This ſevere cannonading ſo greatly intimidated the French, that they evacuated the fort they had taken with much precipitation, and retreated to the ſide of a hill juſt oppoſite to it, out of the line of fire. There they remained a conſiderable time, as if to meditate on ſome other mode of attack; but ſhortly after, about two thoufand of them gained poſſeſſion of the heights above Roſeau, where they ſeemed to wait the coming on of night, to make their further approaches.
This laſt circumſtance determined the fate of the iſland; as the Lieutenant-governor, ſeeing the danger to which the ſmall force he had would inevitably be expoſed by a further reſiſtance, he, with the advice of his Privy-council, then aſſembled at the Government-houſe, ſent out a Flag of Truce to the Marquis de Bouille, with offers to ſurrender the iſland by capitulation.
