EXPEDITION TO SURINAM. 



relations, who had prefumed to fupport her claim to li- 

 berty, to be privately whipped ; and had it not been for 

 •the humanity of Mr. Wickers, who was at that time the 

 fifcal or town clerk, and fince was governor, this infamous 

 fentence would mofl certainly have been put in execu- 

 tion. The unfortunate Mifs Jettee de la Mare was, from 

 this period, neverthelefs forced to fubmit to the tyranny 

 of her unmanly mafter, while pitied by all her acquaint- 

 ance, and lamented by every ftranger that was a witnefs 

 to the inhuman tranfa6tion. 



Such were the fatal ccnfequences of not having been 

 timely emancipated; and fuch were they indeed, that 

 they made me tremble for my little boy. Happily my 

 uneafinefs was not of long duration; for, however impro- 

 bable and unexpected, I was furprized on the very fame 

 day with a polite meflage from the governor and the 

 court, acquainting me that, " having taken my former 

 " fervices into confideration, together with my humanity 

 *' and gallantry, in offering my honour as bail to fee my 

 " child, before I left him, made a free citizen of the world ; 



they had unanimoufly decreed, without farther cere- 

 " mony or expence, to compliment me with a letter, 



which was at the fame time officially prefented to me, 

 " containing his emancipation from that day, for 



" EVER AFTER." 



No man could be more fuddenly tranfported from woe 

 to happinefs than I was at this moment ; while his poor 

 mother fhed tears for joy and gratitude ; the more fo, as 

 we had loft all hopes, and the favour came perfectly un- 



3 B 2 expelled, 



