where they continued till the day of the ſurrender of the country to Great Britain.
It is worth while to remark here, the jealous behaviour of the French Commander on this occaſion; for though there was every reaſon to believe, that he well knew the iſland was to be reſtored; yet he took every method that was in his power of ſhewing a diſpoſition to prevent it; and he actually threatened to uſe force if the Engliſſh dared to land, as if upon an hoſtile occaſion: nor would he permit any of the Engliſh officers ſo much as to ſet their feet on ſhore in Roſeau; but lined the bay of that road with armed ſoldiers, who even then treated ſome of the Engliſh inhabitants exceedingly ill, for no other reaſon, than the joy that was viſible in their faces at the ſight of their own countrymen.
This aſſumed face of reſiſtance, was a plain indication of the great unwillingneſs of the
