of the port of Roſeau. Theſe ſtrangers were in quality of viſitants to ſome of their acquaintances in the iſland; but their buſineſs was, in fact, to ſee what ſtate the place was in, and to engage the non-reſiſtance of the French inhabitants againſt the then meditated attack, as it appeared afterwards by the public boaſt of the ſaid Gabrouſe. However, in conſequence of ſome intimation to the Lieutenant-governor, that officer was taken up as a ſpy; but after a ſlight examination he was ſuffered to depart; and the report of his being in that capacity was treated with unmerited contempt.
It is worth while remarking in this place, that there ſeems to have been a degree of fatality attending this iſland at that particular period, as, excluſive of the men placed by Governor Shirley at fort Caſhacrou, being diſcharged from that ſervice ſoon after his departure for England, ſome months before the in-
