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 Articles of Capitulation. During the time, ome of the Englih inhabitants were accued to the Marquis, by ome of the French, with having fitted out privateers againt the Americans. Thee perons were treated with great indignity by the Marquis, who obliged them to pay down coniderable ums of money for veels aid to have been French property, which had been captured as Americans by the privateers.

The principal accuers of the Englih inhabitants, on this and everal other occaions, were certain French people, who had, heretofore, been treated with every indulgence and kindnes by thoe they accued; as they were alo the chief promoters of all the diturbances, heart-burnings, and animoities of the French government, to the Britih inhabitants of the iland, during the whole of the time it was in their poeion; and were, moreover, the means