Port-au-Prince. Inginac, arriving in the roadstead from Kingston, is forbidden to land.

Meanwhile General Balthazar Inginac, formerly secretary-general under President Boyer and one of the most illustrious citizens of the Republic, arrived in the roadstead of Port-au-Prince on 14 November 1844, coming from Kingston, where he had taken refuge at the same time as Boyer in 1843; he had thought that he could return to the country after the fall of Rivière Hérard, under the government of President Guerrier, with whom he had been on good terms for twenty-two years. But his personal enemies, by dint of intrigue, had succeeded in persuading the government that his presence would be dangerous in Haiti. Besides, there were at that moment two men in power, Féry and Laudun, revolutionaries of 1843, who were full of prejudice against him. The government decided that he should be forbidden to go ashore from the vessel on which he had arrived; and this was notified to him. They showed themselves more than harsh toward this infirm old man, worn down by the privations he had suffered at Kingston, whose name was honorably associated with the greatest acts of the Republic. It was believed at the time that President Guerrier, fallen into senility, had had no part in this iniquitous measure.