The Board and House having come to the following Resolution of voting the sum of 1,000l. sterling, for the purpose of purchasing a Sword and Service of Plate to be presented to his Excellency Governor Prevost, in the name of the Colony, as a token of its gratitude for the gallant defence thereof by his Excellency on the memorable 22d February last,
Also a sum not exceeding 300l. sterling, for defraying the expense of a Monument to the memory of the late Major Nunn who gallantly fell on the same memorable occasion,
Also the sum of 100 guineas for the purchase of a Sword to be presented to Major O'Connell, And 300l. sterling to be presented to Captain James, commanding the 46th regiment, to be laid out in the purchase of a Service of Plate for the use of the officers' Mess of that regiment—request your Excellency's' assent thereto, and that you will issue your warrants to the Treasurer accordingly.
T. Metcalf, President.
J. Lucas, Speaker.
Council Chamber, 12th May, 1805.
House of Assembly, 15th May, 1805.
No. XIV.
Resolutions of the Patriotic Club, and Letter of the Chairman to General Prevost, p. 10.
Patriotic Fund, Lloyd's, May 14, 1805.
At a Special General Meeting of the Committee held this day,
Joseph Marryat, Esq. in the Chair, Read, from the London Gazette of the 7th of May, a letter from Lieut.-General Sir William Myers, Bart. commanding His Majesty's troops in the Windward and Leeward Islands, to Earl Camden, one of his Majesty's principal Secretaries of State, inclosing a letter from Brigadier-General Prevost, Governor of Dominica, relating to the vigorous and gallant resistance made by the troops and militia under his command, against the very superior force with which the French landed at Roseau, on the 22d of February last; his retreat to the fort at Prince Ruperts; and the resolution he expressed, in answer to the summons of General Lagrange, of defending it to the last extremity; in consequence of which the enemy abandoned the enterprise, and evacuated the Island.
Resolved,