Have been laid up with a bad throat & spent the greater part of yesterday in bed, but hope to go back to work to tomorrow.

In yest paper was a terrible account of the naval battle. The German ship Blucher [tk] was raked with the fire from our guns, and at last she sank. 2 others were also badly damaged. This shows that the German Navy is no match for ours. It is clear that these ships intended coming across to bombard some other town on our East Coast.

If Few days ago I heard from Mr Begwold who has just been made a Canon & he said that there was no panic among the people at Lowestoft, they were all quite calm & ready for anything.

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