Withal, he was ſo very puſillanimous, that the moſt vague report of the approach of the Engliſh from Saint Lucia terrified him; when, galloping up and down like a madman, he would threaten every Engliſhman he met, to put them to death, and to ſet fire to the town, ſhould their countrymen dare to attempt an invaſion. And moreover, not confiding in the great number of troops that were under his command, but thinking them not ſufficient to quell an inſurrection of the Engliſh inhabitants, whom he weakly ſuppoſed might make an attempt to retake the iſland, he thought proper to break through the eighteenth Article of the Capitulation, by diſarming them, and diſtributing their arms among the runaway negros, with whom he actually entered into a treaty for aſſiſtance.
This was the Governor whom the Marquis de Bouillé, from motives of policy, thought fit to appoint over his firſt conqueſt; and
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