Môle Saint-Nicolas. An English frigate comes out of it to save Brisbane at Saint-Marc.

We have seen that during the interview at the dike of the Artibonite, Toussaint had won over Brisbane’s secretary, Morin, a man of color, who enjoyed the full confidence of the English major. Morin drew into a vast conspiracy against His Britannic Majesty all the mulattoes of Saint-Marc and of Montrouis, whose loyalty to England had already been shaken by the patriotic writings of Pinchinat and by the ill treatment they suffered from the white colonists, almost as under the old regime. He wrote to Toussaint Louverture that if he appeared before Saint-Marc its gates would be opened to him. There were in that town only eighty European soldiers, 200 men of the Dillon battalion, the legion of Saint-Marc commanded by Colonel Dessources, 300 Spaniards who had evacuated Les Verrettes, and the militias of the neighboring countryside: 1,500 men in all. Toussaint, at the head of 11,000 men, approached Saint-Marc during the night and was let in by 300 mulattoes who had seized the gateways; it was the 6th of September. His army entered on the side of Les Guêpes. Brisbane, taken by surprise, had only time to withdraw into Fort Libre with a few hundred soldiers. The Republicans, most of them naked, instead of assaulting him vigorously, set about plundering the town. Nevertheless, at daybreak, he was on the point of succumbing when an English frigate, coming out of the Môle, entered the harbor, at once moored broadside opposite Les Guêpes and cannonaded the Republicans without respite. The next day another frigate arrived. Toussaint, losing many soldiers, abandoned his prey and left the town with a rich booty, accompanied by Morin, who from then on attached himself to his fortunes. Colonel Dessources pursued him and killed some of his stragglers. The three hundred men of color who had taken up arms for France had not the energy to abandon their properties and follow the Republicans, who were in the direst privation, living on nothing but maize and sour oranges. They sent Brisbane an address in which they begged him to allow them to return to the town. The English major granted their request. But as soon as they had dispersed to their houses he had them disarmed, arrested and put in chains aboard three warships lying in the roads. The next day twenty of the most guilty were shot, among whom were noted Bonbon Hugueville, Archin, Lacase, Couyo and others. The white colonists of Saint-Marc took advantage of this circumstance to put a greater number to death. On a dark night they went aboard the three warships, had sixty of the prisoners put ashore, and killed them with sabers and bayonets.