Sir

I have communicated to my Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty your Letter of yesterday's date, informing them of your having sent the Seventy american Prisoners from the Tartar on board the Centaur and that as all of them were bare of Cloaths and some of them almost naked you have ordered each of them except the Officers to be supplied with a Suit of Slop Cloaths to be washed and cleaned, and their old Cloaths to be thrown over board to prevent Infection being full of Vermin; also of your having caused them to be mustered, and that all except the Officers, are desirous of entering into the Kings Service and would not chuse to be sent back to America and I am commanded to acquaint you that their Lordships approve of what you have done and that Lord George Germain is made acquainted with what you represent respecting the said Prisoners inclination to enter into the Kings Service, for His Majesty's Information, and it is submitted whether it may not be adviseable to permit them to do so. I am &c.