This offer was readily accepted, and the Marquis, under protection of the Truce, came with it to the Government-houſe, in order to grant his terms, and to fign his part of the Articles of Capitulation. While this was doing, the firing from the batteries ceaſed, which gave two French frigates aa opportunity of coming abreaſt of Roſeau; when the Commanders of them, it is probable, not knowing that the iſland had ſurrendered, ſeeing the Engliſh colours ſtill flying, with thoſe of the French under them on the ſame ſtaff, they fired ſome broadſides into the town.
This unexpected ſalute exaſperating the militia, they immediately returned it with a forty-two pound cannon-ball, which, however, fell wide of its mark, the gun, in the hurry they were in to ſhew their reſentment at ſo flagrant a breach, as they ſuppoſed, of the Truce, being ill-pointed. This the militia were ſoon ready to rectify, by pointing
