My Lord

The success which his Maj: Arms have Obtained over the Rebels on the 27th of August, the particulars of which will come to your Lordships hands from better authority, than mine.

I shall therefore only say that it has enabled Lord Howe to send some ships of Warr for the protection of this coast from the Rebel pirates, who have entred our defenceless harbours indiscriminately from Cape Sable, to very near this port Landed to the great terror of the Well Affected People; Cut dut several Vessels and done much Mischief, to prevent which for the future I have aplied to General [Eyre] Massey and he has been pleased to comply with my requisition that a Capt & 50 Men be sent to Barrington, near Cape Sable, & a Subaltern & 30 to Liverpool with Arms & Amunition under the care of the Comanding Oficers to be delivered to such well Affected subjects as will joine the Kings Troops, if necessary I hope my Lord this precaution will Effectually secure this part of the Frontier from further insult.

I must now pray, your Lordship will excuse the Hurry in which this letter is written As I have not time to read it the Vessel who carries it being Under sail unexpectedly. I have therefore chosen to be deficient in allmost every thing rather than omit the smallest attention to your Lordships comands, because I am Most Unfeignedly My Lord [&c.]

Halifax ー Oct: the 8th 1776