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Excerpt from Biographia Navalis, or Impartial Memoirs of the Lives and Characters of Officers of the Navy of Great Britain, From the Year 1660 to the Present Time, Vol. 6: Drawn From the Most Authentic Sources, and Disposed in a Chronological Arrangement; Being the Second Volume of the Continuation
The arrival of the count diellaing on the American fiztiqn with a French ?eet, conftflipg of upwards of twenty (hips of the line, from the ell Indies, con fined Mr. Arbuthnot, through neceflity, to the port of New York: but the enemy, after the failure of their well-known attempt on Savannah, the capital of Georgia, having quitted thofe feas, Mr. Arbuthnot prepared to efcort lir H. Clinton and his troops on an, qx edition, which had long been pro'eéled, againli South arolina. He failed on the a6th of ecember, and on this occafion removed his ?ag into the Roebuck, of forty-four guns, ve?els of a light draught of water being adapted to that particular fervice. Some of the {hips of the line then on that flation, which confified of the Rollel and Robufl, of feventy-four guns; the Europe, Raifonable and Defiance, of lixty-four guns each, accompanied the admiral to his place of deflination bttt on his preparing to pafs into the harbour of Charlellown, in the month of March, the heavier lhips returned to New York, under the orders of captain Drake, in the Rolfe], leaving with the admiral, only the Renown, of fifty guns; the Romulus, of forty-four; the Blonde, Perfeus, Camilla, and Raleigt frigates, which, with fome Other vellels of the fame de fcription, daily expefled, were deemed a force quite ade quate to-the wants of that particular fervice.
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