VOYAGE TO MADAGASCAR. 



intrepid. The events of his life have h^en 

 only a long feries of crimes and v ill antes } 

 and his death wa^ a juft pun'ilhment for his 

 infamous treachery. It was neceHary eiEhcr 

 to deliver Madagafcar from the yoke of 

 this tyrant, or to abandon the colonies of 

 the ifles of France and Bourbon. 



Thefefavage people had neither fufficient 

 knowledge nor fpirit to recover, by them* 

 feives, their loft liberty 5 and how could 

 they avoid and efcape from the fnares with 

 which Benyowjki had artfi#ly furrounded 

 them ? Tills common enemy found means 

 by his duplicity to create dlvifion amongft 

 ihe-m. As the French therefore, through 

 their e.nthMfi^irm, were the authors of all 

 the evU^ ^hich they experienced, juflice 

 and equity would have obliged us to go 

 to their afiiftance, even had not the intereft 

 ©f our commerce rendered it necefiary, 

 Put I have already proved that the I fie of 

 6 France 



