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 was every probability to apprehend it would have been done by a lawles, compoed of renegado white men, negros, mulattos, and the outcats of ociety from everal French and other foreign ilands; who, with large knives and pitols tuck in their belts, were prepared for the perpetration of every pecies of rapine, barbarity, and murder. Thee wretches, upwards of one thouand in number, were obliged to be atisfied for their failure of plunder on this occaion, by a contribution laid on the inhabitants by the Marquis de Bouillé, of four thouand four hundred pounds current money, which was ditributed among them a few days after the urrender of the iland.

After the enemy were in poeion of Cahacrou fort, in the manner before noticed, the major part of their forces being till at ea, thoe that were landed either judging it imprudent to advance to Roeau, or being atisfied with