In late February 1793 a group of French planters in London drew up a detailed proposal offering to transfer their allegiance to the British government in return for protection and a suspension of debts. … It seemed to many that the French Republic, besieged by the great powers of Europe, was doomed, and that therefore British control would be temporary, with the colony returned to France once the monarchy was restored there.

Dubois, Laurent, Avengers of the New World_ …, loc. 222