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Having put the soldiers on board, I home and wrote what I had to write by the post, and so home to supper and to bed, it being late. Up, and by water to White Hall, and there met with Mr. Coventry, who tells me the only news from the fleete is brought by Captain Elliott, of The Portland, which, by being run on board by The Guernsey, was disabled from staying abroad; so is come in to Aldbrough.
By the aid of the fishing-boats, he had learned their manoeuvres clearly, and outmanoeuvred them. Now it would have been better for him, perhaps, to have been content with a lesser triumph, and to run his own schooner, the Glimpse, further south, toward Hornsea, or even Aldbrough.
Having put the soldiers on board, I home and wrote what I had to write by the post, and so home to supper and to bed, it being late. Up, and by water to White Hall, and there met with Mr. Coventry, who tells me the only news from the fleete is brought by Captain Elliott, of The Portland, which, by being run on board by The Guernsey, was disabled from staying abroad; so is come in to Aldbrough.
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