St. Lucia; Grenada, Dominico, and St.
Vincent's were with difficulty preserved. But in these victories the
French revolutionists were aided by the negro population. Victor Hugues
flew from island to island, preaching liberty and equality to the
negroes and all people of colour, and a crusade against the English and
French royalists; and it was chiefly by this means that, the French were
victorious. The African slave learned to adopt the tri-colour flag and
the red cap of liberty, and the British were either butchered, or forced
to flee from the re-captured islands. Under the same auspices, the
Maroons, of Jamaica, likewise commenced a sanguinary conflict with
the English, and did not lay down their arms till they were nearly
exterminated; those who escaped the slaughter consented to be removed to
Canada, where a portion of land was allotted to them.

FRENCH OPERATIONS IN HOLLAND, ETC.

It has been seen that when the Duke of York returned to London, he left
the command of the British troops to Count Walmoden, and that Walmoden
was attacked by the French army on the Waal, under Pichegru. It became
evident that nothing but a hasty retreat could save the British army
from destruction; and, after spiking their guns, and destroying all
the ammunition they could not carry away, on the 16th of January they
retired towards Leek. In his retreat Walmoden was pursued by Pichegru;
but Walmoden, after sustaining several assaults, and after a march of
nearly two months through countries inimical to the British, finally
reached the mouth of the Elbe, when the Duke of York's army embarked at
Bremen for England. Throughout their whole route it was manifest that
the population of Holland were, in the main, revolutionists; in every
Dutch town and village through which they passed, the majority of the
inhabitants looked upon them as the original cause of the calamities
inflicted upon their country, and took every opportunity of insulting
them in their misery and adding to their sufferings. Now that the
British were departed the feelings of the Dutch were manifested in a
clearer light. Before this, our ally, the stadtholder, and his son, the
hereditary Prince of Orange, had fled for refuge to England, so that the
democrats, which everywhere abounded, had no check in a display of their
principles. Those of Amsterdam planted the tree of liberty in the chief
places of the city, mounted the French cockade, and gave an enthusiastic
recept