Sir

I have communicated to my Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty your Letter of Yesterday's date, informing them of His Majesty's Ship Pallas being sailed to the Westward, and of the Sloop Diana, the Minerva and Abigail Brigs American Vessels, the first two taken by the Experiment, the latter by the Renown being arrived at Spithead; and I am commanded by their Lordships to signify their direction to you, to send to Boston by the Triton the Petty Officers and Seamen belonging to His Majesty's Ships the Experiment and Renown, who came in the above American Vessels. I am &c