Sir

Having received Information that a Vessel supposed to be an Advice Boat from North America, with private Intelligence from thence, passed by Cowes last Friday [September 29] and after landing a person who immediately set off for London went and lay off the back of the Isle of Wight where she continued to cruize off and on the Coast; ー I am directed to acquaint you therewith for the Information of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, and to desire you will submit to their Lordships whether it may not be adviseable that orders should be immediately sent to the Commanders of such of His Majesty's small Cruizers as are stationed for the Channel Service and upon any part of the Coasts of Great Britain and Ireland, that if they fall in with any Vessels to or from North America they do go on board and examine them, and in case they shall have cause to suspect from their hovering upon the Coast, or from other Circumstances that they are employed for the purpose of secretly carrying Letters and Intelligence to or from the Colonies now in Actual Rebellion, they do seize all such Letters and bring the Vessel into some Port, there to be detained till further Orders. ー I am &ca