Santo Domingo. Kerverseau enters after Paul Louverture submits.

Clervaux at Santiago, at the head of 700 men of the 6th demi-brigade, received no news of Toussaint Louverture. He was in the keenest anxiety over the fate of his chief. Bishop Mauvieille came to him from Santo Domingo. He used all his eloquence to bring him to submit to the new government, relying on Toussaint’s proclamation, which made it a duty for civil and military officials to receive the envoys of the mother country with the respect of filial piety. “It is probable,” Mauvieille told him, “that the governor himself has made his submission.” Clervaux, overcome by the bishop’s arguments, acknowledged the authority of Captain-General Leclerc. A few days later Leclerc sent him General Claparède, who took possession of the town in the name of the French government. Clervaux was kept in his rank of brigadier general and in his command of the department of the Cibao. Mauvieille returned to Santo Domingo; he presented to Paul Louverture a letter in which Clervaux urged him to submit to Captain-General Leclerc, whose authority was lawful according to the proclamations of Toussaint himself. Paul Louverture, following the example of Clervaux, likewise acknowledged the new government. On 2 ventôse General Kerverseau entered Santo Domingo at the head of the French troops, congratulated Paul on his attachment to the mother country, and urged him to call on the garrisons of the Spanish part, by a proclamation, to imitate the conduct of the garrison of Santo Domingo. Paul Louverture addressed to the troops of the department of the Ozama a proclamation in which he said “that liberty for himself and his own was the talisman that fired his zeal and his love for the mother country.” 2 ventôse (21 February).