42-6; 



The feafon is rapidly advancing — the 

 milder temperature of the climate, and the more 

 favorable period of the year are wearing away, 

 and the wet months faft approaching: we fear, 

 therefore, that all the ills to be apprehended 

 from climate may now be expeded in the 

 mid ft of the campaign, or before the troops 

 can well be brought into adion. 



When or how the convoy Is again to at- 

 tempt the voyage we do not learn : but it 

 feems to be the opinion, on your fide the wa- 

 ter, that the commander in chief will fail in a 

 frigate vv^ithout delay, and that the fleet will 

 follow, in fm.all divifions, as fpeedilyas the fliips 

 can be repaired and made ready for fea. This 

 would undoubtedly be moR advifable ; for the 

 waiting to aiTemble large convoys, and the de- 

 lays and accidents which neceffarily happen to 

 them, at fea, would feem to be the very ban® 

 of the enterprife. 



We are (1111 told that the Cork divlfion 

 may be daily expected, yet we learn tha^t it had 

 not failed vv^hen the packet left Falmouth., 

 From all we can colled h would feem proba- 



