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it Is now reported that three forty-^^four 

 gun fhips, viz. the Ulyfles, the Experiment, 

 and the Charon, are to take in the troops, 



'which, during the ga!e» were in fuch ex- 

 treme peril on board the vaft and unwieldy 

 Commerce de Marfeilles, and to run out with 

 them, a^ fpeedily as poffible, to the Weft 



' Indies* . 



Confiftent with this arrangement, vef- 

 fels came alongfide the Ulyffes early on the 

 morning of the 26rh inftant, for the purpofe 

 of removing the St. Domingo ftores ; and 

 ' the hofpital packages, which were ftowed in 

 this fhip, are now diftributed into two or three 

 different veffels ; which is an improvement, 

 gained by the change, for fliould either of 

 thefe fhips chance to be loft, captured, or de* 

 layed, ftill a proportion of the ftores rnay- 

 fafely arrive in the others. Further advan- 

 tages may alfo derive from the diftrlbution, 

 as an affortment will be more conveniently 

 at hand for any cafe of emergency — fuch 

 as immediate or unexpeded fervice, de- 

 tachments, or fupplying different iflands or 

 colonies. 



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