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 of the inhabitants, as well in the towns as on the plantations.

On the other hand, the iland of Saint Lucia, oon after its capture by the Englih, was rendered a place far more deirable, in point of trade, than it had ever been, while under its former maters; and the French inhabitants of it were better treated by the Englih government, officers and oldiers, than they actually treated their own countrymen, who retired thither after its urrender.

That iland was the chief mart of trade for proviions and merchandize of every decription, during the war, being reorted to by veels, not only from our own ettlements, but alo from mot of the foreign ilands, by the means of flags of truce. Proviions in particular, were to be had there at the following moderate prices, viz.

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