Saint-Marc. Bédouet is sent there; Guerrier dates his proclamation of 1 April from its National Palace.

The government, knowing all the ramifications of the Riviériste conspiracy from the first days of March 1845, took every measure necessary to make it miscarry. The secretary of state for War and the Navy wrote to the minister of Justice to have searches made at the house of Bédouet, who was at Port-au-Prince, and at that of David St-Preux, who was at Aquin, with the aim of finding there correspondence concerning the plot. The authorities could discover no compromising paper. David St-Preux was summoned to Port-au-Prince, and Bédouet was dispatched to Saint-Marc, escorted by the battalion chief Moïse, adjutant of the place. President Guerrier, using kindness toward Bédouet, wrote to him on 16 March to betake himself to Le Trou, in the Department of the North, and to hold himself there at the orders of the government. Instructions were sent to general Pierrot, commandant of the Department of the North, and to general Charrier, commandant of Le Trou, to show him consideration. Bédouet was even permitted to leave Saint-Marc without escort. But as soon as he reached Gonaïves, he took a canoe and had himself carried off Léogane, where he arrived on 23 March. The authorities having asked him for his pass, he took flight, but he was arrested in the night and imprisoned. General Désiré, commandant of the arrondissement of Léogane, informed the minister of War of it, who ordered him to be conducted to Port-au-Prince. When the authorities wished to send him off under strong escort, they learned that he had again taken flight. The minister of War, suspecting the fidelity of the government’s agents at Léogane, had that town occupied militarily by general Samedi Thélémaque, at the head of the 3rd regiment, under the orders of colonel Rémy.