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than 2,000 men posted in and surrounding a town
unfortified. The loss of Captain Donnie's fleet was
the very event that ought to have stimulated the
British General to the storming the position
with the overwhelming force he then commanded.

The result of this expedition so contrary to
expectation gave rise to much discontent and
recrimination. The British force in this action
consisted of 17 vessels carrying 96 Guns and
more than a thousand men, that of the American
was composed of 14 vessels with 80 guns and
about 800 men. This was a most shameful affair
had Sir George Provost lived he must have been
arraigned before a Court Martial to have satisfied
the disappointment of the Government. He died
on his passage home, and thus terminated this
unfortunate transaction: -

Highgate.

On the 25th we slept at Highgate a small
town on the frontier. Like all those runs where we
stopped whether during the day or at night however
late the hour we always found the public room filled
with persons drinking brandy and water, and smoking
the everlasting cigar, so that what with the heat of
the Stove the smell arising from the bad oil that fed
the lamps which ornamented what they call the back
but what indeed looked more like the dirty Counter
of a Hucksters Shop together with the clouds of tobacco
smoke one could hardly stand it. The heat
thrown out from these stoves together with the effluvia

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