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Sr: Least you should not have heard it, I take this opportunity of informing you, that the day before yesterday an American Vessell mounting Twenty six Carriage Guns was at Souffnir bay in St Lucie, and in that Bay and the Carenage were from ten to twelve other Americans, Whalers and on Traffick; the Privateer is represented as an uncommon fine Vessell, whether a consort of the one the Shark had her engagement with I cannot say: you Sr may rely on this information, which I could not forgive myself not forwarding to you as early as I could with any tolerable degree of safety do, and remain Sr [&c.]