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in the power of the Commissioner, an Engli;h eg U a
in the harbor of the last-mentionei city, and demand
surrender. This armament received an increase shortly ai
ward. As usual, dissension and tria.son rwere- at work amo
the forces of the authorities. With th-ir aid, the Engli
affected a landing and took up a po-tion. Th.- (C'onmissiol
er fled to Jacmel. There they l.arnedl lat a dIcr 'e hal bee'
passed against them by th.- National Convention in Pa
They submitted, and were rt,.eivrrld as prioner' on boh
L'Espdrance. During the interval, Port-au-Princ: h.'eame t
scene of new horrors. The emigrant Brun gr, at the head
a legion, took posiesion of the town. and s,.izing Fort-Jose
where the whites had taken refuge who could not find room
board the vessels in the harbor, he rauled thiem to eome fo
one by one, and, as they appeared, h- threw tlrmw headl
from the rampart into the fw ee, saying., RE-publi.an, I-
down the Tarpeian rock." Thus perihed two-andl-thirty
sons, and but for the orders of the Erglith gt-..ral nut a
would have been spared.
 England had not invaded the French part of Hlayti wilho
having an understanding with Spain. Bi the convntion b
tween the two parties it was ap-re-d on that En-landi -bould 1
tablish its protection ovrr the We-t and the- Soulth, nl t
Spain -hiuldl extend ;ts dominion from thie E.Ct t) thI- xtrel
ity of the North. A:.ordlingly, while the Enlish iuhaded
West andl the South, th,- Spanihi invitul thle .crrole, of
North, who had letf the colony, to return and take pr c ioidon
their properties. On the I'aith of the promises m.-l.I to th
two hundred colonists quitted the United States andl nte.
their homes at Fort Dauphin. Shortly afntr, J,-an Fra
Cois. at the head of a hdily or ne;',rre, en':anmpl.d undlr r
walls of that [pla,:e. R -istance was not olT. rI.l, int thin ers
siln thl;t thi-y eanim only to se:oud, the op,.ratioun? ..t the Spa
iardi. Thit next da.y, alit-r the ce,-lebration ,t' ma-'. those bia
mingle with Spaniards, having Ibrmed themselves into ba
traversed the streets, and slaughtered every Frenchman t~