small schooner not bigger than a four cord boat, under the command of Mr. Farmer, with 6 swivels,

and 13 seamen and soldiers.

At half past five, wore and made the best of our way to Oswego.

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which the enemy gave chase, and had the French Commodore behaved at the time as he ought, he must have brought us to action very soon and taken us but he was unwilling to attack without his :

little fleet close together, and in

chasing fired single shot at us ; to do which, he was obliged to luff" up in the wind, having no bow chase, by which means he lost every time, twice his length. At 7 o'clock, he being little better than half a mile off, first luffed up in the wind, then clapt his helm hard

a-weather, wore round, and fired his broadside at Capt. Lafory, astern of us, and left off chase

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At our first making off, we found Mr. Farmer to drop astern very fast, on which the Commodore hailed the Ontario to tell him to bear up more large. The two sternmost schooners gave chase to him, and soon after saw him haul up to the northward, for what reason we know not, and the two vessels in chase of him firing at him, which guns by the report they made were heavy. We soon after lost sight of him and the chase and at 1 1 o'clock heard firing again. At three P. M. we got into Oswego. The new brigantine and sloop are to be launched to morrow the Snow in ten or twelve days. But we are greatly disappointed in guns for them, for Col. Bradstreet arrived here yesterday with 600 battoes, and with him came only sixteen carriage guns and sixteen swivels, whereas the BriganHowever, we shall get some small guns from the tine only should mount sixteen carriage guns. of which, or those before, did any execution.