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The Kentucky Gazette
Lexington, Fayette County, Kentucky
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French officer Lachaise, known from St. Domingo disasters and Genet's orders, departed Lancaster for Kentucky on Wednesday morning after a brief stay. Recently promoted to lieutenant general, he is reportedly on a secret mission and shared details of negotiations between France's Directory and Spain's Ambassador to exchange Spanish St. Domingo for Louisiana, as of April when he left Paris.
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The celebrated Lachaise, so well known in the disasters of St. Domingo, as well as in America, under the orders of Genet, after staying a few days in Lancaster, on Wednesday morning last took his departure for Kentucky.
"He has been lately promoted to the rank of lieutenant general in the French service, and it is said, has arrived in this country on a secret mission. He informs, that when he left Paris, (which must have been in April last, for he sailed with Santhonax to the West-Indies,) the Directory and the Spanish Ambassador were negotiating on an exchange of the Spanish part of St. Domingo, for Louisiana."
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Lancaster
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Wednesday Morning Last
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The celebrated Lachaise, known in St. Domingo disasters and under Genet's orders in America, stayed a few days in Lancaster before departing for Kentucky on Wednesday morning last. He was recently promoted to lieutenant general in the French service and arrived in the country on a secret mission. He reported that when he left Paris in April last, sailing with Santhonax to the West-Indies, the Directory and Spanish Ambassador were negotiating an exchange of the Spanish part of St. Domingo for Louisiana.