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 Between one and two o'clock, a company of the Train of Artillery took poeion of the principal fort in Roeau, marching in, while the French troops marched out; and proceeded to the water-ide, where their boats being ready, they immediately embarked, amidt the hies and cures of the Englih inhabitants, whom they had heretofore o cruelly treated.

As oon as the Britih troops were in poeion of the fort, they hoited the tandard of England on the flag-taff, which being a ight few of the inhabitants had een before, and being elated with joy on the occaion, they were o eager to lend their aitance to hoit it, that they were nearly pulling the s, by which it was raied, to pieces, and breaking down the flag-taff by the force of their numbers. The fight of the Britih tandard was alo a matter of great admiration to the French, who, it is probable, had never een one