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-be faced', than' the infamy of a

ftatiori, aii'd ad^uated the government'

. aif well as'lhe people, 1

• i r i s ’trite, the Island of Serilarid,

the'object 6f the attach, was defence­

less, the passage over the Belt ift-”

t&rccpted, hardly- any regular troops

on the whole' Island,, and a question

whether the peasantry cbiild be ar­

med expeditiously, or officers gottoi

putl'in motion the unwieldy bdcfy.

The" town contained about <2360 Ma-

r \ *O*' v* • rmes , * and* i 660 regular^ V the first ' * r ^ J r s ' * *»•,. >r. r . .