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 This evere cannonading o greatly intimidated the French, that they evacuated the fort they had taken with much precipitation, and retreated to the ide of a hill jut oppoite to it, out of the line of fire. There they remained a coniderable time, as if to meditate on ome other mode of attack; but hortly after, about two thoufand of them gained poeion of the heights above Roeau, where they eemed to wait the coming on of night, to make their further approaches.

This lat circumtance determined the fate of the iland; as the Lieutenant-governor, eeing the danger to which the mall force he had would inevitably be expoed by a further reitance, he, with the advice of his Privy-council, then aembled at the Government-houe, ent out a Flag of Truce to the Marquis de Bouille, with offers to urrender the iland by capitulation. This