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compelled to wind up its affairs. There were plenty of 

 protests against this, which the Company thought a 

 very high-handed proceeding, but there was no choice left 

 to the Directors. Their High Mightinesses took over the 

 shares at thirty per cent., giving bonds bearing interest 

 at 3 per cent., which, considering that the Company was 

 insolvent, and had paid no interest for many years 

 before, were very fair terms. The following year the 

 colonies were put under the control of the Colonial 

 Council of the Netherlands, under which superinten- 

 dence the trade was doubled in two years. 



contents of the work. 



Letters on the Government of the Colonies of Essequebo and 

 Demerary, between the gentlemen, Aristodemus and Sincerus, together 

 with the appendices to this correspondence, and a preface of the Dutch 

 Editor. — Amsterdam, W. Holtrop, 12 vols , 8vo. 



Vol. I., 1785. Preface of the editor of these letters, p. 1-86. — List of 

 vessels cleared from Demerary in the months of March, April, May, and 

 June, 1784, p. 4. —First letter of Aristodemus to Sincerus. fJated 

 Demerary, 22nd September, 1784, p. 1-35. — Reply of Sincerus, Septem- 

 ber 26, 1784, p. 3648. —Second letter of Aristodemus, September 26, 

 1784, p 4999 — Reply of Sincerus, September 26, 1784, p. 100 109 



Vol. II., 1786. Third letter of Aristodemus, p. 1-93. -Fourth letter, 

 p. 94-132. — Fifth letter, p. 133-162 — Appendices: — A. Extract from a 

 pamphlet entitled " My ideas on the Colonies of Demerary and Esse- 

 quebo ; " written at the end of the year 1783, p. 1-19. — B. Extraft from 

 a letter dated 9th February, 1784, concerning the Colony of Essequebo 

 and Demerary, p. 20-28. — C. Letter of an Agent in Demerary to the 

 Commissaries and Directors of his mercantile house, dated June 1st, 

 1784, p. 29-53. — D. Recapitulation of some remarks on a draft publica- 

 tion affefling the Public Vendues, p. 54 62 — E. Extract from a letter 

 of an agent to the Directors of his mercantile house, dated 23rd 

 August, 1784. p. 64-68 — F. Certain verses circulated in the Colony on 

 hearing the news that Essequebo and Demerary were to be brought back 

 under the old Government of the West India Company, p. 69. — G. 



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