Mr. Robinson has the Honour, by Lord Norths Order, to transmit to His Majesty, the Dispatches which have this Day been received from General Howe, and to add that a Fleet of Victuallers sailed from Cork under the Convoy of the Greyhound Man of War, on the 4th of April for Boston, besides the several Victuallers which went the latter End of last year and which have been drove off the Coast of America, which Fleet it is hoped must have arrived with Genl Howe at Halifax very soon after Date of His Dispatch, and which probably wd have been with him by the time he wrote, if they had not gone to seek him at Boston.
Treasury Chambers. 4th June 1776-10 P.M.
1. Sir John Fortescue, ed., Correspondence of King George the Third from 1760 to December 1783 (London, 1927, 1928), III, 372. Hereafter cited as Fortescue, ed., Correspondence of George III.
