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 as it was loaded with a bag of musket-balls. Several light sloops and schooners were found in the bay, one of which was sent by the commanding officers with an account of their success to the Admiral and General. It being impossible to keep possession of this post, from the small number of our troops, and intelligence being brought that a large detachment of the enemy were on their way to cut off the retreat of the party, it was determined to return to the camp without loss of time, all the ammunition having been previously destroyed, and the guns of the fort dismounted. The day proving unusually hot, and the roads being deep and slippery in consequence of the heavy rains that had fallen during the preceding night, they were not able to reach the camp without halting; they therefore took post at a planter’s house on an eminence, where they were received with great hospitality. By three P.M., the men who had dropped down on the road through fatigue, were brought in, except two, who reached the camp next morning, and the party proceeded to their different stations without further accidents.

From this period the operations carried on against the French republicans in Guadeloupe, are thus described by the Rev. Cooper Willyams, late Chaplain of the Boyne, in his interesting narrative, which we have already alluded to in the course of this memoir:–

“On Tuesday the 24th of June, General Grey opened his batteries, which he had erected near Grozier, against Fleur d’Epée; at the same time Brigadier-General Dundas kept up a smart fire on Point a Pitre, where the enemy seemed to be making preparations against the hurricane months, now approaching, by stripping the ships in the harbour of their sails and rigging. On the 26th, early in the morning, the enemy, to the number of three hundred, made a sortie from Fleur d’Epée, on our advanced post, consisting of one hundred men, but were soon obliged to retreat; we lost one man killed and eight wounded: at the same time our batteries and gun-boats cannonaded the fort; in the latter two seamen were wounded. On the 27th, the batteries at Grozier having opened as usual on Fleur d’Epée, a detachment of our troops under Brigadier-General Fisher inarched forward to attack a piquet of the enemy posted on Morne Mascot, from whence they drove them after a sharp contest, and established themselves, as our advanced post, within musket-shot of the fort. During the preceding night the light infantry at camp Berville were sent by Brigadier-General Dundas, under command of Major Ross of the 25th regiment, to Petit Bourg, where they embarked, and joined the army at Grozier. This movement, by which the main body was much