Our Vice Admiralty Courts have lately had some business from the prizes brought in here by Admiral Gayton's squadron. A sharp lookout is kept at the windward passage, and scarce any thing escapes them. Two vessels were brought in yesterday, prizes to a sloop of war. The people on the island are in some measure glad of these helps, the prizes having always a loading very acceptable; yet they wish no disturbances had ever happened, as not only in the article of provisions, but also in that of trade, they will suffer; particularly in molasses and coffee, of which the Americans used to take great quant[i]ties ー I have the pleasure to inform you of the goodness of our crops of sugars.
1. London Chronicle, June 11 to June 13, 1776.