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conjectura) conclusions with subsequent events^
would be to exceed those limits, which regard,
to your time, Sir, and my own„ must prescribe
to this addrçss. The task will be more easy when,
a tolerably fair and. intelligent account of the late*
war in St, Pomingo shall meet the public eye^
but in spite of the unprecedented^ falshoodj of the
consular press, no Englishman is so ill informed of
the events of tha£ horrible war, as not to perceive,
should he now turn pver the pages of the Crisis,
that the opinions there disclosed have beerç |ully
verified, and the author's; expectation» very strik-
ingly confirmed,
To the purpose for which this brief review is
offered, the confirmation of the premises of fact
contained in that pamphlet, some events unfore-
seen by the author, are no less important than
those which his conjectures embraced.
That a compromise would be the result of
the obstinate resistance which the French ge-
nerals would encounter, and of their despair of
final success, he foresaw to be probable*; but
that perfidy so unexampled in the history of this
bad world, as was practised by the French com-
manders, would be employeôTto frustrate the com-
pact, was as much beyond his foresight as that of
the illustrious victim of the crime, the generous
and immortal Toussaint.   Ignorant of the yet
* Crisis, p. 85.
unfathomed