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neral on the ifle of St. Domingo, My firft care 

 on going on fhore was to pay my refpe6ls to 

 him. That general, who is always ready to 

 ferve unfortunate officers, prevented my cares, 

 by difpatching me four days after my arrival, 

 and fparing me the expence I ihould have been 

 at if 1 had ftayed on this ifland, he procured me 

 a free pafTage at the king's expence, as a fleet of 

 twenty-fix merchantmen were, ready to fail for 

 France, under the convoy of M. de Beaufremonty 

 who brought them as far as the Cayques iflands, 

 where he left them, in order to proceed on 

 his deftination according to the orders of the 

 court. 



I muft tell you that I preferably chofe a Bor- 

 deaux vefTel, called the Sm, captain Odouoir \ 

 (imitating the Indians, who indeed make a divi- 

 nity of the fun). But the event has fliewn that 

 I was very happy in my choice •, for almoft all 

 the vefTels which compofed the fleet have been 

 taken in my fight. Only four arrived in France, 

 the Sun was the firft : flie came to Br eft in forty- 

 five days, after taking an Englifli ftiip in the la- 

 titude of the Newfoundland bank. I landed at 

 Breft the fifteenth of June 1757, and immedi- 

 ately waited on the Count du Guaiy commander 

 of the marines in this port •, I then paid a vifit to 

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