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with at this rate. I shall give you all the information in 
my power. 
P.S. — Since I had the honour of seeing Your Excel- 
lency something has happened much to my advantage, 
and I intend to continue in England for some time 
though I shall every now and then pay a visit to the 
colony. If anything now is going forward I beg leave 
to recommend Cp. Douglas. 
Enclosure. 
Gedney Clarke, Senr., to Count. Bentinck. Barbados, April 13, 1763. 
I had the honour of writing to your Lordship the 3rd 
instant concerning Berbice and Demerary, by the way of 
England ; I send a copy with this by the way of Ireland ; 
and have the pleasure to inform you, that I have this 
instant received an express from Demerary that the 
negroes had not moved from Berbice, that they were 
revelling, eating and getting drunk, but that they 
intended to march very soon. Many of the inhabitants 
have escaped and got down to Demerary ; they confirm 
the first news that the negroes were in possession of the 
whole river, but their power was divided. . Every large 
plantation had a Governor, and there were quarrels 
and disputes among them. As the five vessels I sent over 
were arrived, the inhabitants were very safe ; but as 
soon as they leave the river, their danger will be as 
great as ever ; they will always be in dread and fear, so 
as to neglect their business, and perhaps leave the river. 
I beg the liberty therefore to repeat what I did in my 
former letter, that unless the States take those rivers 
into their own hands and send a sufficient force, they 
never will thrive. A regiment will be proper, and that 
without loss of time, in Demerary, where the stand 
