Les Cayes. Rigaud arrives and restores order.

General Rigaud, as soon as he had received the delegates’ dispatches, left Tiburon with 400 men and reached Les Cayes on 30 August after forty-eight hours of forced marches. Instead of going to the delegation, he went to Fort L’Îlet on the very night of his arrival. The massacre of the whites was continuing in the countryside. Rigaud, who could have stopped the fury of the Black people, could not contain his own. He was indignant against the delegates who had tried to take his political preponderance from him, and his heart still bled from the personal affront he had received. He calmed the fury of the Black people only after he had received from Kerverseau and Leborgne the powers necessary to restore order and save the commonwealth. * He took the delegates under his protection and gave a battalion the guard of their residence. A few days later Rey and Leborgne de Boigne received a letter from Sonthonax telling them that the arrest of Lefranc was more indispensable than ever.