[Extract]

. . . I had the very high Satisfaction on my Arrival, to find the Flora, & the Fox, both here; She had retaken the latter, shortly, after I pass'd her, without any great Resistance on the part of the Rebels. — Nothing could be more singularly fortunate than my going to Sea at the Time I did, since besides my taking Mr Manley, & his Ship, I certainly was the means of recovering one Frigate of His Majesty's, & preventing another from being taken, which in all probability the Flora must have been, likewise. — I send by this Opportunity, Mr Manley's Flag to the Earl of Sandwich, in the Hope that He will be pleas'd to lay it in my Name, & with the most dutiful Submission, at His Majesty's Feet.

Rainbow at Halifax
13th July 1777