Santo Domingo. Ogé and Chavannes imprisoned in the Tower; the Royal Audiencia hands them over.

Chavannes, who had lost his way in the woods, came out at the town of San Juan and was arrested in the same way. In vain did they declare themselves under the protection of the Spanish government. They were taken to Santo Domingo and imprisoned in the Tower. Meanwhile the whites had returned in triumph to the town of Le Cap with prisoners whom they had subjected on the way to the worst treatment.

M. Blanchelande, of whom we shall speak later, had replaced M. de Peinier in the government of Saint-Domingue. The latter, falsely accused of being the protector of the men of color, had resigned. One of Blanchelande’s first acts, in order to win favor with the colonial party, was to ask the governor of the Spanish colony for the extradition of Ogé, Chavannes and their accomplices, relying on a treaty that had fallen into oblivion but still existed between the two powers.

The governor, Don García, his assessor, the public interpreter and a notary-clerk, meeting at the veterans’ quarters, examined the prisoners, twenty-six in number including two captives. They were warmly defended by the assessor, Don Vicente Faura. Nonetheless the Royal Audiencia, on 21 December 1790, decided that they should be handed over to their oppressors.