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any pretext whatever. The guard of the fort should be set
with the greatest exactness, and without the relaxation of vigi-
lance:. The General of Division only can modify the rigor of
these orders, and I know he will not do it without being author-
ized by the Minister. The commandant must sleep at the fort
unless specially authorized to the contrary by his superiors.
The suppli.-3 or, the prisoner have been prescribed. They must
not be exseteded upon any pretext. Every excess will be
stricken off' fi-m the account."
 Thb. next litter, No. 4, was written immediately after receiv-
ing inttlligprpr of Toussaint's death. In it the Prefect says,-
 --You will also please, on the receipt of this letter, make an
inventory, in the presence of the Commandart d'Armes, of all
the effectsL used by the prisoner, and sell them at auction to the
highest bidder, after the customary noti:es. You will prepare
a r> port on" the. bale t~r m.', and remit the> prncerds of it to the
Widow BUen.-li'-t up.on h-r rect;pt, d..ducting the sums due her
Jbr h:-r 'upm[li.-.'
 Frum tLh- do. umteULt.- and the other encloi-ed, of which I will
not iroubl'- you with an anal~is, it appears, if the facts are
reported Ifithlull., -
 It. That Tousaint was guarded with unusual, i' not excess-
ite, rigor, and that the slew taken of his character and career
at that time by the War Departmeut, whose agent declared
that if there was an exception to the rule that pity was due to
the unfortunate, Toussaint was the exception, was very different
from that whi, b is taken of him now by the world, and, indeed,
by the Frenth themselves, who, through the mouth of the most
inpired of' their modern poets, have said of him, Cet homme
ion rc; nat;io," and within tilly years aller his cheerless death,
accepted the lesson of his liel by striking the chains off every
slave held under a French title.
 2d. They show that he was not poisoned, but that he died, in
all probability, of a disease contracted in consequence of his
involuntary removal to a colder and more intemperate climate
than at his age, ovr iLcty,--his toaltitution, used to the
warmth of the tro!pilc, could endure.