ber of the inhabitants, as well in the towns as on the plantations.
On the other hand, the iſland of Saint Lucia, ſoon after its capture by the Engliſh, was rendered a place far more deſirable, in point of trade, than it had ever been, while under its former maſters; and the French inhabitants of it were better treated by the Engliſh government, officers and ſoldiers, than they actually treated their own countrymen, who retired thither after its ſurrender.
That iſland was the chief mart of trade for proviſions and merchandize of every deſcription, during the war, being reſorted to by veſſels, not only from our own ſettlements, but alſo from moſt of the foreign iſlands, by the means of flags of truce. Proviſions in particular, were to be had there at the following moderate prices, viz.
