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Barfleur Sandy Hook Septr. 20th. 1781
My dear General
We arrived off this Port last evening, and gott within the Hook this morning, I was in hopes to have had the pleasure of finding the Prince George here, and my disappointment is great that She is not yet come.
I was this morning told Mr. Graves had dispatched a frigate to England on the 17th. but gave the information no credit, not thinking it possible, he could addition ^ have /addition done so, without communicating his intentions to me, but I was mistaken in my man; was ever such unhandsome proceedings from one officer to another of the same Rank, and who came with a strong Squadron, as an auxiliary to him? And can anything more clearly prove a consciousness, that he was afraid, to have
