(A Copy)

Notwithstanding my Order of the 9th Instant.

You are hereby required and directed to receive the Sundry dispatches sent you herewith, (brought express by His Majesty's Sloop Hawke) and immediately proceed with them to Boston, in His Majesty's Sloop Viper under your Command, and on your arrival, are to deliver the same to Rear Admiral Shuldham, or the Commander in Chief of His Majesty's Ships at that Port; ー You are now to take under your Convoy to that Place the Layton Victualer only; but should you find she retards the Viper's passage, and you should happen to fall in with any other of His Majesty's Ships on the Coast of America; You are to make known to the Captain of such Ship this Order; and my directions that He is to take the Layton Victualing Transport, under his Care and protection, and to Convoy her forthwith to Boston; and you are to make the utmost haste you can with the aforesaid dispatches to the Command.er in Chief: for which this shall be your Order.

Given under my Hand at English
Harbour Antigua; the 15th February
1776. ー