TOYAGE TO MADAGASCAR, 3I3 



*^ humane ideas ; and, though he was 

 convinceo of the inutility of his exhorta- 

 ** tions and efforts to render the peace dur* 

 ** able, he refolved, on his return to Louif- 

 " burgh, to make a new treaty^ in order to 

 •* convince the inhabitants of Madagafcar 

 ** that he entertained fentitnents truly pa- 

 " cific, 



** Benyowfl?:i violently oppofed this plan, 

 which M. de Belcombe had formed, of 

 ** again afleinbling the iflanders, for the 

 ** purpofe of confirming the peace j and he 

 endeavoured to prove, that the holding of 

 ** a new faUibre would be attended with 

 " great inconveniences. His remonftrances 

 ** however were of no avail \ the aflembly 

 " was held on the fecond of Odober 1776; 

 ** but it was not numerous, and confiiled 

 " only of an hundred and fifty of the na- 

 ** tives. M. de Belcombcj on this occafion, 

 ** renewed the treaty ; exhorted thefe peo- 



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