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Updated: May 28, 2025
The scene was exactly what I have described in my story, except that a good road, made since Toussaint's time, now passes round and up the opposite side of the rock from that by which he mounted. The old road, narrow and steep, remains; and we descended by it. We reached the courtyard without difficulty, passing the two drawbridges and portcullis described.
Leclerc stood ready to receive him, and to administer to him the oath of allegiance in the hall of Government-House, the doors of which stood wide, and were carefully kept so by Toussaint's own guard, who would not, for a moment, let their commander be hidden from their sight.
On hearing of Toussaint's misfortune they had come to see him, like good-hearted creatures, who, on their own side, had experienced the most cruel suffering.
Then she promptly started on the stories of Toussaint's attack and her son Charles's ill-luck. But Celine broke in: "I say, mamma, the factory where papa used to work is here in this street, isn't it? Monsieur l'Abbe has some business there."*
Then she promptly started on the stories of Toussaint's attack and her son Charles's ill-luck. But Celine broke in: "I say, mamma, the factory where papa used to work is here in this street, isn't it? Monsieur l'Abbe has some business there."*
"Of your friends," replied Admiral Ferrari. This was too true. A hundred of Toussaint's most attached adherents had been seized this night. No one of them was ever again heard of in the island. At the door of the mansion Denis was brought forward, guarded. His eyes were flashing fire. "The country is up!" he cried. "I got good service out of the old bell before they found me." "Right, my boy!
His hopes were ultimately realized, but not until he himself succumbed to the hardihood of the French attack. Leclerc's army swept across the desolated belt with an ardour that was redoubled by the sight of the mangled remains of white people strewn amidst the negro encampments, and stormed Toussaint's chief stronghold at Crête-
The proclamation was posted in the corners of the streets; it was read aloud in the squares; it was sent, by messengers of every colour, among the insurgents in the plain. The effect of this, connected with the report, which every moment gained strength, that the Commissary was about to quit the colony was so evident, that Toussaint's wishes seemed likely to be accomplished.
They were already far on the sea before the Heros spread its sails. Leclerc's announcement of Toussaint's overthrow was as follows: "I intercepted letters which he had written to one Fontaine, who was his agent at Cap Francais. These afforded an unanswerable proof that he was engaged in a conspiracy, and that he was anxious to regain his former influence in the colony.
"Upon the ground of the commands of the First Consul, declared in his proclamation to the inhabitants of Saint Domingo, and, no doubt, more fully in this letter to yourself." Here he delivered the box, desiring that the presence of himself and his companions might be no impediment to General Toussaint's reading his dispatches. Toussaint had no intention that they should be any hindrance.
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