Joseph de CAMBIS (1748-1825) rear-admiral, he participated in the American War of Independence and served in Saint-Domingue. L.A. (in draft, with 5 successive drafts), [June 1795]; 3 pages in-4 plus one with the title of an Abrégé de la grammaire 1786. On the mutiny of the Jupiter in Saint-Domingue. [Cambis had led the first commissioners of the National Assembly to Saint-Domingue in 1791. After having commanded on several ships, he passed on the ship Jupiter where he remained from March to August 1793; he calmed there an insurrection of the crew which was announced with much violence. He came into conflict with the civil commissioners Sonthonax and Polverel, was dismissed by them in June 1793 and sent back to France; disembarking at Lorient in October, he was arrested and dismissed; released in October 1794, he was reinstated in his rank in September 1795]. Here he finalized a draft letter concerning the mutiny on the Jupiter, and intervened on behalf of the crew. "The Cit. Cosmao, who, on the vessel the Jupiter, [while I was commanding the station of St. Domingue] manifested an enlightened, courageous and humane patriotism, warns me that by addressing a petition to you, she could determine on your part a decision favorable to the sailors that a later good conduct renders worthy of the national indulgence on already old facts of insurrection. I learn that for these acts on the ship Jupiter, they remain deprived, by decision of Representative J. St. André [Jeanbon Saint André], of the pay and salary they would have earned during this campaign. Humanity alone would undoubtedly lead me to this approach of solicitation for citizens who, for the most part, have to support a family [...] I will not support my petition with any official paperwork, having been separated from my service papers for 20 months since my return to France. Incarcerated without having been heard at all in spite of my continuous complaints, I was not incarcerated before the 9th of Thermidor; if I am not incarcerated again today, I have reason to believe that the national justice will do its duty"...