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 of the port of Roeau. Thee trangers were in quality of viitants to ome of their acquaintances in the iland; but their buines was, in fact, to ee what tate the place was in, and to engage the non-reitance of the French inhabitants againt the then meditated attack, as it appeared afterwards by the public boat of the aid Gabroue. However, in conequence of ome intimation to the Lieutenant-governor, that officer was taken up as a py; but after a light examination he was uffered to depart; and the report of his being in that capacity was treated with unmerited contempt.

It is worth while remarking in this place, that there eems to have been a degree of fatality attending this iland at that particular period, as, excluive of the men placed by Governor Shirley at fort Cahacrou, being dicharged from that ervice oon after his departure for England, ome months before the vaion,