pened to be preſent, or indignantly driving them out; circumſtances of ſuch mean cruelty to a conquered people, that one ſhould think, none but the dregs of mankind would ever be guilty of.
This too was the behaviour of ſome of the French inhabitants; from whom it was, in a particular manner, diſtreſſing to the Engliſh, who had heretofore treated them with every degree of kindneſs, as being a ſet of people, who, though not of the ſame nation by birth, were members of the ſame community, ſubject to the ſame government, and as ſuch, entitled to the ſame privileges and reſpect with themſelves. Of theſe in particular, a Frenchman of colour, of the name of Blanchdelablong, and a white man, named Etienne Vring, deſerve to be mentioned. The firſt had the audacity to ſtrike the Engliſh Chief Juſtice, and the other inſolently drew his ſword on
