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failors, and carried to Demarara. There it 

 ftrays again throughout the colony, and is 

 tortured and mangled, until, its mutilated 

 remains being thrown into fome chance boat, 

 it is finally fent to receive the rites of fepulture 

 at Berbifche S 



We have juft heard that the troops of the 

 black corps, which we faw at Barbadoes, have 

 behaved with great fpirit and bravery at St. 

 Lucie : but that the gallant Colonel Malcolm, 

 having unhappily been killed at the head of 

 them, they were repulfed, from an attack of 

 the Vigie, at the very moment when vidlory 

 was declaring in their favor. It is alfo faid 

 that the 37th regiment has fuffered very con- 

 fiderably ; but the gazette will have given you 

 a more correct account of the attack and its 

 refult long before this letter can reach you ; 

 ftill it may ferve to fhew how late and de- 

 fective the intelligence comes to us from the 

 great body of the army. It is further reported 

 that General Whyte is gone down to St. Do- 

 mingo, and that the detachment of the hofpital 

 department, remaining in thefe colonies, is 

 foon to follow. This confirms the uncertainty 

 of my fituation, and renders it difficult for me 



