Aurora at Barbados Jany. 14th. 1778.
Sir/
Please to acquaint My Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, that His Majesty's Ship Aurora under my Command being ordered by Capt Lambert1 to go ahead of the Fleet & make the Island of Barbados on the 12th. Instant, I fell in with & took on the 13th. the St Peter Rebel Privateer commanded by Saml Chace, of 18, 6 Prs. & 130 Men,2 which Ship had been out of Martinico 5 weeks on a Cruize & had taken the Industry— ——Darling Master3 from London bound to this Island with Provisions, a Brig of 16 Guns parted from him the day before, that had been cruizing with him—I am Sir [&c.]
Jas: Cumming
L, UkLPR, Adm. 1/1612, section 28, no. 1. Addressed below close: "Ph Stephens Esqr—." Note by Stephens on back: "3 April/Publish it in the/Gazette."
1. Capt. Robert Lambert, commanding H.M.S. Niger.
2. See Journal of H.M.S. Aurora, 12-13 Jan., above.
3. Ship Industry, T. Darling, master, 200 tons burthen, built at Bristol, England, in 1765, bound from London to Jamaica. Lloyd's Register of Ships, 1777-1778.
