Rigaud tendered his resignation, which Roume did not accept.

This festival would have given the colony the peace it needed, had it not been for the fatal determination which Roume, to please Toussaint, took to sanction Laplume’s insubordination. Talk was of withdrawing from the authority of Rigaud Léogane, which he had conquered, and Jacmel as well, the two Goâves and Miragoâne. This was to open the gates of the South wide to the ambition of Toussaint, at which all intelligent heads took fright. So Rigaud tendered his resignation on 18 pluviôse (6 February). He even begged Toussaint to support his step (1), which the latter did, to his great pleasure. But unhappily for Rigaud, Roume did not accept this resignation. He consented to leave Rigaud the command of Miragoâne, and kept Jacmel under that of Laplume. Roume revoked thereby the instructions of Hédouville, and violated besides the law of 4 brumaire, which comprised these different points in the department of the South. Rigaud was offended by the partialities of the agent; and, justly displeased, he set out on 24 pluviôse (13 February) for his department, which had just been troubled by an insurrection at Corail. He had the Goâves evacuated by Commandant Laferté and Captain Bouchard, while Laplume took possession of them with a battalion of the 8th and of the 11th demi-brigade.