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 there could not have been a more proper peron for carrying the intentions of the Marquis into execution, by leening the value of Dominica, in order to have it ceded to the French at the concluion of the war. In this, however, happily for the Britih nation, he was diappointed; and although the greatet part of the Englih inhabitants, from the harh and cruel treatment they underwent, not only from the Marquis Duchilleau, but alo from every French peron in office under his government, was driven to the neceity of quitting the iland; yet the few that remained, patiently enduring all their ufferings from the French, waited only the commencement of peace, to determine whether the country would be retored to the Englih, or be continued under the dominion of France. The former happening to be the cae, was a matter of great concern to the French, who, well knowing its importance, quitted their poeions with the greatet reluctancy, from a tion