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Should any of His Majesty's Ships be stationed in these parts, and Your Lordship by any means have access to them in their passage hither; could Your Lordship desire them to speak to the Man of War in Charlestown Harbour, to get the Mail from England, which brought the Letters belonging to this Province, the beginning of August, and deliver them here, it would be doing us great Service and Kindness. I have no Vessel to send for them, that would not be taken by the Carolina Cruisers.