as it was loaded with a bag of musket-balls. Several light sloops and schooners were found in the bay, one of which was sent by the commanding officers with an account of their success to the Admiral and General. It being impossible to keep possession of this post, from the small number of our troops, and intelligence being brought that a large detachment of the enemy were on their way to cut off the retreat of the party, it was determined to return to the camp without loss of time, all the ammunition having been previously destroyed, and the guns of the fort dismounted. The day proving unusually hot, and the roads being deep and slippery in consequence of the heavy rains that had fallen during the preceding night, they were not able to reach the camp without halting; they therefore took post at a planter’s house on an eminence, where they were received with great hospitality. By three P.M., the men who had dropped down on the road through fatigue, were brought in, except two, who reached the camp next morning, and the party proceeded to their different stations without further accidents.
From this period the operations carried on against the French republicans in Guadeloupe, are thus described by the Rev. Cooper Willyams, late Chaplain of the Boyne, in his interesting narrative, which we have already alluded to in the course of this memoir:–
