want of entrenching tools was feverely felt; there was not any provifion of the kind made, which put it out of our power to make any repairs or intrenching within, which was fo neceffary against an affault, when fuch confiderable breaches were made in the works ; and when it was fo well known by the enemy that our decrease of troops in the garrifon was very confiderable, we had reason to look for every moment.

Under all these circumstances, after a fiege of five weeks, thirtyfour days fince the enemy's batteries began to open, most of which time we received fire from 24 mortars and 23 pieces of heavy artillery against a spot of ground where the greateft diameter is not more than 200 yards, the whole of the garrifon, from the great decrease by killed, wounded, fick, and defertion, being obliged to be under arms every night, which harraffed and fatigued them so much that I thought I would be wanting in humanity to have risked the lives of the small body of gallant foldiers that had behaved with fuch fidelity and courage during the fiege, to have fubjected them to an affault, which, from the fuperior numbers of the enemy, (the duty men in the garrifon not exceeding 5co men) could not fail to fucceed.

Notwithstanding the event has proved unfortunate, I should be wanting in doing juftice to the troops under my command, if I concluded without faying, that both officers and foldiers deferve the highest commendation: under a conftant fire of shot and fhells night and day (that I doubt has in any instance ever been exceeded) the officers fhewed a conftant and univerfal chearfulness, and, by their example, the foldiers bore the greatest fatigue with a firmness that deferves my warmeft acknowledgments.

I tranfmit you returns of our killed and wounded, and have the pleasure to add, that during the fiege we loft but one man by defertion of the King's troops.

Captain Robertfon, of the 15th, will have the honour to deliver you this dispatch. He acted as Deputy Quarter Master-General during the fiege, and is well qualified to explain every particular relating to the fiege.

Note 276. Articles of Capitulation of the Island of St Chriftopher, between his Excellency the Count de Graffe, the Marquis de Bouillé, Major General Shirley, Governor, and Brigadier-General Frafer.

ARTICLE I. The Governor, the Commander of the troops, the regular officers and foldiers, the officers and privates of militia, shall march through the breach on the Fort of Brimftone Hill, with all the honours of war, with drums beating, colours flying, one mortar, two field pieces, ten rounds each, arms and baggage, and then lay down their arms at a place appointed, the officers excepted.

II. The regular troops fhall be prifoners of war, and fent to England in fafe and good veffels, which shall be furnished with provifions for the voyage, but they fhall not ferve against the King of France until they shall be exchanged. The officers are permitted to refide in any of the Islands, upon their parole.-The militia and armed negroes shall return to their respective homes.

III. The inhabitants or their attornies fhall be obliged to take the oaths of fidelity to the King of France, within the space of one month, before the Governor of the faid Islands, and those that are prevented from it by fickness, fhall obtain a delay.

IV. They shall obferve an exact neutrality, and fhall not be compelled to take up arms against his Britannic Majefty, or any other power. They are at liberty to retain their arms for the internal police and better fubjection of their negroes: but they are to make a return of them to the Juftices of the Peace, who shall be responsible for any bad use that may be made of them, contrary to the tenor of the prefent capitulation.

V. They fhall enjoy, until a peace, their laws, cuftoms and ordinances. Juftice fhall be administered by the fame persons who are actually in office. All expences attending the administration of justice, fhall be defrayed by the colony.

VI. The Court of Chancery shall be held by the Council of the Ifland, and in the fame form as heretofore, and all appeals from the faid court shall be made to his Most Christian Majesty in Council.

VII. The inhabitants and clergy fhall be fupported in the poffeffion of their eftates and properties, of whatsoever nature or denomination, and in their privileges, rights, titles, honours and exemptions, and in the poffeffion of their religion, and the minifters in the enjoyment of their livings. The abfentees, and those who are in the fervice of his Britannic Majefty, fhall be maintained in the poffeffion and enjoyment of their estates and properties, which fhall be managed by their attornies. The inhabitants may fell their eftates and poffeffions to whom they fhall think proper, and they are at liberty to fend their children to England to be educated, and from whence they may return when they judge proper.

VIII. The inhabitants fhall pay monthly into the hands of the treasurer of the troops, in lieu of all taxes, the value of two-thirds of the articles that the island of St Chriftopher's and Nevis paid to the King of Great Britain; which he fhall eftimate according to the valuation of the revenues made in the year 1781, and which shall ferve as a bafis.

IX. The ftores which may have been taken during the fiege fhall be religiously restored, and they may also be reclaimed in one of the French Windward and Leeward Islands.

X. The inhabitants shall not be obliged to furnish the troops with quarters, except in extraordinary cafes; but they are to be lodged at the expence of the King, or in houses belonging to the Crown.

