Copy of minutes of a meeting of His Majesty’s Privy Council of St. Vincent

Description: Attended by James Seton Esq, Governor in Chief of the Island. Minutes include a copy of a letter dated 4 Mar with news of an imminent attack on the Island of Granada and asking for supplies of gunpowder, and the response of the meeting to this. They order an alarm to be sounded and troops dispatched to all parts of the Island. Minutes also include a copy declaration by the Council ordering French inhabitants of the Grenadine Islands to 'remain at home during the continuence of the present alarm. Their conduct and behaviour will be watchfully observed, and in case of any appearance of disaffection on the part of any individual amongst them, they will be subjected to the utmost rigour of Martial Law'

Date: 05/03/1795

Last import: September 11, 2017