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tage. Things were in this fituation, when captain Uring 

 came with a confiderable armament, to take poflcflion of St. 

 Lucia and this ifland, in virtue of a grant of king George I. 

 to the duke of Montague. When the French had didodged 

 this gentleman, by a fuperior force, from St. Lucia, he lent 

 captain Braithwaite, in the year 1723, to try what could 

 be done at the ifland of St. Vincent, in which he was not at 

 all more fuccefsful. After this, the country became a 

 theatre of favage hoflilities between the negroes and the 

 Charaibes, in which it is believed that the former were 

 generally viftorious : it is certain they proved fo in the end, 

 their numbers, in 1763, being computed at 2000; whereas 

 of the red or native Charaibes, there were not left more 

 than ICO families, who retained only a mountainous diftrift, 

 and moft of thefe are by this time faid to be exterminated. 

 It is, however, worthy of remark, that the African intruders 

 have adopted moft of the Charibbean manners and cuftoms : 

 among the reft, the priclice of flattening the foreheads of 

 their infants; and it was perhaps from this that they ac- 

 quired the appellation of black Charaibes. St. Vincent 

 being ceded to the Englifh by the peace of Paris, in the 

 year 1763, as well as Dominica and Tobago, St. Lucia 

 being affigned to France, (the Charaibes not being men- 

 tioned in the whole tranfaftion,) the firit meafure of the 

 Englifh government was to difpofe of the lands, without 

 any regard to the claims of the Charaibes of either race ; 

 which, in truth, were confidered as of no confequence or 

 vahdity. This gave rife to a war with the Charaibes, in the 

 courfe of which it became the avowed intention of govern- 

 ment to exterminate thofe miferable people altogether ; or 

 by conveying them to a barren illand on the coaft of Africa, 

 confign them over to a lingering deftruftion. By repeated 

 protefts and reprefentations from the military officers em- 

 ployed in this difgraceful bufinefs, and the dread of parha- 

 mentary inquiry, adminiftration at length thought proper to 

 defift ; and the Charaibes, after furrendering part of their 

 lands, were permitted to enjoy the remainder unmolefted. 

 On the 19th of June 1779, St. Vincent fliarcd the common 

 fate of moft of the Bntiih Weft Indian poftelTions, in that 

 unfortunate war with America, which fwallowed up all the 

 refources of the nation, being captured by a fmall body of 

 troops from Martinico, confifting only of 450 men, com- 

 manded by a lieutenant in the French navy. The terms of 

 capitulation, however, were favourable, and the ifland was 

 reftored to the dominion of Great Britain by the general 

 pacification of 1783. It contained at that time 61 fugar 

 eftates, 500 acres in coffee, 200 acres in cacao, 400 in cot- 

 ton, 50 in indigo, and 500 in tobacco, befides land appro- 

 priated to the railing of provifions, fuch as plantains, yams, 

 maize, &c. All the reft of the country, excepting the few 

 fpots that had been cleared from time to time by the Cha- 

 raibes, retained its native woods. St. Vincent contains 

 about 84,000 acres, which are every where well watered ; 

 but the country is very generally mountainous and rugged : 

 the intermediate valleys, however, arc fertile in a higli de- 

 gree, the foil confifting chkfly of a fine mould, compofed 

 of fand and clay, well adapted for fugar. The extent of 

 country at prcfent poffeffed by the Britilh fiibjeds is 23,605 

 acres ; and about as much more is fuppofcd to be held by 

 the Charaibes. All the remainder is thouglit incapable of 

 cultivation or improvemcijt. The ifland, or rather the Bri- 

 tifli territory within it, is divided into five panlhcs, of which 

 only one had a church, and this was blown down in tiie hur- 

 ricane of 1780. There is one town called Kingfton, the 

 capital of the ifland, and the feat of its government ; and 

 three villages that bear the name of towns, but they are in- 

 conjiderable hamlets, confifting each of a few houfcs only. 



The botanic garden of St. Vincent confifts of 30 acres, of 

 wliich no lefs than 16 are in high cultivation. In the frame 

 of its government, and the adminiftration of executive juf- 

 tice, St. Vincent feems not to differ from Grenada. The 

 council confifts of twelve members, the affembly of feveuteen. 

