| Description | 'As I feared, foretold, and laboured to prevent, the French Armament are safe arrived in Fort Royal Bay... Every scheme in my humble opinion, should have been had recourse to, and every risque [sic] should have been encountered, to have intercepted the Brest Armament; having effected that, the greater difficulty would have been surmounted - but turn ones Eye now, which way one will; nothing but difficulties, and those in the extreme, stare us full in the face....' |