[Extract]
N^o. 52.
My Lord;

The province has remained in perfect tranquility I have the honour to inform your Lordship, nothwithstanding the reports of the rebels preparations to invade this province with a considerable force, which gradually subsides: a party of them advanced towards Saint Mary River, and returned without effectuating any thing.

Upon every occasion I, my Lord, communicate my intelligence to Brigadier General Prevost, and no parties of observation from the Rangers¹ penetrate into Georgia without his previous approbation: I am, my Lord, solicitous of cooperating with him in harmony for the benefit of the King's service, but the Brigadier General declines attacking the province of Georgia with His Majesty's Troops, without positive orders from General Sir William Howe.

Captain Fanshawe² has, my Lord, chearfully given every assistance and has ordered Captain Jordan³ of the Galatea to protect the province. Lieutenant Ellis⁴ of the Hinchinbrook and Captain Mowbray⁵ of the Rebecca will secure the inland passage, at my desire the Galatea is gone into Frederica,⁶ while the others are to enter the inlets north of the Gallies Station and to pass up towards the Galatea, by which means I expect to destroy the Gallies, and I hope, my Lord they will secure the inland passage and frustrate the designs of the rebels.⁷

I ordered Lieutenant Colonel Brown,⁸ my Lord, of the Rangers to penetrate as a Corps of observation the province of Georgia. He with a party of Rangers and a few Indians with very little loss has taken by assault Fort Barrington with twenty three prisoners, destroyed the Cannon, and, my Lord, burned this Fort. . . .

His Majesty's Frigates, my Lord, and the Privateers have been very successful in taking prizes, which are chiefly french Merchantmen. near four hundred french Men prisoners have been brought here. I provided Vessels to convey them to the french West India Islands, three are gone, and a fourth is preparing to depart. Monsieur De Bretignie⁹ and his Corps of Officers are still prisoners in the Statehouse, I shall send them to England to receive your Lordships commands by the first safe opportunity.

I have the honour to enclose to your Lordship a copy of a letter found in a Dutch prize taken by a letter of Marque, Captain Bachope,¹⁰ it will shew to your Lordship the rebel correspondence in England &^ca.

I have the honour to be with the greatest respect My Lord [&c.]