ABSTRACT
In February, at Bridgetown, Barbadoes, 120 houses were destroyed by fire.
The exports from Essequibo and Demerary employed two ships, and consisted of85hogsheads of sugar.
In March, Captain Tyrrel, in his Majesty's ship Buckingham, in company with the Cambridge, another of the line, demolished a fort in Grandance Bay, Martinico,and destroyed four privateers riding under its protection.
