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I received your Letter this Morning and am pleased that you have reason to believe that both you and your People will be released in a few Days.1 Lieutenant Beach2 with a Copy of your Commision saild last tuesday, having on board one hundred and ten Men from the other armed vessels he received upwards of forty, he has already taken a ship3 which is valuable & ...
Date: 16 January 1778
Volume: Volume 11
You will probably think that I have been very Neglectful1 in not writing to you oftener, And the only Apology that I Can offer is, that I have been engaged in the most troublesome affair that ever I undertook And had I expected that I Should have had half the trouble to Encounter with, the Cutter1 might have Remained years in Bilboa, before I would have taken the Management of her, but...
Date: 19 February 1778
Volume: Volume 11
Little did I think when I left Bilboa, that my first letter would have been dated at this place but so uncertain is the the situation of a Person on board an arm'd Vessel, that he knows not the place he is destin'd for. When we left Bilboa our intention was to proceed immediately for Martinique, but fortunately we met with the following mentioned Vessels which we made Prizes of. viz:
Peace & ...
Date: 31 March 1778
Volume: Volume 11