tame to arrive ; and, from thefe, we catch 

 with eagernefs, every report, but ftill with- 

 out acquiring any thing fdtIsfa£tory. Some 

 feparated on one day; fome another; and 

 fome another : but with refped: to the adual 

 Hate of the convoy all is ftill enveloped in 

 doubt and incertitude, 



Moft unhappily our difappolntment and 

 our regrets are further augmented by the 

 painful intelligence of frequent captures be- 

 ing made by the enemy's privateers. From 

 the veffels coming out, in this difperfed and 

 divided manner, the cruifers, from Guada- 

 lopcj are but too fuccefsful, in picking up 

 numbers of our unarmed, and unproteded 

 tranfports. 



A fliip which arrived this day reports 

 that fhe parted from the Admiral and a hun- 

 dred fail of the convoy, on the feventh of 

 January, in latitude 45, longitude 17. This 

 is received, by fome, as favorable intelligence, 

 ft feeming to ftrengtben the hope that the 

 fleet has not been under the neceflity of 

 again putting back to Cork, or Splthead. 

 But it is now fo long fince , the feventli 

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