Caracol. Villate camps there and beats Titus.

In the meantime the English, who wished to seize Fort-Dauphin, had established secret dealings there through some French émigrés. They had brought into the port an armed schooner and a brig of 18 guns; and they kept two corvettes, two frigates and a ship of 74 at anchor in the bay of Mancenille. They had set up an entrenched camp at Point Isabelique. The Marquis de Casa Calvo, governor of Fort-Dauphin, who since the treaty of Basel had promised to observe perfect neutrality, did not, however, hinder the English operations. The French émigrés incited a Black man named Titus, a former lieutenant of Jean-François, to raise the cultivators. They sent him powder, 1,200 muskets and pistols. Titus went to camp at Maribaroux in the parish of Vallière. Laveaux complained to Casa Calvo of the breaches of the treaty of Basel. Casa Calvo undertook to make the English respect his neutrality; but he answered that he would fight the rebels only at the request of the governor of Santo Domingo. Laveaux ordered General Villate to march against Titus. Villate, at the head of 1,000 foot and 200 horse, went to camp at Caracol. On 21 February he attacked Titus, scattered his band, took him prisoner and executed him. The English, disconcerted by the death of Titus and by the strict neutrality of Casa Calvo, who had taken a threatening attitude, withdrew. The quarter of Fort-Dauphin was nevertheless ravaged for some time longer by Cambefort and Rouvrai, who were serving in the English ranks.