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effort is directly made we must be undone. The gentle- 
men in Zealand may think what they will of the matter, 
but they have certainly no time to lose, and I must con- 
fess long before this happened I began to repent having 
settled in the colony. I foresaw something fatal from 
the inactivity or the inability of certain parties. 
Your Excellency's proposal is very kind and I know 
my father's intentions as well as mine own. They are 
that we should be as free at Essequebo and Demerary as 
at St. Eustatius, that a considerable Bank of Credit should 
be immediately formed for the inhabitants, that a proper 
number of slaves be immediately sent us, and that a 
proper Town, Church, Court House, and Battery be in- 
stantly erected on the first island in Demerary, for our 
comfort and preservation. At present we live like 
savages, never do we enter the doors of a church, nor are 
the inhabitants able to do this of themselves. Our 
superiors, those to whom the colony belongs, should set 
about it directly without the least delay, and they would 
soon perceive the great advantage of it. Indeed I will 
frankly own that unless we had had strong reason to 
expect the support of their High Mightinesses, we never 
should have settled in the colony. We are all much 
chagrined that we have been so long neglected, and I am 
sorry, very sorry to say that unless something to the 
purpose is immediately done, we shall have good reason 
to curse the day we settled in the colony. I make no 
doubt but your Excellency will represent these facts in 
their proper colours to the States General, and that you 
will endeavour to procure us all the satisfaction that our 
unhappy cause deserves. We rely greatly on your 
friendship and protection, and by this time great expecta- 
