The Council of Peace and Union founded by Pinchinat opened its sessions.

The Artibonite then enjoyed a perfect calm, thanks to the presence of Pinchinat, who had just regularized its position more firmly by creating the COUNCIL OF PEACE AND UNION. This council, composed of tricolor deputies, opened its sessions on 30 May; and, realizing the thought of its founder, it busied itself with causing the law of 4 April to be executed and with healing the wounds of civil war. Savary, who, although mayor of Saint-Marc, commanded the armed force, powerfully seconded the views of the council. It is in this satisfactory state that Roume and Blanchelande found Saint-Marc, where they landed on the 23rd, at three o’clock in the afternoon (1). There they met the famous Borel, whom M. de Grimouard had captured the day before, and here is how: Borel, after the rout of his fort at Les Verrettes, had gone to resume his seat in the Assemblée coloniale. But Port-au-Prince had not wished to leave this brawler in repose; he had been elected there commander of the national guard in place of Caradeux. He was therefore proceeding to his new post, escorted by the ship the Agathe, mounted with 20 cannon, and by another vessel mounted with 14, both laden with paid guards and with whites of good will. He was taken in prize by the Borée and led to Saint-Marc with his fleet. Blanchelande had the great agitator conducted to jail; the {{*sénéchaussée*|seneschal’s court}} began the examination of his case, in spite of his inviolability, which he strongly invoked as representative of the colony (2).