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The manner In which the other gentle- 

 man who had been confined in Guadaloupc 

 obtained his releafe was alfo attended with 

 peculiar, and ftrongly marked circumftances. 

 Having an opportunity of fpeaking with the 

 fecretary of Vidor Hugues, he reprefented 

 to him in ftrong colours the very ferious per- 

 fonal injury his confinement might bring 

 upon him, and urged the abfolute impoffibility 

 of his releafe being injurious to any indivi- 

 dual of the French nation, fupporting his 

 appeal with the offer of a fum nearly equal 

 to 1200I. fterling, to be paid au citoyen fecre- 

 taire^ provided he would contribute his aid 

 in obtaining him and two of his friends per- 

 miflion to leave the ifland. The fecretary 

 rejeded the offer w^th difdain, expreffing 

 both anger and aftonifhment that he fiiould 

 dare to imagine that he was capabable of 

 being feduced by a bribe ; adding that " for- 

 merly Frenchmen were venial and might be 

 bought ; but now, citoyen, we are republicans 1 

 and a good republican requires not a bribe 

 to encourage him to the execution of his duty,' 

 nor is capable of being, thereby, impelled 

 to commit a breach of It." He, never- 

 thelefs, liftened with attention to the pecu- 



