86 The Beginning of British Honduras
man on delivery, and one firm of contractors, Smith 8 Gil-
dart, made a claim to the Treasury for their compensation
on eight of these prisoners who were drowned in Liverpool
harbour when a boat upset with the hand-cuffed men. The
luckiest were 150 on the "Veteran" which left Liverpool on
July 8, 1747 for the West Indies where they were captured
off Antigua by the French cruiser "Diamant," Paul Marsal,
commander, and the governor of Martinique released them
all. They had transportation with indenture, simple trans-
portation without indenture, and pardons on condition of en-
listment. In October 1747 Rear Admiral the Hon. Edward
Boscawen took with him to the East Indies two "independent
companies" of these Jacobites. "If they do not enlist then this
our pardon shall be altogether void and of no force." His ob-
jective was then the taking of Pondicherry from the French
under Dupleix. To the Jacobite exiles and the subsequent
voluntary immigration from Scotland of many of their friends
was due the Scottish preponderance in the colony's commerce
during the whole of the 19th century.
 Then the Caribs from St. Vincent in the Lesser Antilles
were thought of to supply labour. In 1767 the council of St.
Vincent required the Caribs to come and take the oath as
faithful subjects of the King and to abandon the practice of
carrying on illicit trade with the French islands and bringing
fire arms and ammunition from them. Fires and massacres
characterized their rebellions, and in 1768 their leader Joseph
Chatoyer and his prime minister Jean Baptiste were killed.
 In "Authentic papers relative to the expedition against the
Charibbs, and the sale of lands in the Island of St. Vincent
of 1773," we read that they refused to give up their lands to
the British planters on St. Vincent, and in letters from the
Earl of Hillsborough, one of his Majesty's principal secre-
taries of state, to the Lords of the Admiralty in April 1772
and to the governors of St. Vincent, Dominica and Grenada,
we read of their declarations never to submit themselves as
subjects to his Majesty and of their declaration of attachment