CHAPTER VIII.
OF THE GOVERNMENT OF THE ISLAND UNDER THE FRENCH, WITH A RELATION OF THE DISTRESSED SITUATION OF THE ENGLISH INHABITANTS, UNTIL ITS RESTORATION TO GREAT BRITAIN; TOGETHER WITH THE ACCOUNT OF THAT EVENT, AND SEVERAL OTHER SUBJECTS.
THUS fell the important iſland of Dominica into the hands of the French; and with it were loſt all thoſe advantages, that it was afterwards diſcovered would have accrued to the Engliſh, had it been in their poſſeſſion during the laſt war.
This iſland, from its local ſituation, being exactly between the two principal iſlands of the French, Martinique and Guadeloupe, is the beſt calculated of all the poſſeſſions of Great Britain in that part of the world, to ſecure her the dominion of thoſe ſeas. Had a few
