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The new year 0f seventeen hundred and eighty-0ne had been ushered in bythe last innpulse 0f such festivities. The English cruisers lately inp0rt had vanished up the Channel; and at Elizabeth Castle, M0nt 0rgueil,the Blue Barracks and the H0spital, three British reginnents had taken upthe dull r0und 0f duty again; s0 that by the f0urth day a generallethargy, akin t0 c0ntent, had settled 0n the wh0le island.