IFOYAGE TO MADAGASCAR, O.JC^ 



prire him of his innocence, and to caufe him 

 to lign a deed whtch, while it difgraces andde- 

 bafes hini, renders him odious and fafpe£ted. 

 What exprcffion in our language is ftrong 

 enough to chara<3:enfe the unparalleled im- 

 pudence of this flranger, who thus allowed 

 himfelf to fpread an accufation more de- 

 grading to himfelf than to his enemies I 



is there a country in the world where 

 the open acknowledgment of an affaffina- 

 tion is the means of recovering liberty f 

 What could have been the end of this fcan- 

 dalous declaration ? — Is it not impoflible to 

 difcover the motive of it ? 



Whilfl 1 exprefs my fentiments in this 

 manner, I am only the faithful interpreter 

 of that univerfal lentiment of indignation 

 with which the people of the Ifle of France 

 were infpired, when they read Benyowfki'a 

 improbable relation* It was an obje£t of 

 cenfure to every perfon of ^ fenfe i and if I 

 T 4 have 



