een crossed.

On the 31st, at six in the evening, being within two hundred leagues of
Barbadoes, the Amazon was sent forward for information.

On the 3d of June, at day-light, two Guinea ships, bound from Surinam to
America, were seen to the westward; from whom intelligence was obtained,
that they were told, the day before, by the Beaulieu frigate, that the
French and Spanish squadrons had arrived at Martinico, but the African
ships did not know the time of their arrival there. In the evening, a
sloop of war was perceived, with the signal of intelligence to
communicate; but, missing the Victory, his lordship would not shorten
sail, as he knew nothing more could be communicated, than when the
enemy's fleet had arrived at Martinico. Next morning, at day-light,
Barbadoes was seen by the fleet, distant about ten leagues to the west;
and, at eleven in the forenoon, his lordship received the salutes of
Rear-Admiral Cochrane, and Charles Fort. The enemy's fleet, Lord Nelson
was now informed, had arrived at Martinico on the 14th of May, with
their men sickly: and, on the 28th, were seen to the windward of St.
Lucia, standing to the southward; with the view, as was supposed, of
attacking Tobago and Trinidada. General Sir William Myers, at Barbadoes,
having very handsomely offered his lordship to embark with two thousand
troops for the relief of those islands, the fleet anchored in Carlisle
Bay; and, though very rainy, with squalls of wind, the embarkment
immediately commenced, and was continued all night. In the morning, Le
Curieux brig was sent forward, to look into Tobago; and Sir William
Myers dispatched another vessel to General Prevost, at Dominica, to
acquaint him with Lord Nelson's arrival.

The happy tidings of his lordship's approach expeditiously spread
through all the West India islands. The enemy were not the last who
heard this intelligence, which acted with double force against these
marauders: it armed with resolution the defenceless inhabitants of even
the least tenable situations, by inspiring them with hopes of a speedy
and effectual aid to their own manly exertions; and filled with dread
and horror those pusillanimous pillagers who had alone confided in their
vast superiority of numbers, for the success of their plundering
exploits, and now feared the avenging hand of our pursuing hero.
Villeneuve, the Gallic fugitive from the Nile, no sooner gained
intelligence that the victor on that occasion was likely so