LETTER III. 



A Common ftgnal of alarm converted 'into an enfign of joy. 

 Acutenefs of fallors in difcovering the nature and extent 

 of a fleet at fea. Convoy from Cork arrives on the \jl of 

 April. Its entrance into Car life bay an inter efiing fcene. 

 Author and his comrades expect to proceed to St, Domingo. 

 Voyage thither from Barbadoes only a pleafani run down 

 the trades. 



Barbadoes, April i. 



Accustomed to addrefsyou upon all occa- 

 sions without referve, my glad pen, true to the 

 feelings that dired it, feems confcious when 

 made the herald of happy tidings, and, on 

 fuch occafions, certain of being hailed with all 

 the warmth of fympathy, it haftens to greet 

 you with a fwiftnefs even beyond its feathered 

 felf. 



We are here all joy and gladnefs. With- 

 out the humour of an April day, the morning 

 has been bright and cheerful, from bringing to 

 us friends we have long been anxious to meet, 



I have before obferved to you, that the 

 alarm fignal being holfted at the fort, indicates 



