preſſed his aſtoniſhment, on ſeeing the ſmallneſs of their numbers, that they ſhould have behaved ſo well, as to prevent him from ſubduing the iſland, as he had intended, without permitting it the benefit of a Capitulation.
The militia is, at preſent, in a very reſpectable ſtate; but it would be much more ſo, was it to be compoſed only of Engliſh ſubjefts; for the French and other foreigners, who are incorporated therein, from not underſtanding the words of command in Engliſh, or from a natural diſlike to the ſervice, pay no great attention to it; and in conſequence very often throw the whole into diſorder.
Here it may not be thought improper to obſerve, how very diſagreeable this ſervice is to the generality of the foreigners, who are inhabitants of this iſland; many of whom have repeatedly offered to pay a certain ſum annually
