Saint-Marc. The assembly embarks on the Léopard for France with 85 members.

Meanwhile the army of the South, intended to defend the colonial assembly, was organizing slowly; and at Saint-Marc itself the deputies were threatened by a numerous party of Pompons-Blancs. The military division under the orders of General Vincent had just arrived from Le Cap at Les Gonaïves and was preparing to dissolve by force of arms the assembly, whose members refused to withdraw to their respective parishes. In vain did the deputies order the army of the South, which had at last assembled at Léogane, to march on Port-au-Prince. Colonel Mauduit, at the head of his regiment and of several battalions of men of color, held it in check along the whole line of the Grande Rivière of Léogane. The colonial assembly, hemmed within narrow bounds and deprived of every kind of help, embarked on the Léopard on 7 August 1790. Eighty-five of its members and ninety soldiers of the regiment of Port-au-Prince whom it had won over sailed for France on that ship.