EXPEDITION TO SURINAM. 



to which it was highly neceffary to apply the fpeedieft 

 means of redrefs. This applicitioii was indeed made by 

 the Baron, but he died the year after, and a general dif- 

 tra6lion again took place. 



In 1757, the afpedl of affairs daily becoming worfe, 

 (during the adminiftration of a Mr. Gromelyn, who now 

 was governor of this colony) a new revolt broke out 

 in the Tempaty Greek amongft the negroes, owing to 

 the treatment which they received from their mailers. 

 This freih infurre(5tion indeed foon became of the moft 

 ferious confequence. The new rebels joined themfelves 

 to fixteen hundred of the old fugitive negroes already 

 fettled in eight different villages near Tempaty Creek,^ 

 and after repeated battles and ikirmiflies, the enemy be- 

 ing moftly well armed, and in their refiftance generally 

 fuccefsful, the colonifts faw themfelves once more re- 

 duced to fue for peace with their own Haves, near Tem- 

 paty Greek, as they had done in the year 1749 with the 

 rebels of Seramica, 



During this laft revolt, a Captain Mayer, of the Society 

 Troops, being tried for cowardice by a court martial, 

 and found guilty, was ordered to be fhot through the 

 head ; he was accordingly led to the place of execution, 

 where, after every preparation for completing the fen- 

 tence, he was pardoned by the Governor, who not only 

 fliewed him every civility, but adually preferred him to 

 the rank of major. 



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