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copy of a letter from a seaman on Capt. Charles Smyth's ship the Alert in which he tells of capture by French ships while on a voyage to Halifax with dispatches & release during the battle of the `Glorious First of June', brief description of the battle, Spithead, 14 June 1704; 3, account of the death of Capt. Charles Smyth onboard a neutral ship sunk enroute from Rochfort, 18 November 1794; 4, statement by commander of the Vrow Elizabeth that Capt Smyth, late of the Alert, sloop, had been a prisoner onboard his vessel & was presumed drowned, 19 November 1794