ept^red the rive? of Surinam, with fix or eight ihips :of
wa^aeppmpaEued by a number of fmall veffels, in which
figet were emharked 3000 men. 'The Jargfeft fhips were Lb
I^eptupe of 74, ©p,board which heihimfplf commanded
| Le Teraeraire of 60 guns
Le Rubis ■;.■ —
La Veftale - 48
La Pariaite, 48
LaMeduIe - i 3$ltr
The *ith Caflard fent a long-boat with a white flag,
and: an officer to treat «rkh the inhabitants for contributions,
which, if they refufed to -.pa^y: he u&reaGqii^vto
bombard *he fc*wn of Paramaribo !*s> Thchpat, however*
was obliged to return on board without any farisfa<&ary
aafwer. The river Surinam, fdft before Sort Zeiandia,
being above a mile in breadth, -the Medhfe ,^id jfeveral
flat-bottomed veflHs with JTrerach troops, .being favoured
by a very dark night, found means to Jail up beyond
Paramaribo wkho.ut being obferved by cthe Dutch, -with
an intention to plunder the fugar and coffee plantations
* In the-year 1667, Captain. Abraham
Cruifen gave the town the name of new
Middleburg; but it was before and after
called nothing, but Paramaribo, which is
faid to be the true Indian name,, and
fiiould fignify The Spot of Flowers- This
i! the general account. But i» my; opinion
not only Parham’s Point,. but the
Bara Greek, and the town of Paramaribo,
nay,, even the greait. water, called the.
Golden; Parima, on Parham Lake, rook,
their .names from Francis Lord Wil-i
loughby of Parham ; who, as I have mentioned,
received this fettlement from.
Charles the Second, -and was one of the
firlt poffeffors of .this .beautiful country.
Surinam is alfo called a province by the
Dutch,1 but mo'ftly'knotvit Jbythe' name
of colony, fettlem,ent^&c.
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fealf fctfe fittrited aboVb that tdfim: b u t on the 15th, the C H A p.
feefleged prepared two large -flat-bottomed barges filled , 11 ‘
■vVifh fcdrhbtlftible matters, Mdh. as bid jtink,' tar-barrels,
&b. hfidJ aiichbiild 'tfiith bQ'fiie bthei’didfe pf the river;
direiily- oppbfiteztb the town’j'to which fire beihj^applied,
both Weid fbt iii’h' bife^e, and difebvered the fihall&ft boats
o f the'enemy akteley tried get up' the river through
the darknefs of t^ ja ig h t. Thus difeoyered, few ef-
cappd without damage from the guns o f the fort, and
thole of the trading- veffels that lay in theV&kdl,' who',
funk fome of the fia f botjpmedhoats, a great part of the
crews of which were- drpympdl This ftrafagem, however,
did not prevent Caflard^ people, who had halted forward,
from pillaging^and'.fettiugon fire the plantations; -
while he himfelf, having'at laft ancHbfd# before the town
of Paramaribo, threw above thirty fhells into it, and kept
up a clofe cannonade both 'upon that and Fort Zelandia,
till the 20th of October, wbfh' heffent a 'febpnd meffage
with one of his captains to'the Dutch, demandingipfthem
finally, whether they would capitulate and, pay contribution,
which,'if they now dared to refufe, he threatened
fire and deftrudtion to the Whole feitl^ment.
The Dutch findingvfhe|r ruin .inevitable if they p er-
fifted, demanded three d‘#fs ceffatipn of hoftilities to deliberate,
wfiich being granted, they at laft complied with
commodore Caifard’s demands;;''and accordingly, on the
, 27th, a treaty of twenty^four articles being fettled be-
*f A i ; II 2 tween