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Sir,

Enclosed herewith I have the Honor to transmit to You a Dispatch from the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, which I received yesterday by the Isis.

The Camel being ready, Captain [William Clement] Finch puts to Sea immediately as their Lordships have directed, to take your Orders for his further Proceedings.

I think it proper to trouble You at the same time with a paper of Intelligence I received last Night from the Commodore Sir peter Parker, who commands a detached Squadron stationed at Rhode Island. As the Commodore does not mention in his Letter relative thereto, any other Circumstance besides the Day the Armed Ships are said to have escaped from Boston, the 21st past; and the Day the Diamond, by which he received the Intelligence, arrived at Rhode Island, being the 29th of the same Month; I am not able to form any satisfactory Opinion of the Course and probable Destination of the Enemy's Ships since such their supposed Departure from Boston.

If you will please to fix a Longitude at which the Convoys from the Leeward Islands shall attempt to pass the Meridian of Bermuda, and the time near about which they will be to sail at the different Seasons; I will endeavor by suitable Appointmen[ts] from this Squadron, to co-operate effectually in the Means for securing a safe Passage to the homeward-bound Trade on their return to Europe.

The Nomination You have been pleased [to] make to vacant Offices in the Ships of the Squadron under my Command touching lately at Antigua, being inconsistent with the Authority annexed [to] my Appointment, it became incumbent on me to displace the Officers upon their Arrival. And as I am to presume that their presence may be necessary in the Ships to which they properly belong, Lieutenant [Thomas] Windsor and such of the other Officers who are prepared to profit by the Opportunity, have been directed to take their passage in the Camel, to receive your Commands for their further Proceedings in Consequence.

I have the Honor to be, Sir, [&c.]

The Vice Admiral Young
Commander in Chief 
&ca &ca &ca Antigua 
[Endorsed] Copy 8th June 1777. Letter to Vice Admiral Young.
No 4 In Lord Howe's No 31