[Admiralty Office] 6th April 1775
Sir
I have received and communicated to my Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty your Letter of the 20h. February last giving an Account of your proceedings, and inclosing a Copy of a Letter which you had received from Captain [James] Wallace relative to a Plot formed for destroying His Majesty's Ship the Rose at Rhode Island; And in return I am commanded by their Lordships to acquaint you that an Extract of so much of your said Letter as relates to that subject with a Copy of Captain [James] Wallace's and its Inclosure, have been sent to the Earl of Dartmouth for His Majesty's Information I am &c
P. S.
(By the Senegal Sloop) Duplicate sent 15h April, by the Cerberus
1. PRO, Admiralty 2/548, 327, NYHS Transcript.
