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It is with grief we learn that feveral of our 

 brave countrymen have alfo fallen ; among 

 whom we lament to find Major Edwards, 

 whofe very name would feem at this mo- 

 ment to be unfortunate, for Major Edwards 

 of the artillery has alfo juft taken a fatal leave 

 of his comrades, in confequence of (perhaps 

 imprudent) expofure to climate ; and a Lieu- 

 tenant Edwards, only a few days fince, fell 

 a victim to typhus fever contracted on the 

 pafiage. 



The Portfmouth fleet is ftill a truant to 

 our expectations. From the tidings we had 

 received of it we now think it long delayed ; 

 and unhappy conjectures, refpecting it, again 

 prevail. Four additional fhips of this convoy 

 arrived fome days fince, and from thefe we 

 felt affured of learning that the Admiral and the 

 remainder of the fleet were near the ifland ; 

 but we were difappointed on finding that 

 they parted from the convoy the firft or fe- 

 cond night after leaving Spithead ; fince 

 which they have neither feen nor heard any 

 thing of it. No accurate intelligence having 

 reached us, fince the time our expectations 

 J^ad led us to look for its arrival, we have 



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