They replied, that I had prescribed to them a most difficult task.

They were afraid that neither the conduct of the White Colonists nor of the National Assembly could be much longer borne.

They thanked me, however, for my advice.

One of them gave me a trinket, by which I might remember him; and as for himself, he said, he should never forget one, who had taken such a deep interest in the welfare of his mother[A].

I found, however, notwithstanding all I said, that there was a spirit of dissatisfaction in them, which nothing but a redress of their grievances could subdue; and that, if the planters should persevere in their intrigues, and the National Assembly in delay, a fire would be lighted up in St.Domingo, which could not easily be extinguished.