EXPEDITION TO SURINAM, 



that are fitiiated above that town : but on the 1.5th, the C 

 befieged prepared two large flat-bottomed barges filled 

 with combuftible matters, fuch as old junk, tar-barrels, 

 &c. and anchored them on the other fide of the river, 

 diredlly oppofite to the town, to which fire being applied, 

 both were fet in a blaze, and difcovered the fmalleft boats' 

 of the enemy as they tried to get up the river through 

 the darknefs of the niglit. Thus difcovered, few ef- 

 caped without damage from the guns of the fort, and 

 thofe of the trading velTels that lay in thS roads, who 

 funk fome of the flat-bottomed boats, a great part of the 

 crews of which were drowned. This ftratagem, how- 

 ever, did not prevent Caflard's people, who had halted for- 

 ward, from pillaging and fetting on fire the plantations; 

 while he himfelf, having at lafl anchored before the town 

 of Paramaribo, threw above thirty fhells into it, and kept 

 up a clofe cannonade both upon that and Fort Zelandia, 

 till the 20th of Odtober, when he fent a fecond mefTage 

 with one of his captains to the Dutch, demanding of them 

 finally, whether they would capitulate and pay contri- 

 bution, which, if they now dared to refufe, he threatened 

 fire and deftrucSlion to the whole fettlement. 



The Dutch finding their ruin inevitable if they per- 

 fifled, demanded three days cefTation of hoflilities to de- 

 liberate, which being granted, they at laft complied with 

 commodore CalTard's demands; and accordingly on the 

 27th, a treaty of twenty-four articles being fettled be- 



; '\ : H 2 tween 



