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with Colonel: FOurgeoud, I hue day prefomed tthe old '
gentleman. with a plan. grad bhrd’s-eye^view- o f all *th©
encampment of Magdenfeferg? which pleafed hi m-lb much,
that he feht this (as he hadjdonfe -the h i* ) to the 'Prince
o f Orange and the Dulse of Brunfwick, as -a fpeeimen o f
bis military.manoeuvre s, -See. This prefen-t had. the defined
e ffe a ; for I not only became one o f his faW-aurifos, hut*
declaring his higheft efteem for the Seats' and Englifb, _
h e 'even .promifed to recommend hae 'in particular at
court. 3 was fo fatisfied with this change in .his beha-
viour,that 1 now took the blame o f all fraMefoanfoaufity
on myfelf.ffsHis attention, however, was^drdefo^tet^
traced by affairs o f more confeq.uence,£'dinoe,: on the
14th o f June, the news arrived that fome; rebel hilts
were difeovered near the fea-fide j^thatfdSaptam 'Mtey-
-land had inarched in quell qf therfnemy, with, one-
hundred and forty men of the ^society troops^ and hf®
actually difeovered them;, btft in wading through a.
deep marlh, had been' firft attacked jffl th e ' negroes,
who had killed feveral df his people, (among whom
h is nephew, a young. volunteer), wounded m a %
and beaten badk the whole detachment, after they had:
already palled the marlh, and were mounting fa ll on
the oppofite beach to llorm the tillage. From this-
news it was evident, ■ that our fable foes were not .to*
be trifled with; and fiace they were thus difeovered,
orders were immediately illued for all the troops that
were aide to mardh ;to :keep in readijiefa,::m su Ehurgeoud’s
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ranvers; who wanted no ip u r| and now could hardly be ,
reftrained till the others were prepared. The fie troops
Were to b,e aflembled at a certain place of rendezvous,
while fofo^a,detach jjngnt rua^cl>ed .tqtEa Rochelle to give
information. In,cpnfsquence of thefo orders all was activity
and Vigour in thje .oamp, -in hopes that this decifive
jfooke would end the war?,and their mifery together; and
this, -therefore,, was-foe time .to .lead them on .to a fpi-rited
attack; but, for r.qafoos heff known to himfelf, our com-
fonander delayed his 'movement till 'the 20th of -Auguft,,
which was? abo<vq?t'WP|mpnjhs. |
th e ,,m©^%tipre jh-e-Ri^greeahie^new^^^rrived, that'
Captain Brant- was almoftdead with a violent ilfoefs at the
-Hope, which was, at prefont the place where a numher;o f
the troops were quartered, though -no better than a peft-
houfo, by the inundations,^- and for the yommandiajt this-
place (as befog one. of his favourites):* Foorgeoud now
Angled me o u t : .declaring, that I might thank my found
.conftitution for h©fowfogfqn:me this honour. Rrom thi^
copdu£t, I plainly difcoV^r.ed that f all fo? friendlhip was- .
entirely interefted; and I felt my refentment involuntarily
rekindled againft him,,, fo r -thus fending me .to an inr
glorious-death, w h e n c e had -fo.fair an opportunity of
employing me honourably, omafoual Ter vice.,
■ On. my arrival at the-Jfope,)myordeijs: were fofend.
poor Captain Brant not down to Paramaribo, but to Mag-
dpnberg. This young map, however, fruftrated the tyrannical: