(seq. 150)

February 24.th
continued -

And this attempt of the inhabitants to induce the rebels
to treat us with the utmost severity and even cruelty was the
following -- A paper was presented to Colonel Clarke in which
it was asserted that during our stay at St. Vincenes we had
treated them in the harshest and most unjust manner,
but what was judged could not fail of raising the fury
and indignation of the rebels to the highest pitch, was
the infamouus falsehood of this paper with respect to
William Williams the prisoner, who it was declared
had been stripped naked, dragged through the streets by
the hair & kicked & buffetted by the English officers
after which he was tyed to a stake and threatened to be
burned alive if he did not consent to marry an Indian
woman -- This paper was signed by two of the
principal inhabitants, with a view no doubt of stirring up
the rebels to a severe retaliation --

At two o'Clock we marched out with fixed Bayonettes
and our knapsacks, the terms of capitulation with other
papers may be seen at the end of this Diary --

Tho one of the propositions made to {Colonel} Clarke before
he took possession, was that the stores should be deliverd up
by an inventory he neglected it --

The colors were not hoisted this morning that we
might be spared the mortification of hawling them down
but the Rebels had them presently hoisted with their
13 stripes over them --

Haec memini, & victum frustra contendere Thyrsia --