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[[underline]] Secret [[/underline]] Barfleur at Sea Octr. 21st. 1781 Sir When Sir Henry Clinton’s & Rear Admiral Graves’s dispatches by Express to the West Indies representing the State of Things in North America together with their apprehensions from the United Forces of France and America, reached my hands I did not hesitate one moment, in hastening to their relief, with every Line of Battle Ship under my command, having no more difficulty in deciding then, what appeared to my mind most proper to be done, than I have now, and was upon the coast before the Enemy’s fleet. Had Rear Admiral Graves have kept [[underline]] all [[/underline]] his Ships collected together and ready to have joined me, upon my Appearance off New York, as he promised to do, he might have been upon De Grasse’s [[catchword]] heels [[/catchword]]
