more defirous to afk queftions, than to offer 

 replies. 



We could Impart nothing fatisfadory ; 

 and the information we acquired was not 

 very gratifying. The foilov^^ing were the 

 leading circumftances which we colledled at 

 the moment. Grenada, we were told, was, 

 almoft wholly, in poffeffion of the brigands : 

 St. Vincent in Imminent danger from the 

 Charibs : and Guadaloupe, if not St. Lucie, 

 fo ftrengthened by reinforcements from France 

 as to bid us defiance. As a fpecimen of 

 French gafconade, I may tell you what is 

 reported to be the prefent language of that 

 infolent democratic tyrant, Vidlor Hugues : 

 " Let them come ! let the general lead hither 

 his troops ! we will invite them afhore ; nay ! 

 we will lay planks to their veffels that they 

 may not wet their feet in vifiting us, and 

 when we have them here we will teach them 

 who is Viftor : we will give the officers their 

 favorite toaft, and accommodate them with 

 fpeedy promotion." Such is faid to be the 

 idle boafting of this man, in confequence of the 

 reinforcements lately arrived from Europe. 



