ſelves and families, as well as injury to the mortgagees in Europe; and at the ſame time, leſſening the value of property in the iſland in the opinion of people in general.
The French were ſatisfied with being able to keep the country from Great Britain during the war, firmly believing, that it would be ceded to them at the peace; they did, therefore, every thing in their power to render the ſtay of the Engliſh inhabitants uncomfortable and diſtreſſing. Their diſappointment, therefore, on finding the iſland was to be reſtored, was matter of great concern to them; and they actually put off the delivering it up to the Engliſh, a conſiderable time after the ratification of the definitive treaty of peace was concluded in Europe.
Some weeks before the actual reſtoration of Dominica, an Engliſh regiment from Saint Lucia arrived at Roſeau, for the purpoſe of
