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1845-12-31

Port-au-Prince. Levasseur hauls down the French consular flag there.

Haitian

M. Levasseur rejected with the deepest displeasure the conclusions of the Council of the Secretaries of State and of the Council of State, and on 30 December gave notice of his withdrawal and of the breaking off of his relations with the Government by the following act: Consulate-General of France in Haiti. To the Government of the Republic of Haiti. Notification of the withdrawal of the consul-general of France aboard the frigate of His Majesty the King of the French, the Thétis.

“The undersigned, consul-general of His Majesty the King of the French in Haiti, has received and examined the report made on 18 December 1845 to the President of the Haitian Republic on the Dubrac affair by the Council of the Secretaries of State and the Council of State assembled at Cap-Haïtien.

“The quibbles, the reticences, the malevolent insinuations and the calumnies that characterize this report can be regarded by the undersigned only as a fresh aggravation of the wrongs, already so numerous, of the government of Haiti toward the consul-general of France and his nationals.

“As to the conclusions of the report, the undersigned rejects them absolutely, protests against their injustice, and makes against them every reservation of right.

“The undersigned, convinced that any further attempt on his part to obtain the justice that is due to him, and that is refused him, would henceforth be useless, and considering that, in the position in which he is placed, he could not, without compromising the dignity of the official character with which he is invested, continue to maintain relations with the Government of the Republic of Haiti, declares here that, from tomorrow, the thirty-first of December, his consular flag will cease to fly at Port-au-Prince, and that he will withdraw the same day aboard the frigate of His Majesty the King of the French, the Thétis, there to await the orders of his Government, or to concert with the Commander of the French naval subdivision upon the means to be employed to repress immediately, if need be, any injuries that may be done to the honor and the interests of France.

Source  ·  p. 380 Thomas Madiou, Histoire d’Haïti, vol. VIII, p. 380