Sir

I have communicated to my Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty your Letter of the 27 Instant, representing that if agreeable to their Lordships orders the Petty Officers belonging to the Experiment and Renown, who came home in the American Vessels are sent out with the Seamen to their respective Ships, there will not be any persons left for Evidences should any Trial commence concerning the said Vessels; I am commanded by their Lordships to signify their direction to you to transmit to them a List of the names and quality of the Petty Officers, and names of the Men abovementioned distinguishing the Ships to which they properly belong, and where they now are. I am &c ー