ploying others, who better knew the Engliſh language, to liſten at their doors and windows in the night-time; but luckily he never found out any ſecrets.
He repeatedly threatened to ſet fire to the town of Roſeau, in cafe the iſland was attacked; and though the latter was never attempted by the Engliſh forces, yet that town was ſet fire to by the French ſoldlers, who, there is every reaſon to ſuppoſe, did it by his private orders. This ſuppoſition was ſtrongly corroborated, by his behaviour on the night of that melancholy event, at which himſelf was preſent beſt part of the time; but he would not ſuffer his ſoldiers to aſſiſt in extinguiſhing the flames, ſave only in houſes that belonged to the French inhabitants; eſpecially in that of Thomas Chabaud Arnault, which, though ſeveral times on fire, was yet ſaved by the troops, in preference to far more valuable
