Port-au-Prince. The abbé Tisserant arrives there and writes to Beaubrun Ardouin.

The abbé Tisserant, who had left for France in the first days of the month of August 1844, had arrived at Jacmel on 1 March, accompanied by two priests, the abbé Lamache and the abbé Georges Paddington; the latter had already served a chapel at Pétion-Ville, near the capital. The abbé Tisserant reached Port-au-Prince a few days later; he regretted, from the information he gathered, no longer finding in the ministry citizen Honoré Féry, whom M. Beaubrun Ardouin had replaced, as we have seen, at Justice, Public Instruction and Worship.

In the eyes of the government he had left Haiti with the title of Head of the Catholic Church of Haiti; he returned assuming the title of Apostolic Head of Haiti. On 14 March he sent two ecclesiastics to M. Beaubrun Ardouin, who reported to him that the government reserved to itself the placing of priests in the parishes. This was a grave fault on his part, even a want of regard toward the secretary of state for Worship; he ought to have gone himself to announce his return to Port-au-Prince, or to have done so by a letter, all the more since on 8 March he had written to President Guerrier to inform him that he had returned to Haiti. He hastened to put himself in direct communication with the new secretary of state, addressing to him, on 15 March 1845, the following letter: