The fair Isle of St. Mary, Scilly, was frightened from
its propriety on Monday week, by the arrival of three vessels full of those miser- able objects the disbanded B:itish Legion. The ships put in from stress of weather and want of food fm the men. The vessels con- tained 500 men, under the command of Colonel Mackintosh. This arrival gave great alarm to the peaceful islanders, who most carefully barred their doors and bolted their windows. The fellows looked like the most ferocious banditti ever beheld ; and being generally without money, great difficulty was found in obtaining three days' food f or them. Some of the most prudent, who had a little money, clubbed it and hired a Cowes sloop to take them to their destination ; whilst others got drunk, and after fighting, slept in sheds or the fields during the night. Most of the officers had left the brigs and sloop ; and on IVednesday these troublesome customers left the island, to the great joy of the inhabitants.— IVest Briton.
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