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I designed to have finished the sheet, but, an
opportunity offering, I close, only just informing you
that, May the 7th, our privateers took two prizes in
the bay, in fair sight of the man-of-war; one, a brig
from Ireland; the other from Fayal, loaded with
wine, brandy, &c.; the other with beef, &c. The
wind was east, and a flood tide, so that the tenders
could not get out, though they tried several times;
the lighthouse fired signal guns, but all would not do.
They took them in triumph, and carried them into
Lynn.

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