CHARLES WATERTON, ESQ. 



They played a double part ; and they caused the 

 war which he was carrying on against extortion and 

 corruption to give him more trouble than the be- 

 sieging of half of the fortified cities in the West 

 Indies would have done. 



"However, he still continued to carry on his work 

 for the public good ; but his friends could see with 

 concern that his health was declining apace. At 

 length, sickness and anxiety pressed too heavily on 

 his much-enfeebled shoulders. He sunk into the 

 grave, pitied and lamented by every honest man in 

 Demerara." 



To General Carmichael, indirectly, I owe one of 

 the best watches that man ever wore. Many of 

 those colonists who held public offices in Demerara 

 had not been over and above scrupulous in their 

 money transactions with the government ; and the 

 general had given it out that they should all be 

 summoned, aud be made to swear to their accounts. 

 Amongst them was a Dutch gentleman (since dead), 

 in the colonial service, who had still a large slice 

 of conscience left. He Cold his friends that he was 

 quite aware he could never make out a just balance 

 sheet, but that he would die before he would take a 

 false oath. The affair haunted him day and night, 

 until he could bear it no longer ; and he actually 

 proceeded up the river Demerara, to the house of 

 his friend Mr. Edmonstone in Mibiri creek, with 

 the full intention of proceeding through the interior 

 to the far-distant Portuguese or Spanish settle- 

 ments, as occasion might offer. I was staying with 

 Mr. Edmonstone at the time. As the fugitive 



