Admiralty Office 17th Sepr 1776
My Lord,
Having received from Vice Admiral Young Commander in chief of His Majesty's Ships & Vessels at the leeward Islands in his letter of the 31st July last,2 the particulars of an Action between the Shark Sloop and an American armed Ship3 together with the Copies of the Correspondence which passed between the Captain of the Shark and the Governor of Martinico respecting the same, We send your Lordship herewith Copies of the Admiral's letter, and of those therein referred to, for His Majesty's Information, & are &c
Sandwich. Lisburne. H. Palliser.
1. PRO, Colonial Office, 5/259, 110.
2. See Volume 5, 1317.
3. The Continental ship Reprisal, Captain Lambert Wickes.