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accompanied him hitherto, and now 
shared the dreadful punishment al- 
lotted for him by his cruel captors. 
Several risings of the blacks likewise 
took place in the south, particularly 
in the neighbourhood of Leogane 
anid Jocmel, but they were all sup- 
pressed, and many of their ringlead- 
ers executed. 
The southern districts, after these 
successes, remained in. tolerable 
tranquillity ; and in the Spanish 
part of the island, the old colonists 
FOSe Ee" 71ASSC, a, defeated the in- 
surgents, who had attempted to 
penetrate’ thither, 
It was in the northern portion 
of the colony that the insurrection 
was carried-on with unabated vi- 
gour, Dessalines, Clervaux, and 
Christophe, headed the insurgents 
in this direction, and Gacembled 
an army sufficiently strong to in- 
vest the Town of the Cape, the 
head quarters of the [rench 
commander in chief general Le 
Clerc, at that moment approach- 
thg to his last hour, from the 
baneful effects of the fever, with 
which he had for some time strug- 
sled; and who now saw, in the 
dreadful hour of despair and 
death, that all the cruelties, of 
which he had been the willing 
instrument, were insufficient to at- 
tain the object with which he was 
entrusted—the extermination of 
the inhabitants of the island! He 
who but a few months. before, had 
written to his brother-i in- -law, Bona- 
parte, a pompous statement of his 
conquest of the island of St. Do- 
mingo, now saw himself besieged 
in bis head-quarters by those,wlom 
he had considered as entirely de- 
face and incapable of ever again 
aking head against the power of 
the French. Alter an illness of 
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1803. 
about a fortnight, he died on the 
second of November, nearly about 
the same time that the unfortunate 
Toussaint perished in, a French 
dungeon. . Thus, by the equitable 
dispensations of providence, had ~ 
the French as well as the blacks to 
lament the loss of their leader. . 
Notwithstanding the dreadful 
slaughter which the French soldiers 
made, whenever they were victori- 
ous; the losses of the French army 
by the fever were at least equal to 
those the blacks endured by the 
sword. General Le Clerc, before 
his death, sent sealed instructions 
to general Rochambeau, to take the 
command of the French army in 
the island.. Before the arrival how- 
ever of the latter at the Cape, the 
French garrison, finding themselves 
much straightened, made a vi- 
gorous sally against the blacks, who 
were encamped on the plains in the 
neighbourhood, and drove them 
into the mountains. By this vic- 
tory, the garrison at the Cape de- 
rived considerable temporary ad- 
vantage ; but still Rochambeau had 
the disagreeable effice of taking the 
command of an army unfitted for 
active operations, and which he 
was necessitated to keep confined ta 
the unwholesome limits of a few 
sickly towns. His medns of de- 
fence were merely in the strength of 
the fortifications, and the facili- 
ties of transporting detachments by - 
sea, from any one port on the sea 
coast to any other, whence he might 
have meditated anenterprize. His 
hopes of finally maintaining him- 
self in the island, rested on the 
arrival of the reinforcements now 
expected from I'rance. Those re | 
inforcements however arrived but 
slowly, and by no means in time to 
enable him to resume active opers 
"ations. 
