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 that it was an iland capable of being rendered both formidable and dangerous to their own ettlements at a future period.

To return to the Marquis Duchilleau; he, like another tyrannic governor, iued a proclamation, forbidding the aembling together of the Englih inhabitants more than two in a place. That no lights were to be een in their houes after nine o'clock at night; that no Englih peron was to be out after that hour, in the treets, without a candle and, or a lighted pipe in his mouth; and that no ervant of theirs was to be een at night, without a ticket from his master; under no les a penalty to white people, than being hot by the centinel at the pot they paed by, of being imprioned, or ent out of the iland; and the ervants to be whipped in the public market, beides a fine on their maters. Many