The French never revisited Freetown.

Indeed, they had left the place in such a condition that it was not worth their while to return.

The houses had been carefully burned to the ground, and the live stock killed.

Except the clothes on their backs, and a little brandy and flour, the Europeans had lost everything they had in the world.

Till assistance came from the mother country they lived upon such provisions as could be recovered from the reluctant hands of the negro settlers, who providentially had not been able to resist the temptation of helping the Republicans to plunder the Company's stores.