" is as
 iinfounded as another whi. li ha_. bren unrrent evo r -in'e Tous-
 saint'sa d ath, andl whii.h i3s :,n,-rally r..lit.-d ] in llivti n,.,v,-
 that he wat poi-oned lI.y tI, ..-rlIr.o- r'" NapolI..n, Ir at least
 upon the suppln.iti.,n that his .p,-r.- h 'J nii, wrr.ul,! .-ratifl the
 Emperor. Even i upro-ing there w;as ..m.- motin.- li.r getting
 Toussaint mor-cnnomplietly ou6t oft th- n'a.rtrhan he was, which is
 hardly credible, the rircuinntan. i* of his dJ-ath are noit matters
* of coinjei.turir r suspi,-inn, blht of public record, and exempt the
 anthriritivK of that day Irom an)y nthor re-pln1l.ility for hi sud-
 deu dcath than naturally atta,-h.. to his Irtach-erio. arrest and
 removal in milI-winter fromn tlhe cliIate lr.cf thel tropiCs, in which
 Ihe was bhrn, and had lii t-.Iixty Pears. to: a 1 .ak Alpin- region
 more n',t.-i: than any ,othr in Fr.n.e :r the verityr of its win-
 terN.
 The ilday a'tr hi- da.-rthl, two phyi.-'iaut of Pontarlier made
 an oflni,.l s.xanmination 1f hi- rimaina rn.l .I. rtified that hei died
 of apoplexy aqd pleuro-pneuanimnia. Th ir certificate, or process

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