April 12, a detachment of 1300 men, under Brigadier Clavering, &c. landed and carried a ftrong entrenchment, with the lofs of one officer and nineteen men killed, and two officers and thirty-two men wounded: this advantage was fo effectually improved, that with the affiftance of Captain Uvedale of the Granada bomb, he took the fort at Petit-Bourg, of Mahant, of Guoyave, of St. Mary's, &c. Ar this time, April 19, the bravery of our troops had got the better of every obftacle, had forced the enemy in all their entrenchments and ftrong paffes, had taken fifty pieces of canon, and had advanced as far as the Capefterre, the only remaining unreduced part of the country. This at laft brought the French to terms and articles of capitulation, which were figned on Tuesday, May 1, 1759. "grace him at the head of the regiment;" but Defbrifay, though well acquainted with the name, the commiffion he bore, and the corps he served in, most generously declined it; contented with letting his Excellency know, that he was not a ftranger to his perfon, and begging his excufe from being obliged to point him out. So magnanimous an instance of British worth, deferves to be recorded to pofterity! as it reflects honor on the memory of a good christian and foldier. Monfieur Monfieur Du Bompar, with a force from Martinico, landed in another part of the island, but hearing of its furrender, re-embarked his men and retreated to Port-Royal, whilst the English fleet lay inactive in Prince Rupert's Bay, Dominica. DICK MERRY-FELLOW very freely cenfures the conduct of Commodore Moore, in not looking sharp to the motions of the French fleet. "Certain it is, "that if he had kept an eye upon them, (not to be 66 fufpected of a pun upon this occafion) it was "not an HAWK's eye." MAY 2, our fleet left Dominica, and next day were off the island of Marigalante, in lat. 16o. N. For four days we were in chace of the French, much inferior to us, who got into Port-Royal on the 6th, and we returned to Prince Rupert's Bay on the 7th, having never feen each other, which occafioned it to be ludicroufly faid by the people of Dominica, on our return," that the ' English went on one fide of the island, and "the French on the other, for fear they fhould "meet." 9, MAY The island of Defeada, or Defiderada, (the defireable ifland) the Santos, and little island of Petite-Terre furrendered to General Barrington, and on the 14th Marigalante fubmitted. JUNE 3, the fquadron returned to Guadelupe, where the rendezvous of the men of war and tranfports returning to England was fixed at Baffe-Terre. On the 15th, the Rippon was ordered to look into Granada, lat. 11°. 45'. N, and on the 17th, discovered Monfieur Du Bompar lying there, with feven fhips of the line, "Had Commodore Moore, fays Dick, on this "occafion, luckily failed with his whole fquadron in queft of Monfieur Du Bompar, this campaign had glorioufly ended with the DESTRUC"TION of the FRENCH FLEET in the WEST-IN DIES, and the CONQUEST OF GRANADA, which "must have fallen of courfe." SOON after this the tranfports, with the troops and convoy, failed for England, and the fquadron for Antigua, where they anchored, June 29, From thence they made Barbadoes, St. Christopher's, and St. Euftatia. This latter island being at this time (1781) a fubject of general converfation, we shall give Captain MERRY-FELLOW's defcription of it, in his own words, "ST. EUSTATIA, is a fmall ifland belonging "to the United Provinces, and lies three "leagues from St Kitt's, W. by N. of all the "Carribees; it seems the barest and least fertile, "notwithstanding the Dutch carry on "pwerful trade in the West Indies from it, and a very 66 << it has been for many years the market of "Europe: being poor and naked in itself, and "in all appearance like a ragged rock, it "thrives by borrowed commodities and a clan"deftine traffic with the powers at war; tranfporting the produce of one enemy to another, "under the pretence of neutral bottoms. The town is badly built, and the houses very in"different; it ftands lofty, and has one hill in "particular of a very great height, which is "called Tumble-down Dick, and ferves as a land"mark at a distance. "WHEN the Rippon was cruizing off the har"bour, there was a Dutch man of war, feveral "French privateers, and a great quantity of other fhipping lying there. It is an island of smugglers, and the common receptacle of all the "thieves in Europe. There are feveral forts in St. Euftatia, and a governor conftantly refides "there: the prefent one is Mynbeer De Wynd, "who is ftiled Governor of St. Euftatia, Saba, "and St. Martin's, though the laft belongs to the "French." AFTER touching at Bermuda, or the Summer Islands, in N. lat. 32o. 20'. and long. 65o. W. part of the fleet arrived at Plymouth, Sept. 27, and the convoy at Spithead, October 5, 1759. Thus ended an expedition of great importance to the public, in which the English arms acquired a reputation, even from the enemy. Speaking of the intrepidity and zeal of the officers on this fervice, and the dangers of climate and mode of receiving the fire of armed Negroes, lurking undiscovered behind woods, &c. DICK fays, that the officer commanding, was in the situation of Virgil's Rutulian Captain, Sevit atrox VOLSCENS, nec teli confpicit ufquam Æn. 9. But the APPROBATION of the SOVEREIGN, fays DICK, is the moft GLORIOUS reward a foldier can acquire! REGE incolumi mens omnibus una eft. WE cannot conclude this account of our hero's Expedition aux Indes Occidentales, which he also printed in French, without adding his beautiful remark on the treatment of COLUMBUS by the Europeans, who, after all his discoveries nd conquefts, feeing himself neglected at court, on his return to Spain, he retired to Valladolid, where he died of a broken heart, Anno Dni. 1506, aged 64. Por Caftillo y por Leon, Itala Nuevo Monde Halto Colon, « THIS |