EXPEDITION TO SURINAM. 



colony, by pro])er management, might be made a garden 

 of Eden, not only for the European fettlers, but alfo for 

 their African domeilics. It would not inJeed be ilifii- 

 cult to fuggeft improvements, nor even to carry them 

 into efll'd:. What has occurred to me upon the fubjeil:, 

 I will candidly Itate on another occafion; and I have no 

 doubt but a litrle attention even to one fingle point would 

 be productive of the happieft confequences. Thus, if I 

 cannot on the fpot, like the good Samaritan, pour the balm 

 into the wound of any one futFerer, at leaft 1 can leave the 

 prefcription, which, if properly applied, would, I am per- 

 fuaded, afford relief to the complaints of thoufands. 



I have undertaken the unplcafing tafk of fliewing how^. 

 by the defperate means of blood, the colony was frequently 

 faved from total annihilation. How much more glorious- 

 would it be for thofe who have it in their povv^er not only 

 to fave the colony of Surinam, but many other valuable 

 Weft India fettlements, by the help of a well-planned 



INSTITUTION OF GENERAL AND IMPARTIAL JUSTICE, 



and the laudable example of humanity and benevolence I 

 Thus much for the political government of Surinam ; 

 which I will not leave without tranfcribing its motto, fo 

 very contrary to what they profefs, being " Jiiftitia—- 

 " pietas—fidesr The arms are tripartite, which I appre- 

 hend to be fome of thofe of the ho afe of Someifdyke, 

 the Weft India company, and the town of Amfterdam, 

 crowned and fupported by two hons rampant, and with 



thefe 



