Notes to Baron V. P. Malouet, Refuting the Fourth Volume of His Work Collection de Mémoires sur les Colonies

Vastey writes as secretary of the king and member of his privy council, and he replies to the fourth volume of the Collection de Mémoires sur les Colonies by Baron Malouet, minister of the Marine and Colonies under Louis XVIII, first published in the year X. The foreword says it was written while colonists of Saint-Domingue in France, the islands and foreign courts were praising Malouet as a man to be trusted, and it sets out to show Haitians his actual views from the words of Malouet himself. Vastey quotes Malouet's statements that colonial society rests on slavery and that its perpetuity should be made an axiom, and he argues that slavery and the cruelty of the colonists caused the revolution, not liberty.

He rejects Malouet's proposal of a regime of precautions that would replace the word slave by a free laborer whose work is bought, and answers Malouet's claim about the empire of the Antilles. The booklet is a polemic of the Kingdom of Haiti addressed to its readers in the period when French colonists sought to return.