Laval. Gérin is staying there when Papalier writes

At ten in the evening nearly all the troops of the garrison had been won over, artillery, cavalry and infantry. Inginac’s head was demanded, and the absurd rumor was spread that a ship had arrived laden with chains for the Blacks who were to be deported. The people, who in times of ferment follow, most often, every impulse except those of reason, received this rumor favorably. The rest of the night passed in great agitation. The next day, the 9th of October, at daybreak, Colonel Wagnac had still not returned to Les Cayes; no news of him had even been received. Papalier sent the citizen Brunet to him, and at the same time reported this event by letter to General Guillaume Lafleur, who commanded at Aquin, and to Gérin, minister of war, who was staying on his estate of Laval, near Anse-à-Veau. A few hours after Brunet’s departure, Bauregard, commandant of the town of Les Cayes, learned for certain from a white man, secretary to Étienne Mentor Esmangard, colonel inspector of cultivation, that the latter had been cut down with sabers at eight in the morning by Wagnac’s dragoons; that these dragoons and their chief, electrified by Mécerou’s words, had fraternized with the rebels; that the districts of Labacou and Roche-à-Bateau and the plains of Torbeck and of Les Cayes had risen; that the insurgents were encamped at the Carrefour Govin and at Camp Gérard; that Moreau was indeed a prisoner; that preparations were being made to attack Les Cayes; that Wagnac had accepted from the rebels the title of general of brigade, and Racolier that of colonel of the dragoons. Étienne Mentor was still breathing; he had received more than thirty saber cuts and had been left for dead. On the other hand, Aoua, coming from Jérémie in the State felucca, entered the port of Les Cayes. He saw revolt painted on every face. He said how much he regretted having come back to Les Cayes instead of going to Les Gonaïves, from where he could have joined the Emperor. He reported that all was quiet along the coast from Jérémie to Les Cayes. As his report might thwart the plans of the conspirators of the town, his destruction was at once resolved. Mademoiselle Euphémie Daguille sent a courier to Dessalines to make known to him the true character of the revolt. But the messenger was stopped near Les Cayes by horsemen whom the council of the conspirators sent in pursuit of him.