CHARLES WATERTON, ESQ. Ixi 
They played a double part ; and they caused the 
war which he was carrying on against extortion and 
corruption to give him more trouble than the be- 
sieging of half of the forfeited cities in the West 
Indies would have done. 
" However, he still continued to carry on his work 
for the public good ; but his friends could see with 
concern that his health was declining apace. At 
length, sickness and anxiety pressed too heavily on 
his much-enfeebled shoulders. He sunk into the 
grave, pitied and lamented by every honest man in 
Demerara." 
To General Carmichael, indirectly, I owe one of 
the best watches that man ever wore. Many of 
those colonists who held public offices in Demerara 
had not been over and above scrupulous in their 
money transactions with the government ; and the 
general had given it out that they should all be 
summoned, and be made to swear to their accounts. 
Amongst them was a Dutch gentleman (since dead), 
in the colonial service, who had still a large slice 
of conscience left. He told his friends that he was 
quite aware he could never make out a just balance 
sheet, but that he would die before he would take a 
false oath. The affair haunted him day and night, 
until he could bear it no longer ; and he actually 
proceeded up the river Demerara, to the house of 
his friend Mr. Edmonstone in Mibiri creek, with 
the full intention of proceeding through the interior 
to the far distant Portuguese or Spanish settle- 
ments, as occasion might offer. I was staying with 
Mr. Edmonstone at the time. As the fugitive 
