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Windsor Castle February 4th 1783. Sir, The interest Your Royal Highness is pleased to take in what concerns me leads me to mention some of the particulars relative to my leaving America & my arrival in England. I sailed from New York 24th of December in the Warwick. We had a convoy of 48 sail, exclusive of the Charlestown, Capt Griffith, & the Savage, Capt. Paget Baily. We had scarcely left the Hook above two days, when a pretty smart Gale of Wind came on, which reduced our number to 26. After this, successive & violent Gales with such high & dangerous ^ [[addition]] Seas [[/addition]] as I had never before seen seperated us entirely from the whole Convoy. From the very bad weather it was imagined that many
