Copy of an Intelligence report from Santa Cruix, reporting on the positioning of various French and American ships at St Thomas's and the likelihood that they would be sailing imminently for America, on the arrival at St Thomas's of Spanish ships from Pensacola, on the movements of American, French and British forces at Rhode Island and West Point, including those of Washington., General Green and Lord Rawdon, and that the British fleet was currently cruising off Boston.
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Intelligence A.W. Hall arrived this afternoon the 31st of July from St. Thomas's reports, That he left that Island on Saturday last, six days previous thereto, a fleet of Mechantmen arrived in nine days from the Cape, where a French frigate had arrived the day before their sailing with thirty Pilots for the Cheasapeak and Delawar, which together with a number of North Americans collected there, and waiting Convoy to be in Number, made it look'd on as certain that the French fleet which was hourly expected there from Martinique, would proceed immediately to America. He further adds that a few days before the fleet for St. Thomas's left the Cape, Seven Spanish Men of War had arrived there from Pensacola, which place had been taken by storm with great lots, that the Spaniards afterwards attempted ,, Augustine, but could not get over the Bar-That the last advices there from the Continent were That Lord Cornwallis was forty miles above York town.-That Washington had moved to the Southward, The French had abandon'd Rhode Island, and taken possession of Washington formed Post, at West Point, but that General Green had marched to the Southward, and forced Lord Rawdon within his lines in South Carolina, but that the same advices brought the account of the arrival of a reinforcement of 3500 Men, which it was supposed.
