Manuscripts and Special Collections
Ne C 2290 : Copy letter from Sir H. Clinton, H.M.S. 'London' off Chesapeake Bay [U.S.A.], to G.S. Germain, 1st Viscount Sackville; 29 Oct. 1781
New York brought me a letter from his
Lordship dated the 15th; the desponding
Tenor of which gives me the most
alarming apprehensions of its Truth.
Since then we have been
plying off the Capes with variable
and hard Gales of Wind to the present
Hour, without being able to procure
any further Information, except
from two Men taken in a Canoe, whose
Report exactly corresponds with the
former. Comparing therefore the In
telligence given by these People and several others since come in with
the Purport of Lord Cornwallis's letter,
Copies of both which I have the Honor
to inclose for your Lordship's Inform
ation, we cannot entertain the least Doubt
of his Lordship having capitulated,
and that we are unfortunately too late
to relieve him. Which being the only
