My Lord

In consequence of the Investiture of Quebec by the Rebells, of which We apprized Your Lordship in our Letter of the 23d Instant, a Council of War was held by the Lieutenant Governor, and composed of the Sea and Land Officers in the Place, to consider of the properest measures for the Defence of the Town, Copy of which was immediately dispatched by Captain Hamilton of his Majesty's Ship the Lizard, to Vice Admiral Graves, together with an Account of the Proceedings in consequence thereof; But the Officer who was sent on this Service, in the Elizabeth Storeship, which had lately arrived with Stores from England, having been blown from the Coast of America, & obliged to bear away for England, and having upon his arrival at Portsmouth transmitted unto Us the Dispatches he was charged with, as aforementioned, We send your Lordship herewith copies thereof, for His Majesty's Information, and are My Lord [&c.]