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with the coaft ; but the difficulty of the 
fpot they fixed upon, renders this highly 
improbable ; efpecially, when ir is con- 
fidered, that at the diftance of three 
miles to the fouthward, and two to the 
northward, there are very convenient 
Janding-places. But the difficulty of 
landing ts not the fole,; nor the chief, 
difadvantage attending this place. It is 
at the diftance of four or five miles from 
a good road, the country mountainous, 
rocky, and fo uneven, that thefe few 
miles coft the writer near two hours of 
‘laborious travelling, on a good horfe, to 
view the fpor. Jt required almoft infinite 
labour to convey their ftores from thence. 
Between this place, alfo, and the road, 
there is‘a very high hill, covered with 
fiupendous mafles of rocks and loofe 
ftones, on which, indeed, they fixed pi- 
-quets; but after thefe fhould have been 
driven in, the fituation of the main 
body, on the brow of the cliff; would 
have been totally expofed to the fire of 
artillery. 
Their debarkation was completed be- 
fore Thurfday morning, when numbers 
of them difperfed over the country, to 
procure provifions and wearing-apparel, 
or, in other words, to plunder. From 
thofe houfes in which they found inha- 
bitants, they took but few things ; but 
entirely ranfacked, and gutted, thofe 
that were abandoned.” This was parti- 
cularly the cafe with the houfe belonging 
to the farm on which they landed. The 
furniture, and allthe implements of huf- 
bandry, were burnt for fucl; the fea- 
thers of the beds turned loofe over the 
fields, for the fake of the ftuff which in- 
clofed them. They alfo killed a few 
fheep and poultry; but, all circum- 
fiances confidered, the damage is infi- 
nitely lefs than might have been expeét - 
ed. -They committed no wanton mur- 
ders, nor any deeds of great cruclty.— 
Two Welchmen were killed, but thefe, 
by their foolith rafhnefs, provoked their 
fate s one almoft deferved it: for after a 
Frenchman had furrendered himfelf to 
him, and refigned his mufquet, the 
Welchman, with the butt+end of the 
fame mufquet, aimed a bjow at his head, 
on this, the other inflantly ran him 
through with his bayonet, which he had 
not relinguifhed. 
The greateft exertions were ufed by 
the chiet men of the county, to collect 
all the forces that could be found. Thetfe 
arrived at Fifhguard, on Thurfday even~ 
dng, a little after dark, 
Account of the late Dofcent of the Fre..ch in Wi ales. 173 
They con‘fted of 
The Pembroke Fencibles = 100 
Part of the Cardiganthire Militia 200 
The Fifiguard and Newport Fen- 

pe iClbbes — - - 3090 
Lard Cawdor’s Troop of Yeoman 
Cavalry - - 60 
[pall >.) 669 
Thefe men, although properly train-. 
ed tothe ufe of the mufquet, had never 
feen one fired in anger but. many of the 
officers had been long in the fervice, and 
Were experienced in war. To thefe muft 
be added, a vaft number of gentlemen 
volunteers, with crowds of colliers, and 
common people of all defcriptions, fome 
armed, and fome unarmed. Although 
thefe latter increafed the appearance of 
the force, yet they muft be looked upon 
as of little ufe in battle, if not of real 
differvice: not to mention that, in fpite 
of the public encomiums on their loyalty, 
many credible perfons were witnefles, 
both in Haverfordweft, and on the roads, 
on Thurfday evening, to fuch expref- 
fions, as fubjected their principles and 
inclinations to ftrcng fufpicions. Three 
perfons are now in cuftody, on acharge 
of having communicated intelligence to 
the French commander, and the Romney 
dragoons are in purfuit of more this day, 
About ten o’clock on Thurfday night, 
an officer brought to Lord Cawdor the 
letter which afterwards appeared in the 
Gazette, and the furrender was foon de- 
termined upon, and fixed for the follow- 
ing day at noon. From the place of 
their firft encampment, if. it may be fo 
called, they marched at that time, with 
Lord Cawdor at their head. to Goodick 
Sands, under Fifhguard, where they 
gave up their arms. ‘Their number was 
very near fourteen hundred. They ap-° 
peared truly formidable, when compared 
with our {mall force; although cur’s 
was very judicioufly diftributed on a 
hill above the fands, fo as to make an ape 
pearance of a very long line. The pri- 
foners difplayed the conititutional levity 
of Frenchmen on the occafion. As foon 
as they loft their arms, fome began to 
fing, fome to {moke, fome to dance and 
leap, others chewed bread and cheefe, 
but fome few exhibited dark and jizzdip- 
nant countenances. They were marched 
on Friday night to Haverfordweft, and 
confined in different places, fome in the 
caftle, fome in churches, and fome in ftore« 
houfes. They were foon after removed 
to Milford, and put in prifon-fhips. 
42 . Thus 
