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obliged to give them such great encouragement, other- 
wise they would not have stayed ; I could not compel 
them. Beside the great expense of this Company, that 
of the vessels and buying arms and ammunition amounts 
to a large sum ; and I besides sent over provisions by 
Mr. GRAVESANDE'S desire for the support of the people 
in Berbice ; all which you will Sir, I presume, think too 
heavy to fall upon me. 
I am far from ascribing any merit to myself, but it is 
certain, had I not sent the timely aid and in the manner 
I did, Demerary and Essequebo would have been 
cut off, and Surinam would in time have followed, and in 
course the States would have lost that whole Continent. 
What a pity it is, that those rivers have been thus 
negle6ted. If Demerary in particular, an Infant Settle- 
ment of a few years, had been encouraged properly, I 
assure you Sir that it would by this time have been full of 
inhabitants, and brought in a great revenue ; but it has 
been negle6ted in a most shameful manner, and for my 
part, I do not expe6t it much better under the direction 
of a Company ; but if they are to continue so, I hope 
and entreat that Demerary may be under a separate 
Government. They want no manner of assistance or 
anything else from Essequebo, the inhabitants of that 
river have always looked upon Demerary with a jealous 
eye ; a Governor, if he be a man of honour would soon 
change the face of affairs in Demerary. In your letter 
to my son, you desire I would send you my thoughts in 
regard to a plan for the better settling those Colonies ; 
I do not know how to set about it, the Government of 
the States being so widely different from that of Great 
Britain ; it is certain that there is nothing now, very 
