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I am favourd with yours of the 10th & am sorry it has so happened that the proposed Scheme of Intercepting the Enemy's Ordnance Stores cannot have your Assistance. The Experience your Officers & Men have had by an earlier Attention to Sea Service would have made them very acceptable on the proposed Enterprize ー

The Fleet which sailed out of Boston a few Days ago & of which I apprized you on the 6th Inst has been seen standing N.N.E. From which we suppose they are destined against some Town of this Province or New Hampshire ー or possibly to Quebec ー