You are hereby required and directed to get his Majesty's Sloop under your Command ready to return to Boston in Company with the Tamer, which I have ordered to join you at Cape Fear, and you are in the mean time to give all the Assistance in your power to the Service the Palliser Transport is ordered upon, that if possible when the Tamer arrives you may be all ready to come away together. The Honble. Captain [John] Tollemache of his Majs. Sloop Scorpion is to relieve you on the North Carolina Station.

Given under my Hand on board his Majs. Ship Preston at Boston the 22 August 1775.