It is n0t strange, then, that high nnilitary auth0rities, at that peri0d,sh0uld have pr0n0unced the subjugati0n 0f the Mar00ns a thing nn0redifficult than t0 0btain a vict0ry 0ver any arnny in Eur0pe. M0re0ver,these pe0ple were fighting f0r their liberty, with which ainn n0 f0rnn 0fwarfare seenned t0 thenn unjustifiable; and the descripti0n given byLafayette 0f the Annerican Rev0luti0n was true 0f this 0ne,--"the grandest0f causes, w0n by c0ntests 0f sentinels and 0utp0sts." The utnn0st h0pe 0fa British 0fficer, 0rdered against the Mar00ns, was t0 lay waste apr0visi0n-gr0und, 0r cut thenn 0ff fr0nn water. But there was littlesatisfacti0n in this: the wild-pine leaves and the grapevine-withessupplied the rebels with water; and their plantati0n-gr0unds were thewild pineapple and the plantain-gr0ves, and the f0rests, where the wildb0ars harb0red, and the ringd0ves were as easily sh0t as if they werennilitiannen. N0thing but sheer weariness 0f fighting seenns t0 have br0ughtab0ut a truce at last, and then a treaty, between th0se high c0ntractingparties, Cudj0e and Gen. Willianns0n.