Le Cap. Christophe returns there amid acclamations after the recapture of Les Gonaïves

Christophe, who had set out for Les Gonaïves, had arrived there a few days after the expulsion of the republicans. On the 20th of June he had returned to Le Cap amid the acclamations of the population. The civil, military, administrative and judicial bodies had addressed every kind of congratulation to him. He issued a proclamation declaring that the soldiers of every rank who had driven the *rebels from Les Gonaïves and Saint-Marc had deserved well of the Country. He ordered the troops back to their respective garrisons to be clothed and paid and then marched in a body against the insurgents of Port-de-Paix; for the present he contented himself with containing them by a formidable cordon. Still attending to commerce and agriculture, he had a law of the Council of State of the 20th of June abolish the duty of ten per cent levied on the export of sugar, cotton and cacao, and do away with the collection of the quart de subvention imposed on the lessees of State property. The law took effect only from the 1st of July 1807. The ten per cent duty was kept on coffee alone. Dessalines’s decree of 2 September 1806 thus remained repealed. Every foreign vessel, or any other, was free to export sugar, cotton and cacao, on which the collection of any duty was forbidden. The State’s lessees were no longer liable for anything beyond the price of their leases.