[Admiralty Office] 3d March 1775.
Sir,
My Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty having received Advice that Insurance has been made on the Ship Prosperity, ー French, Master, bound from Dunkirk to North America (with liberty to touch at St Eustatia) having on board a quantity of Tea intended, as supposed, to be run into some of His Majesty's Colonies there; I am commanded by their Lordships to acquaint you therewith, that you may cause a proper look out to be kept for her.
I am &ca.
Php Stephens.
Vice Adml Graves, at Boston. ー By the first of the following Sloops which sail Vizt Nautilus, Merlin, Otter.
1. PRO, Admiralty 2/1333, NYHS Transcript.
