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 | | "On the 4th instant came into this harbour the Jane ketch of this place, Robert Irwin, master, from Lisbon, laden with wine and fruit, and gave advice that he had been taken off Wicklow, by a French privateer of eight guns and fifty men. |
 | | Pervine, commander, belonging to St. Malo, and had ransomed his ship for 325L., whereupon his grace the lord lieutenant immediately ordered captain Saunders in his majesty's ship the Seaford and the Charlotte yacht, captain Breholt commander, (having forty landsmen on board) to go in quest of the privateer. |
 | | The force was landed with little opposition and did some damage, but was re-embarked on the 11th and 12th, after it was considered impracticable to attack St. Malo. |
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