1802-02-19
Port Royal. Duckworth wrote to Villaret-Joyeuse from the Leviathan there.
Haitian
Sir John Thomas Duckworth, commanding the Jamaica station, to Admiral Villaret-Joyeuse, at the Cap. On board His Britannic Majesty’s ship Leviathan, at Port Royal, Jamaica, 19 February 1802. Sir, I have received the letter which Your Excellency did me the honor of writing to inform me of the arrival at the Cap of the French forces under your command, and I am flattered by the confidence with which Your Excellency honors me in making known to me the state of those forces and their destination. This information agrees perfectly with what I have received from His Majesty’s ministers, who at the same time transmit to me the orders of the King, my master, to treat the French nation with every possible regard.
Source · p. 206
Thomas Madiou, Histoire d’Haïti, vol. II, p. 206