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of January, and we have known In the 

 interval fuch violent, — ^fuch repeated and 

 long continued gales, that, to many of us, 

 this news is equally unfatisfadory as all we 

 had heard before. So little does it meet our 

 hopes, that we have ftlU many apprehenfions 

 left the majority of the convoy .may have 

 been obliged to return to Ireland or to En- 

 gland. Between five and fix thoufand troops 

 have reached Barbadoes in the fhips already 

 arrived, and the inhabitants of the Iflands 

 exprefs fad regret and impatience at fee- 

 ing fuch a body of men remain fo long 

 unemployed. Looking to the fpot moft 

 in danger, or concerning which they feel 

 a more immediate intereft, they wifh that 

 to be made fecure, forgetful, that were the 

 troops to be divided as they might wifh, and 

 detached on different fervices, before the ar- 

 rival of the commander in chief, with the 

 remainder of the armament, the great obje£l 

 of the expedition might, thereby, be al- 

 together defeated. 



Unhappily the fineft feafon is paffing 

 away—and before the v/hole army can have 

 -arrived, and be brought into adion, the rainy 



