Orders are sent to all the sea-ports in this kingdom, that such frigates of war, from 32 to 36 guns, as shall henceforth be built in any ports of France, be lengthened ten feet by the keel, and breadth in proportion, by which they wil be enabled to carry on one deck, a weight of metal equal to the lower tier of an English fifty gun ship.
1. London Chronicle, August 20 to August 22, 1776.
