^10 A. D. 1794. 



London gave ;^500, and the managers of Drury-lane theatre gave a 

 clear benefit, which produced above £1,^00, to the fame charity. So 

 ample were the contributions, that it was thought proper to apply 500 

 guineas in providing a pair of magnificent goblets, to be prefented to 

 Admirals Bowyer and Pafley, who had each loft a leg in the engage- 

 ment. 



The gentlemen who took upon themfelves the charge of diftributing 

 this noble charity, were fo exceedingly attentive to the interefts of the 

 objeds of it, that they provided by trufts, that they fliould not fuffer 

 by their own folly in making indifcreet alienations of the property 

 beftowed upon them. 



In the Weft-Indies the Britifti forces got pofl^eflion of Tiburon, a 

 fmall fettlement in the weftern extremity of S'. Domingo : and after- 

 wards, being I'einfprced by about i,6co men, they took the more im.- 

 portant town of Port au prince (June 4'"), where they found twenty-two 

 capital veflels loaded with produce, and many others in ballaft, the whole 

 eftimated at the value of near ^^400,000. This was the laft fuccefsful 

 effort of the Britifti troops in S'. Domingo *. The yellow fever renewed 

 its attacks with fuch peftilential virulence, that it fcarcely left alive a 

 fufliicient number of the devoted army to perform the melancholy duty 

 of burying their dead companions f . 



In the meantime the new-acquired ifland of Guadaloupe was at- 

 tacked by the French, and being but weakly garrifoned, the whole 

 ifland, notwithftanding the afliftance brought from S'. Chriftophers 

 by Sir Charles Grey, was reduced to the dominion of France by the ^'^ 

 of July, except Fort Matilda, which was defended by the Britifti garrifon 

 till the 10'" of December, when it was furrendered to the French 

 army, then reinforced by 3,000 men. 



The fettlement eftabliftied at Sierra Leona with the philanthropic 

 intention of introducing civilization, induftry, and laudable commerce, 

 inftead of pillage and the fale of human creatures, was now beginning to 

 flourifti. The new village, called Freetown, contained 200 houfes, fome 

 of them tolerably good, difpofed in regular ftreets ; the grounds were 

 cleared for feveral miles from the town, and cultivated ; and confequent- 

 ly the climate was rendered more healthy. Order and induftry were 

 eftabliflied. The fame of the colony, and of their determination not to 

 deal in flaves, was fpread throughout the country. The king of Foulah, 

 the fovereign of fome millions of people and of a plentiful country, had 

 fent an embafiTy to Sierra Leona ; and, in return, two gentlemen in the 

 company's fervice had penetrated to Teembo, his capital, fttuated a con- 



* Some account of the trade and condition of ' duccd, in little more than two months, from 



S'. Domingo previous to the commencement of ' 1,000 lo ^oo, and the (jdth regiment per'ijhed to a 



the troubles in it has already been given in p. 224. ' vian.' {Edwardi's Hifi- of the Wefi- Indies, F. 



•\ ' Hompefch's regiment of hulTars were re- iii,/. 41 1, 8vo f(/.] « 



