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LETTERS FROM 
fires have been extinguished for so many 
hours that the temperature cannot be affected 
by them. 
A salute of twenty-one guns has just been 
fired from a battery of eighteen-pounders in 
honour of the birthday of the queen of 
Spain. The echo from the rock was very 
grand. 
Our commander says that we shall sail 
in the afternoon. A messenger has just come 
down to the Mole for our letters, and 1 must 
conclude. 
