1763. General R. Melville is appointed Governor. 1764. Proclamation issued for sale of the crown lands.

1766. W. Hill, Esq. appointed Lieutenant-Governor, vice Alex. Brown, Esq. deceased.

1768. A human skeleton dug up on Somerville's plantation, with gold-bracelets on the arms, supposed to have been buried there before Tobago was known to Europeans.

1770. W. Stewart, Esq. appointed Lieutenant-Go

vernor.

October 18th, W. Young, Esq. appointed Lieutenant-Governor, vice Stewart, removed to Domi

nica.

This year the exports to Great Britain were valued at £451,650, to America £51,061, to the other islands £671.

1771. Sir W. Leyburne appointed Governor. 1774. The four and a-half per cent. duties abolished in this island.

1776. Lord Macartney appointed Governor.

A white man hung for the murder of a slave. Population 2397 whites, 1050 free negroes, 10,752 slaves; value of exports £20,000. 1781. Tobago taken by the French.

1783. By art. 7 of the treaty of peace signed at Versailles on January 28, Tobago is ceded by right to France.

1787. Import of slaves in a medium of 4 years 1400. Population 1397 whites, 1050 free colored

people, 10,539 slaves.

1789. Tobago exports 5800 hhds. of sugar. 1790. French soldiers mutiny and set the town on fire; town entirely consumed.

A terrible hurricane blows down nearly all the buildings in the island; 20 vessels driven on shore and lost.

1793. Tobago captured, after a slight resistance, by the British troops under Major General Cuyler.

G. P. Rickets, Esq. appointed Governor. 1797. April 18, Stephen de Lancy, Esq. appointed Governor.

1799. Tobago exported 8800 hhds. of sugar.

1802. By the treaty of Amiens Great Britain cedes the Island of Tobago to France.

1803. War declared; Tobago taken by the English under Commodore Hood and General Grinfield.

Import of slaves in a medium of 2 years 172. 1805. Tobago exports 15,327 hhds. of sugar.

Population 900 whites, 700 colored people, 14,883 slaves.

1812. The noise of the eruption of the Souffrière mountain in St. Vincent is so loud as to be mistaken for the cannon of an enemy, and the militia are turned out in consequence.

CHAPTER XIII.

CHRONOLOGY OF ST. LUCIA, FROM A.D. 1596
TO A. D. 1803.

Public Papers,
Colonial Returns,

AUTHORITIES.

Raynal, Edwards, Southey,
Labat, Du Tertre, and Coke.

THE island of St. Lucia was discovered by Christopher Columbus, but in which of his voyages is not precisely known. It remained totally uninhabited by Europeans till the year 1639. Its chronology commences from 1596.

1596. Captain Laurence Keymys, of the ship Darling, touched at St. Lucia on his way to England.

1605. The ship Oliph Blossom, in her way from

Barbados to England, left 67 men at St. Lucia, where they lived in peace for six weeks, after which they were attacked by savages, and obliged to leave the island.

1639. Lord Willoughby arrives with an armament

and a party of English to colonize St. Lucia; he assembles 600 natives, and obtains from them a surrender of the island.

1640. After 18 months of peace the Charaibs of

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St. Lucia, Martinique, and St. Vincent attacked the English in St. Lucia, and laid all waste with fire and sword; only a few escaped to Mont

serrat.

1650. Since 1640 St. Lucia had been inhabited by Charaibs only.

In this year M. du Parquet sent M. Rousselan with 40 French to colonize it; a fort is built. 1654. M. Rousselan dies; is succeeded by La Riviere; La Riviere is killed by the Charaibs, and succeeded by M. Haquet.

1656. M. Haquet is enticed from his fort and killed by the Charaibs, and is succeeded by Mr. Breton, who is forced by the garrison to fly.

The garrison, after stripping the fort, leave the island in an English ship; Du Parquet sends a reinforcement of 38 men with Le Sieur de Coutis, as Governor; De Coutis is superseded by M. D'Aygremont.

1660. D'Aygremont is killed by the Charaibs, and is succeeded by M. Le Lande; Le Lande dies, and is succeeded by M. Bonnard.

1664. The English purchase St. Lucia from the Charaibs; Mr. Thomas Warner arrives with 1400 men to take possession; French under M. Bonnard surrender, and are sent to Martinique; Mr. Cook is left Governor.

Six hundred of the new settlers are carried off by a sickness.

1666. Mr. Cook, the Governor, sets fire to the fort

and abandons the island; of his 1500 followers, all but 89 had been destroyed by sickness, or the Charaibs.

1672. Lord Willoughby appointed Governor of this, in common with some other islands.

1713. By the peace of Utrecht, St. Lucia is viewed as neutral.

1718. The Regent of France makes a grant of the island to Marshal D'Estres, who sends out colonists to settle; British Court objects to this, and the grant is recalled in consequence.

1722. St. Lucia granted by letters patent to the Duke of Montague; French King protests against the grant; Captain Uring is appointed Deputygovernor, and arrives at St. Lucia with a party of colonists on the 15th December; Captain Uring lands with his party and stores; 3000 French arrive and force Captain Uring to capitulate; by the terms agreed upon, French and English both quit, and the island remains neutral.

1730. St. Lucia again declared neutral by French and English sovereigns.

1731. A French man of war takes nine or ten British ships at St. Lucia, on pretence of that island belonging to France.

1748. St. Lucia declared a neutral island by the treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle.

1762. St. Lucia (on which the French had settled, notwithstanding their agreement to consider it as neutral) is taken by the English.