Star.
London, England, 1804-10-15 00:00:00

AMERICA.

MADAME TOUSSAINT.
New Yoss, SIPT. 6.—Tbe widow of the unfortu-
sate TOUSSAINT haejult landed upon our Confiaent.
Her accounts of her own and her hufband's (offerings,
from Bo 's tyranny and executions, would be
incredible, were they not already equalled by the
Corfican's former atrocities, and thole of his accom-
plices. Her Mutilated limbs and numerous wounds
are, betides, vifible proofs of the racks and other in-
Oruments of torture, from which (be has (offered in
the dttogeons of free, rorlbiened, and rivibfed France,
and, under which, little ,doubt remains, that Gen.
TO USSAINT expired. .From the moment Lc CLINT,
by perfidy and breach of treaties, got her hutband
and herfelf into his pofelfion, they were loaded with
chain'', and, during their whole pafage to France,
they continued fp irons, with hardly food enough to
fupport life. At 'their landing at Bourdeaux, they
were feparated, though but up in the fame prifon.—
What happened fence to her hutband the goes not
know, nor is The yet certain Whether he bas writhed,
as the French papers have publifhed, in a dungeon at
Befaueon ; or whether, with a mutilated body, he
continues to breath the pefiilental air of French gaols,
espied to the cruelties, and enduring •that confine-
ment in torments, which French ingenuity fo ably
invents, and Of which Curliest.' barbarity Co willingly
snakes rife. Her Era examination was before Lu et sN
Aof_A,MITA'S brother-in-law, the police cemmifary
Emtraleaux, Pleats Platte, who told her-.
44 that her grave was already dug, and that her UR
day was come, if the did not immediately difeover
the place where her hufband's fare! correfpondenee
with the Englith was concealed, and where his and
her own treafures were buried or depolited." Hay.l
ing never heard of any ferret tranfallions with the
Englitb, and being convinced that when Li Cxeirc
fo perfidioufly furprifed her bighead, be got polref.
con, not only of all his papers, but of all his money,
amounting to about goo,oco livrea (t x, 001.), the
declared herfelf unable to make any difiovenes.-
Bhe was then carried back to her prifon, wherePe sae a
Pallas arrived in the mida of the nights With four
sew entree: delete, who dragged her to a fabtermneous
ball. Here the police commifary, in tkewing her
the Marmon' of torture, repented bit (miser quef-
Wes sod threats. Her afunntees, her prayers, her
tears, and her declaration, slice fie was in a ilaft of
availed nothing. On tile/au ?arrow lay
hold of her, the fainted ;Way. They carried her,
nettwidsltandiag, to the rack. where the mud mean-
Fiatipg pain loon deprived her of fenfe, which the
only recovered to feel that the premature delivery of
a child, by mifearriage, was et hand. One of the
far d'isroes wives was then fent for, and the was de'
livered of a dead child. Her fituatiem !grange at lag
fo defperate, that the furgeon 'of the prifon was or-
dered to vifit her, and po prolong a life, flip neceffary
to the policy, *Vallee, and ferocity of Bo
and his ferocious gaolers. After an illnefs, which
continued for fix months, during which time The had
repeated protnifes of hei liberty to fie her hutband,
the gathered ftrength gnongti to fupport a journey ;
and essc evening, after dark, Pisces Pi fil.Rt arrived
with a joyful countenance, informing her, that Bo-
a had source, permitted her to join her bur-
}Sod at Paris. She was accompanied, during the
journey, by two police agents and one of the negro
girls. who came with her to Europe as an attendant.
The former forbade her to mention on the road who
/he was, under pain of insprifonment ; rend the latter
informed her, by. her lips only, that the alto had
kit Ute effea of Boa•PAßTjlfs tortures, becasfe they
Were never left by thessfelves, nor permitted to fposk
low. one of the police agents being always with them.
She entered Paris at eleven o'clock at night, and was
immediately carried to the prefeaure of police, from
which the police prefeit, Dustus, ordered her to
the Temple. The next evening the was brought be•
(ore the grind judge Racelllt, and the pnl'et direc-
tor, Rest. Their fecretary; AP read to
bar the former interrogatories before Pisces POLARS
at Bourdeaux, together with her pretended confer-
Goes, wiser tt inn the rack ; the prow ntrial of which
was not only figned by PIERRE PISAN!, but by die
four gnu throw audit,. She was row told to be more
explicit? her hutband having conferred more than
Iferfelf, as the only means ndt only to obtain her li-
berty, hot to avoid new tortures, Haying nothing
to difcover, the pert-tried in her former denial, and
was, therefore, upon a lignal from RIGNIAR, feized
by the Fru (Parton in the room, and carried to a dun-
gems, to which the defeended fixty-fix peps. There
Tie was gripped naked, and put again on the rack,
when Damage's queftioned her about the names of
' the ferret agents from the Englith Government at
Jamaica, of their tranfaltions, of the hoof:6 in Eng-
nd and Ameriza to whom money had been remit-
ted; where, in St. DOmingo, they had buried ma-
ture, in gold, to the amount of ten millions, arc.—
What the had (offered at Bourdeaux was merely a
trifle to the terrible pains infliBed on her at Paris,
which, in a few minutes, deprived her both of the
faculty to think or to (peak. What happened to her
afterwards in the Temple the does not remember,
having been entirely deprived of her reafon. When
the began to 'recover in lark April, the fund herfelf
(but up, and chained in the mad-houfe for women,
called La Silpetriere, near the Jardin des I'lantes, at
Paris. When Attsuarns, the Surgeon-General of
this Hofpital, had made his report of her conyalef
cent lime, her fecond fon was permitted to fee her,
and the confolatism the received from his rifts form
reamed her as much at flat could cape& to be on this
fide of the grave: This Wry of Bo was
canted by the promifc and engagement of the young
man to form a party at St. Domingo againft Ds SSA•
11,INIS I and, tt was, by ag-ceiag to co operate
*ash her fon, that 'hey both were permitted to em-
bark for the Amer,i Conti.tent, after previot.tly
firing an aekpowledgenent of the Iva treatrnoo tile
bad esperienced in France. Both (be and her fon
remained in a haute of detention at Paris esti! ail
American yeffel had been hired to carry thee.
from Europe. In thii bouts they were treated, not
only with humanity, but with refpeet ; and, before
her departure, the received from Bowe aaaaa arse
thoufsnd louis d'ors as an indemnity for her &taffies
in France, and Madame Borarears font her a dia-
mond ring worth fire hundred Inuis d'ors, with a
meilage. tl.at the felt much for her lituation. sad
tie td her to Int zet the park, but remember that the
i was burn a 1 react,