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 Many of the Englih inhabitants were imprioned by him on the lightet pretence; and one of them, Robert Thou, was actually hot by a centinel, for attempting to go on board his own veel after nine o'clock at night. This unfortunate young man died a few days after, in the utmot torture from his wound, the ball going through his body at the breat; and the perpetrator of this horrid murder was raied by the Marquis Duchilleau to a higher tation in his regiment, for having thus wantonly killed him.

So very apprehenive was this Governor, that the Englih inhabitants were forming deigns to retake the iland, or that they held a correpondence with the enemy at Saint Lucia, that every letter of theirs was opened for his inpection it was delivered. And deeming this inufficient to come at the knowledge of their private tranactions, he adopted the practice of going himelf in diguie, or ploying