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I have been in this harbour these five days and Could not get a pilot till this day to pilot me to York and I am oblidg'd to give him an extraordinary price, I Intend to sett Sail this Evening for York; I am Informed there is a fifty Gun Ship at anchor at the head of the shell [shoal] of York and at Cape Charles Twenty gun frigate If Captn [James] Nicholson gives me as many hands as I want I will go and attack the frigate, and hope to meet with Success as my men seem to be full of Spirrit, no more From

P:S: I am told the ship lies in the Channell