The New Hampshire Gazette And General Advertiser

Port-au-Prince (says an authentic account) has been for some time occupied and governed by a rabble, without property, honor, or honesty, who have constantly opposed the decree of the National Assembly, giving the rights of active citizens to free negroes and mulattoes; to enforce this decree, and to pave the way for restoring order in the island, an expedition has been recently undertaken, with two 74-gun ships and other smaller vessels, which left St. Marcs the 22d of June, and after experiencing a variety of difficulties, anchored before Port-au-Prince on the 26th in the evening.

Instead of summoning the town to an instant surrender, which was thought by many would have been a decisive stroke, the commander in chief of the expedition entered into a parley with the insurgent chief in the town, which gave many criminal characters an opportunity to escape. On the 5th of July the commander of the land forces on this expedition entered Port-au-Prince at eight in the morning, at the head of several hundred volunteers—an hour after, the commissary entered with the national troops that had been encamped in the neighborhood, and, at about 10 the army came in that had been assembled for a long time past at Croix des Bouquets. When these accounts left Hispaniola, perfect tranquility was not restored in Port-au-Prince, every effort being made by the disorderly inhabitants to seduce the crews, and renew their lawless practices.

A few days before the arrival of this expedition, Pralot, the commander of a gang of mercenary negroes, was to have attacked the camp of Troubord, and destroy all by fire and sword in his way to Jacmel, where he was also to make an attempt—all avenues to escape being cut off, and every passage previously guarded, he was obliged to remain in Port-au-Prince, and was there seized.