Among other things it is now faid that 

 only the remaining troops, belonging to thofe 

 regiments already in the Weft Indies, are to 

 come out with the fleet ; and that the othets 

 are actually fent into different cantonments, in 

 England, there to remain until next Septem- 

 ber, before they again fail for the Weft Indies. 

 Of this we have many doubts ; yet might it 

 feem to be a prudent arrangement : for, ad- 

 vanced as the feafon now is, it were, perhaps, 

 wife policy to poftpone the grand objed: of the 

 expedition for a December campaign ; and to 

 employ the troops which are now here in re- 

 ftoring tranquillity to our difturbed and en- 

 dangered iflands, thus fulfilling the more im- 

 mediate, although perhaps the minor objeds 

 of the armament. 



A body of troops brought out in Odober 

 or November would have the feafon before 

 them for a long campaign, but were they to 

 leave England now, the length of time re- 

 quired for the voyage and for their being af- 

 fembled at Barbadoes, and again prepared for 

 leaving it, would bring them fo near to thg 

 wet feafon, and to the hot and unhealthy pe- 

 riod of the year, that not oiily would multi- 



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