Cherbourg. Pinchinat, Rey Delmas and Bonnet land here under a royalist municipality.

Meanwhile Pinchinat and Rey Delmas, deputies to the legislative body, and Bonnet, who had been taken prisoner by Commodore Rickets as we have seen, were on the hulks in England. As the British government was not unaware that they were hostile to Sonthonax and meant to accuse him of wishing to make the colony independent, it sent them to France on a cartel ship, the Tallebot of Bayonne, so as to increase the Directory’s embarrassments over Saint-Domingue. Pinchinat, Rey Delmas and Bonnet landed at Cherbourg on 11 August 1797, while the royalist party was dominant in that town.