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 Withal, he was o very puillanimous, that the mot vague report of the approach of the Englih from Saint Lucia terrified him; when, galloping up and down like a madman, he would threaten every Englihman he met, to put them to death, and to et fire to the town, hould their countrymen dare to attempt an invaion. And moreover, not confiding in the great number of troops that were under his command, but thinking them not ufficient to quell an inurrection of the Englih inhabitants, whom he weakly uppoed might make an attempt to retake the iland, he thought proper to break through the eighteenth Article of the Capitulation, by diarming them, and ditributing their arms among the runaway negros, with whom he actually entered into a treaty for aitance.

This was the Governor whom the Marquis de Bouillé, from motives of policy, thought fit to appoint over his firt conquet; and there