Sir

My Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty having sent to you by the Folkstone Cutter Orders to examine all Letters which may be found on board Merchant Ships or Vessels bound to, or from North America, and to transmit such as are therein described to them for the information of the Earl of Dartmouth, One of His Majts Principal Secretaries of State, I send you herewith an attested Copy of the said Orders by the Cerberus which is on the point of sailing; there not being a sufficient number of their Lordships in the way to sign a Duplicate, in order that you may be apprized of His Majesty's Pleasure with respect to the above Business and take proper Measures for carrying the same into execution; in case by any accident the Folkstone should not happen to arrive before the above Ship

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