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of use to them. I desire you to send my most sincere 
compliments with this letter to your father. As it is by 
you that I am known to him, I desire, whatever be your 
private judgment, to keep his opinion of me, till I shall 
have had an opportunity of proving by fa6ts that I am 
not unworthy of the favourable one he seems to have 
already formed on your reports, for which I am very much 
obliged to you. 
P.S. — I am almost ashamed of thanking you so late 
for the turtle you were so good as to send me ; which 
was a very acceptable and agreeable present. But I 
was so thoroughly persuaded of your being gone back 
to Barbados, that I was not a little surprised at seeing 
your letter of 27th May, dated from London 
Count Bentinck to Gedney Clarke, Senr. The Hague, June 3, 1763. 
The letter you favoured me with from Barbados in date 
April 3, came to my hands the 1st instant. I immedi- 
ately communicated it to the principal members of the 
Government, and I do not doubt but in very short time 
I shall be able to let you know what measures will have 
been taken for the security of this important Settlement. 
Meanwhile this serves only as an acknowledgment of 
the reception of your letter and of my not having lost 
one moment of time to do justice to your diligence and 
zeal in taking such proper and such speedy measures as 
you have done. The States meet Wednesday next. You 
may be sure that I will do my utmost endeavours to 
procure all the help and assistance possible, and as 
speedily as the nature of our Government will permit. 
The information you have been so kind as to send me 
was more exa6l and more precise than any that had 
arrived before. So that your letter will be of great use 
