paid dearly, the conſequence of their great imprudence, by the loſs of their lives; being driven, with fixed bayonets, over the ramparts of the fort, and daſhed to pieces by the rocks at the foot of it.
The enemy began the attack between three and four o'clock in the morning of Monday, the ſeventh of September that year; but they had intended to have made their invaſion much earlier, having ſet out on the expedition from Martinique between the ſame hours the preceding evening, but were detained by calm weather in the channel between the two iſlands.
This was a very providential event for the Engliſh inhabitants of Dominica, as there is every reaſon to believe, that had the attack been made an hour ſooner than it was, many of them would have been maſſacred in their beds; if not by the French ſoldiers, there
