SETTLEMENTS ON THE DEMERARY, &C. 393 



Medical men, educated in Europe, are not rare in the co- 

 lonies, especially surgeons, many of whom were formerly at- 

 tached to regiments, or employed on board men of war, and 

 obtained leave to remain. They make a fixed income, by 

 farming the health of the slaves on contiguous plantations, at 

 so much a head. By their free patients they are handsomely 

 fee'd. Physicians are much less common ; a few who had 

 fixed at home in a neighbourhood too crouded with competi- 

 tion, or who, for professional reasons, have thought a hot 

 climate necessary to their own health, have come out ; but 

 the number is inconsiderable. A governor ought, however, by 



he or they hath or have) become a subject (or subjects) of Great Britain, (either 

 by his majesty's letters patent as a denizen or denizens, or riaturalized by act of 

 parliament, as the case may be, naming the dates of the letters of denization, or 

 the acts or acts of parliament for naturalization respectively ) or ( as the case may 

 be) I have (or he or they hath or have) become a denizen (or denizens, or na- 

 turalized subject or subjects, as the case may be) of Great Britain, by his ma- 

 jesty's letters patent, or by an act of parliament passed since the first day of 

 January, one thousand, seven hundred, and eighty-six, (naming the time 

 when such letters have been grayited respectively) and that no foreigner, directly 

 or indirectly, hath any share, or part, or interest, in the said ship or vessel." 



Neither the three years allowed by the treaty of Amiens, nor our navigation 

 lavFS, had any effect on his excellency, he remained firm to the purport of his 

 proclamations, and even refused several requests which were made him of 

 being allowed to remaining in the colony a few months on courtesy, as taking 

 the oath of allegiance was incompatible with their situations as ship owners. 



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