246 TlMEHRl. 
P.S. — As soon as my father heard of this disaster he 
sent an express to Governor De WlNDT. Pray show 
this to his son-in-law, with my best compliments. He 
no doubt will go with you to the Hague and Middel- 
burg. Mr. La COUDRE'S* presence will help you no 
doubt, and I think you had best assure our superiors 
that, unless they send out immediate succour to us, 
we are now determined to quit the colony with our 
negroes, &c, and go to settle among the English at 
Tobago, for I am sure you think with me that the first 
loss is always least. 
Count Bentinck to Gedney Clarke, Junior. The Hague, June 3, 1763. 
I received the day before yesterday the letter you 
favoured me with of the 27th of May, with the enclosed 
from your father. We had already had confused accounts 
of the insurrection of the Negroes at Berbice, and of 
succours sent from Barbados. The letter I received from 
your father gave great light as to facets, and at the same 
time states the case as to what is to be done. I 
send you my answer to your father under flying seal, 
that you peruse it before you further it, which I beg you 
would do by the first opportunity. I desire you to 
continue informing me exactly of whatever particulars 
that may come to your knowledge, and to write to your 
friends and acquaintances here, who are interested in 
those Colonies, that if they wish to be served with zeal, 
they will do prudently to let me know what is doing, 
and inform me in time of the true state of the affairs in 
these settlements ; and I will do my utmost endeavours 
publicly, or under hand, as occasion shall require, to be 
* A planter in Berbice. 
