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party to receive them, and destroy all their provision 

 and rice grounds ; this mode I am convinced will be 

 attended with success. 



" I leave to your Excellency's judgment to determine 

 whether the 43 that were surprised are entitled to the 

 grace offered in your pardon. The quantity of rice the 

 bush negroes have, just rising from the ground, is very 

 considerable, independent of yams, tannias, plantains, 

 tobacco, &c., and as it will be three months before the 

 rice is fit to gather I would recommend at that period 

 that another expedition be sent to destroy the samej 

 under the command of one of the gentlemen who so 

 readily volunteered their services on the last occasion. I 

 cannot conclude without mentioning my obligations to 

 Major Brandt and L. AvERY Esq., to whom it devolved 

 to destroy all the provisions that could be met with ; 

 this they did most effe6lually, fourteen houses filled with 

 rice and several fields in cultivation being by their exer- 

 tions totally destroyed. Mr. AVERY is particularly 

 entitled to the notice of your Excellency and the colony, 

 for during the time we were at Mahaicony fourteen of 

 his negroes were constantly employed in attending the 

 expedition for upwards of four weeks, and he must have 

 been at considerable expense in entertaining those 

 gentlemen who had occasion to assemble at his house. 

 I take upon me to say, from these gentlemen^s report, that 

 on a moderate calculation, the quantity of rice destroyed 

 (independent of ground provision) would have been 

 enough to support 700 negroes for twelve months. I 

 further beg leave to observe to your Excellency and the 

 Honourable Court, that by information from the 

 prisoners, a general revolt on the windward part of 



