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Sir George, informing me of the arrival of a French Fleet at Martinique on the 28th. of last month, consisting of twenty sail of the Line six Frigates and one hundred & seven sail of merchant vesels, and that one of the convoy went to Guadalupe the next day where his intelligencer then was, and which place he left the same evening, to tell the news. A very plausible story truly, but not one word of which could I bring myself to give credit to; I however instantly stood away with the squadron towards Port Royal Bay. I reasoned thus; had the Enemy taken a northern track; made Antigua in an Evening [[catchword]] and [[/catchword]]
