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 hips of war been tationed at Prince Rupert's bay, they would have effectually topped all intercoure of the French ettlements with each other; as not a veel could have paed or repaired, but would have been liable to capture by the Britih cruizers off that bay, and to windward of the iland.

The iland of Saint Lucia, that burying-place of thouands of brave Englihmen, would then, it is probable, have remained in the deolate tate it was in before its urrender, as of no importance to the French. And it is mot certain, that had Dominica been retained, at half the expence of men and money which it cot Great Britain to reduce the other, the los of moft of the Englih ettlements in the Wet Indies would have been prevented, and the French would then have had ufficient employment in ecuring their own.