Port-au-Prince. Treaty of evacuation signed aboard the Abergavenny in its roadstead.

On 28 April he sent to Port-Républicain a trusted officer, Adjutant-General Huin, furnished with his powers. Maitland charged Adjutant Nightingal, an officer in the troops of His Britannic Majesty, to represent him. On 30 April they met aboard the English ship Abergavenny, anchored in the roadstead of Port-Républicain. They drew up and signed a treaty by which it was agreed that the towns of Port-Républicain and Saint-Marc, with their fortifications and dependencies, and the parish of the Arcahaie, should be given up to General Toussaint Louverture, together with the bronze guns unfit for service, save three or four, and that sufficient time should be granted to the English troops to withdraw freely; that General Toussaint should bind himself solemnly to guarantee the lives and property of all the inhabitants who wished to remain in the colony, even though they had submitted to His Britannic Majesty; that five weeks should be granted to the English to evacuate the towns of Saint-Marc, the Arcahaie and Port-Républicain; and that during this time all hostilities should cease on both sides.