We have News here that your Fleet has behaved bravely; I congratulate you upon it, most cordially.

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By our last Advices our Affairs were in a pretty good train. I hope we shall soon have Advice of the Expulsion of the English from Virginia. I am ever, Dear Sir, Your most obedient & most humble Servant