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moR hourly variety, to be feen cither entering 



or quitting Carlille l?ay. 



The day after the arrival of the Arethufa 

 we w^ere early enlivened by fignals for other 

 veffels coming in from w^indv^ard ; but they 

 proved to be fhips from very oppofite coafts ; 

 one being from Hallifax, and the other 

 a Guinea-man with a cargo of flaves from 

 Africa. 



Several vefTels of the Cork fleet have ar- 

 rived within the few laft days ; but none of 

 them bring any accurate tidings of the fleetj 

 moft of them having parted from the convoy, 

 during the firft or fecond night after quitting 

 the harbour, and not having feen it fmce. 

 The Charlotte tranfport was chafed by a pri- 

 vateer at the diftance of only a few leagues 

 from Barbadoes, and muft, inevitably, have 

 been taken, but for the fortunate circumftance 

 of a flave fhip, from the coaft of Guinea, com- 

 ing up at the time and engaging her purfuer. 

 A running adion was maintained, for two 

 hours, between the Guinea-man and the pri- 

 vateer, when the latter fheered oif, leaving the 

 flave fhip, and her protegee, to purfue their 