XI. In cases where the King's bufinefs may require negroes to work, they shall be furnished by the inhabitants of the faid islands,

in the number of five hundred, but they fhall be paid at the rate of two bills per day each, and victualled at the expence of the King. XII. The veffels and droghers belonging to the inhabitants, at the capitulation, fhall be restored to their owners.

The veffels which the faid inhabitants expected from the ports of England, or from any of his Britannic Majefty's poffeffions, fhall be received in the faid colonies during the space of fix months; and they may load them to return under neutral colours even for the ports of Great Britain, with the particular permiffion of the Governor; and if any of the veffels excepted fhall ftop at any of the English islands, the Governor fhall be authorised to grant permiffion for them to come to either of the aforefaid iflands.

XIII. The inhabitants and merchants fhall enjoy all the privileges of commerce granted to the fubjects of his Moft Chriftian Majesty, throughout all the extent of his dominions.

XIV. Whatever may have been furnished for the French army during the fiege, and to this day, by the faid islands, and the loffes that the inhabitants have fuftained by the burning of plantations, and by every other means, fhall be estimated by a meeting of the inhabitants, and the amount equally borne by the two islands, under the head of contribution or indemnity for the expences of the war, but in fuch a manner, that this article fhall not diminish the taxes above mentioned, which are to take place from the date of the capitulation; but the affembly of the inhabitants may apply to it the arrears of the general taxes which remain in their hands at the date of the capitulation.

XV. The failors of merchant fhips, thofe of privateers, and other individuals, who have no property in the faid islands, fhall depart from the fame in the space of fix weeks, if they are not employed in droghers, or avowed by two proprietors, who will anfwer for them; and means fhall be furnished them to depart for the neutral islands.

XVI. The General of the French troops fhall be put in poffeffion of all the artillery, all the effects depending on the colonies, belonging to his Britannic Majefty; all powder, arms, ammunition, and King's veffels fhall be given to the commander of the French troops, and an inventory of them prefented to the Governor.

XVII. Out of refpect to the courage and determined conduct of Generals Shirley and Frafer, we confent that they shall not be confidered as prifoners of war; but the former may return to his government of Antigua, and the latter may continue in the fervice of his country, being happy to teftify this mark of particular esteem for thofe brave officers. Le Marquis de Bouille. Thomas Shirley. Tho. Frafer, Brig.-Gen.

It is moreover covenanted, that the inhabitants of these islands, with the permiffion of the Governor, may export their merchandize in neutral veffels, for all the ports of France and America.

(Signed as above.)

Note

Note 280. Lift of the French Fleet at St. Christophers.

Note 281. Lift of the French Fleet that retook Demarary and

Note 282. Lift of British Ships and Veffels taken at Demarary.

Note 283. Names of the Officers Killed and Wounded in the 9th and 12th of April, and the names of the ships to which they belonged.

Royal Oak.-Mr G. Watkin, First Lieutenant, killed; Captain of Marines, wounded.

Alfred.-Captain Bayne, killed.

Montagu.-Wm. Cade, Mafter, killed; Lieutenants Bruce and Buchan, wounded.

Valiant. Richard Winterbottom, Second Lieutenant, killed; William Brown, Fifth Lieutenant, and Mr Backhouse, master, wounded.

Warrior.-Mr Stone, mafter, wounded.

Magnificent.-Capt. Baggs, of the marines, wounded.

Ajax.-John Elliot, First Lieutenant, and Mr Thomas Roffitor, pilot, wounded.

Repulfe.-Captain of Marines and Mafter, wounded.
Formidable.-Lieutenant Hele, killed.

Duke.-Lieut. Cornish, Mr Cooper, Master, Mr Scott, Boatswain,

wounded.

Agamemnon. Lieutenants Incledon and Brice, wounded; the latter fince dead.

Refolution. Capt. Lord Robert Manners, wounded, and fince

dead.

Prothée. Mr Thomas Love, Mafter, wounded.

Hercules. Lieutenant Hobart, killed; Capt. Savage, wounded. America.-Lieutenant Callowhill, killed; Lieutenant Trelawney,

wounded.

Anfon.-Capt. Blair, killed.

Torbay Lieutenant Mounier of Marines, killed.

Princeffa.-Lieutenants Dundas, M'Douall, and Laban, of Marines, wounded.

Note 284. Lift of the Fleet under the command of Admiral Pigot, with which he failed to New-York, and the Line of Battle he gave when Lord Rodney refigned the command of the fleet to him at Port Royal, in the island of Jamaica, July 13th, 1782.

The Marlborough to lead on the Starboard, and the Conqueror on the Larboard tacks.