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. . . I have communicated to the Admiral the Paragraph in your Lord ships Dispatch No 5, respecting a proposed Diversion upon the Coasts of Massachusetts Bay, and I have the Honor to inform your Lordship, we have been sensible of the Advantages arising from that Mode of distressing the Enemy, but in this Instance we agree in Opinion, it. is not practicable, without interfering materially with the more important Operations of the Campaign, that have received the Royal Approbation, and which are al ready too much curtailed by the Want of Land Force, to admit of a further Reduction. . . .
The Remount Horsesforthe16thand17thDragoonsarearrivedin good Order, with the Loss of ten Horses on the Passage. The Officers of the Guards and British Recruits also arrived on the 24th May, the Anspach Troops, 432 German Recruits, and 51 German Chasseurs on the 3d Instant convoyed by the Somerset. The Troops appear to be in very good Health, and have disembarked upon Staten Island to refresh for a short Time. . . .