Le Cap. The Martinique squadron anchors; royalist officers cause disorders and are sent back to France.

Blanchelande had to fight the revolutionary party, the freedmen and the enslaved. He sent to Martinique for help; and the governor of that island, M. de Béhague, dispatched to him the ship of the line Éole, the frigate Didon and the brig Cerf, under the orders of M. de Girardin. The squadron anchored at Le Cap on 16 November. The officers of the station, royalists for the most part, stirred up great disorders at Le Cap. The alarm was beaten there; the Bossus and the Crochus nearly came to blows; in the end the revolutionary party carried the day, and the royalist officers were sent back to France. The Colonial Assembly then named Dassas, major of the Le Cap regiment, captain-general. This Dassas, although he belonged to an aristocratic family, attached himself to the revolutionary party, and distinguished himself only by his defeats and by his seditious conduct in the streets of Le Cap. The Colonial Assembly postponed the political emancipation of the freedmen, in spite of the wise speeches of Rouvrai and Thouzard, which were even in harmony with the interests of the whites.