of the chief civil officers and principal inhabitants, who turned out volunteers in that ſervice; being unuſed to the hardſhips attending patrolling the ſtreets all night, and watching to give notice of approaching danger, they preferred the more inviting enjoyments of diverſions and good cheer in the guard-room; where, overcome by theſe amuſements, between two and three o'clock in the morning they all retired to their own homes, wholly unapprehenſive of further danger for that time.
This ſame evening, ſome ill-diſpoſed French inhabitants found means to inſinuate themſelves into Caſhacrou fort, where they contrived to make the few ſoldiers there on duty intoxicated with liquor, and afterwards filled up the touch-holes of the cannon with ſand; ſo that when it was ſtormed by the French the next morning it was eaſily taken, and two of the Engliſh ſoldiers
