Sir

I received on the 17h Instant by Mr Nicholas your Letter of the 7h June and by Captain [James] Chads this Morning your several Letters of the 14h 16h 20h 22d & 26h of the same Month, and having laid them with their several Inclosures before my Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty I have it in command from their Lordships to acquaint you by this opportunity that they entirely approve of your proceedings; reserving myself to answer your Letters more at large by the Cerberus which will have orders to return to you in a few days, with dispatches from the Earl of Dartmouth to General [Thomas] Gage.

I have therefore only to add at this time, that some defects having been discovered in fitting the Milford, the Niger is ordered to supply her place and that in addition to the other Ships mentioned in my Letter of the 24h ultimo and 6h Instant their Lordships have ordered the Chatham, Centurion & Renown of 50 Guns, the Orpheus of 32 and the Liverpool of 28 to be fitted out with all possible dispatch, as a further reinforcement to you; that Rear Admiral [Molyneux] Shuldham will proceed in the Chatham to serve under your Command, and that Captain [Marriot] Arbuthnot is appointed a Commissioner of the Navy to reside at Halifax in Nova Scotia, for the better superintendance and dispatch of His Majesty's Naval Affairs in North America who will proceed thither without loss of time. I am & c

(By the Folkstone Cutter)

NB. This Letter was returned to the Office, & sent by the Phoenix.