Sir,

In addition to the Order of this date from my Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty (which you will receive herewith) for proceeding to the Carolinas, Georgia & East Florida; I am commanded by their Lordships to signify their direction to you to engage, upon your arrival at those Provinces, as many Pilots as you can who may be acquainted with any part of the Coasts thereof, and to keep them on board until the arrival of Sir Peter Parker; And you will communicate this part of my Letter to the Commanders of any of His Majesty's Ships or Vessels which you may fall in with on the said Coasts, and acquaint them that it is their Lordships directions that they do the like.

I have also their Lordships commands to send you herewith two Press Warrants empowering you to impress Seamen in North America, and to signify their further direction to you, in case the Pilots abovementioned should not be willing to engage in His Majesty's Service, to impress them by virtue of those Warrants, and to keep them on board the Sloop you command until you receive directions from Sir Peter Parker, or the Commander in Chief of His Majesty's Ships in North America, for their further disposal; And I send you herewith by their Lordships orders a Manuscript Copy of a Plan of Cape Fear River in North Carolina, and of a Survey of the Coast about Cape Look-Out; also an engraved Plan of the Entrance into Cape Fear Harbour with printed directions for anchoring at that Cape; and an engraved Plan of Jeckyl Sound in the Province of Georgia; as the same may be useful to you in your present intended Voyage; And am &ca:

PS. It is their Lordships directions that you keep this Letter and the Order it refers to a profound Secret, and on no account to make known (except as before-mentioned) to any person whatever any part thereof, more especially what relates to the Pilots and to your being directed to cruize for Sir Peter Parker.

Capt. Cooper, Hawke Sloop, Spithead.