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1 6 The D I s c o V E R I E s and Settlements Book 1. . 
Goveinor and Captain-General of BarhadoeSj and the 
othei BngliJhCarihbee IJlands^ to Windward of Guarda- 
lou'ga^ with Provifions, Ammunition, and all Neceffaries 
tor the Colony. In this deferred Condition it remained 
thenceforward, but was always confidered as a Part of 
the Britijh Dominions. The Interpofition of our Minifter 
pioduced the defired Eitedf, and the French deiifted at 
that time from their Settlement. 
lo. This Attempt, however, fo much alarm.ed our 
Court, that the Duke of Montague refolved, at a vaft 
Expence, to fettle that Ifland and St, Vincent,, which was 
fo agreeable to the Miniftry and to his late Majefty, that 
by Letters Patent^ dated the 2 2d of ‘June, 1^22, both 
thofe Iflands were granted to his Grace, that he might be 
^COTraged to put fo generous and ' public-fpirited a 
Defign in Execution ; and for the farther Benefit and 
Advantage of the new Colonies which he was to fettle, 
the Duke was alfo conftituted Captain-General of the 
Iflands of St. Fiicia and St. Vincent, which till that Time 
were included in the Commiffion, and remained under the 
Government of the Governors of Barbadoes. His Grace, 
having appointed Capt. Uring his Deputy-Governor, and 
piovided feven Ships and Vclfels to carryover the Planters, 
witn fuch Provifions and Neceffaries as were requifite to 
fettle Colonies in thofe Iflands , obtained of his Ma- 
jefty the Winchelfea Man of War, commanded by Capt. 
Orme, to convoy, attend, and proted the Planters. 
Mr. Uring embarked on board the Winchelfea, on the 
loth. of September iy22, and failing to Ireland to take in 
Provifions, maoe it the 15th of December before he arrived 
at Si. Lucia. Being come to an Anchor in Pidgeon T/land 
Bay, a Barbadoes Sloop foon after arrived from 
Martinico, the Mafter whereof communicated to Mr. 
Uring the Copy of a Mandate by the King of France, 
which he faid was publifhed by Order of the French 
General in all the Churches of that Ifland, and in ail the 
Towns by beat of Dium j which contained in Subftance, 
That if the Englijh did not leave the Ifland in the Space 
of fifteen Days, they were to be expelled by Force of 
Arms. The next Morning Mr. Uring weighed from 
Pidgeon Ifland Bay, and flood for the Harbour of Petite 
Careenage, which they found to be a very good one, and 
in it leveral Places fit for careening Ships, fheltered fi'om 
every AVind in one of which. Ships of fixty Guns and 
upwards may careen very conveniently ; The Land is very 
hilly all round the Plarbour, and in moft places fteep, 
afcending from the Water-fide. At two in the Afternoon 
we landed fifty Men to cut down the Trees and Bullies on 
the Point that lay fit for a Battery of Guns to command 
the Entrance of the Harbour. The fame Day he fent 
Mr. Faulkner to Martinico, with Letters from the Duke 
of Montague and the Admiralty diredled to Capt. Charles 
Brown, Commander of the Feyerjha^n Man of War, and 
Capt. Brand Commander of the Hell or ; who were then at 
Martinico ; and acquainted them, that the Duke had ap- 
pointed him Deputy-Governor of St. Lucia and &. Vincent, 
and being come to fettle thofe Iflands under the Protedion 
of tlitWinchelfeaUf'^Vi of W^ar, he defired that in purfliance 
of the Orders they had received from the Admiralty for 
thatPurpofe, they would join him as foon as poflible, beino- 
apprehenfive the'Governor of Martinico defigned to mo^ 
left the Colony. In the mean time he procSded to land 
his People, Guns, Tools, Planks, and Stores, to fortify 
the Harbour, and build a large Houfe to flielter the 
Workmen 
On the 2 2d of December Captain Brand, and Captain 
Brown, arrived from Martinico with his Majefty’s Ships, 
the Hebior and Fevejfoam, and foon after a French Sloop, 
which brought a Letter from the French General, to ac- 
quaint Mr. Uring that he had heard of his landing Fnglifh 
f orces in the Ifland of St. Lucia, and defired to know 
his Intentions ; and at the fame Time he received the 
following Copy of the French King’s Mandate, viz, A 
Mandate of the King to the Si eur Chevalier deFeuquire, 
Governor and Lieutenant General of the "V\tindward 
Iflands in America. His Majefty having been inform- 
ed that the King of England has given the Iflands of 
St, Vincent, and St. Lucia, to the Duke of Miontague, 
has made his Complaint of it to the Court of England, 
and has alledged that neither the one nor the other of i 
