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must have foundered. Tho we have been arrived now above a fortnight, numbers are still missing, among which I am very sorry is poor Major Bayard & his whole family, who were coming to settle at Capt: Salter's house at Stoke, as Your Royal Highness may remember to have heard. We made our passage in 25 days, & I am confident might have done it, had we been alone, in 17, the wind being favourable the whole way. The poor Warwick was pooped, the dead lights stove in, & I found myself a-float with above 2 feet water in the Cabin about 2 oClock in the morning. The Ship was excessively weak in her upper works, so that for above a fortnight we were almost constantly wet & coud never once sit at table. She proved however tolerably tight in her bottom; making only 3 feet in the very worst weather.
