MEMOIR OF J)]{ WRIGHT, l.'i 



the Brest fleet, appears to have induced the belief that 

 a general peaee was at hand ; and accordingly lie con- 

 sults his brother as to the course which it would be 

 proper for him to pursue, on the supposition of his be- 

 ing turned adrift from the service. The homeward 

 views which he had begun to entertain are, however, 

 soon directed to other objects. M. Thorot, and a 

 French squadron, having made a descent on the West- 

 ern Islands, the Danae was directed to join in the 

 pursuit. Having at length succeeded in clearing the 

 coast of the privateers with which it was infested, the 

 Danae and her consorts lay for some time at Loch 

 Swilly, on the Irish coast ; and Mr Wright speaks in 

 the warmest terms of the hospitality of the inhabitants, 

 and of the introductions which he obtained to the best 

 society of the neighbourhood, through the favour of 

 his superior officers. " Colonel Vaughan," he writes 

 to his brother, " keeps quite an open table, and conde- 

 scends to express his disappointment if any of the of- 

 ficers of the expedition are known, when ashore at Loch 

 Swilly, to dine elsewhere than at his hospitable board." 



Towards the end of the year 1760, the Danae re- 

 ceived an order, while stationed at Cork, which, un- 

 consciously to Mr Wright, imparted a colour to his 

 future fate. She was appointed to form part of a con- 

 siderable armament, which was to assemble at the 

 Cove, with orders to proceed to the Antilles, for the 

 protection of our West India possessions, and the re- 

 duction of Martinique. From Cork he writes to his 

 brother, on the 15th of December 1760: 



" We arrived in Plymouth on the 210th of October, 



