ctions of the gardens we had so assiduously cultivated on the
Island of Hope. On the 1st of June we ran down the river and anchored
off Newport, and on the 3rd sailed on a cruise towards the Bay of Fundy,
in company with the Amazon and Juno frigates. The officers and ships'
companies of the three ships had previously agreed to share the
prize-money which might be made on the cruise.

I should be almost afraid of wearying my readers, were I to give a
minute account of all the captures we effected and the adventures we met
with, but still I do not like altogether to pass them by. Our main
object, however, was to intercept the American Commodore Manley, but as
he had a force much superior to ours, it was absolutely necessary for us
to keep together, or we might have found ourselves very much the worse
for the encounter. Had it not been for this, we should have taken many
more prizes than we did; indeed, we were compelled to allow numbers of
considerable value to pass by without going in chase. On the 26th we
took a sloop from Philadelphia bound for Boston with rice. On the 26th
we re-took a brig from Oporto, bound to London, which had been captured
by a rebel privateer off Scilly. We sent her to New York, but we never
heard anything more of her, so that she must either have foundered or
have been taken by the enemy. In the latter case the prize-master and
crew must have joined them. On the 11th we took a vessel laden with
lumber, which we burnt, and on the 14th a sloop with wood, which we gave
up to the owners, as they were royalists; and on the 16th we took a brig
with fish and lumber from Boston to the West Indies. At length, on the
23rd at daybreak, a flush-deck ship was seen becalmed within two miles
of us. We made out that she was pierced for twenty guns, and from her
appearance we had no doubt that she was a rebel privateer. The boats
were ordered out immediately, but before they were in the water a breeze
sprang up, and setting every stitch of canvas she could carry, away she
went before the wind. We at the same time made sail in chase with our
consorts, which were a little astern of us, and of course we had every
hopes of making an important capture. By this time the rebel government
had given letters of marque, not only to Americans, but to the
inhabitants of various other countries, who, under their flag, had
become very troublesome to our trade, and it had become necessary to
endeavour to put a stop