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1800-11-26

Toussaint has Roume arrested and sent to Dondon

Haitian

In 1800, Toussaint, having crushed in the French part of Saint-Domingue all those who opposed his ambition, resolved to seize the Spanish part. Before entering upon the campaign, he wished to secure the person of the agent of the Directory, Roume, who obstinately refused to authorize the taking of possession of the Spanish colony, ceded to France in 1795 by the treaty of Basel. Toussaint claimed that he was influenced by intriguers, enemies of France. On 26 November, after having had him violently arrested at the Cap, he placed two carriages at his disposal, and ordered General Moïse to conduct him under escort to Dondon, with orders to hold him there as a prisoner until he should be recalled by the French government. Roume, feeling deeply humiliated by Toussaint’s conduct toward him, asked to return to France. Colonel Vincent, by dint of entreaties, obtained from the general in chief that he be allowed to embark. This circumstance added to Bonaparte’s discontent with Toussaint-Louverture.

Rouzier tells this under the entry Dondon.

Source  ·  p. t. I, p. 323 Sémexant Rouzier, Dictionnaire géographique et administratif universel d'Haïti (t. I) (1892), p. t. I, p. 323