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CHAP, been ill treated by him. As a fpecimen of his juftice, I 

 will only obferve, that all the officers had now fublifted 

 a whole year upon a private foldier's allowance of fait 

 provifions, a few weeks at Paramaribo only excepted. 

 This accommodation coft me thirty pounds ; but I have 

 already mentioned he kept back our money, and why 

 fhould he not our allowance alfo, it not being the part of 

 a good foldier to inquire after trifles ? 



On the ift of February we, however, received notice 

 that henceforth we fhould pay nothing, provided we could 

 fq/I; but that if we could not, ten pounds yearly was to 

 be the ne plus ultra of the expences for our fait beef and 

 pork. 



On the 2d I received intelligence that Lieutenant Co- 

 lonel Becquer, fcorning any longer to partake of Four- 

 geoud's bounty^ had fuddenly given up the ghoft, by 

 which in rotation I became poffeffed of his vacant company.:- 

 This was fome compenfation for fo much trouble and fa- 

 tigue. But to counterbalance this good fortune, a certain 

 lady, whofe hufband had Ihewn me extraordinary civiU- 

 ties, now made me an offer, which I could not Vv^ith honour 

 accept; befides, I had been fworn at Highgate. But per- 

 iifting in my refufal of her favours and golden prefents^. 

 I at lafl felt the efFe6LS of a woman's hatred and revenge. 

 Her hufband, who had lately been fo much my friend, 

 and whofe honour I, in this inftance, fo much refpedled, 

 was fuddenly perverted into a bitter enemy. I bore 

 their frowns with relignationj confcious of my own re<5ti- 



' tude^ 



