EXPEDITION TO SURINAM. 



indeed offered me a higher faiarvj and greater advantages, 

 than they had ever offered to any other gentleman in that 

 fituation ; bvit I inlifted on having either the govern- 

 ment if I furvived^ or a decent penfion after a certain 

 number of years at my return ; which being out of their 

 power, they faid, to grant, I decHned accepting of the 

 offer altogether, judging it more prudent to recover my 

 health and vigour in Europe with a Scotthh company, 

 than to parch any longer under the Torrid Zone, with- 

 out a profpe61: of fettling at home with honour and a 

 competent fortune. Nor was. it long before I perfe(51:ly 

 recovered, and became as ftout and healthy as I had ever 

 been in all my life : a happinefs of which not one among 

 one hundred of my late fliip-mates could boaft. 



Among others, poor Colonejj Fourgeoud did not 

 long enjoy his good fortune; for he was fcarcely arrived 

 in Holland, with the remaining few who ftayed fome time 

 behind us, than his beloved ptifan having failed him, he 

 was one morning found dead in his bed, attended only by 

 anegro>and buried with military honours at the Hague. 



Not long after this, expired alfo in Surinam Four- 

 geoud's mortal enemy, the Governor of the colony; 

 which vacancy was moft worthily filled up by Goloneli 

 Texier, and fince by the deferving Mr. Wicbers 



From this period, nothing worth recording occurred- 



* This gentleman having alfo refigned,, mentioned in this'narrative) and who had 



I have the pleafure to acquaint my read- fome time before re-entered into the fer-. 



ers,. that in the year 1792, that gallant vice of the Society troops, was appointed' 



officer, Mr. F. Fred«ricy (fo frequently Qovernor of the colony of Surinam, 



§: till 



