Ferrol. The Indien, beaten by the storm, puts in here.

The Indien set sail for Europe, and Sonthonax departed repenting of having raised so high a man who had deceived his expectation, but in no way repenting of what he had done for the Black race. The Indien, beaten by the storm, put in at Ferrol in Spain on 11 November 1797. When Sonthonax returned to Saint-Domingue in 1796 he was animated by the same sentiments as in 1792, 1793 and 1794; he was the same civil commissioner, facing death, scorning private interests, going forward as the target of every dagger and laboring for the final triumph of the newly free; he was that ardent revolutionary who pursued the radical idea: “Let the colonies perish rather than a principle.” But he met an obstacle that his own hands had raised: the child come of age, anxious for his future, more confident in his own lights and his own strength, dreaming of a full and entire independence, tore himself violently from the tutelage of the man who had surrounded his youth with every kind of solicitude. General Pétion, when he became President of Haiti, did not forget the services Sonthonax had rendered to the Black race: in his conversations he always placed him among the founders of our liberty.