t6 prove the extreme uncertainty which muft 

 ever attend our expeditions. The plan may 

 be concerted with wifdom ; all the neceflaries 

 amply provided ; and the force, on failing, 

 fully adequate to the Intended purpofes : yetj 

 after all, the lamentable uncertainty of the 

 elements will often fruftrate the beft and 

 wifeft arrangements. If an army be deftined 

 to march, by land, to any given fpot, it may 

 be calculated, with confiderable accuracy, in 

 what number, and at what period it fhall ar- 

 rive; and, with ftill greater certainty, any given 

 quantity of ftores and provilions may be tranf- 

 ported with it : but no fuch accuracy can 

 be attained where the high-road is the fea, 

 and the tracklefs path to be traced by the 

 capricious and inconftant winds. 



We have an encampment of negroes 

 formed near to Bridge-Town, upon a fpot call- 

 ed Conftitution-^hill. They are a fine body 

 of men, who have been enlifted from the re- 

 volted French iflands, or brought away oa 

 the evacuation of them by our troops. They 

 are adive and expert, and are training into a 

 formidable corps to affift in our intended ex-^ 

 peditions. About fixteea hundred of them 

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