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 where they continued till the day of the urrender of the country to Great Britain.

It is worth while to remark here, the jealous behaviour of the French Commander on this occaion; for though there was every reaon to believe, that he well knew the iland was to be retored; yet he took every method that was in his power of hewing a dipoition to prevent it; and he actually threatened to ue force if the Englih dared to land, as if upon an hotile occaion: nor would he permit any of the Englih officers o much as to et their feet on hore in Roeau; but lined the bay of that road with armed oldiers, who even then treated ome of the Englih inhabitants exceedingly ill, for no other reaon, than the joy that was viible in their faces at the ight of their own countrymen.

This aumed face of reitance, was a plain indication of the great unwillingnes of the French