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 The French priets in Dominica are appointed by uperiors in the iland of Martinique; to the government of which iland, and to the laws of their own nation, they conider themelves to be reponible.

The Spanih inhabitants of this iland are not very numerous, being only compoed of renegados from their own ettlements, and are no great credit to this; but are uffered to remain there, by frequently taking the oaths of allegiance to his Britannic Majety, on their paying a certain um each time. This they adly complain of; but they do not mind the oath, as was evident on the day of attack by the French; for on that day everal of them joined their countryrnen arrived from Martinique, and with large knives and pitols tuck in their belts, were ready to ait to plunder and murder the Englih inhabitants, had the invaion been made in the night. The