•than a penny each. I thought to London ! and 

 wifhed I could fend you a waggon-load. 



I mud not omit telling you that, 

 "among the veffels lying in the river at the 

 .time of our approach, was a French privateer, 

 commanded by a furious revolutionary citizen 

 of the great Republic— fans- cidhttes de la pre- 

 miere clajfe — who, in all the rage of wild de- 

 mocracy, refolved not to ftrike his flag to the 

 " Tyrant'EngliJh !" Seeing no poffibility of 

 failing from the harbour, without being taken, 

 he ran his veflel as far as poffible up the 

 river, and, there, funk her. One of our 

 fchooners being fent in purfuit of her, found 

 the veflel, with only her mafts above water ; 

 the crew having gone on fliore, in the boat, 

 to feek their efcape, through the wild woods, 

 leaving a moft infolent and abufive letter in a 

 bottle, tied to the niaft-head. This fpecimen 

 of gafconade, and republican fcurrility, be- 

 gan u You d — — d inf — 1 rafcals," and, being 

 continued in low and vulgar abufe, went on 

 to affure us that, on our return to the iflands, 

 the brave Viclor Hugues would " teach us the 

 valour of true republicans." 



