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tudes fall vldims to dlfeafe, but impedimentSj 

 occafioned by the weather, might interrupt the 

 proceedings of the campaign before any thing, 

 important could be efFe£ted. 



We find that the Cork fleet has, un- 

 queflionably, been for feveral weeks at fea, and 

 may be daily expeded ; the Arethufa having 

 fpoken feveral of the fhlps of that convoy 

 upon her paffage. At the time the Arethufa 

 came Into the bay two other ftilps appeared 

 in fight : they are fince arrived, and prove 

 to be the General Cuyler merchantman, of 

 our divifion (long fuppofed to be loft), and 

 the Clarendon tranfport of the Cork divifion 

 —their arrival, and the reported approach of 

 the Cork fleet add to the aufpicious events of 

 St« Patrick's day* 



The fad uncertainties of a fea voyage 

 are ftrongly exemplified in the combined ar- 

 rival of the General Cuyler, and the Claren- 

 don. The one failed on the 9th of December^ 

 and the other on the 9th of February; (pe- 

 riods more diftant than the time ufually re- 

 quired for making the voyage) yet, fo favora.- 

 ble had been the elements to the one, and. fa 



