The weather is got to be so severe here that the harbour is frozen up at the upper part, the lower part is very bad.
The Juno frigate has been in commission upwards of six months, and has only five men on board; most of the ships now fitting for sea are greatly distressed for want of men; the guardships men are sent on board many of them to assist in rigging them.
The Worcester and Royal Oak guardships are ready to go out of harbour, and will go to Spithead the first wind.
1. London Chronicle, February 1 to February 3, 1776.
