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in the deliberation on this important point. I return 
you many thanks for the honour you have done me in 
applying to me ; and beg that you will never spare me, 
whenever there is any opportunity of being of any use 
or service to these settlements, the welfare of which, I 
have more at heart than I am able to express, especially 
since the informations I have had of their great and 
almost incredible value by your son and by Captain 
DOUGLAS, besides what I know to the same purpose 
from several others. As you are so considerably inter- 
ested in these Colonies, I will not fail informing you 
regularly of the progress and success of the measures 
taking here, which I think you entitled to from me. The 
acquaintance I had the pleasure of making last year 
with your son gave me great satisfaction, which is much 
increased by the opportunity of serving you in such a 
laudable plan as that you go upon, and will be much 
greater still, if the success answers my expectation and 
my wishes. 
Gedney Clarke, Junr., to Count Bentinck. London, Jth June, 1763. 
I have just had the honour of receiving your obliging 
and most welcome favour of 3rd instant with the enclosed 
for my father which I shall send to him by a vessel next 
week. 
I now have the honour of forwarding you another 
letter from him relative to the affairs of Demerary, 
Essequebo and Berbice, which although more satisfactory 
is still very alarming, and indeed unless some step or 
other is taken to support us, we must with regret quit 
the colony and fly for protection elsewhere, for your 
Excellency and every man of honour must and will 
allow, that men's lives and fortunes are not to be trifled 
