Saint Jago de la Vega. Capitulation of the Grand’Anse signed there.

The council of safety and execution of Jérémie, which had replaced the council of administration after the fight at Desrivaux, was the soul of these guilty maneuvers. As early as 18 August it had given its powers to a colonist, Venant de Charmilly, to negotiate the surrender of the Grand’Anse. Venant de Charmilly embarked on the flag-of-truce vessel the Poisson Volant and went to Jamaica, where he met Cadusch and other colonists of the Môle who had already prepared Governor Williamson for the treaty about to be concluded. On 3 September 1793 the capitulation was signed at Saint Jago de la Vega by Pierre Venant de Charmilly, a proprietor in Saint-Domingue, in the name of the inhabitants of the Grand’Anse, on the one part, and by Adam Williamson, governor of Jamaica for King George, on the other. It stipulated that the inhabitants of Saint-Domingue, being unable to have recourse to their lawful sovereign to deliver them from the tyranny that oppressed them, invoked the protection of His Britannic Majesty, swore fidelity to him and besought him to keep the colony and to treat them as good and faithful subjects until the general peace, at which time His Britannic Majesty, the French government and the allied powers would decide definitively among themselves the sovereignty of Saint-Domingue;