L'OUVYERTU '7

 of the saints and .if king-i," to use the
 they were encouraged to the burt:h-r.y by the
 cre was gne-ral; only fiiort:-en persons

 gaud, aided by Pition and other mulatto
 the English, and], taking from them I.i.nano
 ockaded them iu La Grande Anse. Finding
 ble, Whitc-!oke endeavored to bribe Rigaud
 then pmrvisional governor or the colony, into ac-
 not suhmis.&on. The ibrmer simply rejected the
 replied, Your I,-ing my mn,:my does not give
 to put on me a personal iusult as an individual
 faction ftr th,' injury yIu ha I n;, me."
 ving the C('pP ind.Jt nilble, to:k lip hi.; po,.ition
 which he t;,rrifi,.d, and unli-r itP nall- braved
 of the English; while t. .y, on their .idt, o,ccu-
 br of Saint Ni. holr:. co'muned.i all the ap-
 city by sea.
 mastt:r o1" n-arly all rh.- No'rth, prcedrl Port-
 d, and cut otr he, i l.[,li' o,-''f pm' i-ii, n so that
* went the privatin; t'a sie.e'. -- For more titan
 :te. Lavenux. und r dae Nilav 24th, L we have
 to six oune(- of)I' brad a day, oufmlers as well as
 the 13th of thi4 month, we have none whatever,
 excepted. If' we had powder, we should have
 ; our misery is trul v great ; oti.ers and soldiers
 greatest privations. We have in our magazines
 nor shirts, nor clothe-, nor )oap[,. nrr tohat.co.
 t the soldiers mount guard bare thtied. like the
 e have not even a flint to eive the men. Not-
 .e assured that we will noev r surrender, i in-
 ever capitulate; I, ,arur,_d, ton, that after us
 IB not find thl .-light.:;t tra,.e ,tf Pc'rt-de-Paix.
 be wpade prisoners., wh'ln the hbal SLtall havo de-
 ng here, and we have no longer anything to
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