EXPEDITION TO SURINAM. 



boat which would coft them thirty fhillings, when they 

 could have the other for nothing ; w^hilc the others de- 

 clared they were a fet of mean and parfimonious wretches, 

 who deferved not the fmallefl: protedtion from Colonel 

 Fourgeoud's troops. A mob colledled, and a riot enfued, 

 before Mr. Hardegen's tavern, at the water-lide, w^hile 

 hats, wigs, bottles, and glafTes, flew out at his windows. 

 The magiftrates were next fent for, but to no purpofe : 

 and the fighting continued in the ftreet till ten o'clock 

 at night, when I with my friends fairly kept the field, 

 having knocked down feveral failors, planters, Jews, and 

 overfeers, and loft one of my piftols, which I threw after 

 the rabble in a paflion ; nor would it have ended here, 

 had not my friend Mr. Kennedy, who was member of 

 the Court of Policy, and two or three more gentlemen 

 whom he brought with him, found means to appeafe 

 the difputants, by declaring I had been very ill treated, 

 and fhould have a proper boat the next day. 



Having now flept and refreftied myfelf a few hours, I 

 was waited on by four American captains, viz. Captain 

 Timmons of the Harmony, Captain Lewis of the Peggy, 

 Captain Bogard of the Olive Branch, and Captain Minet 

 of the America, who infifted on my refufing any veflel 

 whatever from the colony this time, and x)fFering to fend 

 me up in one of their own boats, manned by their own 

 failors only, to which each would equally contribute. I 

 can aver, that notwithftanding the threatening rupture 

 between Great Britain and her Colonies, which feemed 



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