24. We had a present sent us of several pounds of leaf tobacco.
25. To-day three of the number who broke out of the sick ward, on the 12th of this month, were brought back again, and put in the Black-hole, there to lay forty days, on half allowance.
20. We hear that Captain Manley, of the Hancock frigate, has taken the Fox frigate, of twenty-eight guns.
27. For the week past I have received eighteen-pence for boxes.
29. The remainder of the prisoners who have not had the small-pox, removed into a seperate building, in order for inoculation.
30. Although we are not allowed newspapers, yet we have them almost weekly, and we now have one that gives an account of the before mentioned frigate being taken; also of Captain Giddson, in the “Civil Usage,” being seen off the Lizzard.
August 1. To-day six more of our people came on shore from the ship; the occasion of their not being brought to prison sooner was, that they were detained with small-pox in the Royal Hospital. One of these is yet very unwell, and has been put in the prison hospital.
2. We learn, by those who came in yesterday, that Captain Adams, who was taken in a merchantman, was set at liberty last Sunday. The week past I have received two shillings for boxes.
3. Sunday. The number of prisoners now in these wards, is one hundred and seventy-three.
4. Some of our people who first broke out with small-pox in prison, are so far recovered as to be able to come up from the hospital.