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 This fire in Roeau happened the evening of Eater Sunday, 1781, by which upwards of five hundred houes were conumed in a few hours; and among them the principal buildings, tores, a vat quantity of rich merchandize, and valuable articles of houhold goods were detroyed, to the amount of upwards of two hundred thouand pounds terling.

The inferior French officers, and feveral of the French inhabitants of Dominica, encouraged thereto by the tyrannic behaviour of the Marquis Duchilleau, were not backward in their bad treatment of the Englih inhabitants: the officers uually inulting them as they walked the treets; throwing howers of tones on their houes in the night-time; aluting the Englih white women with indecent expreions as they paed by; taking the upper hand of the men in taverns, and other places of neceary reort, where they pened