We are not without the hope of being 

 able to raife the privateer, ancLmake her ufeful; 

 and it is extremely doubtful whether her defpe- 

 rate citizen-commander may find it poffible to 

 traverfe the woods to any place of fecurity. It 

 feems far more probable that he may be com- 

 pelled to take fhelter in fome remote part, either 

 of the colony of Demarara, or Berbifche ; and 

 that it may, yet, be his fortune to feek the 

 clemency of thofe whom his folly and temerity 

 have led him fogrofsly, and unjuftly, to revile*. 



In the town of Stabroek, like wife, we 

 found another violent republican, whofe rafh 

 and revolutionary zeal outran all the bounds 

 of difcretion. - This was a citizeti who for- 

 merly held a kind of tavern, or public houfe, 

 in Stabroek : and although he was, entirely, 

 in our power, policy did not lead this man to 

 the concealment, nor even the moderate ex- 

 preffion of his mifchievous fentiments. He 

 not only avowed, but fought to inculcate 

 the mod violent and revolutionary princi- 

 ples ; and although he had much eaufe of 

 diftrefs, from domeftic affliction, he could not 



* He fell into difeafe, and died before he reached the 

 colony of Surinam, 



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