My Lord,

Your Lordships having transmitted to me in your letter of yesterday's Date copy of one from Captain Worth the regulating Captain at Liverpool with an account of the arrival at that Port of a Snow named the Mercury Pierre Teuhaigne, a french Man master, which had been taken by the Ship Tartar of Liverpool, on her Voyage from america to Dunkirk, and that there are on board her two french Men besides the master, and your Lordships having in another Letter of the same date acquainted me that an american schooner called the Mary, taken by His Majesty's Ship the Prince of Wales, was arrived at Plymouth with a french Officer who was a Passenger on board her, and your Lordships having at the same time desired that I should receive The King's Pleasure concerning the disposal of the said french Officer and french Men; I have laid before The King your said Letters and am to signify to your Lordships His Majesty's Pleasure that the said french Officer and french Men be confined in the same Places which are destined for the confinement of the Rebel Prisoners. I am &c.