120 TEAVEL, ADVENTUEE, AND SPOET. 



died of violent fevers ; application had been made to 

 remove them to the hospital at Cayenne, but refused. 

 Barthelemy was sent back to the fort. He brought 

 the intelligence, received by an American vessel just 

 arrived from Europe, that the Directory had accom- 

 plished a complete triumph over all other factions, 

 and that military tribunals were to be formed to try 

 all politicians of the opposite side. The exiles now 

 probably congratulated themselves on their dungeon, 

 but it promised to be for life. 



In April their leisure was cheered by the sight of 

 a popular election. About fifteen hundred negroes, 

 and forty or fifty whites, were summoned to vote for 

 a representative to the Council in Paris. But the 

 negroes were saved from all trouble of thinking on 

 the subject. The Directory ordered them to elect 

 Citizen Monge. He was then a commissary em- 

 ployed in collecting the plunder of the Italian works 

 of art. The Citizen was chosen, and Monge was 

 announced to mankind as representative of the free- 

 men of Cayenne ! 



In May, two more of the exiles, Laffond and Du 

 Coudray, were suddenly taken ill at dinner. They 

 were soon in great torture, and they seem to have 

 been poisoned. Du Coudray, though swelled and 

 apparently dying, wrote to the governor for permis- 

 sion to go to the hospital at Cayenne. The answer, 

 returned by the commandant of the fort, an insolent 

 Jacobin, who had been a lackey, was, " I know not 



