(No 2.)

Sir, The inclosed Copy of my letter to the Lords Commissrs of the Admiralty of the 22d Int will inform you of the Instruction which His Majesty has ordered to be given to Rear Admiral Gayton, for stationing a Sloop of War & a small armed Vessel for the Protection of West Florida, and for his Conduct in case he should receive Intelligence of any Attack by the Rebels upon that Province, and I am commanded to signify to you His Majesty's Pleasure that you do, in the like Case, detach to Pensacola, in Vessels to be procured by you for that Purpose, such Part of the first Battalion of the Royal Americans as can be safely spared from the necessary duty in Jamaica. I am [&c.]