I am just inform'd that three Ships are coming down the Bay, their business I imagine is to get provisions, which I shall endeavour to prevent by every means in my power. Colo Harrison of the Artillery hearing of some of the Solbays crew being on shore in Princess Anne, endeavouring to get off a Vessel, that they had run on shore, sent a party of Men down, who fell in with them, & took one Lieutenant, three Midshipmen & ten seamen. Had the information reach'd him in proper time he would have taken four boat loads of them. . . .