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The Daily Dispatch: November 26, 1861., [Electronic resource], Special notice (search)
he French, and the absence of so large a portion of his fleet rendered it necessary for him to abandon the West India waters to the French Admiral Count de Grasse.--That officer, without being followed, was enabled to carry his fleet into the Chesapeake and render the capture of Cornwallis and the independence of the Colonies a certainty. Had not Rodney been without so large a portion of his fleet, he would either not have permitted him to go, or he would have followed him and, uniting with Graves, in all probability have defeated him in our waters. Cornwallis would have escaped, and the independence of America would have been postponed for many years. So St. Eustatia saved the American cause, and there would have been no plunder of St. Eustatia if there had not been war with the Dutch, and there would have been no war with the Dutch if Mr. Laurens had succeeded in sinking his dispatches. Mr. Laurens was sent to the Tower and confined, at first, with great rigor. After a while