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a second letter arrived within ten days, stating that 

 though the passports, by some means or other, bore 

 his own signature, yet that no merchants of the 

 names of Gallois, Picard, &c., &c., had ever been in 

 Cayenne ; that he had certain knowledge that the 

 fugitives were at that moment in Paramaribo ; and 

 that he insisted on their arrest, or would represent 

 the whole affair to the government. 



This was a formidable menace, and the exiles, in 

 order to prevent embarrassment to their friend, offered 

 to hide themselves until they could find a vessel 

 going to St Thomas's. The Dutchman, however, 

 manfully objected to this precaution, " which," he 

 said, " he should consider as a weakness." Still, it 

 was evidently the wiser plan to prevent national 

 quarrels, if it could be done by leaving Surinam ; 

 and within a few days they embarked on board a 

 commodious vessel, prodigally supplied with all good 

 things by the honest colonists. Here they took 

 leave of the pilot, who had served them to so much 

 purpose, and who was loaded with donatives by the 

 governor and the people. He returned immediately 

 to Philadelphia. The next scene was the parting 

 from their Dutch friends, who followed them down 

 to the vessel's side. The singular kindness with 

 which they had been treated, justified every expres- 

 sion of thanks ; but the French disfigured the sin- 

 cerity of the scene, as usual, by " bursting into tears." 

 Their last sight of Surinam was on the 30th of June. 