Tc ^fiands belong to that Crown. The firft of them ^ 
^ ought to remain to the Caribbees, according to Con- 
‘‘ ventions m.ade with that People ; and the fecond does l 
“ belong to France, who has been willing to fufpendthe i 
'^ettlement of that Ifland on the requeft of the King of f: 
‘‘ England notwithftanding thofe Reafons, his Majefty ^ 
‘‘ hath not been informed that there has not been any 
^ Revocation of this Grant ; on the contrary, he under- 
Hands that the Duke of Montague is repairing to fend 1 
and take Pofteffion of thofe Iflands, and to tranfport ti 
Numbers of Families thither. This Undertaking be- - 
“ ing _ contrary to the Rights of his Majefty, his In- 
<c ^ in Cafe the Englijh fhould take Pof- i 
leflion of St. Eiicia, and fettle there, the Sieur Cheva- 
lier de Feuquire fhall fummon them to retire in fifteen 7 
Days, in regard that. Ifland belongs to France , and if 
“ they do not depart, he fhall compel them to it by J 
^ Force of Arms. He fhall take Care to charge fome'?* 
of the wifeft and moft experienced of his Officers with : 
this^ Expedition. His Majefty defires there fhould be t 
as little Effufion of Blood as poflible, nor will he haven 
“ any Pillage made ; he only wiffies the Englijh would,]: 
retire, and not poflefs themfelves of a Country which :• 
belongs to him. Done at Verjailles the 21ft of Sept em- 'C 
“ ber 1722,'figned, Cfc.” 
Upon reading the Mandate, and the French Governor’s 5* 
Letter, in which it was inclofed, Mr. Uring fent to Cap- :: 
tain Brand, and Captain Brown, to know if he might de--.- 
pend upon their Affiftance if he was attacked by theer 
French 5 but they would give him no pofitive Anfwer, 
and foon after failed to Barbadoes ; he alfo fent a Letter r. 
to the Governor of Martinico, to acquaint him that hec; 
had Orders from the Duke of Montague, the Lord Pro- - : 
prietor, under his Majefty ’s Patent, to plant St.'.' 
Lucta and defend it, but propofed fufpending all Adis of i :: 
Hoftility, till they could hear from their refpedlive Courts i'' 
of Great Britain France, Mr. Uring alfo thought fit l" 
to write to the Prefident of Barbadoes, that the Governor n; 
of Martinico had threatened to drive the Englijh from 1 1 
the Iflana, if they did not depart in fifteen Days, and to 
defire his Affiftance to fupport this Part of his Majefty’ss 
Dominions. To which the Prefident anfwered, That he 
was ready to give him all the Affiftance in his Power. 
But the Captains Brown and Brand remained fo long 
abfent from St. Lucia, that the French had an Opportunity 
of fending between two and three tlioufand Men from k! 
Martinico, and landing them on the Ifland the Captains s :i 
of the Men of War alfo refufed to give him Affiftance, 
tov/ards fortifying and defending the Colony by Land, . . 
and a great many of the Planters falling fick, and others si 
deferting over to the French at the fame Time, Mr. h 
Uring had not fourfeore left to bear Arms, which com- :: 
pelled him at length to come to a Treaty with theef 
French Gtne.v^\, tht Mescgim oi Champrgny •, and thefol- - .* 
lowing Articles were concluded between them; Firft, .:fj 
7 hat the Fngliflo fhould quit the Ifland of St. Lucia within 1 i 
feven Days, provided that the Ships of the Englijh 'fizr 1 ". 
tion fliould at all times have Liberty to come into thee 'l 
Ports of the faid Ifland, and wood and water there,,/ 
and feiwe their other Occafions, as the French alfo might. : 
Secondly, That the Englijh Colony fhould be at Liberty 1 
to reimbark all their Cannon, Stores, Arms, Baggage, 
and every thing belonging to them, without Moleftation. , 
Thirdly, That all Deferters fhould be given up. And, . 
Laftly, That immediately after the Englijh had evacuated : 
the Ifland, the French Forces alfo fhould evacuate it, and ; 
that the Ifland fhould remain in the fame State it was, , 
till the Controverfies between the two Crowns, relating to ; 
this Ifland, were decided. In purfuance of which Agree- ■ 
ment Mr. 'Uring embarked with his People, and failed ; 
to Antigua, fending the Winchelfea Man of War, and ; 
Captain Braithwaite, in the Griffin Sloop, to take a View ^ 
of the Ifland of St. Vincent, and fee if it was practicable ( 
to make a Settlement there. lu the mean Time a confi- 
derable Reinforcement arrived at Barbadoes, from the( 
Duke of Montague, with Ammunition and Provifion, 1. 
and Orders to attem.pt a Settlement upon St. Vincent, if i 
the Planters were driven from St. Lucia. 
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