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her, but my people compelled me to go further off, for fear of llriking on the wreck. All I can farther fay of it, there never was a more fliocking fight; pray God that I may never lee the like again! It was very grievous to me that I could not fave more of her men, without running the rifk of fharing her fate. The eigh- teenth of April the Glafgow, a

twenty gun (hip, hoifted the fignal for all malters of merchant-fhips to come on board, where the admiral had his flag hoifted, to know how many people we had faved amongfl us, and to deliver them up. By the thf-n lift it appeared, that the Admiral, Capt. Payton, and about two hundred and fifty-three men were faved.

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