| Description | On board the "Cherokee" in Rebellion Road, Charlestown Harbour, his discoveries during his voyage from England to America of a current from St George's Channel to the Gulf of Mexico, and the no-variation line, his arrival after a severe hurricane at Charlestown where he heard of the war being carried on and danger attending the King's servants in the respective provinces, interview on board the "Tamar" with Captain Innes, and later on with Mr Edwards one of the Committee, who stated the reasons of the present rebellion, circumstances attending the opening of the mail containing letters from his Lordship, the Governor coming out of his house was surrounded by six Carolina officers armed, who demanded the letters sent by Dartmouth, which the Governor refused, after the mail was opened, by the Post Master, previously forbidden to go outside the town, was made prisoner to his house in future, Fort Johnson taken by Mott a Provincial Colonel, remarks on his own ship the "Cherokee"that she cannot be made a fighting ship, nor is she even a tolerable sailer to be used for dispatches |