SETTLEMENTS ON THE DEMERARY, &C. 287 



ately made to his Excellency, an order, with the officers 

 of justice, came down to enforce the removal of the English 

 schooner, for the French one to take her station. Further re- 

 sistance was vain, but the merchant waited on the governor to 

 remonstrate with him on the impropriety of such a procedure, 

 as he was a proprietor of the wharf, and his vessel had an un- 

 doubted right of preference to load there. The Dutch go- 

 vernor assuming all his dignity, was astonished that any resist- 

 ance had been made in the first instance, desired that he might 

 not be troubled or intruded upon, and said that he would make 

 every Englishman in the colony bend to his power. 



A foreigner, of the name of Kholer, had a cause depend- 

 ing in the court to determine the validity of a claim he made 

 to an estate in Demerary. The sentence of the court was 

 given against him, which saddled him with some very heavy 

 law expenses, beside depriving him of what he thought his 

 right. He was incapacitated from making an appeal to their 

 high Mightinesses, by several unfortunate circumstances, 

 which quickly followed one another, and the heavy costs he 

 had been at in sustaining this law suit. A man thus situated, 

 without the means of prosecuting his claims, would cer- 

 tainly feel some degree of chagrin; especially as he was in- 

 duced to believe it was occasioned by a private pique, which 

 the vice-president had against him, before he arrived at that 

 dignity. In a company where several of La Maison's par- 



