Sir,

I am greatly obliged to your Excellency for your Letter of this day's date, communicating to me Intelligence of the Rebels endeavours to procure Powder; I am happy to find they are in want of Ammunition. On this extensive Coast some Supplies will get in, but I hope in no great Quantities.

The Scarborough is at Portsmouth, The Merlin and Hope Schooner Cruize from Marblehead to Piscataqua. The Senegal shall cruize from Piscataqua to the Eastward, where I shall also soon send a stout armed Schooner; To the Southward of Cape Cod is the Rose, Swan and Glasgow and for a time the Nautilus; ー I anxiously hope to hear that some of them are successful in seizing the Rebels Supplies, as their Captains are under the strictest Orders to be vigilant, and I omit no occasion of sending Them every information I can procure for their Guidance. I have the honor to be with great regard and Respect

Sir [&c.]