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LETTER xxvnr. 



Btt/I no tidings of the commander in chief y or the convey 

 A trading Jhip arrives from Glafgow. Anxiety difplaye^, 

 %.uhen any vejfel enters Car life Bay. Privateers captured, 

 A detachment of troops fent to Grenada. Uncertainty of 

 (ill expeditions by fea. Black corps formed at Barbadoes,, 

 Negroes of the French colonies betray all the levity and 

 vivacity of the French charaFter. Dry feafon at Barba - 

 does. Heat of the climate. Sugge 'ion that it might be 

 politic to fend out the hofpitalsi barracksy and other build" 

 ingSy previous to the failing of the traops, Hofpitals ereBed 

 fit St. Annis hill. Troops in the tranfports unhealthy. 

 Mom^light vieiv of a co(;o-nut grovcy near Bridge-Town^ 



Carllfle Bay, Feb. 29, 



It proves that we might have lengthened our 

 Marooning excurfion, without any Interrup- 

 tion from the fear of being hurried away to 

 St Domingo. Scarcely any veflels arrived in 

 the bay during our ab fence, and very few have 

 come in fince our return. Our follcltude, 

 concerning the commander In chief and the 

 convoy, is ftlll undiminifi.ed. One fliip left 

 them i^i one latitude, another in another, one 



