268 TlMEHRI. 
sers, of Cloth or other Stuff, 3 coarse Woollen working 
Vests and Trousers, 1 Coat, Vest and Trousers for ordi- 
nary wear. The King transports and feeds them during 
the voyage. Free exercise of Religion. 
Count Bentinck to Gedney Clarke, Jr. Hague, May 28th, 1764. 
I have had the pleasure of seeing your brother here, 
and by the account he will give you of my conversations 
with him, and the persons I have introduced him to, you 
will be fully persuaded of the truth of my intentions, and 
of my zeal to further and promote your views and designs. 
As I am not entirely deterred by difficulties, I shall 
continue struggling with these, which your brother will 
give you an account of. You will not be surprised after 
you shall have talked with him at my deferring as long 
as possible writing to you, having hitherto nothing 
agreeable to mention. I return you many thanks for the 
account I received from vou in March of what had passed 
at Demerary and Berbice in December. And I shall be 
very much obliged to you if you will continue informing 
me of what you receive from these parts, that I may keep 
the thread and inform my friends, and that they may be 
the better able to help you at the first favourable 
opportunity. I likewise desire you to present my most 
kind service to your father. I wish others here did him 
the same justice I do. And though hitherto, that has not 
had place I don't give up the hopes of seeing even 
that point take a better turn than it has done. One 
thing which is surprising is that none of the letters from 
our Colonies mention a word of all your father has done, 
nor the obligation they are under to him. This silence 
must either proceed from ignorance (which is impossible) 
