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 This iland was retored to England in the month of January, 1783. The day of its retoration was a joyful day for the Englih inhabitants, epecially for thoe who had undergone a long and painful captivity, and had been treated with a degree of cruelty hardly to be paralleled.

In the morning of the day of the evacuation the Englih troops marched from point Michael; and between eleven and twelve o'clock they came near the town of Roeau, where, waiting till the French began to embark, it was near two o'clock before they finally evacuated the iland; and then the Englih troops came into the town, with colours flying, drums beating, and a band of muic playing as they marched, ecorted by mot of the Englih inhabitants, who, with multitudes of negros, lined both ides of the way as they entered the town. Between