An item referred to a letter dated Helsingør or Elsinore, Denmark dated the 11th reporting that on the 5th a large British fleet of more as 100 merchant ships escorted by a frigate arrived around the evening coming out of the North Sea. On the 6th arrived 2 gun brigs with 2 British merchant ships coming from England and a British gun brig coming from the Baltic. On the 7th arrived in the evening in the roads a British fleet consisting of 12 ships of the line, 4 large and 7 smaller frigates, 21 gun brigs and 1 schooner, totally 45 ships and vessels. This fleet commanded by admiral Graves left the next morning the Sont towards the Kattegat. A part of the British fleet stayed behind in the Baltic and was sill cruising between Bornholm, Denmark and Carlskroon [Karlskrona, Sweden?].
