C a p. I. The Caribby-Iflands. 



nothing lefs then running themfelves into new charges. The 

 Governor having feriouily taken it into confideration, that all 

 the Letters he had fent to thofe Gentlemen upon that occafion 

 had not obtain'd any favourable anfwers from them, thought it 

 would be his beft courre 3 ere the Colony were reduc'd to greater 

 extremities, to come over to them in perfon, and by a fecond 

 Voyage undertake the foliicitation of that relief, upon which 

 the fafety of their firft advancements, and the fubfiftence of 

 the French in that Ifland wholly depended. This good de(\gn, 

 which the zeal he had for the glory of his Nation hadinfpir'd 

 him withall, prov'd as fortunate as he could have wifh'd it : 

 For being come to Paris , he was fo prevalent in reprefenting 

 the importance and neceffity of that Recruit to the Gentlemen 

 of the Company, that they granted him three hundred men, 

 and vShips furnim'd with all neceiTary Provisions for their trans- 

 portation to S. Chrijiophers. 



This Recruit fo impatiently expe&ed by the Colony, happi- 

 ly arriv'd about the beginning oiAuguJi, M.DC.XXIX. and it 

 was receiv'd with fo great joy by them who had fo long flood 

 in need of it, that now they thought nothing mould obftrucl: 

 the execution of their defigns. But it feems the profperities of 

 this life are of a fhort continuance 5 they had hardly folac'd 

 themfelves two months in the enjoyments of that happinefs, 

 ere there comes upon them a powerful Fleet from Spain 5 Dom 

 Frederick^ de Toledo^ who had the command of it, had receiv d 

 exprefs order from his Catholick Majefty, that before he fell 

 down to the Havanna, Carthagena, and the other more emi- 

 nent Ports of America^ he (hould touch at S.'Chrifiophers, and 

 force thence all the Englijjj and French^ who had planted them- 

 felves there fome years before. 



The firft a<5t of hoftility committed by this Naval force;, 

 which confifted of four and twenty great Ships of burthen, 

 and fifteen Frigots, was the feifure of fome Englijh Ships then 

 lying at Anchor neer the Ifland of Mevis 5 which done, it came 

 and caft Anchor in the Road of S. Chrijiophers „ within Cannon- 

 (hot of the Bajfe-terre, where Monf. de Rojjey had the command 

 in chief. The Forts of both the Colonies were not yet in fuch 

 a condition as to ftand out a fiege, they were unfurnilh'd with 

 Provisions, and all the Ammunition, as to Powder and Shot, in 

 the whole Ifland could not amount to much 5 nay though both 

 the Nations mould have joyn'd all their forces together, yet 

 could they not have oppos'd fo great an Army But their cou- 

 rage in fome meafure fupply'd all thofe defects j for that the 

 Enemy fhould not brag of his having compafs'd his defigns 

 without fome oppofition , Defnambuc difpatch'd out of the 

 Cabes-terre^ where he began to fortifie himfelf, all his moft ex- 

 perience Souldiers, in order to the relief of the place which 

 was threatned by the Enemy, and the Englijh fent thither four 

 of their beft Companies, Thefe 



