Beef, from 5l. 10s. to 6l. per barrel.
Pork, from 6l. 10s. to 7l. per ditto.
Flour, from 3l. 6s. to 4l. per ditto.
Butter, from 4l. 10s. to 5l. per firkin.
Although the French government of Dominica had every opportunity of furniſhing their troops with freſh proviſions, by means of the Americans, then in alliance with France, yet not a ſingle veſſel arrived there with cattle, during the whole time they were in poſſeſſion of the iſland. But the cattle that were killed for the uſe of the troops were, at firſt, indiſcriminately ſhot on the Engliſh plantations, at the pleaſure of Duchilleau, whenever they were wanted for the uſe of his ſoldiers.
He afterwards eſtablished an ordinance, that every Engliſh planter ſhould ſend a beaſt in his turn for the uſe of the military hoſpital, under the penalty of having it taken by force;
