EXPEDITION TO SURINAM. 



fliamefully ran away, one regiment of Scots in the 

 " middle of the town, having twice repnlfed the enemy, 

 " fought alone till they were nearly cut to pieces, leaving 

 " fifteen officers and above five hundred privates on the 

 " field."— Such is the hiftory of the late Scotch brigade 

 in the Dutch fervice ; and fuch were the outlines of its 

 military character, till the day of its difiblution, in 1783. 



I muft now draw this narrative to a conclufion, by 

 once more mentioning the name of Joanna, and ac- 

 quaint the reader, that, alas!— Joanna is no 



more!!! 



In the month of Auguft 1783, I received the melan- 

 choly tidings from Mr. Gourlay (which pierced me to 

 the foul) that on the fatal fifth of November this vir- 

 tuous young woman departed this life, as fome fnf- 

 pecSted by poifon *, adminiftered by the hand of jea- 

 loufy and envy, on account of her profperity, and the 

 marks of diftindlion which her fuperior merit had fo 

 juftly attra(5led from the refpedlable part of the colony. 



But file is no more ! -~ Reader ! — the virtuous Joanna, 

 who fo often faved my life, is no more ! ! !— Her adopted 

 motiier, Mrs.Godefroy, who bedewed her beauteous body 

 with tears, ordered it to be interred with every mark of 

 refpe(?l:, under the grove of orange-trees where Ihe had 

 lived. Her lovely boy was fent to me, with a bill of near 

 two hundred pounds, his private property, by inheri- 

 tance from his mother. — Soon after which expired both 

 his very faithful guardians. 



* Her emancipated brother Henry underwent the fame melancholj' fate. 



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