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 others, who better knew the Englih language, to liten at their doors and windows in the night-time; but luckily he never found out any ecrets.

He repeatedly threatened to et fire to the town of Roeau, in cafe the iland was attacked; and though the latter was never attempted by the Englih forces, yet that town was et fire to by the French oldlers, who, there is every reaon to uppoe, did it by his private orders. This uppoition was trongly corroborated, by his behaviour on the night of that melancholy event, at which himelf was preent bet part of the time; but he would not uffer his oldiers to ait in extinguihing the flames, ave only in houes that belonged to the French inhabitants; epecially in that of Thomas Chabaud Arnault, which, though everal times on fire, was yet aved by the troops, in preference to far more valuable buildings