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Having communicated to my Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty your Letter of the 15th Instant, transmitting in original a Letter you received from the Physician and Council of Haslar Hospital, with an order from Sir James Douglas addressed to the Agent directing him to receive into the said Hospital Seventy Prisoners from New England, and desiring that you may receive their Lordships directions thereupon; I am commanded by their Lordships to return you the said Papers, and to acquaint you that the said Men are put on board the Centaur, where they will remain til further Order. I am &c