[On board H.M.S. Eagle, New York] Monday 14th. October.
On this Day, the Perseus, Capt. Elphinstone, with eleven Sail of Transports, having on board Troops & Provisions, arrived in Port, after a Passage of 11 Weeks from Portsmouth. She came out with 20 Sail, but lost the rest of her Convoy in a Fog upon the Bank of Newfoundland. She also took two of the Rebel Privateers, and brought one in & sunk the other.
1. Tatum, ed., Serle's Journal, 123, 124.
