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worth all the rest, and to which it must be owned 
we had some colourable pretensions, founded on a 
treaty entered into with the Charaibean inhabitants 
in 1664, six hundred of whom attended an arma¬ 
ment that was sent thither by lord Willoughby, and 
actually put the English publicly and formally into 
possession. 
Both nations being thus alike dissatisfied with an 
arrangement which left nothing to either, it may 
be supposed, that on the conclusion of the war 
which broke out a few years afterwards, a very dif¬ 
ferent stipulation took place. The French no long¬ 
er pleaded scruples on behalf of the Charaibes, but 
very cordially concurred with the English in di¬ 
viding the spoil. By the 9th article of the peace 
of Paris, signed the 10th of February 1763, the 
three islands of Dominica, St. Vincent, and Toba¬ 
go, were assigned to Great Britain; and St. Lucia 
to France, in full and perpetual sovereignty; the 
Charaibes not being once mentioned in the whole 
transaction, as if no such people existed. 
They were in truth reduced to a miserable rem¬ 
nant.—Of the ancient, or, as they were called by 
the English, Red Charaibes, not more than a hun¬ 
dred families survived in 1763, and of all their anci¬ 
ent and extensive possessions, these poor people 
retained only a mountainous district in the island of 
St. Vincent. Of this island and its dependencies I 
shall now treat, reserving Dominica for a separate 
section. 
