You were present, Sir, when I gave my report to the King yesterday at the council on the letter in which the English Ambassador requests that the orders forbidding the exportation of arms and ammunition from out ports to the English colonies be renewed and you will remember that His Majesty is determined to assent to this request. I have the honor to enclose herewith a copy of the letter from the Viscount of Stormont as well as the answer which His Majesty commanded me to make, and I request that you be so kind as to dispatch the orders in consequence to all the ports of the Kingdom where the expeditions of arms and ammunition to North America might take place.