[Extract]
[No.] 205

Sir I have already said so much to you upon the necessity of having a considerable number of seamen in readiness for the Lake Service, that I can now only repeat, for the reasons before alledged, my request that you will leave as many as possible in Canada; and that particularly the Frigates of which I wrote lately may remain, as they can furnish in the greatest proportion, and our wants will be as great the next campaign as they have been this, it being my intention, in order that our possession of the lake may be put to no hazard, to build another Vessel of equal force to the Inflexible.

Lieutenants Longcroft and Stone being now the only Gentlemen of the Navy, who have not received some mark of His Majesty's favour, for their services in Quebec during last winter and as they are both Officers, with whose merits you are, yourself, well acquainted, I must beg you will remind Lord Sandwich of them on your arrival in England.

Captain [Thomas] Pringle has chosen to remain in Canada....