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No 24

A very unexpected opportunity offers of sending Your Lordship two lines. No Troops arrived, but as Sr P Parker probably sailed from Cork with seven Regiments about the middle of January we may expect them the latter end of this month, not sooner ... Commissioners are certainly to be named to receive the submission of the different provinces but all this you will hear by your dispatches which are arrived in 9 weeks from Falmouth & to which I refer you ー [Andrew] Barkley has made a stroke, 16 sail of Rice ships greatest part of their Cargoes gone to Boston ー The Philadelphia Fleet gone to [New] providence, and from thence supposed to the Dutch Islands, but for particulars I turn your Lordship over to the Commodore 2-believe me&ca

[Endorsed] by the Duke of Cumberland Packet Sailed