tion that it was an iſland capable of being rendered both formidable and dangerous to their own ſettlements at a future period.
To return to the Marquis Duchilleau; he, like another tyrannic governor, iſſued a proclamation, forbidding the aſſembling together of the Engliſh inhabitants more than two in a place. That no lights were to be ſeen in their houſes after nine o'clock at night; that no Engliſh perſon was to be out after that hour, in the ſtreets, without a candle and lanthorn, or a lighted pipe in his mouth; and that no ſervant of theirs was to be ſeen at night, without a ticket from his master; under no leſs a penalty to white people, than being ſhot by the centinel at the poſt they paſſed by, of being impriſoned, or ſent out of the iſland; and the ſervants ⟨were⟩ to be whipped in the public market, beſides a fine on their maſters.
