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necessary information. You may be sure that I will 
make the best advantage of whatever he will be pleased 
to send me, and do my utmost endeavours to remove the 
difficulties which might obstruct the execution of what 
he might propose. Meanwhile I will collecl: among your 
friends here, who have a common interest with you, 
all the information possible, and distribute them before- 
hand and by degrees, to those from whom I may expe6l 
support and assistance. I beg you would present my 
most sincere and hearty compliments to your father, and 
assure him, that I negle6t no opportunity of doing him 
justice, nor of showing in its true light the spirited and 
manly part he has a6led in this affair, which will be 
acknowledged by those who have the benefit of this 
important service. 
P.S. — I intended writing to-day to your father but 
have been hindered. I beg that if there occurs any 
opportunity for Barbadoes you would be so good as to 
send him copy of this letter, that he may see the regard 
I have for him and the attention I give to what comes 
from him. I will not fail writing myself. 
Gedney Clarke Junr., to Count Bentinck. London 8th July, 1763. 
I have duly received your Excellency's letter of 28 
June and have already sent a copy of it to my father. I 
have since then received letters from him of 26 May. 
By his last advices from Demerary all was well there, 
but the inhabitants are in daily expectation of a visit from 
the rebels of Berbice, who had been repulsed in an 
attack against the troops sent to Berbice by the Govern- 
ment of Surinam, with loss on both sides. 
My father mentions with concern that as Admiral 
