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NECH-C.775.024
26 Oct-2 Nov 1775:21 (8/378)
London, August 3. The public may be assured, that by orders
from above, a frigate of twenty eight guns is fitting up at
Woolwich, for sea, with all practicable speed, the officers
cabins are upon the quarter-deck, or in the gun-room, the
great, or Captain's cabin is lined with crimson baize; she
is otherwise prepared and decorated with every thing
commodious and proper for her intended destination, which is
Virginia, where she is to accommodate the governor, Lord
Dunmore, and enoble him to receive deputations from the
Council and Burgesses of that province, when assembled, with
greater conveniency; she may also serve to receive
delegations from the Caghnawaga Indians, to induce them to
take up the hatchet, and boil the war-kettle. --Lady Dunmore
is just arrived in England, or it might have enobled her
Ladyship, with equal propriety, and perhaps, with equal
success, to have given balls on board to the Planters Ladies
upon the intervening days! What a deep business! What
secrecy! What dispatch is necessary! Who can wonder at the
many councils which have been lately held!
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