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with Colonel Fourgeoud, I one day prefented the old 

 gentleman with a plan and bird's-eye view of all the 

 encampment of Magdenberg, which pleafed him fo much 

 that he fent this (as he had done the firft) to the Prince 

 of Orange and the Duke of Brunfwick, as a fpecimen of 

 his military manoeuvres, &c. This prefent had the defired 

 effe6t ; fori not only became one of his favourites, bat, 

 declaring his higheit etteem for the Scots and Engliili, 

 he even promifed to recommend me in particular at 

 court. I was fo fatisfied with this change in his beha- 

 viour, that I now took the blame of all former animofity 

 on myfelf. His attention, however, w^as fuddenly at- 

 tracted by affairs of more confequence; iince, on the 

 14th of June, the news arrived that fome rebel huts 

 were difcover.ed near the fea-fide ; that Captain May- 

 land had marched in queft of the enemy, with one 

 hundred and forty men of the Society troops, and had 

 actually difcovered them ; but in wading through a 

 deep marfli, had been firll: attacked by the negroes, 

 who had killed feveral of his people (among whom 

 his nephew, a young volunteer), wounded more,, 

 and beaten back the whole detachment, after they had 

 already palTed the mardi, and were mounting faft on 

 the oppolite beach to ftorm the village. From this 

 news it was evident, that our fable foes were not to 

 be trifled with; and fince they were thus difcovered, , 

 ©rders were immediately iffued for all the troops that 

 ¥/ere able to march to keep in readinefs, viz. Four- 



geoud's 



