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 10 The Life and gallant Services the 4th of July, we made the coaſt of Caramanca: ſteering along the ſouth ſide of Candia, carrying a preſs of fail both night and day, with a contrary wind. On the 18th we ſaw the iſland of Sicily, when the Admiral determined to enter the danger- ous part of Syracuſe, and immediately proceeded to get in water, &c. with all poſſible expedition. This was the firſt opportunity that the Vanguard had of receiving water on board from the 6th of May; ſo that not only the ſtock of that ſhip, but of ſeveral others of the ſquadron, was very nearly exhauſted. On the 21ſt the ſquadron again put to ſea. We received vague accounts while at Syracuſe, that the enemy's feet had not been ſeen in the Archipelago nor the Adriatic, nor had they gone down the Me- diterranean : the concluſion then ſeemed to be, that the coaft of Egypt was ſtill the object of their deſ- tination. On our return to Syracuſe, the circum- ſtance of our ſteering up to the northward, while the enemy kept a ſouthern courſe for Alexandria, makes it obvious, that our chance of falling in with them was ſtill leſs than before. On the 25th of July we left Syracuſe, still without any poſitive in- formation reſpecting the enemy; but it occurred to the Admiral that fome authentic intelligence might be obtained in the Morea. We ſteered for that coaſt, and made the Gulph of Coron on the 20th. Upon the information obtained by Captain Trow- bridge at Coron, the Admiral determined again to viſit Alexandria, and carried all fail, ſteering for that place, which he had the pleaſure to desory on the firſt of Auguſt, at noon: but not as before, it now appearing full of veſſels of various kinds; and we ſoon had the ſatisfaction of ſeeing the French flag flying on-board the ſquadron, at ſight of the ene- my; and the pleaſure which the Admiral himſelf felt was perhaps more heightened than that of any other mi, as he had now a certainly by which he could