Toussaint took possession of the Môle, where major Spincer handed him the keys of the town.

Toussaint left Port-au-Prince, arrived at Saint-Marc on {{9 fructidor, Year VI|26 August 1798}}, had the whole regiment assembled in the church, with the women and children who had followed it, had a mass sung, which the municipal council attended, in spite of the laws of the mother country, and proclaimed a general amnesty, again in spite of those same laws. He continued toward the North, and arrived, on 14 fructidor (31 August), at Jean-Rabel. Maitland, who awaited him there, had concentrated all the English troops in that quarter: Toussaint reviewed them at the Pointe-Bourgeoise, to the sound of salvoes of artillery. He was made a present of a bronze culverin of 3 and of two carbines (2). These testimonies of honor made him lose his head. Maitland took advantage of the intoxication by proposing to him to supply, under flag of truce, the ports of the West and of the Artibonite; he consented: a secret convention was signed the same day (3). Finally the English, content to secure to themselves the immense commercial outlet of Saint-Domingue, embarked at the Môle, of which Toussaint took possession on 11 vendémiaire, Year VII (2 October). Major Spincer, who commanded the place, came in person to hand him the keys of the town. In the name of the King of England he was given the government palace built by the English, with this strange remark, “that they had nevertheless the right to have the palace razed” (1), as if to tell him that it was only out of consideration for him personally that it had been preserved.