Admiralty Office, 9th Decr 1775
My Lord
Having received a Letter from Vice Adml Young, Commander in chief of his Majts Ships at the Leeward Islands, dated the 23d of October last, at Antigua, inclosing copies of the Answers to the Letters he had wrote to the Governors &ca of all his Majesty's Caribbee Islands; copies of two Letters from the Governor of Bermuda, relative to some Gunpowder stolen out of the Magazine in that Island; Copy of Intelligence he had received of a new mode of carrying on a contraband Trade from the French Islands to North America; and of a Letter he wrote to the Count de Nosier, Govr General of the French Windward Caribbee Islands on that Subject; Copy of a Printed Paper circulated by the Masters of American Vessels among the People of the Leeward Islands, to induce them to supply Gunpowder &ca to the Rebells; Copy of a Letter to the Vice Adml from Count de Nosier, complaining of the behaviour of Captain Gordon of the Argo, at Martinico, and of his answer thereunto; We send your Lordship herewith a Copy of Vice Admiral Young's said Letter, and of the several Papers inclosed therein, for his Majesty's information, and are My Lord [&c.]
Sandwich C Spencer H Palliser
1. PRO, Colonial Office, 5/122, 53a.