The Congress have appointed two Admirals, [Esek] Hopkins, a brave old seaman; and Brice, an Englishman. Also 300 marines and officers. They have sent Brice after Lord Dunmore, whom they intend to bring to trial for piracy. The Americans say, he has broken four of the Province laws, which he was bound by oath to preserve, any one of which is capital; therefore, in a paper printed there, "they just caution him, that his privilege of Peerage will not protect him in that Province."... Hopkins was to sail with his fleet on the 25th of December, to intercept the transports from England and Ireland.
