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verbal, as it is termed, is filed among the archives of the Hotel
de Ville in Pontarlier, from whence AI. Girod was kind enough
to procure ftr me a m opy duly authenticated, under the seal of
the Mayoralty of Pontarlier. As this certificate has never been
in print, and as it finally disposes of a very painful suspicion
which h is still widely credited, I give it to you entire.
Copy, ,i ife .liutmre ,.f the Po t-mortim Examination of Toms-
 saint L'Ouverture.
 We, their undersigned, Doctor in Medicine and Surgeon of the
city .X' Punrarlicr, pur.uant to the invitation of Citizen Amiot,
Commandant of the Fort de Jous, and of Renaud, Justice of
the Peace of the canton of Pontarlier, have gone to the said
Fort de Joux, when, in their presence, we have proceeded to
the opening and the examination of thu body of the negro
Toni'usaint L'Ouvertur,' pris,:.mnr, who;v dcath yesterday we
hate serifitld.
 PO)-T-.MiORTEM EXA 'irTNATION.
 A little mtnutu mLxed with blood in the mouth ant on the lips,
the le-ft lateral sinus, th: ve.sels of the pii mater gorged with
blood, s-rous offuBsion in the lateral ventricle same side, thehbo-
roid pleurus infiltrated and strewed with hydatides, the pleura
adlhering almost entirely to the substance of the lungs; san-
guine.oui engorgement of the right lung, as well as of the pleura
correi-pondiug. but of a purulent nature in this viscera; a little
fatty polypius in the right ventricle of the heart, which otherwise
was in a natural ,tat ; em.aciation of the epiploon, -pathological
stat:t of this membrane iuch as it presents alter a long sickness.
The stomach, the intestines, the liver, the spleen, the veins; the
bladder, exhibited no alteration.
 In consequetncL; we declare that apoplexy, pleuro-pneumonia,
are the causs of the death of Toussaint L'Ouverture.
 Made and certified to be true, at the Fort de Joux, the 18th
Terminal, An XI. of the French Republic.
 (Signed) TAVERNtER, Doctor of Medicine,
 Surgeon-Major GURLSST.