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Europe. I hope they may go at once to Demerary. If 
they go to Berbice it will answer no purpose, as a small 
force will do more harm than good, and perhaps cause them 
to remove towards Demerary. The two vessels from St. 
Eustatius they, contrary to expectation, went into 
Berbice, where they stay, the Governor having offered a 
reward for all the rebels that can be taken. If that 
reward be given in Holland, they can get disbanded 
soldiers enough to come over ; and can surely with the 
help of the Cariabbeans destroy every negroe there. The 
Loo is now filling up in Demerary and will sail soon. 
SHAW sails for the Loo, as Manager next Sunday, a very 
good fellow ; he came and offered his service by means 
of McLean and WILSON ; otherwise I should not have 
taken him. Old BLENMAN is very angry with him. 
I hope Count BENTINCK may order out at first a 
Scotch Regiment. They may all settle there and he 
might know that now it is proper to send inhabitants 
from Europe (as we have many islands ceded to the 
English to settle) which there was no occasion for before 
the last war, if any encouragement had been given by 
the Directors. If they pursue my plan of a large force, 
they will take and cut off every rebellious negro from 
Surinam to Demerary. The Indians will all join and do 
more good than the whites in case they are supported. 
Indeed they may take many hundred prisoners which 
they may transport and send to the Islands. But I hope 
there may be an end of the Company. The merchants 
in Amsterdam and everywhere else ought all of them to 
join in petitioning the States to take the colony under 
their own protedtion. I cannot bear the thought of 
having anything under such a company. I gave twenty 
