Sir

I have communicated to my Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty your Letter of the 15h Instant, inclosing a Copy of one you received from Captain [Skeffington] Lutwidge of the Triton, setting forth the great utility he experienced in Ice Saws on a late Northern Voyage, and desiring that he may be supplied with two of them for the use of the said Ship Which request you hope their Lordships will comply with, and that they will likewise give directions, that each of the Ships on the American Station may be furnished with two of them, according to the Dimensions in Mr Lutwidges Letter; And in return, I am commanded by their Lordships to acquaint you that all the Saws and other Ice Implements which were provided for the Racehorse and Carcass on their late Voyage towards the North Pole are sent to North America in the Experiment and Niger to be employed on board such Ships as the Commander in Chief shall think proper, and their Lordships therefore judge it unnecessary to send out any further quantity at present. I am &c ー