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 means of obliging everal to quit it, leaving behind them their property.

Thee were Thomas Cd At, Wm Rd, and a Mr Cr. The latter had formerly dealt largely with ome Englih merchants of the iland, whom he had defrauded of their dues by running away; but returning on this expedition, as chief guide to the troops, he was promoted by the Marquis de Bouillé to the office of chief baker to the forces in the place, as a reward of his treachery. Rd had quitted that country in the ame clandetine manner; but returning with the Marquis, as a volunteer in the caue, was by him appointed his mot Chritian Majety's Receiver-general of Dominica, Cd At had been a number of years a trutee for the French churchlands in Roeau, to which office he was appointed by the Englih government, at the time of the ceion of the country to Great Britain.