SETTLEMENTS ON THE DEMERARY, &C. 269 



rical anecdotes. But so many methods of subsistence have 

 taken a new form and course, so many different sources of 

 prosperity have gushed in upon the country, so many unex- 

 pected experiments in speculative industry were successfully 

 tried during the anarchy, that a narration, however defec- 

 tive, will almost inevitably throw light on the regulations, 

 which a wise policy ought to adopt, for promoting the future 

 and permanent benefit of the district. I will begin therefore 

 with the public papers which announced to government the 

 surrender^ -• ^ - - „ ^ . . 



To the Right Hon. Henry Dundas, one of his Majesti/'s prin- 

 cipal secretaries of state, from Lieut. -Gen. Sir Ralph Aber- 

 CROMBY, K. B. commander in chief of his Majesty's forces in 

 the West Indies. 

 ■ pmoamii nr. O-^'i'ro.u ?.i s'lOif: ^b.yj/yj y. 

 i6\ bgq-Qids /ij// Head 2>uarters, St. Lucia, May 2d, 1196. 



Sir — In my letter of the 9th April, I expressed a desire to 

 detach a body of troops to take possession of Demerary, pro- 

 vided that Admiral Sir John Laforey would allow me the ne- 

 cessary naval force. 



The Admiral, upon my application to him for that purpose, 

 ■immediately ordered the Malabar, La Pique, and Babet, on 

 board of which and the Grenada transport, with some small 



