Produced by StevenGibbs, LN Yaddanapudi and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net AN ACCOUNT OF THE CAMPAIGN IN THE WEST INDIES, IN THE YEAR 1794, UNDER THE COMMAND OF THEIR EXCELLENCIES _LIEUTENANT GENERAL SIR CHARLES GREY, K. B._ AND _VICE ADMIRAL SIR JOHN JERVIS, K. B._ COMMANDERS IN CHIEF IN THE WEST INDIES; WITH THE REDUCTION OF THE ISLANDS OF MARTINIQUE, ST. LUCIA, GUADALOUPE, MARIGALANTE, DESIADA, &c. AND THE EVENTS THAT FOLLOWED THOSE UNPARALLELED SUCCESSES, AND CAUSED THE LOSS OF GUADALOUPE. _By the Rev. COOPER WILLYAMS, A. M._ VICAR OF EXNING, SUFFOLK, AND LATE CHAPLAIN OF HIS MAJESTY'S SHIP BOYNE. LONDON: _PRINTED BY T. BENSLEY_; FOR G. NICOL, BOOKSELLER TO HIS MAJESTY, PALL-MALL; B. AND J. WHITE, FLEET-STREET; AND J. ROBSON, NEW BOND-STREET. 1796. TO GENERAL SIR CHARLES GREY, KNIGHT OF THE MOST HONOURABLE ORDER OF THE BATH, AND ADMIRAL SIR JOHN JERVIS, KNIGHT OF THE MOST HONOURABLE ORDER OF THE BATH, AND COMMANDER IN CHIEF OF HIS MAJESTY'S FLEETS IN THE MEDITERRANEAN, _THIS SHORT ACCOUNT_ OF THEIR BRILLIANT EXERTIONS IN THEIR COUNTRY'S CAUSE, IS MOST RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED BY THEIR OBEDIENT AND GRATEFUL HUMBLE SERVANT, COOPER WILLYAMS. EXNING, AUGUST 10, 1796. PREFACE. When an author lays his book before the public, unless it be a work of genius, some account of his motives for so doing is generally expected. As this is a work that pretends to nothing but authenticity, and to be a plain relation of facts, I shall only premise, that, placed in a situation which gave me an opportunity of being witness to most of the principal transactions of the expedition under Sir CHARLES GREY and Sir JOHN JERVIS in the West Indies, and having leisure and inclination to minute down the occurrences as they presented themselves, I venture to appear before the public with such humble pretensions alone, as the result of that opportunity and leisure can give me. My original intention reached no further than to publish a few views of some interesting subjects, which abound in the Caraibean Islands; but I selected those only which were rendered most so by particular events. Though I pretend not to the powers of an artist (being self-taught), yet I beg leave to urge in excuse for that want of spirit and picturesque effect which, I fear, is but too apparent in my drawings, that they are scrupulously exact, and accurately delineate the subjects they profess to represent. When I at first communicated my design of publishing a few drawings, taken during the West India Expedition, many of my friends, and some of the officers who served with me, knowing that I had kept a journal of the transactions, desired me to add a short account of them to accompany the engravings.