10/29/2022 0 Comments Chevalier historie english translation![]() ![]() The Burgoyne of 74 Guns ran a shore on Point De Koro, to leeward of Porto Cabello in the Lat: of Currecoa This is an Event so shocking that I cannot give you a detail of it, it is sufficient to tell you that Ten Officers and 200 Men perished, and that but 700 Men were saved out of the whole Crew. We arrived at Porto Cabello on the Spanish Main, 4 the 3 of Feby. She was pretty roughly handled by us for the three Quarters of an Hour that we engaged, and was forced to put away for Jamaica. The dammage we had sustained prevented our working our Ship, and the Enemy being in better condition for sailing, got away. In passing to leeward of Antigua, we had an Engagement with an English 50 Gun Ship, ( Leandre). In the Lat: of Bermudas the Storm return’d with greater violence, damaging our Masts and Rigging, and carrying off our Sails. of December, we were in like danger from a Gale of Wind from the South-East, which would infallibly have cast us on Shore if the Wind had not lower’d and veer’d about. On our departure the next day, which was the 31st. ![]() I had 3 like to have perished on the Rocks in Piscataqua River, the Ship was in danger about half an Hour. 2 Shall I ever be so happy as that she should daign to awake in her Mind a Remembrance of Him whose Breast she has inspired with the most indelible Sentiments! I have been very unhappy since I left America that Epocha was to me the season of Misfortune. I recall, with Pleasure, the Moments when I had the Honour of being in Company with you and Miss Adams. The Oportunity that offer’d could not be neglected by me. I hope however that the Peace may have alter’d your Plan, and that my Letter may come to hand. ![]() Memory, that noble Gift of Nature, the source of so many Sorrows and so many Pleasures, affects us more than it does others.-I am fearfull that this Letter, sent as it were at Hazard, will not reach you, as I remember you did me the Honour of telling me that you, with Miss Adams, intended in the Spring, to go and meet Mr. View him, madam, on the other side his Soul habituated to feel continually, is thereby but so much the more disposed and open to the reception of new and more forcible Impressions. 1 But that Peace, which was so much wanted, has changed my Plan, and I acquiesce tho’ it removes me forever from those who I should otherwise have visited again with transports of Joy.-You will tell me perhaps that it is the Lot of a Soldier to be one Day in Peace, and the next in War, now at home with the dear Partner of his Life, Tomorrow in the Field of Battle one while at Paris, and the next at Pondicherry: He ought to be ready and prepared for every Event. The Attachment that I had, and always shall have for our american Allies, made me desirous of helping them, in gathering the Laurels, that were there to be reaped in the Field of Bellona. My duty, my personal Interest, and the Love that I bear to my Parents and dear Friends, are so many powerfull Motives for regulating my Conduct. But This delightfull Period has, at the same time, taken from me all Hope of seeing again the Continent of America. The dangerous Scourge of War is removed for a long time from your Hemisphere and, perhaps, for a little while from ours. The much-desired day is at last arrived: Peace hath crowned both your Wishes and Ours. On board the Pluto in the Road of Cape François, April 26th. ![]()
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