One of them was, that they were going to send twelve thousand muskets to the Negros in St.
Domingo, in order to promote an insurrection there.

This declaration was so industriously circulated, that a guard of soldiers was sent to search the committee-room; but these were soon satisfied, when they found only two or three books and some waste paper.

Reports equally unfounded and wicked were spread also in the same papers relative to myself.

My name was mentioned at full length, and the place of my abode hinted at.

It was stated at one time, that I had proposed such wild and mischievous plans to the committee in London relative to the abolition of the Slave-trade, that they had cast me out of their own body, and that I had taken refuge in Paris, where I now tried to impose equally on the French nation.