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reiift the pleafure of grofsly abufing the 

 " Englijh arijlocrats" and indulging in loud 

 political declamation ! His wife had died the 

 very evening the Dutch garrifon furrendered, 

 but the colony becoming fubjed to the " mo- 

 narchical Englijh" was deeper grief to this 

 modern-feeling — this high-patriot republican, 

 than the lofs of his better-felf ! Next morning 

 the corpfe of his deceafcd wife was carried 

 to a fhort diftance out of the town, and this citi- 

 zen leveller, without prayer or lamentation, 

 committed the body of his late partner " to 

 ...... the crab?." Religion, and even its 



fornfs feem to be, here, difpenfed with, for 

 they have neither a place of worfhip, nor of 

 interment. Citizen M — followed his poor 

 unlamented wife to the fields, and there eon- 

 figned her to a hole in the earth, uttering his 



grief in loud curfes againft the 



ariftocrats t 



A few days fince I had an opportunity 

 of dining in company with feveral of the 

 planters of this colony, who have eftates upon 

 the fea-coaft ; and I could not but remark a 

 finking difference between thefe gentlemen, 

 and thofe who, conftantly, refide in Stabroek, 



