Excerpt from Charlotte Sophie, Countess Bentinck, Vol. 2: Her Life and Times, 1715 1800 Thanks to the position of this island1 it is hoped that many advantages will result from its possession, as at last it gives a port within direct communication of England. It was after this fortunate capture that my informants found means to leave the place and rejoin their friends and relations here, from whom, owing to their rich establishment in France, they had been separated for eighteen years. These people are so well known, so much esteemed and so worthy of confidence that one could not gain information from a more trustworthy source, and as many of their friends remain on the island they hope to know all that goes on in a place so important to the good cause. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.