The Admiral sent Captain [Andrew] Barkley of the Scarborough a Copy of his Letter to Captain [Henry] Bellew of the Liverpool, dated the 30th November 1775: and the Scarborough, Hinchinbrook and two Transports sailed from Nantasket. General [William] Howe by a Letter of Yesterday had requested of the Admiral that the Scarborough, when she had performed the important Service she was going upon, might be ordered to join Major General [Henry] Clinton at Cape Fear, or, if not there, to endeavour to find him on the Coast. And in another Letter of this day his Excellency inclosed Extracts of a Dispatch from Lord Dartmouth, whereby the Admiral (as he observed) would be fully acquainted with every thing communicated to his Excellency, who in consequence desired that as Major General Clinton was to have the Execution of his Majesty's Commands therein mentioned, the Admiral would appoint some Ship of War, the best calculated for the Service proposed, and that her Captain might have Orders to put into such Places on the Coast as General Clinton should require for the purpose of procuring Intelligence for any other Publick Service.