Many colonists welcomed the British invasion against the Republic.

Evidence

And then another conquest began—that of the British. In late September 600 redcoats disembarked at Jérémie, on the edge of the Southern Province, and were greeted by residents crying “Long live the English!” In the Northern Province the French officers in control of the naval fort at Môle Saint-Nicolas, “the Gibraltar of the Antilles,” handed it over without a shot—a victory “announced to the British public by the cannon of the Tower of London.” The British then turned their attention to a greater prize: the control of the productive plantation regions of the colony, notably those of the west. There, too, they were hoping that their advance would be facilitated by defections. — Dubois, Laurent, Avengers of the New World_ The Story of…, 573