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while they were unable to return the fire more than once, 

 their lituation preventing them from re -loading their 

 mufquets. Their gallant commander, being imprudently 

 diftinguifhed by a gold-laced hat, was Ihot through the 

 head in the firft onfet. The few that fcrambled out of 

 the marfh upon the banks were immediately put to 

 death in the moft barbarous manner, except five or fix, 

 who were taken prifoners and carried alive to the fettle- 

 ment of the rebels. The melancholy fate of thefe un- 

 fortunate men, I fliall, in a proper place, defcribe, as I had 

 it fince from thofe that were eye-witnefTes of it. 



The intelligence had fcarcely reached Paramaribo, than 

 the whole town was in a tumult ; feme parties were fo ve- 

 hement that they were ready to tear the governor and 

 council to pieces, for having difmiiTed Colonel Fourgeoud 

 with his regiment; while others ingenuoufly declared^ 

 that if we were intended for no further ufe than we had 

 hitherto been, our company might without regret be dif- 

 penfed with. All this could not but be exceedingly gal- 

 ling to our officers, who wifhed nothing more than to 

 be employed on actual fervice for the advantage of the 

 colony. On the other fide, mofl bitter lampoons were 

 fpread through the town againft the governor and his 

 council ; libels of fuch a black and inflammatory natiire, 

 that no lefs than a thoufand gold ducats were offered as a 

 reward for the difcovery of their author, with a promife of 

 concealing the name of the informer if he required it i 

 but the whole was to no purpofe^ and neither author nor 

 a informer 



