rived reporting fo favorably of the voyage., and 

 the weather, it is a mortification very unex- 

 pected. The Clarendon, the Charlotte 3 the 

 Singleton and others having made an uncom- 

 monly quick paffage, we had no fufpicion but 

 the winds muft have been favorable for the 

 whole convoy ; and, making allowances for 

 the delay of dull failing veifels, felt affured 

 that they muft arrive in the courfe of a few 

 days ; hence the difappointment we experi- 

 ence is even greater than it was from hearing 

 of the return of our own convoy under Ad- 

 miral Chriftian. 



Single mips, of each of the two fleets^ 

 ftill continue to arrive. The Hindoftan and 

 Abergavenny Eaft Indiamen, and feveral trans- 

 ports have joined from Cork; and on the 

 25th, came in the Mary Ifabella of the Ports- 

 mouth divifion. She failed with us on the 

 9th of December, and has been a week longer 

 on the voyage than the unfortunate General 

 Cuyler, but precifely the fame time at fea, 

 having put into Lifbon difabled, and remained 

 there three weeks, which Reduces the period 

 to twelve weeks, the exacl: time the General 

 Cuyler was beating about upon the ocean, 



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