1796-11-01
French parley ship Cerf-Volant captured off La Béate
Haitian
On 1 November 1796 the French cartel ship the Cerf-Volant, which was taking to France Pinchinat, representative of the Southern province of Saint-Domingue, Rey Delmas and Fontaine, representatives of the Western province, Bonnet, Lachapelle and Garigou, and fifteen English prisoners, was captured off the Béate by two English frigates, the Magicienne and the Québec. The English seized most of the papers and all the money of the prisoners. The English Admiral Ricket conducted them to the Môle, and handed them over to Admiral Parker. A short time afterward the frigate the Succès took them to England, where they were placed on a hulk at Spithead, near Portsmouth. (See: Pointe de la Béate.)
Rouzier tells this under the entry Béate (la).
Source · p. t. I, p. 96
Sémexant Rouzier, Dictionnaire géographique et administratif universel d'Haïti (t. I) (1892), p. t. I, p. 96