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to caufes which have no juft connedion with 

 them*. 



Having culled all the leading heads of 

 news Dr. Cleghorn and myfelf went on fhore 

 in the evening, and returned the papers to Mr. 

 Hinde. We now took an opportunity of call- 

 ing at the poft-office to afk for letters in the 

 hope of hearing from you all ; and there we 

 learned that a fad fcene of confufion had pre- 

 vailed throughout the day, from the crowd 

 forcing their way into the office, and each 

 perfon tumbling over the whole heap to look 

 for his own letters. 



I am forry to have again to inform you 

 that late accounts from Grenada ftate the ifland 

 to be in great danger, and that we hold poifeC- 

 fion of it by a very precarious tenure, the 

 troops being pent up in the tom-n^ and not 

 in fufficient force to nriarch again ft the Bri- 

 gands. From St. Vincent we hear, alfo, that the 

 inhabitants have been obliged to fly to arms 



* We have been fo accuftomed to pay extravagantly 

 for bread, in Enjzland, fince this period, that the price 

 which then feemed frightfully enorn:ious^ might now be 

 deemed moderate. 



