Michel, Vincent and Raymond, sent by the consulate, landed at Santo-Domingo.

Michel, Vincent and Raymond landed at Santo-Domingo on 1 floréal (21 April) (1). They took the road to the Cap. Toussaint had given orders to arrest the two Europeans. As for Raymond, he had ordered that he be respected, for he was anxious to make it believed that he bore no ill will toward his caste. The bandits who were charged with the expedition acted with a violence worthy of Christophe. Michel was ill-treated, but Vincent far more so. The latter was thrown down from his horse, stripped, forced to climb the Morne-Rouge on foot, and put in prison at Port-Français. At last Toussaint arrived from Port-Républicain, bitterly deplored, according to his habit, the harm that had been done, took cognizance of the dispatches, and set out again for the West on 25 floréal (14 May) (1), his mind agitated by the passages of the proclamation of the consuls and of the minister’s letter that I have quoted; the mere thought of seeing in them a disapproval of the war against the South cruelly wounded his self-esteem; perhaps, too, some remorse at last rose in that heart, naturally good, in which only the basest adulations had been able to obliterate the notions of good and evil.