Extract [copy?; incomplete?] from secret Intelligence from Port au Prince, received 3 October 1782, reporting on the state of Spanish and French troops there and a likely strike by Spanish and American forces against Bermuda.
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Extract from Secret Intelligence dated Port au Prince the 31st August 1782.--Received the 3 October 1782 During my stay at the Cafe and here I examined the Troops with some degree of attention, the men, Frenchmen and Spaniards are as Superior to the French in discipline as the latter are to the former in clean lines, never have I seen Troops few & manouevre better than the Spaniards, they are ever on the Parade and Employ'd ,, "You may depend an allow being immediately to be struck by the Spands and Americans against Bermudas, the latter complain much of the interruption of their Trade this summer, they say their Trade has suffered more this year, from English Cruizers, than during the whole course of the War, God increase their confusion. They are particularly exasperated against the Bermudians.
