is divided into two apartments, one for the Clerk of the market, and the other for the uſe of the Town Wardens of Roſeau, who hold their meetings there when they tranſact the public buſineſs. It is alfo uſed as a guard-room for the militia, during the three days and nights of Chriſtmas holidays (a uſeleſs piece of ceremony, only putting people to unneceſſary trouble and expence) and in times of actual need, as fire, or any danger which threatens that town.
It may not be improper here to take ſome notice of the market-place, and market of Roſeau. The former is a large open ſquare, nearly in the centre of the town, on the bay; it is paved, and well adapted to the purpoſe for which it was deſigned; but the market is very poorly ſupplied in general with butchers meat. This is partly owing to the ſcarcity of horned cattle, few being killed, unleſs they are brought from North America, which,
