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 a repectable Englih merchant in a public tavern.

It is, however, neceary here to do jutice to the merits of ome of the principal French officers at that time; as of the Count de Bourgoinne, Monieur da Beaupé, and the generality of the officers of Irih Brigades in that iland.

The Count de Bourgoinne was Chief Governor of Dominica for ome time after the Marquis Duchilleau had quitted it, to ait in the expedition formed by the French and Spaniards againt Jamaica; and during the time of his government, the Englih inhabitants were much better treated, than while under Duchilleau. But this not anwering the politic views of the Marquis de Bouillé, he recalled the Count from his government, under pretence of his mal-adminitration; but in