The army of blacks increased without the walls of the Cape Town, where they formed and disciplined a fortified camp.

Guns and cannons arrived by the aid of invisible auxiliaries.

Some accused the English, others the Spaniards; others, the "friends of the blacks," with being accomplices of this insurrection.

The Spaniards, however, were at peace with France; the revolt of the blacks menaced them equally with ourselves.

The English themselves possessed three times as many slaves as the French: the principle of the insurrection, excited by success, and spreading with them, would have ruined their establishments, and compromised the lives of their colonists.