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About 12 o'clock at Night the [[underline]] Surprize Cutter [[/underline]] returned, with the Information that She had descried Admiral Parker's Fleet at Anchor [[underline]] in the Gun fleet; [[/underline]] some distance from the Nore. About half past Nine oClock His Majesty retired to His Cabin. Lord Lothian Colonel Townsend & I went to our Cots at Eleven oClock -- [[underline]] Saturday Augst. 18th. [[/underline]] We were called this Morning by His Majesty [[underline]] before Five o'Clock; [[/underline]] He came from his Cabin to ours, which Adjoin'd in his Night Cap & Night Gown -- We got up as quickly as possible - It must be owned The Morning was too fine, to be wasted in a Cot --