[1777. January] 18. To-day is the Queen's birth-day, and every ship in the harbor that is in commission, fired twenty-one guns, as a royal salµte.

19. Sunday. To-day we were removed from the Reasonable to the Bellisle, a ship of sixty-four guns, after having been on boarµ the Reasonable twenty-seven days. Here we lodged in the cable-tier, 011 boards laid over the cable, which is better than we had on board the Reasonable.