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124 barrelled guns of their own contruction, generally known by the name of match-locks. They held out o obtinately, that they kept poeion of the Fort for nine or ten days, and then ecaped under the favouring gloom of night, leaving a number of their dead behind them.

After this commotion, the country became quiet, and no future ditturbances were heard of; at leat, in this quarter.

The refractory were awed into ubmiion by the terror of our arms; yet humanity mut lament the lo of thoe whom waging war had uddenly wept away. Alas!