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family. His crime in embracing the Revolution met 

 its punishment exile and death by the tyranny of 

 the Eevolution. Barthelemy was next seized ; but 

 his disorder was more tardy, and there was time to 

 make a representation to the governor, who ordered 

 him to be conveyed to the hospital at Cayenne. But 

 the miseries of confinement were not the only ones 

 which these wretched men were to suffer. They 

 added to them the miseries of politics. They were 

 involved in perpetual disputes on public affairs ; and 

 having no fixed principles on those or any other sub- 

 jects, their quarrels were equally vague, fruitless, 

 and bitter. 



They sometimes tried to vary those dubious amuse- 

 ments by having recourse to such little occupations 

 as they could find. Marbois turned carpenter, made 

 some attempts to furnish his hovel, and, Frenchman- 

 like, finally made a violin, with which, Frenchman- 

 like, he set the negroes dancing. Du Coudray, who 

 had been one of the haranguers of the Council of 

 Elders, occupied himself in writing endless memorials, 

 which, of course, were never to see the light; in 

 making orations to the winds ; and in composing a 

 funeral oration for old De Murinais. His audience, 

 when he recited this effusion, were the soldiers and 

 the negroes. The orator took for his theme "By 

 the rivers of Babylon we sat down, and wept when 

 we remembered Zion;" in all likelihood the only 

 use that he ever made of his Bible. The soldiers 



