INTRODUCTION, 



few men, who, by their fituatlon ia life, 

 have been benefa^ors to the human race. 

 My heart is the more impelled to difcharge 

 this ad of gratitude, as he honoured me 

 with his tendered friendfliip : but the life 

 of this illuftrious man has been publifhed by 

 M. Dupont J and that celebrated writer is 

 much more capable than I am to appreciate 

 the talents of an adminiftrator. Befides, I 

 am not a literary man : this may be readily 

 perceived by the want of order and method 

 which Is obferved in whatever I write* In 

 publifhing this work, therefore, I have had 

 nothing in view but a defire of being ufeful* 



retired, fifti of vanous Vlnds. Tliis difafter occafloned 

 fuch a fcarcity of pToviHons^ that bread was fold 2t 

 eighteen Ibus per pound, according to tlie currency of 

 the colony : but a fupply of com and rice was after- 

 wards procured from Bengatj the coaft of Coromandel, 

 the Cape of Good Hope, the ifland of Madagafcar, and 

 the Pcriian gulf. T. 



Having 



