[371] Pitt MSS., 349.
[372] Pitt MSS., 155, 349. In the latter packet is Malouet's letter of 10th March 1793 from Kingston, Jamaica, to M. Franklyn at London, dwelling on the woes of San Domingo and Martinique—all due to the folly and wickedness of one man, probably Brissot. He despairs of the French West Indies. See, too, "Dropmore P.," ii, 388.
[373] Pitt MSS., 349.
[374] "Parl. Hist.," xxxiii, 586.
[375] The facts stated above suffice to refute the strange statement of Mr. Morse Stephens ("Fr. Rev.," ii, 476) that the English invasion of San Domingo was "absurd." It was not an invasion, but an occupation of the coast towns after scarcely any resistance.
[376] "Dropmore P.," ii, 443, 454, 464.
[377] Fortescue, iv, pt. i, chs. xiii, xiv; James, i, 250–2.
[378] Pinckard, "Notes on the Expedition to the West Indies," ii, especially Letter 15.
[379] Bryan Edwards, "Hist. Survey of S. Domingo" (1801), 204. Fortescue (iv, 385) assesses the British losses in the West Indies in 1794 at 12,000 men, apart from deaths in battle.
[380] Pitt MSS., 121.