[Admiralty Office] 23d August 1775
Sir
The inclosed Packet containing an Order from my Lords Commrs of the Admty of the 24th of last Month, and two Letters from me, one of that days date, and the other of the day following were intended to have been conveyed to you by Lieutenant [Joseph] Nunn of the Folkstone Cutter who sailed from Plymouth in order to join you on the 5h instant, and was obliged to put back a few days afterwards, the Cutter proving so leaky as to be unfit to prosecute the Voyage; I have therefore taken this, being the first, Opportunity of forwarding them to you, having had the precaution to send you by the Cerberus which sailed from Spithead on the 7h instant, an attested Copy of the beforementioned Order, which I hope will have got safe to your hands long before this. I am &c
By the Phoenix ー the same day.
P S.
1. PRO, Admiralty 2/550, 72.