teen ofF Trinidad. This Is peculiarly impdf* 

 tant at the prefent moment, as multitudes of 

 our defencelefs traofports are fcattered over 

 thefe feas, in fearch of which hofts of arm- 

 ed cruifers have been fitted out by the ene^ 

 my. 



I am forry to tell you that information of 

 an unpleaiaot nature has reached us from Gre- 

 nada, in confequence of which it has been 

 deemed expedient to embark a body of troops 

 on board the Expedition armee e?i fiitte^ and 

 other fmaller veflels, to fend to the relief of 

 that ifland, without waiting for the arrival of 

 the commander in chief, 



Could it have been forefeen, that the re- 

 mainder of the convoy would have been de- 

 tained fo many weeks behind us, the troops 

 which have been accumulated at Barbadoes 

 might have been beneficially employed in re- 

 ftoring tranquillity to our difordered iflaodSf 

 and, perhaps, have been fdli in time to ha^e 

 joined in the great, and more combined ob- 

 jed: of the expedition. But it is not given 

 to humanity to forcfee events, and the fad dif- 

 afters of this formidable armament only t^nd 



