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Sir I am now to Inform you th~t on the 4th Instant I set out from Cambridge and arrived here on Saturday last [April 13]-I came through Providence, Norwich and New London in order to see and expedite the embarkation of the Troops ー The third Brigade under the command of General Green [Nathanael Greene] was at New London when I left It, where there was .a sufficient number of Transpoi:ts to embark them, and most probably wou'd have arrived here before this, had It not been for a Severe Storm which happened the night they sailed which dispersed them, and I fear has doQe them some Injury. . . . All the Ships of War besides the Asia moved out of this Harbour on Saturday, and the Asia yesterday, some of which are now below the Narrows and the restgone ti;>Sea. Having received Information from hence before my departure from Cambridge that Thirty peices of Heavy Cannon were wanting essentially necessary for the defence of this place in addition to those already here, I took the liberty of applying to Adml Hopkins, whom I saw at New London, for that Number with the Mortars & Stores he brought from [New] Providence, a List of which he had Transmitted you. he told me that as many were wanting for the defence of Providence river & the Barbour at New London It was urn;:ertain whether I cou'd have all I wanted, But that he wou'd send me all that could be spared.