_My dear Children, I can hardly hold my pen to inform you of the gloomy and unhappy end of both your Sisters; they are no more! poison has put them into the grave: for all the springs and wells were poisoned, by which perished many others also. Your Uncle and Aunt P.---- with their Children, in number thirteen, had their heads cut off upon a block in less than half-an-hour. Your Uncle V.---- was cut to pieces upon an hedge[4]. A great many of your relations I need not mention, perished in the most cruel manner: the magnificent City of_ du Cap-Francais _is burnt down to ashes by the Negroes; no more for the present Adieu, Adieu, Adieu; my poor unfortunate Children, Adieu. M. L. F. M. L._ [4] Being Persued by the Negroes, and as he was escaping over an hedge, his Horse alighted; where the Barbarous Negroes cut him in small pieces with their Swords. After reading this letter, the Director said unto us, "my dear little friends, I am deeply sorry for all your misfortunes, and still more so, that I am obliged to send you out of the College; but my means do not permit me to keep you any longer, you must be ready against to morrow morning, I shall bear the charges of your Travel from hence to _Bordeaux_: here is a letter for your Banker, that you are to deliver soon after your arrival thither." Never was a sentence more dreadful to me than this; torrents of tears fell from my eyes; my Heart was almost broken: I was in such a deplorable situation concerning these sad tidings that I thought I should never be able to see the returning of the Day. Clouds of Gloominess hung upon my mind; all the night long no rest was to be found, neither in mind or body; and was forced to rise up, as I layed me down. We begun our journey in a coach and went as far as _Toulouse_, a City, where we took a Boat, and finished our voyage by water, and arrived safe at _Bordeaux_. We went to our Banker, and were received with great kindness.