The Admiral was impatient to revenge the Insults shown his Cruizers, and to scourge the Inhabitants of these Sea Port Towns where they had suffered and also of those places from whence the Privateers, which then and afterwards did so much mischief to our Transports and Tenders, were continually popping out as soon as a Merchant Ship appeared off: Therefore if the Expedition now proposed to the General by letter and to which he at Length gave way, could have earlier taken effect, with Troops sufficient, much Loss to his Majesty would have been prevented, and very possibly the Coast of the Massachusetts Bay kept in as great Awe, that they would scarcely have suffered any Privateers to have taken shelter amongst them.

It was by the Admirals allowing Captain [James] Wallace to keep on board the Rose a party of 37 Marines above his Complement, besides many supernumerary Seamen in his own and the other Ships and Vessels with him, that he was enabled to arm Vessels suited to the Navigation of the small Rivers and Creeks, and whenever occasion required to land a hundred men and upwards and ravage the coast; that he kept his Post at Rhode Island in spite of the Enemy, and not only prevented the Privateers of force actually fitted out at Providence from getting to Sea, but compelled the Congress of Cambridge² to consent to his little Squadron being supplied with fresh Provisions, in order to save the Towns and People on the Sea Coast from Destruction; and no Doubt hindered Numbers of small Privateers from being equipped in that Colony. Could the other Ships of the Squadron have been well supplied with Musquetry, what might not have been done? But the Admiralty's Orders to land the Marines, the very low Complements to, and the Condition of the few Ships with the Admiral, effectually tied up his hands from either thoroughly protecting our own Trade, or harrassing the Enemy by Descents.

The Halifax new armed Schooner arrived from Halifax with a Convoy of Transports, and brought the Admiral Letters from Governor [Francis] Legge, Captain [Edward] Medows of the Tartar, and Captain [William] Dudingston of the Senegal. It seems the Province was much alarmed with Reports of Pyrates in the Bay of Fundy, and the Governor by the advice of his Council applied to Capt. Medows to sail with all the Kings Ships and Vessels then in the Harbour to the Bay of Fundy, but Captain Medows acquainted the Governor that as all the Province Arms were put on board Vessels in Halifax Harbour under his Protection, he thought the most essential service the Tartar could do would be to remain there; and that he would send the Senegal to the Bay of Fundy, which, with the two armed Schooners at that time there, he was certain would be sufficient at present for the protection of our Trade, and the Western parts of the Province, the Rebels not being yet in a Condition to attempt any thing considerable; And he was sure the Admiral would provide for the Security of the whole Province. . . . Captain Dudingstone sent the Schooner on with them³ to Boston, and went himself into the Bay to collect all the Vessels bound with Cattle and Forage to Boston. And the Admiral himself wrote shortly afterwards to Govr Legge on the subject of his letter.