a reſpectable Engliſh merchant in a public tavern.
It is, however, neceſſary here to do juſtice to the merits of ſome of the principal French officers at that time; as of the Count de Bourgoinne, Monſieur da Beaupé, and the generality of the officers of Iriſh Brigades in that iſland.
The Count de Bourgoinne was Chief Governor of Dominica for ſome time after the Marquis Duchilleau had quitted it, to aſſiſt in the expedition formed by the French and Spaniards againſt Jamaica; and during the time of his government, the Engliſh inhabitants were much better treated, than while under Duchilleau. But this not anſwering the politic views of the Marquis de Bouillé, he recalled the Count from his government, under pretence of his mal-adminiſtration; but
