Saint-Marc. Toussaint writes to Dommage from his headquarters here.

Liberty, Equality. Toussaint Louverture, Governor of Saint-Domingue, to Citizen Dommage, general of brigade, commander in chief of the arrondissement of Jérémie. Headquarters, Saint-Marc, 20 Pluviôse, Year 10 (9 February 1802). I am sending you, my dear general, my aide-de-camp Chancy. He is the bearer of this letter, and he will tell you on my behalf what I have charged him with. The whites of France and of the colony, united together, mean to take our liberty from us. Many ships have arrived, and troops that have seized Le Cap, Port-Républicain and Fort Liberté. Le Cap succumbed after a vigorous resistance; but the enemy found only a town and a plain in ashes; the forts were blown up and everything was burned. The town of Port-Républicain was delivered to them by the traitor General Agé, as was the fort of Bizoton, which surrendered without a blow through the cowardice and treason of the chef de bataillon Bardet, a former officer of the South. The general of division Dessalines is at this moment holding a cordon at the Croix-des-Bouquets, and all our other places are on the defensive. As the place of Jérémie is very strong by the advantages of nature, you will hold it and defend it with the courage I know you have. Distrust the whites; they will betray you if they can: their very evident desire is the return of slavery.