 The falary of the governor is 2000/. fterling, half of which 

 is raifed within the ifland, the other half being paid out 

 of the exchequer of Great Britain. The mihtary force, ac- 

 cording to Mr. Edwards, confifted in his time of a regiment 

 of infantry, and a company of artillery, fent from England, 

 and a black corps raifed in the country. The militia in- 

 cludes two regiments of foot, ferving without pay. The 

 number of inhabitants, fays Mr. Edwards, amounts to 

 1450 whites, and 11,853 negroes. The feveral fmaller 

 iflands dependent on the St. Vincent government are Bequia, 

 containing 3700 acres, a fmall ifland, valuable for the com- 

 modioufnefs of its bay, called Admiralty bay ; Union, con- 

 taining 2 150 acres; Canouane, containing 1777 acres; and 

 Muftiqua, containing about 1 200 acres. The negroes cm- 

 ployed in the cultivation of thefe iflands, being about 1400, 

 are fuppofed to be included in the 1 1,853 before mentioned. 

 There are likewife the little iflets of Petit Martinique, Petit 

 St. Vincent, Maillereau, and Bellefeau, each of which pro- 

 duces a little cotton. N. lat. 13° 10'. W. long. 61°. Ed- 

 wards's Weft India Iflands, vol. i. 



Vincent, St., a town of United America, in the weftern 

 territory of the Wabafli. N. lat. 38° 44'. W. long. 88° 6'. 



Vincent, Si., a town of France, in the department of 

 the Lot ; 6 miles W. of Cahors. 



Vincent, St., a fea-port town of Brafil, in the govern- 

 ment of St. Paul, fituated on the fea-coaft ; 150 miles W. 

 of Rio Janeiro. See Santos, St. Vicente, and Vicente. 



Vincent, St., a river of Madagafcar, which runs into 

 the Indian fea, on the eaft coaft, S. lat. 21° 48'. E. 

 long. 44°. 



Vincent, St., a town of Peru, in the diocefe of La 

 Plata ; 40 miles N.E. of Lipes. 



Vincent d'Ardentes, St., a town of France, in the de- 

 partment of the Indre ; 7 miles S.E. of Chateauroux. 



Vincent, Cape St., the fouth-weft point of Portugal, 

 where commences a chain of lime-ftone mountains, which 

 terminates at Tavira, N. lat. 37° 2'. W. long. 9^ 5'. To- 

 wards this cape the hills become flatter, and this promontory 

 itfelf is a defert plain, confifting of a grey lime-ftone, fo 

 naked and rough near the front, that it is very difficult to 

 travel over it. In other parts it is nearly covered with fand. 

 Toward the fea the rock is every wiiere fra&urcd, about 

 50 to 80 feet high, being of equal height with Cabo de 

 Rocca, which it fomewhat refembles. At the utmoft ex- 

 tremity in this defert country is a monaftery ot Capuchins. 

 Ships can approach very near the rock, fo that in fine 

 weather the monks can fpeak to the perfons on board. The 

 famous naval engagement between the Spaniards and lord 

 St. Vincent was diilinftly lecii from this monaftery. On 

 another point ot the rock, leparated by a creek from the 

 extreme end, is the fmall iorl of Sagres, within which no- 

 thing is leen but the commaudanl's dwelling, tiie foldiors' 

 barr.icks, and the works whicli arc not allowed to be fur- 

 veyed. Without the fort are only two lioufcs. At the time 

 when the earthquake of 1755 deftroyed Lilhon, the fea 

 fwelled here, and pouring from the creek ovlt the land, 

 laid the country wafte. At Sagies a great quantity of fi(h 

 and ir.ufcles is taken, and fmall fifliing-fmacks he at anchor 

 under the rock in the creek. Five fmall leagues from Cape 

 St. Vincent is the city of Lagos, which is properly the chief 

 town of Algarve, though it be no longer the rcfidence of 

 the governor of that province. — Alfo, a cape on the weft 

 Bb 2 coaft 



