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CFIAP. man having done, and promifed to deliver, the rebei^s 

 not only gave him and his companions leave peaceably 

 to return with it to town, but allowed their governor and 

 court a whole year to deliberate whether they were to 

 chufe peace or war, unanimoufly fwearing that during 

 that interval ail animofity Ihould ceafe on their lide ; af- 

 ter which, having entertained them in the beft manner 

 their fit nation in the \TOGds aflforded, they willied them a 

 happy journey to Paramaribo, 



One of the rebel officers, on this occafion, reprefented 

 to the commiffioners how deplorable it was that the 

 Europeans, who pretended to be a civilized nation, 

 Ihould be fo much the occafion of their own ruin by 

 their inhuman cruelties towards their flaves. We de- 

 fire you," continued the negro, " to tell your governor 

 and your court, that in cafe they want to raife no new 

 " gangs of rebels, they ought to take care that the 

 ^' planters keep a more watchful eye over their own pro- 

 perty, and not to truft them fo frequently in the hands 

 of drunken managers and overfeers, who by wrong- 

 fully and feverely chaftifing the negroes, debauch- 

 ** ing their wives and children, negle6ling the fick, &:c, 

 are the ruin of the colony, and wilfully drive to the 

 woods fuch numbers of ftout acStive people, who by 

 " their fweat earn your fubfiftence, without whofe hands 

 *^ your colony muft drop to nothing ; and to whom at 

 laft, in this difgraceful manner, you are glad to come 

 and fue for friendfhip," 



-j- Mr. 



