was every probability to apprehend it would have been done by a lawleſs banditti, compoſed of renegado white men, negros, mulattos, and the outcaſts of ſociety from ſeveral French and other foreign iſlands; who, with large knives and piſtols ſtuck in their belts, were prepared for the perpetration of every ſpecies of rapine, barbarity, and murder. Theſe wretches, upwards of one thouſand in number, were obliged to be ſatisfied for their failure of plunder on this occaſion, by a contribution laid on the inhabitants by the Marquis de Bouillé, of four thouſand four hundred pounds current money, which was diſtributed among them a few days after the ſurrender of the iſland.
After the enemy were in poſſeſſion of Caſhacrou fort, in the manner before noticed, the major part of their forces being ſtill at ſea, thoſe that were landed either judging it imprudent to advance to Roſeau, or being ſatisfied
