EXPEDITION TO SURINAM, 



patched for that purpofe by the province of Zealand, 

 with three Ihips of war and 300 marines. The Enghfli 

 commander, WilUam Biam, loft the fettlement of Suri- 

 nam by furprize, when above 600 of the beft men in the 

 colony were at work on the fugar plantations. This 

 negle(5l appears from the trifling lofs of the Dutch, 

 who in ftorming the citadel had but one man killed. 

 They immediately planted the Prince of Orange's flag 

 on the ramparts, and gave now to this fortrefs the 

 name of Zelandia, and that of New Middleburge to 

 the town of Paramaribo, after making the inhabitants, 

 amongft other contributions, pay one hundred thoufand 

 pounds weight of fugar, and fending a number of them 

 to the ifland of Tobago. This event took place in Fe- 

 bruary, and in July following the peace was concluded 

 at Breda. But, moft tinluckily for the new pofTeflbrs of 

 Surinam, it was concluded unknown to the Englifh com- 

 modore. Sir John Harman, who in October that fame 

 year, having firft taken Cayenne from the French, en- 

 tered the river with a ftrong fleet of feven lliips of war, 

 two bomb-ketches. See. and retook the colony from 

 the Dutch, kilhng on this occafion above fifty of their 

 men, and deftroying nine pieces of cannon in Fort 

 Zelandia. The new inhabitants were now in their turn 

 laid under contribution, and the Dutch garrifon were 

 tranfported as prifoners to the ifland of Barbadoes. 



At the difcovery, in Surinam, that the peace had been 

 concluded in Europe between the contending powers, 



G 2 before 



