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1695. muchDispatch made in mounting them,as might have been expected. ( 0)

The inward It was now resolved, that the Squa-Fort beaten dron should sail to the Westward ofdown. Port de Paix , where there was a com-modious Hill, to annoy the Enemy,much nearer than the first intendedBattery, and there ten Pieces of Cannonwere mounted, which so much galledthem, that, in few Days, Part of theinward Fort was beaten down, and ma-ny People, who retired thither, werekilled, (p)

The French The third of July, between theHours

sally out ; of twelve and one, the French sallied

But are out, with about three Hundred Whites,beaten.

and two Hundred Blacks, well armed ; 169^

But the Commadore having Noticethereof, by a Negro, detached oneHundred and fifty Men, to receivethem, being in a Readiness with theRest, both Seamen and Soldiers, (theselast Words were not in the Memoirs') tojoin them upon Occasion; By whichMeans, many were killed, especiallytheir commanding Officers, and severaltaken Prisoners; And, after this Defeat,our Forces immediately took Posiesiionof the Fort, wherein they found eighty <pq, e RrtCannon mounted, with good Store of taken-Powder and Shot. (q)

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vate Interest; But to the Treachery, (after theyhad done what they could do on the Island) ofseizing and carrying off the three Spanish Men ofWar, to Jamaica-, For (said he J the Dogs have agreat many of the Negroes, and other Plunder ;And, if you will consent-, we will make them payus well before we part Wth them. But meetingwith the Return he deserved : Well (said he) Isee you will agree to nothing , you may take yourCourse , and I shall take mine-, Upon which heflung from me, and commanding his Men to Arms,departed with the Promise of sending the Cannon,&c. the next Day. This Mr. Burchett calls land-ing sour Hundred Men, in Order to join us.

(0) This (fays the Colonel) Mr. Burchettavers, without any Authority. If he had said,promised to do it the next Day, he had said right.In Order to^detect this most scandalous Forgery,it will be neceflary (continues the Colonel) to be alittle more particular: The fifteenth of June, theCommadore left us: We heard nothing of himstill the eighteenth, and then he sent some Pow-der and Ball on Shoar. The fame Night, he sentthree small Sakers, one Mortar, with a wrongBed, and one Four and twenty Pounder, with aCarriage for an Eighteen-Pounder, and otherThings wanting, so that he might as well havesent none: And, instead of landing them as direct-ed, they were put on Shoar, two Miles off, inthree Foot Water; Whence we were obliged tofetch them, without Horses; But first we had aRoad (or rather a Bridge) to make, of Trees andFascnes, over a Boggy Ground, for half a Mile.,all which Trouble, willfully given us by the Com-madore, cost us twelve Days Labour, (a longerTime than had been necessary to reduce the Place)and occasioned the Sickness and Death of many ofthe Men. This was known to the whole Army,

I wonder therefore at the Assurance of thoseMen, who can publish to the World, that theywere sent the next Day, and that we did not takeCare to mount them. From the eighteenth, tothe fix and twentieth, of June, I sent several Or-ders to our Commissary-General, John Murray ,Esq; and Messages to the Commadore; TwoCouncils of War were likewise held, and the Re-solutions communicated to them ; But to no Pur-pose,- For the Commadore was inflexible, and theCommissary wholly acted by him. After all theseImportunities, the Pieces were at Length sent -,Bat >10 Tackle with them, to hoist up the Guns,and oae of the Carriages, which was sent with aFour and twenty-Pounder, belong'd to an Eigh-teen-Pounder, which occasioned the Loss of fourDays more, and several Letters to the Commis-sary.

Of all these Letters, Orders, &c. the Colonelhas given his Readers Copies, not (he fays) fromhis own, but from the Originals found among Mr.Murray’s Papers.

(p) This Resolution (fays the Colonel) was ^ ^taken without his Knowledge, and by a Council “

of War on Board, to which the Commadore, di-rectly against his Instructions, did not summonhim; And, by Authority of this Council of War,the Commadore broke into their Fire-Arms; Andthe Design of all this, (he fays) was, to endea-vour, without the Help of the Army, to masterthe Fort on that Side, that he might secure thePlunder to himself; And by this Resolution,which was taken the five and twentieth of June,they accuse the Colonel of haying been dilatory inmounting his Mortars and Cannon, when, it isplain, by what has been said above, he was thenlblliciting for them, but could not obtain them.

The Colonel now proceeds to give his Readersa Journal of the Siege, on the Land Side, whichseems to have been carried on with as great Skill1 as Vigour : But, besides that this is foreign to myPurpose, it would carry me too far.

(q) The third of July, the Breach being wide » jijenough, and the Bastion laid quite open, I conti- *nued the Firing, and gave Directions, to havethree Hundred Granadoes and their Fusees fill'd,

and all Preparations to be made for a Storm; Andthis I ordered to be done in the Sight of somePrisoners, one of whom was suffered to escape.

This had the defign’d Effect upon the Garrison,tho’ in a Manner we did not expect. About twothe next Morning, we heard a great Volly ofMuskets, on the Side of the Fort, next the Sea,which was soon followed by another, and then bya confused Firing for a Quarter of an Hour. Idetach'd my Brother, with about two Hundredand Fifty Men, to see the Meaning of it. Assoon as he came to the Commadore’s Quarters, hefound all in Confusion, and many of his Men kil-led. The Governour of the Fort, it seems, ex-pecting a general Storm, and resolving not tosurrender upon Articles, had packed up whatthey could carry, and resolved to fight his Waythrough : Accordingly they were come very nearthe Camp of the undisciplined Sea-men, withoutbeing discovered, poured in a Volly of Shot uponthem, and, having put them into Confusion, facedthein, till his whole Body, Men, Women audChildren, marched of.

As soon as my Brother perceived how it was,he imagined the Fort was deserted, and finding fso, in Reality, took immediate Possession of i £ -He secured the Store-houses, Governour'sHoufe,and all Places where any Thing of Value lay,

and