Articles of Capitulation. During the time, ſome of the Engliſh inhabitants were accuſed to the Marquis, by ſome of the French, with having fitted out privateers againſt the Americans. Theſe perſons were treated with great indignity by the Marquis, who obliged them to pay down conſiderable ſums of money for veſſels ſaid to have been French property, which had been captured as Americans by the privateers.
The principal accuſers of the Engliſh inhabitants, on this and ſeveral other occaſions, were certain French people, who had, heretofore, been treated with every indulgence and kindneſs by thoſe they accuſed; as they were alſo the chief promoters of all the diſturbances, heart-burnings, and animoſities of the French government, to the Britiſh inhabitants of the iſland, during the whole of the time it was in their poſſeſſion; and were, moreover, the
