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might be obtained without the fmalleft: difficulty. It is probable, that 

 little attention was paid to the propofal till after the declaration of war ; 

 and then orders were fent to Jamaica to detach a proper force to accept 

 the furrender of the French colony, and to keep pofTeffion of it. Ac- 

 cordingly five or fix fhips of w^ar, with a military force, confifting of 

 667 foldiers befides officers, failed from Jamaica, and arrived at Jeremie 

 on the ip"* of September. Next morning, as had been previoufly con- 

 certed, they took poflefiion of that town, the inhabitants of which took 

 the oaths of allegiance to Great Britain : and their example was im- 

 mediately followed by the garrifon of Cap Nicola. 



The Britifli army, after receiving a flender reinforcement, got poflef- 

 fion of fome other places fituated on the fhore of the Bight of Leogane. 

 But the foldiers were periling in crowds by the yellow fever, an enemy 

 more dreadful than any that the French could bring againft them. 



In the Eaft-Indies, as foon as the commencement of hofiilities was 

 known, the Britifh forces took pofleflion of Pondicherry, Chandernagore, 

 Karical, Yanam, Mahe, and the French Factory at Surat, which were 

 the whole of the fettlements then belonging to the French in India. 



Mr. Mackenzie, whofe journey from Montreal to the Frozen ocean in 

 the year 1789 has already been related, fet out on a fecond journey, or 

 inland voyage, of geographical and commercial difcovery, for which he 

 was now well provided with proper afironomical inftruments and a 

 good chronometer. In this expedition he directed his courfe to the 

 weftvvard, and, after paffing the height of the land, and walking above 

 a hundred miles, he and his party re-embarked on a river running 

 wefi:, and plentifully fi:ocked with excellent falmon, (a fure mark of im- 

 mediate communication with the fea) which conveyed them to an in- 

 let of the Pacific ocean, where they faw porpufes and fea-otters, and a 

 confiderable rife and fall of the tide. There, at a place called Cafcade 

 canal by Captain Vancouver, he pahited upon a rock the words, ' Alex- 

 ' ander Mackenzie, from Canada by land, aa"* July 1793.'* 



November 6"' — As the French after the commencement of the war 

 ufed to carry the produce of their Wefl:-India iflands to America, that 

 it might thence be fliipped for France in the neutral veflels of the Unit- 

 ed fi;ates, an order of council was ifiued for feizing and detaining all 

 veflels found carrying the produce of the French colonies, or provifions 

 or other fupplies for the ufe of thofe colonies. Though this order was 

 foon revoked, a very great number of American vefil^ls were feized un- 

 der the authority of it f : and it fpread fuch an alarm, that the merch- 

 ants concerned in the trade with America exprefled their apprehenfions 

 of an immediate rupture with that country, and applied to government 

 to know what they might depend upon. 



This year the French whale fifhery, carried on from the port of Dun- 



* Mr. Mackenzie was lionoured with a gold f Ir wis ftatid in ihe hi ufe of peers, that 6co 



medal trom the patriotic locicty for the encourage- American veffels werj fcizc', or detained in Brit- 



ment of arts, maiiufafturcs, and commerce, for ilh ports, l,etvveen th; 6"' ot November 1 793 and 



having penetrated from Canada to the South fea. the 28'" of March 1 794. 



