The loss of the latter, between the 16th and 21st, was, on the part of the army, three rank and file killed, and one captain, 11 rank and file wounded ; on that of the navy, one captain (James Milne, of the Avenger) and 13 seamen killed, and one captain (Sandford Tatham, of the Dromedary), two lieutenants (Thomas Henry Wilson and Thomas Clarke), one surgeon, and 24 seamen wounded. "The Bienvenue was added to the navy, upon the establishment of a 28-gun frigate, by the (as significant of the manner in which she had been attacked and carried) very appropriate name of Undaunted ; and Captain Faulknor, by whom she had been so gallantly won, was appointed to the command of her : Lieutenant Bowen, also, as no less justly his due, was made a commander into the Zebra.

Martinique being reduced, the forts garrisoned with British, under the command of Lieutenant-general Prescott, who was appointed governor of the island, and a small squadron, under Commodore Thompson, being left, to cooperate if necessary in its defence, a detachment of troops was embarked at Fort-Royal bay, on the 31st, to attack the island of Sainte-Lucie. On the next day, the 1st of April, the ships of war and transports arrived there ; and, on the same evening, the troops were landed at three different points, with little resistance and no loss. The same good fortune had attended the ships in their passage along the shore, although compelled to pass within gun-shot of the numerous batteries that lined it. Their hulls, masts, yards, sails, and rigging, received many shots ; but, crowded as they were with troops and seamen, yet not a man on board was hurt. Between the 1st and 3d of April the troops assaulted and carried the enemy's outposts ; and, on the 4th, General Ricard, commanding the works on Morne Fortunée, surrendered on terms of capitulation.

Thus did Great Britain become possessed of a valuable sugar-island, without the loss, on her part, of a single life ; and with no greater loss, on the part of the enemy, than two officers and about 30 men, killed at the storming of a redoubt. The garrison of this redoubt consisted but of 33 men: consequently one prisoner only was taken ; and how he happened to escape the customary massacre on such occasions is not stated in the gazette-account. Colonel Eyre Coote appears to have been the commanding officer of the storming party. A garrison being left at Sainte-Lucie, under the command of Colonel Sir Charles Gordon, the remainder of the troops returned on the 5th to