Bréda plantation. Laveaux visits the fort protecting it.

The governor, accompanied by the ordonnateur Perroud and by Pageot, commander of the province of the North, left Port-de-Paix and came to Le Cap, where the municipality, devoted to Villate, raised every kind of difficulty for him. He none the less admired the fine bearing of the free companies and complimented Villate on it; Villate had under his orders the colonels Pierre Michel, Rodrigue and Léveillé. On 4 November he left Le Cap, visited a fort that protected the village of Bréda, crossed La Marmelade and went on to the Dondon, where he congratulated Toussaint Louverture on having raised to higher ranks the officers Moyse, Dessalines, Christophe, Desrouleaux, Duménil, Clervaux, Maurepas and Bonaventure. He returned to Le Cap on 7 November and found the people, whom Villate was stirring up, far more hostile to him. Ambition played the chief part in these circumstances. The citizens addressed to Laveaux a petition asking that the command of the province of the North be entrusted to Villate. General Pageot, who had always deserved well of his country, held that command. The governor rejected the request all the more forcefully because he believed he discovered in this step the ardent desire of the man of color to seize authority in the North, as Bauvais and Rigaud were already exercising it in the West and the South. The old free, Black and mixed-race, loudly showed their discontent at this, and an insurrection even came close to breaking out on 12 November. Villate, who without showing himself was setting the population in motion, succeeded in calming the ferment. On the 26th of the same month there was a fresh tumult. The people cried, as they went through the streets, that affairs would never go well until there were two heads fewer in the colony (those of Laveaux and of Perroud).