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The delay of the Cabot obliges me to be again troublesome to you.
. . . I have ordered three sloops and a schooner, with coals to go with this convoy1 which have been ready to sail for eight and twenty days; & would have sent you more, could I have got vessels.
I beg you will not suffer any Contracts to be made for Coals, without my knowing of it first: as there are proposals going...
Date: 10 January 1778
Volume: Volume 11
Last night arriv'd here the Favourite1 Brig a Cartell from Boston: which has brought most of the Officers of the Fox,2 Cornet Grant and four Men of ye. 16 Dragoons and Sevrl of Frasers Officers with a few Men, the whole in great distress for Clothing, Mr. Ogleve3 of Frasers Regt.4 deliv'd me the enclos'd from Lt Col...
Date: 12 January 1778
Volume: Volume 11
The following hints from a real Friend to Government are Most humbly submitted to His Excellency General Sir William How, Knight of the Bath & Commander in Chief of His Majestys Forces in America &c &c &c
Toward the last of March after the Equinoctial Gales are over, I woud humbly recommend [blank] Troops to Cheseapeake Bay, to Baltimore Town on Patapsco River for the following...
Date: 12 January 1778
Volume: Volume 11
. . .The Reports of the preparations of the Rebels against this place have subsided lately, I can not think that as long as their Ports are shut up by our Frigates, they can design any attempt against this place. The distressing the Settlements on the river St. John is not so easily prevented, as small straggling parties could effect it, and cannot be so easily discovered, but the...
Date: 2 March 1778
Volume: Volume 11
The inclosed Duplicate of my Letter to you of the 4th. instant,1 by the Packet, will inform you that His Majesty has been graciously pleased to acquiesce in your Request of Leave to quit your Command, and return to England, provided Sir Henry Clinton shall not have left America before that Letter reaches your hands. I now avail myself of the Opportunity of a Ship of War,...
Date: 18 February 1778
Volume: Volume 11