ABSTRACT
This menace had the desired effect. By incredible exertions, the French got the vessels ready in time: the rebels were appointed to go in the same vessel with the assassins of Le Vasseur; Fontenay, with his officers, and the rest of the colony, in the other: the whole number embarked was 600. This the Spanish general considered too powerful a number to send to sea, while all his large ships were at Espanola, in case they should join the freebooters, and return and attack him upon his passage to St. Domingo: he therefore demanded the governor's brother, M. Hotman, as an hostage, and a suspension of all hostilities, till the vessels had completed their equipment in Port Margot. This was agreed upon: the French sailed for Port Margot, and the Spaniards for St. Domingo.
