The Recorder, Or, Lady's And Gentleman's Miscellany

The following is a translation from a French paper, of the gratitude bestowed by Toussaint on his fellow men, for their assistance in conducting his booty to a remote part of the country and concealing it.

AT the moment when Toussaint Louverture was forced to leave the cape, he took particular care to take with him, all the gold coin then in the national treasury, amounting to about one and a half millions of dollars.

This treasure he had first conveyed through some of the white inhabitants nearly 15 miles from the cape, where he generously dismissed the same. and trusted his booty to 15 of his black brethren whom he, himself only, conducted into the mountains; and having found a convenient place, he made them dig a hole. in which he deposited his riches. After this he discharged his carriers, and professing great obligations, ordered them to appear at the camp to be rewarded; and what reward did this black hypocrite give to his workmen? - Every humane heart must shudder to hear; when these poor fellows arrived at the camp, they were ordered to form a small circle, and Toussaint commanded, in cool blood, a parcel of soldiers with loaded muskets to stand in a half moon round them--gave the word fire, and that they must die for high treason, which was executed. (So lie.)