1802. February 2nd, Colonel Thomas Hislop appointed Lieutenant Governor of Grenada.

1803. Import of slaves in a medium of two years 1097, export 2.

1804. Major General Stewart appointed Lieutenant Governor.

1805. Brigadier General Frederick Maitland appointed Governor.

Grenada exports 14,000 hhds of sugar.

Population 1100 whites, 800 people of color, 20,000 slaves.

1806. Act passed to prevent the too frequent manumission of slaves.

1812. Eruption of the Souffrière at St. Vincent mistaken for distant cannon, militia turned out in con

sequence.

1813. Sir C. Shipley appointed Governor.

CHAPTER VI.

CHRONOLOGY OF DOMINICA, FROM ITS FIRST
DISCOVERY TO A. D. 1814.

1493. ON Sunday, 3rd November, Christopher Columbus saw this island, and called it Dominica from its being discovered on the Lord's day.

1514. The fleet of Pedro Arias from San Lucar arrived at Dominica on 3rd June, where it remained four days, taking in wood and water. 1520. To the Licentiate Antonis Serrano was given the power of Governor of Dominica and many other

Islands.

1568. May 27th, Several English ships touched at Dominica and trafficked with the natives.

1585. Sir R. Grenville with an English fleet touched at Dominica on the 7th May.

1590. Mr. Whyte on his fifth voyage to the West Indies anchored at Dominica and trafficked with

the savages.

1592. Two English ships arrived at Dominica and captured a slave ship with 270 negroes on board. 1595. May 8th, An English fleet touched at Dominica and remained till the 14th, refreshing their

crews.

1596. January, Captain Laurence touched here on his way to England.

May 23rd, Earl of Cumberland arrived here and remained till 1st June.

1597. May 13, Mr. J. Masham touched at this island on his return from Guiana to England. 1603. June 17th, Captain Gilbert touched here. 1606. August 12th, Captain Chalons of the ship Richard, in passing Dominica, took on board a Spanish friar who had been sixteen months a slave to the Caraibs.

1607. Some English ships touched at Dominica and trafficked with the natives.

1632. At the commencement of this century a few French settlers arrived in Dominica, and were well received by the natives. In this year their number amounted to 349.-Dominica also contained 938 Caraibs, 23 mulattoes, and 338 slaves.

1635. The Charaibs of this island joined those of St. Vincent, and went to attack the French at Martinique.

1639. M. du Parquet, the French Governor of Martinique, in passing this island was fired at by the Charaibs, but no war ensued.

1640. An English ship becalmed off Dominica tried

to carry off some of the Charaibs, who in revenge

attacked the English colony of St. Lucia, and laid all waste with fire and sword.

September 15th, M. Auber, Governor of Martinique, agreed with the Caraibs of Dominica to be with them on terms of peace, and kept his promise.

1653. In revenge of an injury they had sustained, the Caraibs of Dominica attacked and killed all the French at the Island of Mariegalante, and were shortly after themselves attacked and defeated by some French who came to Dominica for that purpose.

1660. By the treaty of 31st March it was agreed that this island and St. Vincent should be given up to the Charaibs.

1666. Mr. T. Warner, the Caraib Governor of Dominica, taken by the French and put in irons.

The Caraibs of this island joined those of St. Vincent and made war upon the English settlements, burning the towns, plundering the men, seizing the women, and feeding upon the bodies of children.

1667. In the month of December Lord Willoughby procured the release of Mr. T. Warner, and reinstated him in the government of the Charaibs at Dominica.

1668. Lord Willoughby established peace with the Charaibs of this island through the medium of Mr. Warner, in the month of February.

1673. King Charles, by a new commission, appointed Lord Willoughby Governor of Dominica and some other islands.

1675. Lord Willoughby died, and was succeeded by Sir J. Aikins; Colonel T. Warner, the Lieutenant Governor of Dominica, died also.

1731. The English and French Kings issued orders to the respective Governors of Barbados and Martinique, that the Island of Dominica should be evacuated by the French and English inhabitants, and left in the entire possession of the Charaibs 1740. A fleet from England, commanded by Sir Charles Ogle, touched at Dominica; and on the 20th December Lord Cathcart, General of the land forces, died here of a dysentery.

1748. On the 7th October, by the Treaty of Aix-laChapelle, Dominica was declared a neutral island belonging to the Charaibs.

1759. Guadaloupe taken by the English, and many of the inhabitants, by the treaty of capitulation, were sent to Dominica. Roseau, the capital, much improved; the population increased, and a French Governor appointed.

The Griffin man-of-war, Captain Taylor, landed at Roseau to demand an English schooner that had been taken by a French privateer, and was under the guns of the town. The Governor refused, and Captain Taylor boarded and destroyed the privateer, and dismounted some of the guns from the battery.

1761. On the 6th June, Sir James Douglas and Lord Rolls took the island of Dominica from the French by assault. The inhabitants were to receive protection during the King's pleasure, and the Charaibs to deliver up their arms to the English.