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place in England the preceding year, the French 
planters in this island, declaring themselves in the 
interests of the abdicated monarch, attacked, and 
expelled their English neighbours a second time, 
laying waste their plantations, and committing such 
outrages as are unjustifiable among civilized nations, 
even in a time of open and avowed hostility. Their 
conduct on this occasion was deemed so cruel and 
treacherous, that it was assigned by king William 
and queen Mary among the causes which induced 
them to declare war against the French nation. 
Even fortune herself, inclining at length to the side 
of justice, from henceforward deserted them; for, 
after they had continued about eight months sole 
masters of the island, the English under the com¬ 
mand of General Codrington, returning in great 
force, not only compelled the French inhabitants 
to surrender, but actually transported eighteen hun¬ 
dred of them to Martinico and Hispaniola. It is 
true that reparation was stipulated to be made them 
by the treaty of Rvswick in 1767; but war again 
breaking out between the two nations in 1702, the 
French planters derived but little advantage from 
that clause in their favour. They had however, in 
1705, the gloomy satisfaction to behold many of the 
English possessions again laid waste by a French ar¬ 
mament, which committed such ravages, that the 
British parliament found it necessary to distribute 
the sum of 103,000 among the sufferers, to ena¬ 
ble them to re-settle their plantations. Happily, 
this was the last exertion of national enmity and 
civil discord within this little community; for, at 
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