Le Cap. Two aides-de-camp of Pierrot arrive with dispatches for the Council of State; the Haitian schooner Egérie escapes into its port.

On 25 April two aides-de-camp arrived at Le Cap bearing to the Council of State dispatches from President Pierrot, announcing that he accepted the first magistracy of the State and that he called upon the support of all citizens to help him fulfil the duties of that office. He made it known that he was leaving for Saint-Marc, where he would have the funeral of Guerrier celebrated, and that from Saint-Marc he would go on to Port-au-Prince.

President Pierrot arrived at Saint-Marc on 26 April at six o’clock in the morning, and at seven o’clock on the same day the funeral of Guerrier was celebrated in accordance with the program published on 16 April by the Council of the Secretaries of State.

The forts of the town began to fire the mourning gun every ten minutes. In a chamber hung with black and lit with candles, the body lay in state upon a bed of parade, and the general officers formed the guard around it. While the funeral knell tolled, all the troops filed off toward the church, which was draped in mourning, marching ahead of the hearse; the body was placed on a catafalque inside the church. President Pierrot and all his staff attended; then the remains were carried to Marchand and buried at Fort Lasource.

General Pierrot was greatly angered when he learned that Dominican privateers were infesting the coasts of the Department of the North; he was humiliated by it, he said; he regarded the Dominicans as unnatural sons of the Fatherland, whom he reserved to himself to chastise one day; this became with him a fixed and persistent idea, which in the end brought about his fall, because the Nation did not wholly share it. The hope of the people was that the Dominicans might be brought back into the bosom of the Nation, not by force, but by persuasion.

The schooner Alvina had been captured by a vessel from the East; the Capoise, a vessel of the State, was nearly taken; the Egérie, a Haitian schooner, was cannonaded at short distance off Cape Cabrón, but she was able to reach the port of Cap-Haïtien, vigorously pursued by the Dominican schooner Séparation.