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SCG-C.748.006
28 Mar-4 Apr 1748:21 (729)
Mr. Timothy, In answer to my letter enquiring after the kind
Frederica Privateers, (who according to your paper of the
23d of Nov past, were to cruize constantly on this coast
between this bar and that of St. Augustine, as much for the
protection of our trade as for the private benefit of the
loyal Commodore Davis, ) you was so kind as to inform us in
your last paper, that they have been cruizing among the
Bahama-islands. So I find their true end in coming on the
bar of Charles-town in the beginning of January, besides
making a parade before the town and in the publick papers,
was to take on board the voluntiers which the recruiting
serjeants had been picking up for some weeks before, in
order to man them compleatly.
I was afraid that pompous paragraph would turn out only a
puff. . . [5 lines] If they had been content to be silent
'till they had performed what they gave us the expectation
of, we would have blown the trumpet for them in their
praise, loud as they could wish. But they pursued the
ingenious way of acquiring or stealing a name. . .
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