Le Cap. Roume issues the safe-conduct here.

Commissioner Roume had given them a safe-conduct worded as follows: Liberty, Equality. SAFE-CONDUCT. At Cap-Français, 8 July 1800 (19 Messidor, Year 8) of the French Republic, one and indivisible. The French National Agent in Saint-Domingue, by these presents and by virtue of the orders given him by the Consuls of the Republic, authorizes Citizen Vincent, director of fortifications in Saint-Domingue, to proceed immediately to the city of Les Cayes and to any other place in the arrondissement of that name to which he and his two colleagues may judge it necessary to go, in order to carry there, in the name of the French Consuls and by virtue of the powers given them by the National Agent and by the general-in-chief of the army of Saint-Domingue, to carry there, we say, the olive branch of peace, and to bring back, by an effective accommodation, the tranquillity and happiness this unfortunate colony needs, which can be brought about only by the sincere reconciliation of the inhabitants of the arrondissement of Les Cayes with their fellow citizens in the rest of the colony. Citizen Vincent and his two colleagues are placed under the safeguard not only of French law but also of the law of nations, which governs the relations of peoples divided by war; the agency gives warning that any person who should dare to oppose their progress or molest them would make himself answerable for a crime unpardonable in the eyes of all civilized nations.