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that we are left to wonder at the patient long-suf¬ 
fering and forbearance of the people under his go¬ 
vernment, in submitting to it for half the time. 
His first measure was to disarm the English in¬ 
habitants, in direct violation of the capitulation, and 
he entered into a treaty with the runaway negroes 
for their assistance, if wanted. He issued an or¬ 
der, forbidding the English to assemble together 
more than two in a place, and he commanded the 
centinels to disperse them if they were found to¬ 
gether in greater numbers. He ordered, that no 
lights should be seen in their houses after nine 
o’clock at night, and that no English person should 
presume to Walk the streets after that hour,, with¬ 
out a candle and lanthorn. Mr. Robert How, an 
English merchant, and owner of a ship then in the 
bay, attempting to go on board his own vessel after 
that hour, was shot dead in the attempt; and the 
centinel who killed him was raised to a higher 
station in his regiment, for having thus (as the go¬ 
vernor expressed it) done his duty. 
So very apprehensive was this governor that the 
English inhabitants Were forming designs to retake 
the island, that every letter of theirs was opened for 
his inspection before it was delivered. And deem¬ 
ing this measure insufficient to furnish him with 
the knowledge of their private transactions, he 
adopted the practice of going himself in disguise, 
or employing others who better knew the English, 
language, in order to listen at their doors and win- 
