The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1805-01-15
From a LSle Loa6On Paper.
NJ Il d HME TOUSSAINT.
PRIVATE LITTER, DATED
Me.iv-1ork, S.bf. 8, Isl

Juh landed upon our Continent. Her account
of her own and her huiband's fli!erings, from
BonSparte's tyranny and executioners, would
be incredible, were they not already equalled by
the Corfican's former atrocities, aud thoie of
his acccmplices. Her mutilated limbs and nu-
merous wounds are, beiides, vfblc proofs of
the racks and other inttrumeuts Of torture, from
which iiie has fufered in the dungeons of free,
enlightened, and ciU;!ized F,ance,, and, under
which, little doubt remains, that Gen. Tout
faint expired. From the moment lie Clerc, by
psrhdy and breach of treaties, got her huff
band and herfef into his poileiIion, they were
loaded with chains, and during their whole pat
tage tC France, they continued in irons, with
hardly food enough TO fupport life. At their
landing at Bordeaux, they were ieparated, tho
iiiut zap in the fame priion. What happened
iince to her hufbaud, ihe does not know, nor is
ihe yet certain whether he has periihed, as the
French papers have publiHled, in dungeon at
Beiancon, or whether, It'll a mutjated body
he continues to breathe the peiiIcntial air Of
French goals, eXpo!cd TO the cruelties, and en-
during that refinement in tormcnts, which
French ingenuity 70 ably invents, and of which
Corhcan barharity 70 willingly makes ufe. Her
frf examination was before Lucien Bonaparte's
brother-in-law, the police commiiiary at Bor-
deauX, Pierre Pierre, who told her - tbat bert
Sra1'e 1vG5 already dry, and that be, laR dag
evaJ come, if ile did not Immediately diicover
the place where her hufband's Eeret correfpon-
dence with the Engih was concealed, and
where his and her own treafures were buried or
dePofted." Having never heard of any fecret
tranfactions with the EngliGl, and being con-
vinced that when lie Clerc, 70 per6dioufy fur
prlied her hufband, he got pofeiiion, not only
Of ali his papers, but of all his money, amount
ing to about 100000 lvres (l2, 5ool) fhe declsr-
cd, herfelf unable to make any discoveries. She
was then carried back to her prifon, where
Pierre Pierre arrived in the rnidft of the night,
with four genJ d'Grme5 4'eiite, who dragged her
to fubterraneous hall. Here the police COM
military, in ihewiug her the nltruments of tor
ture, repeated his former queaionS and threats.
Her a1nrances, her prayers, her tears, and de-
clarations that I6e qvaJ in a R0fe If PREGNANCY,
avaied nothing. On the gems 6'arnes LAYING
hold of her, fhe tainted away. They carried
her, notwithstanding, TO the rack, where the
mott circulating pain foon deprived her of
iente, which ihc only recovered to feel that the
premature delivery OF child, by mifcar
was at hand. One of the gems d'a,nae5 wives
was then ient for, and lhe was delivered of
dead child. Her Gtuation became at laft 70 def.
parate, that the furgeon of the prifon was Or
dered 10 Wilt her, and to prolong life, fill ne.
cefary to the'policy, avarice, and ferocity of
Bonapare and his ferocious goalers.
After an ilIncis, which continued for fix
months, during which time hie had repeated
promlfes Of her liberty to fee her huiband, fhc
gathered ftrength enough to fupport a journey;
and one evening, after dark, Pierre Pierre ar
rived with joyful countenance, informing her,
that Bonaparte had .eeneroyqr permitted her to
loIn her hnthand ~ Paris She was accouild-
MED, during The journey by two police agents
and one of the negro girls, who came with her
to Europe rs an attendant. The former for
bade herto mention on the road who fl,e was,
under pain Of imprisonment, and the latter in
formed her, by her iigns only, that ile alto had
felt the effect OF Bonaparte'S fortunes, becaufe
thew were never left by themfeIves, nor permit
ted TO fpeak low, one of the police agents, be-
ing always with them. She entered Paris at e.
leven O'Clock at night, and was Immediately
carried TO the prefecture of police, from which
the police prefeCt, Dubois, ordered her to the
Temple. The next evening fhe was brought
before the Grand Judge Regnicr, and the Police
Director Real. Their fccretary, Defmarais,
read to her the former Undergraduates before
Pierre Pierre at Bordeaux, together with her
pretended confeilions, when upon the rack
the Pr9csi5 7erbaI OF which, was not only ign-
cd by Pierre Pierre, but by the four gems d arne5
d'eLte. She was now told to be more explicit,
her huiband having confefed more than herfelf, |
as the only means not only to obtain her liberty,
but to avoid new torturcs. Having nothing to |
The permitted III her former denial, and
was, therefore, upon hgnal from Regnier,
ieized by the gems farmer in the room, and car
RED to dungeon, to which fhe defended lixty- |
fix ftcps. There flie was ffripped naked, aud !!
put again on the rack, when Dcfnaras oueition- |
ed her about the nance of the fecret agents |
from the Englilh Government at Jamaica, of
their tranta6lions, of the houies in England and
America, to whom money had been RENTED
where, in st. Domingo, they had buried trea-
fure in gold, to the amount Of ten millions, &c.
What fhe had fufered at Bordeaux was merely |
A tliHe to the terrible pains inflicted on her ut |
Paris, which in Il few minutes, deprived her
both Of the faculty to think and TO fpeak. What |
happened to her afterwards in the Temple f1e !
does nCtremember, having been entirely dcpriv- |
ed of her reaion. When fhe began to recover
it lait April, The found herfelf fhut up, and
chained in the mad-houfe for women, called La |
Sapetriere, near the Jardiu des Plantcs, at Paris.
When Allemauds, the Surgeon General of this |
Hoipital, had made his report Of her GONZALEZ !
cent Rate, her lecoHd fun was permitted to fec |
her, and the confoaton lhe received from his /
Wits ioon reRored her as mtish as fbe could ex-
peel to be on this fide of the grave. This lenfy |
Of Bonaparte was caufed by the promife and |
Of the Young man TO form a party |
1t ST.. Domingo againA Den'lncs, and it was
10y agreeing 10 cooperate with her fon, that
they both were permitted 20 embark for the A. !
mPriCau Continent. afger prsviot10v Gor;rc ,,