Sir

I have this Day received and communicated to my Lords Commissrs the Admiralty your Letter of the 21st of July last, giving an account of your proceedings from the 27h of June to that time, and in return I have the satisfaction to acquaint you their Lordships approve thereof.

As the Beaver Sloop could not be got ready in time to proceed to Quebec this Season, their Lordships have judged it expedient to appoint another Captain to her in the room of Captain Nunn, but as they observe by your Letter of the 27h of June that you have ordered him to command upon the Lake Ontario, they are pleased to direct me to send you the Commission which they had signed for him to be Commander of the Beaver, which you will please to deliver to him, as it establishes him in the rank of Commander and will enable him to carry on the Service abovementioned with greater authority; a Service on which their Lordship's approve of his being employed so long as it may be necessary, or, until Lord Howe may think proper to order him to return to England. I am &c

Capt Douglas, Isis, Senior Officer, Quebec.
(By the Richmond)