French officers, for their bad treatment of the Engliſh, at the riſk of loſing their own lives.
During five years and a quarter, the time that the iſland of Dominica was in poſſeſſion of the French, it was reſorted to by no veſſels from Old France; nor was any of the produce of the Engliſh plantations exported to that kingdom during this period; but part of it was ſent in neutral bottoms to the Dutch iſland of Saint Euſtatius, before its capture by Admiral Rodney; and from thence it was exported to England, under the moſt extravagant expences and loſs to the proprietors.
Other parts of the produce were ſent in Dutch veſſels, which were engaged for the purpoſe in England, to Rotterdam, where, on their arrival, the ſugar in particular ſold from ſixteen to eighteen pounds ſterling per hogſhead.
