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British fleet, which he must expect would be upon the watch: But at 8 am on the 22d, not more than thirty hours after I gott Sir George’s cruizing Arrangement, he sent me the letter no. 2, which I trouble you with, to shew the very great unsteadiness of the Man; And as a further proof of it, he did not send Commodore Afflect & the two Sixty four’s [[addition]] to the northward [[/addition]] untill the 26th nor do I [[underline]] believe [[/underline]] from every thing I can collect, that even a single frigate was at anytime Stationed off Descada; for the first intelligence Sir George Rodney received of the Arrival of the french Armanement, in Fort Royal Bay on the 20th, was, by an english officer, who came from Martinique to St. Lucia, in a Cartel, and did not gett to the Formidable, untill the 28th.. We may from [[underline]] Luck [[/underline]] (of which we have not hitherto been blessed with a common share) [[underline]] Yet [[/underline]] do something, (and I pray God we may) to retrieve [[catchword]] our [[/catchword]]
