This fire in Roſeau happened the evening of Eaſter Sunday, 1781, by which upwards of five hundred houſes were conſumed in a few hours; and among them the principal buildings, ſtores, a vaſt quantity of rich merchandize, and valuable articles of houſhold goods were deſtroyed, to the amount of upwards of two hundred thouſand pounds ſterling.
The inferior French officers, and ſfeveral of the French inhabitants of Dominica, encouraged thereto by the tyrannic behaviour of the Marquis Duchilleau, were not backward in their bad treatment of the Engliſh inhabitants: the officers uſually inſulting them as they walked the ſtreets; throwing ſhowers of ſtones on their houſes in the night-time; ſaluting the Engliſh white women with indecent expreſſions as they paſſed by; taking the upper hand of the men in taverns, and other places of neceſſary reſort, where they hap-
