250 TlMEHRl. 
against the Berbice negroes must be made ; if that force 
be not sent forthwith, I assure your Lordship, the 
inhabitants will remove their negroes and valuable effects. 
In short, Sir, if that large tra£t of land is worth holding, 
it is with great submission I ask, whether it would not 
be highly proper to send a force sufficient to reduce those 
rebellious negroes of Surinam and those also at Berbice 
at once ? It must be a large body of men, and indeed they 
will find much difficulty ; but if divided in two bodies, 
one to proceed from Surinam to the West, the other 
from Demerary to the East, they will have the negroes 
between them. This I am assured will be a work of 
time, and expensive, but unless it is done, I have not the 
least doubt but the negroes will in few years be in full 
possession of that whole tra6l as far as the river 
Oronoque. 
I hope, Sir, you will pardon me in presuming to offer 
my sentiments upon this head ; I have done so as I have 
visited those rivers of Demerary and Essequebo, and know 
full well the disposition of negroes ; they are never to 
be trusted or depended upon. I have wrote thus much 
for the good of the public, in which light I hope your 
Lordship will receive it ; and that you will be pleased to 
dire6t that I may be informed whether a force will be 
sent dire6tly to Demerary, so that I may inform the 
inhabitants as soon as possible ; until I receive that 
notice, I shall propose to keep two armed vessels in 
that river. 
Gedney Clarke, Junr., to Count Bentinck. London, 16th June, 1763. 
I have the honour to inform Your Excellency that I 
have this day received a letter from my father, dated 
20th April, with advice, that his small Packet was just 
