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him to make the most vigorous resistance to all vessels wli.
should appear before Port-de-Paix, where he i:ommanded; nado
in case he should not be strong enough, having only half of *i
brigade,- to imitate the example of Gen. Christophe and af"ta
ward withdraw to the Mountain, taking with him ammunition
of all kinds; there to defend himself to thi death.
 I then went to St. Marc to visit the fortifications. I fque"I
that the news of the shameful events whicb had just taken
place had reached this town, and the inhabitants had already'
fled. I gave orders tlr all the re-itance to be made that thi 
fortifications and munitions would allow of.
 As I was on the point of trtting out from this town to go to:
Port-au-Princ:e and the southern part to gi'e my orders, Cap.:i
tains Jean-Philippe Dupin and Isaac brought me dispatcheel
from Paul L'Ouverture, who commanded at Santo Domingoa 
Both informed me that a descent had jilit l-een made upon..
Oyarsaval, and that the Frenoh ani Spaniards who inhabited::
this place had risen and cut otf th,. roads from Santo Domingo.i
I acquainted myself with these di&patcht.-. In running over thwl
letter of Gen. Paul and the copy of (':n. Kerverseau's to the conW'.
mandrr of the place of Santo. Doingo, whlih was en'clsed in itI
I saw that this general had made the overture to the commandsO,
of the place, and not to Gen. Paul, as lie -houll have done, tq>
make preparations lbr the landing of his rre. I saw also the rs,
fusal given by Gen. Paul to thim in\ nation, until he should rece*!
orders from inc. I replied to Gen. Paul that I approved his csM
duct, and ordered him to make all rp-sible eribrt to dletrnd hime".
in case of attack; and even to make prisoners of Gen Krversvea
and his force, if he could. I returned my re ply by the captain
just mentioned. But foreseeing, on account of the intercepti
of the roads, that they might be arrested and their dispatei
demanded, I gave them in charge a second littrr. in which'
ordered Gen. Paul to use all possible means of cnn iliation
Gen. Kerversceau. I charged the cnptai in case th
should be arrested, to conceal the first letter and show only
second.




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